[2K3] STEPS ISSUES

I brought this up some time ago, but don't remember when or where, and can't seem to find it. Anywho, there is an issue with all of my common events/abilities which derive from counting how many steps the player has taken. Due to the nature of teleport events, they count as +2 to the steps taken for some reason, and in all cutscenes the steps will continue counting up (this was to be expected here). I was given a solution of making a variable or something to turn off the events while teleporting or while the cutscenes are occurring. While I haven't tested this with cutscenes, I have with teleporting, and setting my variable to 1 (so that the events will not work) before the teleport event, then teleporting, then setting the variable to 0 (so that the events trigger again) doesn't seem to work.

Is there any sound way to handle this? I mean, I COULD just let the player reap the benefit of the steps taken during cutscenes and teleports, but it seems like it can easily be abusable.

List of events affected by this:

1) MP Stroll (Unique to one character, in which she gains 10% Max MP back every 25 steps taken. While teleporting won't affect it TOO much, it can be an issue if someone figures out that that works and uses it to abuse it. Granted, that'd take a while to abuse but nonetheless. Steps taken needs adjusted at a later date).

2) Accessory that gives 1 yen every step. This isn't an issue with teleporting either, but in cutscenes it can add quite a bit of money more than likely.

3) Steps Taken for the Traveler ability. This one I don't know if it'll super affect or not (Traveler deals damage to all enemies based on a specific formula depending on the number of steps taken and another number, and doesn't reset the formula at all when used in battle).


So yeah...thinking on it, it might NOT be a big deal, but thought I'd ask for insight on this and the simplest way of dealing with it?

I'm not keeping tracks of how many steps are being taken during a cutscene at all. I'll have to do that manually (yes though, for the three events up above, I do have a variable keeping track of how many steps are being taken. The third one quite literally keeps tracks of the steps in total).

Thing is, I've also checked if it happened in the same map with teleporting, which it does. So regardless of if it's the same map or a different map, it will add +2. Doing the player's map ID will work for when it's not on the same map aye, but dunno if that works for on the same map?

I figured having the variable be set to 1 during cutscenes and set back to 0 afterwards would be enough, and then having each of the 3 common events that's determined by amounts of steps only work if the variable is set to 0.

EDIT - The three events are just ran as Parallel Processes with no Trigger Switch. Should've probably said that actually. ^^:

Sometimes I have several maps in one map (for instance, interiors of buildings and such). I didn't feel like making new maps just for them so I cheaped it out and did it that way. ^^;

The user doesn't get to see it (unless they notice how much their money goes up or how much MP Patchouli gets back from MP Stroll). It really doesn't seem less accurate really, since I checked at every moment I could to see what it is (every step I took, it always increased by 1. Every teleport it always increased by 2, which confuses me as to why it does THAT of all things).