[RMVX ACE] THE DEEPEST THING YOU'VE DONE WITH VARIABLES, COMMON EVENTS AND SWITCHES?

I made an endless room maze through events. The map itself was just a small square room with four straight passages in each cardinal direction so it resembled a +. The player would have to go through the correct passage a few times (6-8 iirc) to reach the end. Each time you picked the correct exit you would advance to a 'new' room where the decorations would change so you could tell what room you were in based on these decorations. Picking the incorrect exit would take you back one or two rooms to a maximum of the first room. The decorations and exits were all randomly generated (well, decorations was something like 12 decorations throughout the room that would randomly be there or not). The only set decorations were torches on the wall that would indicate what room you were in in base 2 / binary.

The intended solution was to take advantage of that the player could see into the next room without entering it proper by stepping into the passages but not the next room. So the player could walk into the left passage and see the right side of the room they would enter if they continued. The player could compare what they could see to their current / past rooms to see if the path forward would take them to a new room (the correct path) or the current / past room (incorrect).

iirc the initial version had absolutely no directions, hints, nor indication what room they were in beyond the decoration variance. For its proper release I added the torches, a chime that plays when the player takes the correct path, and I think a vague hint. It was my submission for Befuddle Quest (and also reused in one of my games but the puzzle was toned down again there and entirely possible to skip by entering the room, leaving, then teleporting to said room would take the player to the final room).

e: to be clear it isn't a very good puzzle but it's probably the most complicated thing I evented in 2k(3) (and only now do I notice that the thread is for Ace)

The most complex system I've made is probably the Discourse System in Last Word.

It used at least 5 Common Events that call each other so much I had to adjust a script to allow the stacking. Then is had about 80 Variables and 80 Switches--and that was me REALLY trying to be efficient. Merlandese of three years ago would have used four times as many, but I took a lot of paper notes that allowed me to redistribute the loads.

I also used almost all of my Image space, which I don't think many RMXP users tend to do. You only get 50 spots and I would sometimes use as many as 45. This 50 limit was pushed so far that my "analyze" functionality (like the Scan spell in Final Fantasy) was very limited and nearly useless because I didn't have any more image space to manipulate.

author=GreatRedSpirit
I made an endless room maze through events.

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This is pretty impressive shtuffs.

That metronome-like skill was probably the craziest thing I tried to do woth events. It was similar to the metronome move in pokemon, where the skill would turn into another randomly selected one at use. My version, though, didn't randomly select skills from those defined in the database, but instead created a new skill altogether, whose effects were randomised, but limited by certain factors such as the battler using the move, its remaining hp, the states currently in play, story progress, and so on. So for example, if you or an ally is poisoned, you are likely to get an antidote/healing skill.

Suffice to say, it got too complez for my own good

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Probably the deepest thing I've done with variables and common events is making a Suikoden-style duel. The original system (built in VX) was more reliant on event-commands than scripts, but, there's been a few tweaks since then.

Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass's skill learning/equipping and stat progression system is all evented; that's pretty enormous.

The field actions are shaping up to be pretty complex since I have to event stuff for each interactable object in the game, so I guess that wins out, but a lot of that stuff is recycled with slight variances.