[RMMV] XENOMIC'S QUESTION THREAD!

author=Xenomic
So a question for ye: DTB (aka Dragon Quest style or FFI/FFII), ATB (aka Final Fantasy series such as VI and VII), or CTB (aka FFX style)? Which do you prefer?

https://strawpoll.com/mpnboB8xJg5

Poll for those that are willing to let me know!

Also still haven't figured out how exactly to do the accuracy thing. Was also trying to get Counters working with Yanfly's Counter plugin, but that thing is weird and I don't really understand it lol. Tried to make it so that Counter activates against physical skills only (there was going to be Magic Counter and Evade & Counter too), but Counter activates against everything (also if I did just Counter Skill instead of Counter Skills, it would double counter in the same attack??).

And new question!! Using plugins and whatnot, what's the way of making it so that you can store how much HP each party member is healed by, and then later use that to do a damaging attack that resets the damage after using it?

<Custom hit Formula>
value = x + 100 - (100 * (hp / mhp));
</Custom hit Formula>

<Custom Apply Effect>
// Upon applying Bide, set the Bide damage to 0.
user._bide = 0;
</Custom Apply Effect>

<Custom Respond Effect>
// Check if the target took any HP damage.
if (target.result().hpDamage > 0) {
  // If the target did, raise the Bide damage by the HP damage taken.
  target._bide += target.result().hpDamage;
}
</Custom Respond Effect>

<Custom Remove Effect>
// Check if the party is in battle.
if ($gameParty.inBattle()) {
// Play animation 97 on the user.
user.startAnimation(97);
// Calculate the damage. The damage dealt is equal to 2x Bide damage.
var damage = Math.ceil(user._bide * 2);
// Get the group of alive enemies.
var enemies = user.opponentsUnit().aliveMembers();
// Loop through each of the enemies.
for (var i = 0; i < enemies.length; ++i) {
  // Get the enemy.
  var enemy = enemies[i];
  // Play animation 107 on the enemy.
  enemy.startAnimation(107);
  // Make the enemy take damage.
  enemy.gainHp(-damage);
  // Prompt the enemy's damage popup.
  enemy.startDamagePopup();
  // Clear the results of the enemy taking damage.
  enemy.clearResult();
  // Check if the enemy is dead.
  if (enemy.isDead()) {
    // If the enemy is dead, make it collapse.
    enemy.performCollapse();
  }
}
// Reset the Bide damage value.
user._bide = 0;

} // Check if the party is in battle.
</Custom Remove Effect>

<Custom Apply Effect>
// Upon applying Bide, set the Bide healing to 0.
user._bide = 0;
</Custom Apply Effect>

<Custom Respond Effect>
// Check if the target healed any HP.
if (target.result().heal > 0) {
  // If the target did, raise the Bide damage by the amount of HP healed.
  target._bide += target.result().heal;
}
</Custom Respond Effect>

<Custom Remove Effect>
// Check if the party is in battle.
if ($gameParty.inBattle()) {
// Play animation 97 on the user.
user.startAnimation(97);
// Calculate the healing. The damage dealt is equal to Bide healing x0.5.
var healing = Math.ceil(user._bide * 0.5);
// Get the group of alive enemies.
var enemies = user.opponentsUnit().aliveMembers();
// Loop through each of the enemies.
for (var i = 0; i < enemies.length; ++i) {
  // Get the enemy.
  var enemy = enemies[i];
  // Play animation 107 on the enemy.
  enemy.startAnimation(107);
  // Make the enemy take damage.
  enemy.gainHp(-damage);
  // Prompt the enemy's damage popup.
  enemy.startDamagePopup();
  // Clear the results of the enemy taking damage.
  enemy.clearResult();
  // Check if the enemy is dead.
  if (enemy.isDead()) {
    // If the enemy is dead, make it collapse.
    enemy.performCollapse();
  }
}
// Reset the Bide healing value.
user._bide = 0;

} // Check if the party is in battle.
</Custom Remove Effect>

author=Xenomic
Huh. Odd, when I clicked the link you put, the vid wasn't there because it said the YT channel was terminated lol. Maybe I just assumed it was yours for some reason. ^^;

Does adding the skill to the specified character only allow them to use that skill if everyone had a Collab command (so if everyone had at least 1 Collab on, they'd all have access to the Collab command)? The reason I'm tying it into the Limit system is so if you have enough for both a Limit or the Collab, the player would have to choose which would be better for the situation (even moreso if they have effectively dual Limits with other player characters.

As for the very specific Collab, that one has a normal one if the requirements aren't meant, and the special if it is, and that one is an endgame superboss. Would this mechanic also apply to party-unique team Limits?

author=Xenomic
Much obliged for the help. I ended up dummying the move outright since I couldn't figure the ability out, but that coding might be useful for other ideas in the game~

Since I'm here, I have a couple more involved questions.

1) Summons. So, the idea I have is that you can equip summons (called Collabs in this game) to each character. Each Collab gives a set of bonuses, for example:

Imbue Element: N/A
Element Resist: Darkness (50%)
Element Weakness: Light (100%)
Imbue Status: N/A
Status Resist: N/A
Stats: -40 ATK, 20 MAG, 80 Max MP
Additional: 20% chance for magic attacks to do extra damage, up to 5 hits, Encounter Half

This is what one Collab gives. You can only equip them to one character at a time (i.e. you cannot equip this Collab to any other unit), which works nicely for the passives and such...however, I WOULD like to make them, ya know, Summons. And the method of which I think would help is to do it via like a Limit Break. I know there's a way to do Limit Breaks, and I'm probably going to go that route (every character has: their own Limit, potential Limits with other playable characters, and then the Collab Limit which may or may not vary depending on who has what (taking Fauna as an example, her default Limit would be Let Me Stay Here (and later she'd get Wrath of Nature), some limits she might have with others, if they have a full Limit as well, like say...Bijou, would be Agent 4'7" (it would take both characters with full Limit to use it, and I'd like to make it take up both of their turns, if I can with the CTB system), and then the Collab summon ability). I was trying to set it up so that when you equip a Collab, it gives the character the Collab menu (which I may not use) and then add the summon that way, but then everyone would get access to that. I could potentially have 8 different versions of the same summon and command, but that feels unnecessary and I feel like I could probably code around it??

2) Upgrading ability system. This one is more involved, but I was thinking of having a system where you can slot points into abilities and/or passives, which you gain X points after every level up, so you'd be limited on points. You can remove the points so that you can reslot it into anything else, but as an example, you could slot points into Fauna's Feel Better Beam (normally heals one ally's HP equal to 25% of their Max HP), which you could upgrade the healing potential (50% > 75% > 100%, but increases MP cost obviously), could reduce MP cost, or potentially add other effects (for example with Feel Better Beam, maybe it heals some status ailments on top of the HP heal, or maybe it heals a little MP?). How viable would a system like that be to do in this engine? I have all the skills already set up, so it's just a matter of figuring out how to do the coding for this.

If anyone could help with either of these, that'd be great!! Both are big parts of the game that I'd like to work on, and I feel it'd make strategies more interesting in the game too!