[COMMUNITY PROJECT] MISSIONGARDE -- CLASS REFINING IN PROGRESS

I tried the whole facing upwards thing and it doesn't work quite. Stupid ROW command...

Voila. I didn't modify the grass color or anything.

Also, Liberty, you sent me like EVERY MONSTER GRAPHIC FROM EVERY RPG EVER. Dear lord.

BASIC: (3 physical, 3 magic, 3 rogue)
Soldier (Physical/IMPACT)
Knight (Physical/RALLY)
Raider (Physical/RUSH)
Cleric (Magic/DIVINE)
Mage (Magic/ARCANA)
Druid (Magic/NATURAL)
Freelancer (Rogue/ESSENTIAL)
Infiltrator (Rogue/HIDE/STEAL)
Artificier (Rogue/MUSKET/ARTIFICE)

ADVANCED: (4 physical, 7 magic, 3 rogue)
Garou (Physical/TRANSFORM)
Carnitank (Physical/RAISE/SHIELD)
Monk (Physical/MEDITATE/AURA)
Evoker (Physical/ENCHANT) (Enchanter)
Cyromancer (Magic/VANISH/TIME)
Summoner (Magic/COMMUNE/SUMMON)
Scholar (Magic/STUDY/LEARNED)
Ritualist (Magic/DARKNESS) (Cultist)
Harlequin (Magic/ROULETTE) (Randomizer)
Psychic (Magic/MENTAL) (Mentalist) (pending)
Magitank (Magic/BARRIER) (pending)
Bard (Rogue/DUALITY/SING)
Poacher (Rogue/CALL/HUNTING) (Tamer was merged)
Slayer (Rogue/ANTI) (Magic Hunter)

ELITE: (2 physical, 2 magic, 0 rogue)
God Hand (Physical/TECHNIQUE/GOD HAND)
Gladiator (Physical/IMPACT/RUSH/WARCRY) (Barbarian)
Wizard (Magic/ABSOLUTE)
Archmage (Magic/DOUBLCAST/ARCANA)
Daredevil (Rogue/STRIKE/RISK)
Agent (Rogue/etc...)


...so I'll start refining the classes and whatnot, and taking a harder look at the designs and balance this upcoming week.

I think this is the class list we agreed upon. I might weed out and/or combine some of the Advanced classes, though.

So, after a bit of rejiggering...

STATS

Soldier (IMPACT/x2 attacks per round)
Knight (RALLY/defensive battle cries)
Raider (RUSH/haste self LOOT/loot after battle DUAL WIELD)
Cleric (DIVINE/healing, revive, remedy, Holy (anti-undead) + buffs)
Mage (ARCANA/attack magic + debuffs)
Druid (NATURAL/healing, remedy, earth, poison)
Freelancer (ESSENTIAL/basic healing, black, debuffs)
Infiltrator (STEAL/steal items HIDE/Self-invisible)
Artificier (MUSKET/random damage ARTIFICE/tools)

Garou (TRANSFORM/change to werewolf)
Werewolf
Carnitank (SHIELD/self-healing, self-defending, defend all, remedy, healing, fire ? RAISE/chance to revive dead allies)
Monk (MEDITATE/recover MP AURA/healing, steal HP/MP)
Evoker (EVOKE/calls up elemental weapons)
Cryomancer (VANISH/escape battles ICETIME/Ice + time magic)
Mentalist (PSYCH/effect + teleport)
Scholar (STUDY/study a monster LEARNED/cast learned skills (blue magic))
Ritualist (DARK/dark, debuff, fear)
Harlequin (ROULETTE/random effects)
Bard (DUALITY/x2 attack with Mandolins SING/effect magic)
Poacher (CALL/animal comes to do damage HUNT/monster type attacks/SCAN)
Mageslayer (ANTI/MP damaging/draining, reflect)

God Hand (GOD HAND/face punching TECHNIQUE/face punching)
Gladiator (IMPACT/x2 per round/BATTLECRY/rallying + boosting)
Wizard (ALLSPELL/all magic)
Archmage (ARCANA/attack + debuffs DOUBLECAST/arcana x2)
Daredevil (STRIKE/random attack boosts RISK/randomizer like payout ? DUAL WIELD)
Agent (EXECUTE/death + demi spells HIDE/self-invisible ARTIFICE/ANTI/HUNT...)


I toasted the Summoner class (since it overlapped heavily with the Mage, Poacher and Scholar classes) and brought back the Mentalist/Psychic. I also killed off the Magitank, because the Mageslayer (aka Slayer aka Magic Hunter) is better.



So, here are the skills, and the type of work that would be involved.

ALLSPELL Magic
ANTI Magic
ARCANA Magic
ARTIFICE spells based on tools in Inventory?
AURA Magic
BATTLECRY Magic
CALL Magic
DARK Magic
DIVINE Magic
DOUBLECAST Magic with a Combo x2
DUAL WIELD checkbox
DUALITY Attack x3+ if mandolin equipped
ESSENTIAL Magic
EVOKE special event that equips a particular weapon based on SWITCH
EXECUTE Magic ? Maybe event scripting for death and demi type skills
GOD HAND dear lord…
HIDE Script that invisibles self
HUNT Magic
ICETIME Magic
IMPACT Attack combo x2/3/4/5
LEARNED Magic
LOOT Afterbattle check
MEDITATE script that increases MP
MUSKET Attack with a Wait that does damage based on musket equipped
NATURAL Magic
PSYCH Magic
RAISE script that can raise allies
RALLY Magic
RISK chance script ?
ROULETTE harlequin script
RUSH script that hastes self
SCAN Attack with a wait that inspects an enemy, based on INT stat passed to a common event
SHIELD Magic
SING Magic
STEAL Magic with a steal script and animation
STRIKE Attack with random chance to improve it
STUDY Magic with a study script, that inspects an enemy, based on INT stat passed to a common event
TECHNIQUE Magic
TRANSFORM Script that swaps in a werewolf -- worry about death ?
VANISH Escape from battle


Points to ponder:
1) ARTIFICE - how do we want to deal with tools? Do must they exist in the inventory and are consumed? Or are they "spellbook" type items that need to be applied to an Artifier so that he "learns" a toolspell?
2) DUALITY/2MANDOLINS - why is this a battle command? Seems redundant. We can just set mandolins to Attack x2 in the database.
3) If a Garou TRANSFORMS into an AI-controlled Werewolf, when/how does he change back? What if we had a DAY/NIGHT system that determined which character is there?
4) For SCAN, STEAL, STUDY commands, we need a way to uniquely identify the enemy. I propose that every enemy has a unique INT stat in the database, and then store that in a variable in a battle event for when we need it to determine the enemy. ie-
<> Set : Bugbear INT
<> Call Common Event: Study
...
<> If == 17
<> Comment: This is the Bugbear
<> Add Skill to
<> End If
etc...
5) Fuck you God Hand*




*This will be a bitch to code

I'll check it out when I'm home (stupid imageshackbuckets blocked at work).

And, yeah, I'm hoping to generalize the battle events as much as possible, considering how many hands the game may pass through.

Well, I was thinking that I would opt for Ignore Defense for skills, since it would be easier to balance. As for skill damage, I figured that we could still set INT to reasonable numbers for monsters, but still have unique values for INT. There isn't that much difference between 58 and 59 INT.