SUMMONING SYSTEM

post=150355
Which maker? If it's 2k/2k3 then you'd probably need a custom battle system to deal with it, if it's XP/VX it's probably perfectly doable with some scripts (not my area though).

No, it's possible to do in 2k3 without the use of a custom battle system. It requires a bit of coding for it to happen, but it is certainly doable.

One of the first things you need to do is keep track of who is in your party at all times, using a common event. This is so you know which party members the game needs to bring back once the summoning is complete. Then, you need to create the skill that activates a switch, along with a battle event page that is activated by the switch. In that battle event page, you will remove all the party members and replace it with the summon character.

This is where things get a smidge tricky. Exactly how long you want the summon to last will affect how you need to code it, but regardless of that, you need to have an event that replaces all the party members. This should probably be a common event for easy access, as you will also have to run it after every encounter, in case the summon was active when the battle ended.

One very important aspect of this system you need to work out is experience. If the summon is active when the fight ends, the party members won't get experience. While I can't come up with the solution to this off the top of my head (I know it exists), you need to devise one.

If you are using random encounters, I have a feeling that it will make things a little more complicated to code. Additionally, I typed this up pretty quickly, so I hope it is all coherent. It's all theory, mostly. I haven't created a system exactly like this before. Ultimately, though, the system is very possible. It'll require a smidge of work, but it's nothing extremely fancy.

EDIT: Dead posted while I was typing up mine it seems, haha.

One very important aspect of this system you need to work out is experience. If the summon is active when the fight ends, the party members won't get experience. While I can't come up with the solution to this off the top of my head (I know it exists), you need to devise one.

Couldn't you make each summon skill trip a switch (SummonActive) and then set up the relevant commands in the monster group to do this:

IF SummonActive is ON AND Slime HP = 0% THEN ADD 1 to 'enemiesdefeated' and ADD 20EXP to variable 'summonbattleexp'

then repeat this for every enemy present adding up all the exp into a variable then when every enemy is defeated, give all the EXP stored in the variable to each party member?