AEGIX_DRAKAN'S PROFILE

author=AtiyaTheSeeker
Aegix, what's the existing skill sets? I'd say to either fill a missing gap, or even a weaker version of an existing move. Things like, say, a Monk getting a self-healing move instead of a heal-anyone move that a Cleric might have?

Ok, so, this uses my old combat system, with 6 skills per person, you use the 2 weaker ones (or a normal attack) to generate TP, which is needed for the stronger skills.

Basically:
Attack or - Basic Skill +20 TP
+ Intermediate skill costs 40 TP
* Advanced Skill costs 60TP

Fighter:
- ???
- Heal and Status Heal
+ Damage over time
+ If this one kills an enemy, next hit is a Crit
* Damage and Debuff Defense
* Some kind of Finisher move or risky move (lower health = more damage?)

Huntress
- Ally +50 Evasion for one turn
- Damage and lower Agility (important since this is ATB)
+ Silence Mouth-based skills
+ Bypasses Taunt and Hits an enemy with Taunt (so you can open them up to your allies)
* More damage for any stat buffs the enemy has, and removes them.
* More damage for any Debuff your enemy has, gain agility for one turn if they have a debuff.

Gunner
- Damage, penetrates any Barrier then enemy has, and remove a lot of extra barrier on top of that.
- Remove evasion for 3 actions, lower defense for one hit.
+ Damage and Debuff Attack
+ Enemy Accuracy debuffed by 75% for one action.
* Charge up for a bit, then hit all enemies
* Charge up for a bit, then do unblockable damage that ignores defense.

Doggo
- Gain Taunt for 3 turns, Buff Self Attack and Defence for a turn.
- Provides Barrier for 2 turns, target ally also heals 20% HP for 5 Turns. (Basically a delayed heal)
+ All allies gain DEF. Use while Doggo has the buff, and everyone gains some Barrier.
+ All allies gain ATK. Use while Doggo has the buff, and everyone gains some ATB bar
* ????
* Heavy Damage, empty enemy's ATB bar and lower their agility heavily for one turn.

And finally, I have a stack of "Party limit breaks" that don't use up your turn to cast, but are limited by a second bar that the whole party shares.
- Boost an Ally's ATB bar by 50%
- Revive an ally
+ Big Defense boost for one incoming hit
+ Immunity to status effects for a short while.
* Remove any "charging up" effects on an enemy, and empties their ATB bar
* The caster gains their next turn almost instantly
! Whole party gains huge attack power for their next move
! Whole party is nearly invincible for a short while.

I've basically covered all my bases already. XD

author=Liberty
I mean, you can make a demo, for sure, and you'll get a badge for that, but you'll get a better badge for a full game. As per usual. I'll also fix the time issue NOW and the banner issue in a few days.

Thank you, Libby! :)

author=karins_soulkeeper
I don't like ATB because it's like, half and half, if that makes sense? It's turn-based, but not quite turn-based. It's "action" but also not quite. I'd rather either a plain turn-based system (like most JRPGs) OR a non-turn-based "live action" system (like say Summon Knight or Dark Souls or Diablo or etc).

I hear you on that, which is why I dislike non-wait type ATB systems (outside of 1v1 fights)

The plugin I'm using pauses the fight during each turn, though, so ATB in this game mostly just provides some variation in when people's actions are available, and allows you do do the occasional "sick play" of "Enemy's turn is incoming, time to empty their speed bar or pop a Blind/Stun/etc NOW"

author=Craze
atb is lame

Any reason you can give for why you feel that way? :o

Edit: Initial scenes done, I'm getting the personalities of my three protagonists (and dog) decently settled. I'm enjoying this little project.

author=Gretgor
I love this! You can't forget the helpful doggo <3

Doggo's mostly going to be a support character with one or two hard hitting attacks, so yeah, VERY helpful Doggo.

I'm torn between wanting to use ATB for some extra granularity in the combat (Differing Turn orders, being able to play with ATB gagues with skills), and going pure turn based (Simpler to manage boss patterns in a puzzle-like manner, easier to handle battle events, etc)

Other than that, I have the basic design skeleton for the combat done, got all my faces and stuff for my trio of humans.

author=volke_locke
It would be great if I could get some feedback for my game.

To be perfectly honest, I really didn't like the combat. Especially when surrounded by like 10 slimes. It turned the game into just "watch screen, hold attack after the flash and ONLY after the flash, for like 5 minutes, or you're dead". :s

Plot seems funny and silly, which is fun, but the way combat is handled just wasn't fun for me. :( Sorry.