BYAH'S PROFILE

Interesting, now I only need a good idea...and stop working on my current game for the time being. :X

author=cadh20000
The biggest problem is that the RTP must ALWAYS be installed on the comp the game is being played on when the game was made with VX Ace Lite. It is weird, even when the folder includes the ENTIRE RTP it still tells the person it needs to be installed, and then it doesn't even draw from it! The blasted thing draws from the included files only and doesn't work if any are missing from inside it!

Or at least that has been the way with both of the games I've made with "VX Ace Lite".

You have to open the Game.ini file with a text editor and change the second line "RTP=RPGVXAce" to "RTP=", for it to stop asking for the RTP.

author=Nemica
I'd rather not mess around with games you didn't make. Also, how would you apply that to packed games?

If this isn't a graphics card thing, then it's some program that tries to stay in the foreground and pushes the game out of fullscreen mode again.

...just curious, is there a parameter that allows you to start games in fullscreen mode (like in RM2k(3)) per default?

My bad, was misreading the OP.

author=LockeZ
Edit: this would probably be a more constructive topic if more of you were inside my brain and I didn't have to communicate, because I think I'm failing hardcore

Oh I get it now, you want to add randomness, and make it fun (like you said in your OP!).

Let's see, one random skill I enjoyed playing with (until I got more reliable attacks anyway) was Metronome in Pokemon. If used, it executes a random attack out of all existing ones, making it very unreliable, but still fun since most of the time you'll still do some damage and every now and then, you'll have that big one hit ko.
Which I think is what can make randomness fun: low investment (one turn), low chance to get a game changer (one hit ko) and at least a decent return a lot of the time.

author=LockeZ
In this case, stealing an item has a 75% success rate, but you might get an item you don't need, like you might get a healing item when you have full health or a haste item when you're already hasted. You also might get a damage + silence item when the enemy doesn't cast magic, or a damage + blind item when the enemy is immune to blind, or a healing item when you're at 75% health; these are useful, but not ideal, which makes it difficult for me to pinpoint the exact chance of getting a "good item." 50% maybe? If all you want is damage, you will actually be doing, on average, about 50% more damage per round than other jobs can do with their first abilities. It's just going to be a lot more unpredictable.

You're basically giving this ability another chance to fail, just in case it dares to hit. :P
I'd at least make it so that the stolen item depends on the creature you steal from. That way, the player has to decide who to steal from, and plan ahead. Much more fun than praying to the RNGods, twice. Then I'd remove missing altogether!

I find there's two kinds of RNG: bad (failing) and good (a nice bonus, but not required to win), and missing definitely belongs to the former.

Something I did to make more fun rng, was to have a character inflict poison on critical hits. The player can then build towards more crit, or leave it as is and be satisfied with the one ability that makes him auto crit every once in a while.

The music and sounds are from Pokemon Blue/Red and Pokemon Gold/Silver.

The battles may be a bit too simplistic, but that's what I wanted to do as well for my first game. Keep the choices simple, but different.
Another problem may be that I buffed the sorcerer too much, as his play style is vastly different from the other 5 Finstermen - kill fast, or be killed fast. :P Maybe try one of the other Finstermen and the hard difficulty!

5 Minutes seems short, but then again, the sorcerer does end fights quickly :P

About extending the length:
I've got ideas to make a full game similiar to this, but this one won't be extended, since some of the systems in place wouldn't work in a longer game.
My biggest problem was that I couldn't make it so that when one Pokemon Finsterman gets beaten, you get to send out the next one. :/
Which is pretty much the number one reason the game is so short.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, guys!