CLEST'S PROFILE

...and I didn´t know such a magic tool existed to fix the hideos map editor in VX ..o.o Well though Tardis suggestion to just use panorams and pictures will solve my problem better since I can edit my itels in map maping stuff more interesting.

Just feels bad for all my time trying to convert my XP tiles into VX autotiles for mountains... *feels stupid*

Also lack of resources? You know you can just double size any resources from 2k/3 and use on VX, right? Including Charsets. In fact since I prefer one tile tall charsets I use my old 2k3 template in VX without resizing...

Well for rpogs I think that if player can just set dificulty, it should be able to set anytime. Chosing the wrong dificulty might be frustrating when you are far in the game.

As for diferent content: What I had planned, being precise, is that if I went with only one dificulty, at a given point in the game, you got certain new equipments or upgrades or even a new mech.

The dificulty would just affect the specific reqard you got. So on getting a new upgrade set for a mech, the easy mode gives you a general booster armor which enhances both speed, defense and hp with a strong damage attack.
The hard mode would give you some sort of tactical armor unir which has only basic defense as inate bonus, but gives you skills that work for around 3 turns to boost either speed, or defense and it gives you about 2 new attacks that aren´t much better than your average stuff, just with diferent attributes.

So hard mode is not getting something more than easy, just something diferent from what would eventually be given anyway :)

While I do agree with the benefits of VXP and am currently using VX (and thanks to tardis post about the whole editing finally got the tile issue solved) and I am all up for ppl going crazy with ideas and quality... I still think that the best games made so far with RM lie on 2k/3...

Funny enough same games could be replicated AND improved in the newer engines, just that most brilhant folks happen to be the older users (not age, time using the software) who generally started with the old engines and won´t move on.

But there are exceptions to this.

The point is: I agree with the superiority of VX particularly, despite its drawbacks, scripting not being one as many seem to think (I have got a great sideview battle system from GreatRed Spirit and still owe him for that but so far he didn´t use the graphic favors I offered for that) but even without script you can still do whatever you did on past engines, its not like command window is off.

However even using the DBS and just basic eventing with the 256 colors limitations you can still make a great game and even surpass a lame developer using the newer tool. Still if you are good and use a better tool you just got everything.

Try this: http://www.fantasyanime.com/valhalla/rudra.htm

post=LockeZ
Multiple difficulty settings are generally a way better way to manage different types of users in an RPG than optional content. It gives people a game that they want to play, instead of a game that's largely unwelcome with a few bits in the middle or near the end that they want to play. Also, it makes people who like easy games not feel like they're missing out on part of the game, and makes people who like hard games not feel like their extra efforts are just making the rest of the game too easy (since the optional content normally gives some kind of power-up as a reward).

Actually, as long as the content for hard mode is not related to plot and not too strong (just slightly so player can still use it but won´t be able to abuse, maybe a powerful spell with high mp cost in a game where mp is hard to refil).

But maybe a dificulty setting change in the middle might be cool :) So I can still have dificulty fluctuating but more in the control of the player.