ELECTRICALKAT'S PROFILE

author=halibabica
It's being implemented exactly the way I described. I don't really consider it a feature that can be abused, though. It's more a convenience for the player so they don't have to run all over the place to grind a little. It takes the tediousness out of tracking down enemies to fight, and even with other setups, the player is free to fight as much as they want (it's just less convenient).

Errm, to clarify, I was talking about that "press shift to instantly respawn" switch, sorry. I was thinking that could be easily abused if your players somehow found a quick and easy routine for grinding on some specific battle (even if they are randomized, except if those battles have a low encounter rate). But if you can fix this, it's definitely a possibility!

author=halibabica
I set it such that, if the monster party is run from instead of defeated, the event still turns transparent. It stays down for a fraction of the time (three seconds), but it's just long enough for the hero to move away.

I recall a Super NES RPG that had implemented something like this part: Robotrek. You could run away from one of its touch encounters, and that unit would strobe flash and act as an impassable obstacle for several seconds, rather than what you proposed. I think your version is a nice improvement, considering there were...uh, some situations in Robotrek where I really would've rather truly escaped from certain battles (i.e. situations where I am three hits away from being dead robotic scrap).

That's a pretty interesting method, Nessiah! (it would save me quite a bit of time with floor tiles...)

Thank you for posting it - I'll have to try it as well sometime.

LulzSec has been pretty annoying as of late... They were DDoSing the login servers for both League of Legends and Minecraft, so I randomly could not play them at some points. (Although, in both instances, they did not take any passwords AFAIK.)

author=Illustrious
As someone who has been around this scene basically since it first existed, I probably can be quick to assume Saya intends to also stick around for years honing her skills. She may or may not. Possibly, I am making a tall order for someone who really is just working in rpgmaker/pixel art casually. It depends what she wants to gain by making original graphics. It can make sense she is learning something about pixel art by tracing, but I just would not include this kind of material in an actual project. If the goal is present these graphics for an audience or to make this stand out among games that use rips, it probably will not go too far on that end.

I should mention that I didn't read Saya's post within the Screenshots topic before now. Yes, I can see why everyone thinks that she wants to use these exact graphics in her game, and I can understand why you're taking this position. It was probably a serious miscommunication or misunderstanding on her or our part...moving on.

Anyway, I agree with you about potential players recognizing those graphics, and it would apply to more people than only us inside the RPG Maker community. If Saya had released a game using those graphics to the outside world, she would have likely been called out for it, and received a much...harsher response.

I don't believe it was her intent to imply that she created all of those tiles on her own, just that we - as people who have played so many games, and created things of our own in the past - kind of assumed this (and I probably would have as well), since she didn't provide enough details beforehand. It isn't a tall order to ask for an "original" aesthetic (I placed that in quotes because the word original is relative - both you and Mog have debated that well enough), but we are all influenced from somewhere, whether we realize it or not.

If Saya does stay as you mention, and continues to practice her work, I'm confident that she will eventually develop her own style from this experimenting.