GREATREDSPIRIT'S PROFILE

Making interesting maps. I've stopped working on Demons Gate because I used up all of my good map ideas and that I've lost the energy to make any others. Part of the problem might be that I make my maps too big, but I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm even worse with places like towns...


(back for Rm2k(3)) Coding: Coding with the RM2k(3) event commands is painful and its like a step up from Assembly. I never want to use something like that ever again. Finding simple errors in some of my Rm2k(3) code would've been much easier with a real programming language, and that extends to making it in the first place and modifying it.

Programming for RMXP is a challange (for different reasons), but that's hardly due to accidential complexity and its nothing I can't work out.


Writing: I'm painfully slow when it comes to getting the plot and characters done. I've had a fair sized gap in my story for some time now that I'm 'Thinking' about without ever really getting anything done. I've scrapped several parts of the story and characters and its going to be hard to get the game started when I keep rewriting/scrapping everything :\


I know you ask for a hard part, but I can't choose when it comes to these sort of things ;D

The hardest game I've played (that I can recall) is Zelda 2 (not counting mass-death games like that one or Romhacks which involve more state reloads than saves, I place those under a different category)

The final dungeon, the Grand Place, is made out of the blood, sweat, and tears of people who have tried... and failed... :'(

Last Scenario was done by Origami.

You can download the demo of RMXP at www.download.com which'll come with the entire help file. I can upload the help file sometime tomorrow or so too.

In the meantime, here's this!

RPGXP's default battle system uses the following formulas.

The active battler is represented by A, where the battler who is the target for A's actions is represented by B.

First Hit

Normal attacks:
First hit rate = Hit rate of A's state

Skills:
Attack power F is 1 or greater (physical attack)
First hit rate = Skill's hit rate × hit rate of A's state ÷ 100
Attack power F is 0 (non-physical attack)
First hit rate = Skill's hit rate

Items:
First hit rate = Item's hit rate

If A's condition is normal, the state hit rate is 100.



Critical Hit

Normal attacks:
Critical hit rate = 4 × A's dexterity ÷ B's agility

Skills:
Critical hit rate = 0

Items:
Critical hit rate = 0



Calculating Damage

Normal attacks:
Power = A's attack power - (B's physical defense ÷ 2)
Rate = 20 + A's strength
Variance = 15
Minimum force: 0

Skills:
Skill's force is positive:
Force = Skill's force
+ (A's attack power × skill's attack power F ÷ 100)
- (B's physical defense × skill's physical defense F ÷ 200)
- (B's magic defense × skill's magic defense F ÷ 200)
Minimum force: 0

Skill's force is negative:
Force = Skill's force
Rate = 20
+ (A's strength × skill's strength F ÷ 100)
+ (A's dexterity × skill's dexterity F ÷ 100)
+ (A's agility × skill's agility F ÷ 100)
+ (A's intelligence × skill's intelligence F ÷ 100)
Variance = Skill's variance

Items:
HP recovery amount is negative:
Force = - Amount of HP recovered
- (B's physical defense × item's physical defense F ÷ 20)
- (B's magic defense × item's magic defense F ÷ 20)
Minimum force: 0

HP recovery amount is positive:
Force = - Amount of HP recovered
Rate = 20
Variance = Item's variance


Damage = force × multiplier ÷ 20 × elemental modifier × critical modifier × defense modifier (± variance %)


Elemental modifier: The weakest of B's effective elements corresponding to the action's element(s).
A: 200%, B: 150%, C: 100%, D: 50%, E: 0%, F: -100%
Reduced by half if B's armor or state has a defending (opposing) element.
When there are more than one of the same defending elements, the damage may be halved multiple times.

Critical modifier: Equals 2 when the damage is positive and a critical hit is made.

Defense modifier: Equals 1/2 when the damage is positive and B is defending.



Second Hit

Damage is positive:
B's condition is normal:
Evasion = 8 × B's agility ÷ A's dexterity + B's evasion modifier

Normal attacks:
Second hit rate = 100 - evasion

Skills:
Second hit rate = 100 - (evasion × skill's evasion F ÷ 100)

Items:
Second hit rate = 100
B has "Can't Evade" state:
Second hit rate = 100
Damage is negative (recovery):
Second hit rate = 100



Successful Escape

Successful escape rate = 50 × actors' average agility ÷ enemies' average agility

The default formulas used in the game are in the RPG Maker XP help file. Help->Contents, and there should be a link at the bottom of the first page of the help file that will take you to the battle formulas.