JASONFARKAS'S PROFILE

Good game so far, though I do agree that it is pretty hard at the start(not sure if that is remedied or not, still at the start getting killed by sewer zombie things lol).

I think I found a bug in that I can still defend even if I have no AP, not sure if defend takes AP or not but I figured it would.

Anyway, gonna keep at it and see how the game progresses.

Ya those sounds from rpgplanet are the only ones I've been able to find on the net, you'd think at least someone would have all of the compiled somewhere lol.

As for the CT CBS mine is like the original but slightly different, I call it the Chrono Trigger Tactical Enviroment Battle System (CTTEBS). In any case the battles do take place right on the map when you run into an enemy. I did something that I thought was rather clever. When the enemy is touched it sets a game variable called "EncounterX"(x being whatever encounter number that particular encounter is on the map) to true. I have more events that are activated due to this variable being set to true, each event is located where I want a creature/player to move to when the battle starts.

When those events activate they load their current x and y pos to a game variable, which is then read by some script I wrote, and then assigned to the characters as the point they need to move to. If i want to change the position of a character/enemy when the battle starts I simply move the event to a different position and my script takes care of the rest. Also when the battle starts each characters/enemies x and y is loaded into an array. When characters/enemies attack they access that array to see where they need to move to in order to attack. Those arrays get updated whenver a character moves so the game always knows where to move a character when it needs to attack.

In any case it is still a ways from being complete, I just finished incorporating the normal attacks into the game. Now I have to worry about spells, enemy AI, item effects, etc etc etc. It has a ways to go lol. In the final version I want both characters and players to be able to move (like if I had a skill to shield allies from spells but only if they were in a certain radius then my allies would need a way to get closer. I also picture players being able to cover other players while they do an action that requires time and concentration, like spell casting or bomb setting or what not). Also the enviroment will play a large role in combat, see something explosive? Cast a fireball and it goes boom!! Fighting in a icy area? That area will probably have a higher ice element aura which reduces damage from ice spells but enchances fire damage(an over saturated elemental aura means spells of that element will function less than their best). But now I am rambling and strayed from the point of the topic though lol.

Thanks for the link in any case though!

I love this game!! If you are ever on msg TekBob

Well my ultimate solution for any vista problems is to install XP lol. I don't know if you went out and bought it yet but if I was as fed up with vista as you seem to be then XP would be what I do.

This is just a rough example of what I might do in XP for it.

#this would go into whatever class your misc item window is using,
#right before it prints items on the window.

for j in 0...$game_items.length
if $misc_item_list.include?($game_items.name) and $game_party.item_number($game_items.id) > 0

#checks to see if item is in inventory and if it is on the misc item list
#code to print item goes here, just print $game_items.name or something to that effect
end
end

#seperate class to stick on a new script page.
class Game_Variables

def initialize
super

#part where you make your misc_items array
$misc_item_list.push("whatever the item name is goes here")

#add as many of these lines as you want, just type a different item name each
#time, ensure it is spelled correctly or it won't work.

end
end


Hope that is coherent enough, I am a bit tired now so if it doesn't make sense say so and I'll probably be able to give you a clearer answer tomorrow.