KINGARTHUR'S PROFILE

@Kingarthur: Well if somebody puts the time and energy into making a game that looks different, it is only right for that game to get better appreciation over something that uses resources that take no labor.

Beautiful graphics !== Good game.

Moreover, the reverse logic of your theory (using RTP == automatic failure) is absurd and downright insulting to the RTP, its creators, its users, and all the great games and characters that were represented by the RTP.

Videogames are supposed to change and look different from one another.

Commercial video games won't be able to look exactly like another game even if they wanted to due to copyright reasons, the only exception being games made by the same rights holder; and in this regard many sequels of games look almost exactly like their predecessors at times (Fire Emblem 6, 7 and 8 come to mind).

What if Final Fantasy kept using the same resources every game?

I wouldn't mind, personally. I assume some variation in character design and such will exist, of course, and using the same style over and over isn't something I frown upon. It could even become the trademark of that game series.

No matter how good the story was people would eventually get tired of seeing it.

Again, RM history proves you wrong on this regard as far as the RTP is concerned.

If you truly want to make your game appeal to the masses it needs to also look unique.

As far as the graphical aspect goes, RM history has said otherwise.

I live in NYC. I was in science class during the time the Twin Towers fell. My school was even close to the Manhattan ferry, so I was able to see the destruction from across the water; but it was not the meaningless violence that disgusted me the most that day, it was the attitude of my "peers".

"HAH, we get to go home early!"

"We're gonna die! Hahahaha!"

Suddenly, all those morons that don't know where Washington D.C. is or what 1+1 equals to don't seem that bad anymore.

#1: Either have them start up by themselves via Auto-Start or Parallel Processing (requisite switch optional) or call them from somewhere via "Call Common Event".

#3:

Switch
Data stored as either ON or OFF throughout the game. For example, controls information such as whether a player has received an order to defeat a monster or whether a boss has been defeated.

Variable
Data stored as any integer (maximum 8 numbers long) throughout the game. For example, controls information such as the hero's reputation level or the number of items a player has gathered from around the world and given to a particular person.

Self Switch
A special switch for individual events. It has no visible effect, but rather is used simply to display the status of a given event. For example, controls information such as whether the player has opened a treasure chest.

Courtesy of the RMVX Help File

It is also impossible for an event to "pause" right in the middle of event processing and then come back to it later without ingenius usage of switches and/or variables and labels. Back in RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, you could call individual Map Events from other events via an event command, but I can see that feature isn't present in RMVX. It might be possible via scripting, but that's for another topic.

That pic (the one chaos quoted) is made of win.