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Isn't this what subscriptions are for.

Is there a way to subscribe to every page on the site at once? And then automatically subscribe to every future page that's added, as soon as it's added? That would be kind of nice. Then I could see, "Oh, hey, these four games are the most recently updated, and I've never heard of any of them. Maybe I'll look at the page for one or two of them and see what's up." Not sure how spammy that would end up being, though. Would need some sort of auto-delete after one week.

A lot of us just want to see what people are talking about lately. Replacing the list of recently updated files on the front page with a list of recently posted comments would be a nice change. Seeing the first half-line of the latest ten comments would be way more interesting than seeing a list of "THETITLE.png" and "wip_battle2.png" and "S4.JPG". Which is basically useless. It doesn't even tell you what game it's for.

No comment is ever nonconstructive. Everyone says everything for a reason. If you can't see past your own personal self-esteem issues to perceive that reason, then that's your own fault. Every comment serves a purpose, and you might disagree with that purpose, but that's not an excuse to ever get upset that they simply said it.

Hmm. Yeah, so here are your options:

1) Edit the map and remove all potential obstacles from the area. Have the hero walk to the target coordinates via Kazesui's method.
2) Temporarily turn on phasing mode (which lets something pass through objects as it moves) and have the hero walk to the target coordinates via Kazesui's method. Be sure to turn phasing mode off afterwards. This will probably look stupid, since the hero will just walk over cliffs and walls and trees.
3) Teleport there. You probably want to use a fade-to-black-and-back method of teleporting.
4) Give the player control of the hero, and wait until the player walks to the location you want. Start the event when the player steps on the right tile.
5) Code up an incredibly complex system of automatic best-path detection. Share it with the community afterwards and we will all love you long time.
6) Use conditions to make different paths for all the different places the hero could be standing. You will probably only need a condition for each obstacle, not necessarily for each tile, if you're smart about it.

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post=149204
I've never seen an RPG that was a romantic comedy or an interpersonal drama. They pretty much tend to all be action plots. If you know of an RPG where the story is entirely about interpersonal relationships and has no fighting or espionage or villains, let me know.

This indicates you don't appreciate stories in RPG's at all, short of whatever makes it a war simulator. I don't think we're asking for a decent romantic comedy in RPG Maker format, we're looking to take a step up from token romance in games. Why not make them more interesting?

To put it another way, it implies that a game which revolves around combat must have a story with revolves around combat. If the two are disjointed, then one or the other seems superfluous. The story should drive the game, and the game should drive the story. To make them have almost nothing to do with each-other would be ridiculous, and would make a game feel like it had a very bad story, even if the story were excellently written.

As I said before, I think a story should not flesh out the parts of it that are not its central theme. It makes the game feel disjointed, like a... clusterfuck, for lack of a better word. It feels like things in the story and/or game don't serve any purpose. If you want to make a game where the story has nothing to do with combat, then the game should also have nothing to do with combat. If you want to make a game where the entirety of the meaningful gameplay revolves around preparing for battles and then engaging in them, then the vast majority of the meaningful story should revolve around preparing for battles and then engaging in them.

This is not to say that Bruce Willis can't get the girl at the end, or even that he can't be driven by a strongly romantic motive. But if 50% of a Bruce Willis movie were spent showing and building and evolving his romantic interests in the gorgeous regional manager he just met, and the other 50% were spent launching cars into helicopters, it would be a nightmare.

Personally, if an employee of mine ever failed to tell me when he thought I might be wrong, I'd fire him. By not arguing with me, he is showing that he does not care about making the product the best it can be.

Any time you frown on someone for pointing out the problems with something you decided or created, you're basically saying that you don't care about your decision or creation being improved in every possible way. This is okay if it's something you've abandoned and given up on in favor of other projects, or if there is a severe time constraint that prevents you from working on it any more than you already have. But for something you still care about, why the FUCK would you ever want people not to tell you what they perceive as problems with it? And it also makes me absolutely furious when people fail to talk to me about things I'm working on. I wish my game page had another hundred comments listing all the problems with it and arguing about the best ways to fix them. Though I realize most people have their own games to work on and don't have the time, you'd think they could at least spare ten minutes arguing with me after spending 15 hours playing the game.