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Which Engine to Use for SNES Style?

How important is it to you that players can play your game on a phone? Is this something that EasyRPG can assist with, if you go with 2K/2K3? How do you feel about using Ace?

Trying to figure out which RPG Maker is best for my project (why why WHY did i buy VX Ace back in 2020. WHY)

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Maybe I've been out of the loop but I'd consider 2k3 to be more popular than Ace at this time in history, considering that 2k3 still got updates while Ace is now forever frozen in time.


That's probably a fair assessment, though. I also wonder what the dead link rate is with Ace versus 2K/2K3. Like, there's an entire thread devoted to old/obscure games, mostly made in the early days of TsuK/TsuK3. Though, if I tried to visit one of GrandmaDeb's links, there's probably a non-zero number of dead links there, too.

Marrend plays Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete!

The scenario description indicates that I should want to hunt down the Eversmoking Ring of Sulfur. The actual win condition is to defeat Melodia, though, I didn't necessarily know it was Melodia until the victory message popped up.

Though, if I were looking at the file through UGE, and noticed that she might have been the AI's only active hero, well, maybe that wouldn't have been such a forgone conclusion.


Scenario notes/asides
Starting Bonus: <Equestrian's Gloves>, 10 Wraiths, 10 Wood/Ore
Win Condition: Defeat Melodia (achieved day 2)

Trying to figure out which RPG Maker is best for my project (why why WHY did i buy VX Ace back in 2020. WHY)

Ace is a pretty good engine, though? I think there's still a non-zero number of users that would swear by 2K3, but, yeah, having the right toolset for your vision is pretty important.

[RM2K3] How do I put a custom name in dialog?

I'm not going to go over the use of the Name Input event-command. However, you could use the escape code \n[x] with message boxes. That replaces itself with the name of the actor in position x in the database.

As a quick example, if you write...


\n[1]: Hi! My name is \n[1].


...and the name the character in position 1 is given (either through Name Input or otherwise) is "Larry", the output would be...

Larry: Hi! My name is Larry.

Marrend plays Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete!

Oh, man, this victory condition. You'll have to forgive me for just UGEing the amount in question just to see how the game would react.

Regardless of how hard or soft I would UGE, there was no way I'd let this scenario go any longer than one in-game day. If nothing else, I'd hack up a Marketplace, and trade non-Gold resources for Gold.


Scenario notes/asides
Starting Bonus: 15 Wood, <Vial of Lifeblood>
Win Condition: Obtain 100000 gold (achieved day 1)

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Marrend plays Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Complete!

I've decided to do this campaign, switching things up a bit. You can call me a bad player, and maybe a bad LPer, but, I'm gonna make this campaign go by fast. This translates to UGEing my active heroes to 15000 movement both after they are hired, and at the beginning of each day.

As for the scenario, itself, surprise! We're back to Sandro! Except he's apparently been reset? That doesn't have too much affect on my game-plan, as I was probably going to UGE at least his army and movement anyway, but, it's an odd thing to observe.

This scenario has me start with three towns in the upper-right quarter of the map. Haart Castle lies in the lower-left hand corner. There's no color guards, quest guards, or anything, so this is pretty smooth sailing.


Scenario notes/asides
Starting Bonus: <20 Zombies>, 3000 Gold, Boots of Speed
Win Condition: Capture Haart Castle (achieved day 3)