MARREND'S PROFILE

I was approached by a man by the name of Sandro, who said he was conducting research to combat necromancy. He's willing to pay considerable sums of money for the pieces he needs for his research, and the first among these is the Amulet of the Undertaker.

Something seemed rather familiar about this man, but, perhaps my own zeal to end the undead menace made me agree to his request.


Scenario notes/asides
Starting Bonus: Blacksmith, 15 Wood, <+1 Spell Power>
Win Condition: Acquire the Amulet of the Undertaker (achieved week 2, day 1)

In this scenario, not only does Gem retain her custom background, but Clancy has a custom background as well. While I might have expected Gem's to carry over, I wasn't, exactly, prepared for having two heroes with custom backgrounds.

The number of heroes between Clancy and Gem is minimal, but, it still mostly behooved me to hire heroes on one side or the other of that range.

$dataEnemies, itself, is an array. So, you'd also need to pass the ID/position of the enemy you want to capture data for. So, as a quick example...


...this will get the MHP for whatever enemy is in ID/position 1 in your database, and throw that value into $gameVariables[62]. Fetching equipment stat bonuses would probably be fairly similar in this regard.


As for calling the item menu, I think that would be...


...something like that?

*Edit: For full disclosure, I'm using MZ resources/references. While I doubt there's too much difference between MZ and MV in regards to this issue, I thought it prudent to note.

Has it only been a year since the succession war in Enroth? I still have nightmares of the fighting, to this day. To help alleviate that, I attempted to retire in Antagarich.

Alas, Deyjan Necromancers are plaguing the land, and in the lack of experienced generals, the people look to me for assistance. I'd rather not fight again, of course, but, I also cannot entirely ignore this threat either.


Scenario notes/asides
Starting Bonus: 10 Wood/Ore, 8 Crystal, <Mage Guild Level 1>
Win Condition: Capture all enemy towns, and defeat their heroes (achieved day 1)


So, uh, yeah, this scenario was subject to heroes being hacked to have 30000 movement. There was no body of water present to stop this movement preemptively, either. I kinda feel a little regret, but, I couldn't help to notice that Gem had a custom background attached to her profile, and that messed up the positions of heroes after her. So, maybe that had soured my mood concerning this scenario to begin with.

I'll try to be more conservative with the movement UGEing next time, and we'll see how I do.

For what little it might be worth at this point, I concede that I overreacted in the aforementioned Karen thread. It still kinda irks me that they only waited for one day, maybe two, before doing it themselves. Though, on one hand, I should congratulate them for doing it themselves! On the other hand, I feel they could have planned things a little better in regards to that thread/project.

What could have happened there is that it was a spontaneous idea. Like, the project in question was a thing for Mother's Day. I have zero issues with this base idea of making a game for Mother's Day. However, as far as I'm aware, that was celebrated this past Sunday. Which was also was the self-same day that they posted that thread. At least, according to my GMT settings.

However, that's also why I think the idea could have been planned better. I don't pretend to know when this project started, but, the possibility to use any RPG Maker female battler that currently exists, either paid or otherwise, apparently did not occur to them. They had a very specific thing in mind, and thought the descriptor of "Karen" was enough for potential illustrators to go on. Even if such a descriptor was enough (it was not in my case, but, plenty has been said of this already), I don't pretend to know how long that would take. However, if I would use my rule of thumb concerning gamepages (ie: if it's pending for over two weeks, that's when one would start considering PMing Liberty/Frogge), then, I think Krimson could/should have allowed that long for that work to be done. Maybe one week?

*Edit: Considering they did their own thing in a day, or maybe two, is notable. However, even if the work could be done in a day, one should not expect people to flock to a help thread just because it's there. What happened in the Karen thread is, essentially, an overestimation how many people would post combined with an underestimation how much time in which to post.