MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE

yeah the absence of an importer/exporter is pretty whack

Is there a repository/listing of stuff (i.e. plugins, graphics packs, add-ons, whatever) for the new RPG Maker MV somewhere on this site that someone could point me to? If not, is anyone interested in compiling one here? I know the maker is obviously new, but looking on the site sections like this one seem quite bare, even taking into account how new the engine is.

Any chance of putting together a big "RPG Maker MV Stuff" repository thread here, or am I going to have to go off-base to other sites like http://www.rpgmakermv.co/ or whatever.

Unity: so your game is re-using the graphics you made for Bright Future? I'm definitely interested in following it now. : )

I'm glad someone's doing something with those resources.

pianotm is...really surprisingly knowledgeable about firearms. all of his additions are great.

one thing though: pretty much nobody but gun nuts particularly cares about the distinction between "clip" and "detachable box magazine". most people talking casually and conversationally say "clip" when they really mean to say "detachable box magazine" since clip more technically and properly refers to this, but I don't particularly care and probably neither should you. "toss me another clip" is pretty much synonymous with "toss me another magazine" in hollywood and literary and videogame vernacular, even if it's technically ever-so-slightly incorrect.

oh, as for the character who uses bats thing, that is rather limiting. the only progression I can think of is bat -> cricket bat -> aluminum bat -> barbed wire bat -> nailbat (and now we're getting into "do you really care about realism" territory but) -> flaming bat -> flaming nailbat? actually, come to think of it a 6-8 weapon progression might be fine depending on how long the game is. but letting the character use other bashing melee weapons besides bats (there are oodles) would be cool too, if the game setup and graphics allow for it. oh, and you could include "whiffle bat" as a joke weapon XD

lemme know if you ever want any more substantive help with this game, by the way, my enthusiasm to collab with you is undampened since January/February

unity, as you might remember from Bright Future, I know far too much about guns.

1) If I'm sticking just to pistols, are there "better" or "worse" models of pistols that the player could get that could increase stats? Would I be better off using real-world models or just making up my own? (I could also add in rifles, I guess, if I needed too?)

2) If I have special ammo types like Hollow-point or Armor Piercing or Silver bullets, would it be realistic that different pistols could use these interchangeably?

I will try to keep my answers on the simple side.

1) Generally speaking, the larger caliber bullet a weapon fires the more "damage" it does, but the less accurate it is due to recoil. The progression for pistol caliber is a lot like this (restricting myself to common calibers):

.22 LR lowest damage, highest accuracy
.32 ACP or .38 Special low damage, high accuracy
9mm middle of the road damage and accuracy
.40 S&W or 10mm auto slightly higher damage, lower accuracy
.45 ACP higher damage, slightly lower accuracy, my favorite caliber
.357 Magnum/.44 Magnum highest reasonable damage, lowest reasonable accuracy
.50 AE or .454 Casull or .500 S&W stupidly high damage, stupidly low accuracy, also extremely rare and little used.

one final caliber worth mentioning is 5.7x28mm which is a newer caliber with lowish "stopping power" as they say but high accuracy AND high ARMOR PENETRATION

All of the above are pistol calibers, and are also used in pistol-caliber SMGs and carbines.

So basically, it's entirely reasonable to have a .38 revolver that's 'better' than a .22 target pistol and a .45 automatic that's 'better' than that .38 revolver in a game. but a drop-off in accuracy would be somewhat realistic as a balancing factor. (a more realistic balancing factor might be "strength needed to use")

2) A .45 Automatic can fire regular .45 FMJ ammo or .45 JHP (Jacketed Hollow Points) or .45 Armor Piercing rounds. A 9mm Automatic can fire regular 9mm FMJ ammo or 9mm JHP (Jacketed Hollow Points) or 9mm Armor Piercing rounds. But a .45 cannot fire ANY 9mm bullets and a 9mm cannot fire ANY .45 bullets.

PLENTY of videogames abstract this highly, to the point where all pistols just load "pistol ammo" and revolvers load "revolver ammo". so there's no distinction between 9mm and .45 ACP or between .357 magnum and .44 magnum. there is technically nothing wrong with this: it's up to you the level of abstraction you want in your game. : )

Only old weapons like Tommy Guns load bullets individually.

this is inaccurate. the Thompson M1928A1 loads a 20 round stick magazine or a 50 round drum. meanwhile even modern revolvers and shotguns still load ammunition "individually", into cylinders and internal magazines respectively. the fast majority of firearms do use "clips" however (which are more correctly referred to as "external box magazines").