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Basically, I wanted to list some ideas hear your guys ideas on using deck strategies/ deck building ideas as a ways to help create skills in rpg combat systems.


The basic goal of most CCGS is to reduce your opponents HP before your own is depleted, much the same as RPGs. Some ideas we might take from CCGS:

Card combos- getting cards to play off each other is crucial to victory, similarly skills should play off each other and states they create. Or, make it so that an actor can perform more than one action in a turn, creating possibilities for skills to affect each other. For instance, a skill "Follow hit" which does more damage if "first strike" was used that turn.

Deck building- As deck building is an important part of CCGS, perhaps skill building could be a part of a battle system. For example, actors could choose their respective skills with maybe a limit to the number of skills they can use in any certain battle. Choosing high cost or low cost skills, or even limited
use skills (think limited copies of cards in a deck).

Summoning- a huge part of deck building games is summoning creatures- designing a class/ battle system around summoning temporary allies might be worth doing. They don't even technically have to be creatures- they could be damage dealing turrets, or even objects (like a gunpowder barrel) that could be targeted by allies and enemies alike.


Endgame strategies- When deck building, you have to think of what your core combos/ strategies are to win the fight. The same could be said for rpg battles- do you go for stun locking your opponent, emphasize and stack certain states, etc.
Some types of decks ive run into and how they might translate to an rpg:
Poison counters/ effects that activate when poison is applied- A class that has leech counters that stack and grow stronger with time
Block damage/ Taunt/ have cards that take agro from healers/ damage dealers- Paladin/ taunt classes, albeit an established rpg concept
Necromancy decks- summons or class that grows stronger based on dmg done to allies/ turns passed
equip focused decks- allow chars to change equips/ stances mid battle, make sure equips are significantly different
Enrage decks- char that starts off weak but grows in strength from missing hp

These are just a few ideas we could take form deck building games. Any others?

Not sure if this is the right category as it may be more of a general computer audio problem, but when I playtest my game the audio works fine- the problem is that when I try to play music in the game editor, it's muted. I believe its related to the problem here:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/363890/discussions/1/1488866813768058378/

specifically, the last comment made by the author, that somehow the audio box for "editor" was unchecked. Problem is, I don't know how to get to an audio manager window for MV. I've heard some people say to press f1 when the play tester is open, but when I do that, nothing happens.

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author=Marrend
I'm no expert, but, I wonder if the reference to "b" instead of "target" is throwing the script off? Maybe something like...

<target action>
  $gameVariables.setValue(4,(target.mmp - target.hp) / target.mhp);
  $gameVariables.setValue(5, Math.rand());
  if $gameVariables(4).value <= $gameVariables(5).value
    add state 11: target
  end
</target action>

...this would work? Though, I'm probably off with the exact referencing here, as I don't have MV to make cross-references to.

I tried your solution (both verbatim and with a few changes so it looks like this:


The main problem I had was I had to put in "eval:" to evaluate script using the plugin. The system is close to working now, except all that happens is I end up with common event 1 (a text box saying skill was unsuccessful). Without the "else" part I was able to get the animation to play and effect to add- so I'm thinking the problem is something with the syntax of the "If, Else" or the comparison between var 004 and var 005.

Almost there, though, your example definitely helped.

Edit: I originally meant to say "MP" instead of HP because I'm basing it off the current target's lost mp %. I have a skill called drain that reduces the enemy's MP by 60%, and I confirmed the enemy's MP is at 40%, so there should be a 60% chance of the status being applied, but I keep getting common event 1 instead.

I feel like there's a simple answer to this one, but I don't know how to get a target's ID and store it as a variable

So I'm not even sure if this is possible with a script call, but I wanted to add a state at X%, where X is a function all its own. What I'm thinking it would look like is something like this:


b.(enemy max hp - enemy current hp)/ enemy max hp = var 001
Random number generate 0-1 = var 002
If var 002 <= var 001,
then $gameTroop.members(){enemyIndex}.addState(n)


I can already script call to add a state to an enemy at 100%, but I'm trying to have a state added at, say, a 30% chance if 30% of their HP is missing. I think this can be done via script call- the reason I put b.() in there was that I know you can create custom damage formulas, so I was hoping to apply a state via the dmg formula box. If there's a script that can do what im asking that's fine too.