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Working on a game where you can capture just about any enemy and have them fight for your side. Just uploaded a (long, convoluted) tutorial where you can have items have different effects based on who they're used on. In my case its for a loyalty system where you win enemies to your side by giving them gifts, which they will either like or dislike.

Welp, I found a temporary solution to both which isn't actually too bad, though its a little convoluted. Here's what I did:

I created an actor to represent each enemy.
I made a consumable common event item for each Actor which adds that actor to your party.

I made a conditional branch where if enemy, A, B, and C are either state F (fascination) or K (Knockout), the battle ends. If order matters, there are 8 possible combinations of all three actors having either state F or K:

FFF
FFK
FKF
FKK
KFF
KFK
KKF
KKK

So, I made a branch like this:

IF Enemy A has state F
IF Enemy B has state F
IF Enemy C has state F
Abort Battle
Else Enemy B has state K
If Enemy C has state F
Abort Battle
Else Enemy A has state K
IF Enemy B has state F
IF Enemy C has state F
Abort Battle
... etc. (It's not exactly correct/ complete but it would be a lot to type out the whole thing )

So basically, if the combination is FFF, FFK, FKF, or any of the 8 total combinations at the end of a turn, then the battle will abort. Otherwise it will continue and check again at the end of next turn.

Now, in order to add the captured enemies to my team, I added the following before each "abort battle":

IF Enemy A has state F
Add +1 Item "Actor A" to inventory
IF Enemy B has state F
Add +1 Item "Actor B" to inventory
IF Enemy C has state F
Add +1 Item "Actor C" to inventory

That way, right before the battle aborts, I will get a common event item for each actor that is under state F, which I can later use to add the actor to my party (sort of like a pokeball).

I suppose you could make it so the actors are added directly to the party at the end of battle instead of as items, but for my purposes the items works better as you can choose to sell the item if you want.

Also, I have a system where you can return any party member to item form via events:

Go to return crystal ( or wherever else you wish to call up this common event), then

text: Return party member to item form?
Show Choices: Yes / No
Yes -> Show Choices
\P(1) ((Name of party member 1))
Control Variables 003 "Return ID" = Actor ID of Party Member 1
Common event "Return"
\P(2)
Control Variables 003 "Return ID" = Actor ID of Party Member 2
Common event "Return"

...etc, where common event "Return" is as follows:

IF variable 003 "Return Actor ID" = 1
Remove party member (Actor ID 1)
Add item "Actor 01"
IF variable 003 "Return Actor ID" = 2
Remove party member (Actor ID 2)
Add item "Actor 02"

...etc, for as many enemies as you want capturable.

Hope this can help some people with their own systems, and if anybody knows of a more streamlined system I would appreciate it, because it'll be a little bit of a pain if I have troops with 4+ enemies in tem, and having to do this system for each individual troop.

So I've seen a few articles on different pokemon-style capture methods where the enemy can be captured mid-battle, but for my purposes I'm looking for a script or workaround that adds an enemy to your party after the battle ends if they are in X state when the battle ends.

For example, I can use skill "Charm" that adds state "fascinated" to enemy, and if when the battle ends, and enemy that still has that state "fascinated" joins the party (but not if they're dead). The intent being that they can still snap out of "fascinated" mid battle by themselves or via teammates, and if they do they aren't added to the party.

Also, if you know a way to end the battle when all enemies are "fascinated" or dead and still give XP to party members for kills that would be appreciated.

author=Marrend
I'm not sure how it would translate in MV, but, in VX Ace, something like that would look like...

def mp_check(index, value, state_id)
  actor = $game_troop.members[1]
  if actor.mp > 20
    actor.add_state(6)
  end
end

So I typed it in like this, and when I tested it it came up with "Syntax error; unexpected identifier".

I already found a script to trigger a common event on leveling up, the trouble is what comes after. I have a system set up where extra stats (STR, DEX, INT, etc) are recorded in variables. What I want to do is:


Put party member # of {actor id} into a variable. {EX, if Actor 7 levels up, get their party member # {say, 2, or 3}, and put it into a variable.}


Keep in mind that I can create a separate common event for each actor using this script: http://himeworks.com/2015/10/level-up-events/