OCEAN'S PROFILE

Working on the 7 day roguelike thing.

I don't understand the hate for random-encounters. Most systems that replace it give you the illusion of being able to avoid battles, and fruitless "running away" from monsters is more tedious than actually fighting the battle in the end (since 90% of you end up fighting the battle anyway, except now you are running along the edge of the map trying to avoid them like some dingus, instead of going in a straightline. The possibility of a random battle also cranks up the tension in the game).

Actually it's not about the "avoiding encounters" so much as it is being able to clear out a dungeon for me. So if I kill a monster, there's less monsters around to bug me. Clear all 10 (for example) and I can go around the floor without having to worry and just take my time to look around. Or just have the satisfaction of having cleared the dungeon.

Random encounter systems can do this too, like say you have an encounter gauge and when you fight enough encounters, it fills up and you stop getting into encounters (unless you use an item to bring them back or if you leave the area). But a standard random encounter? The monsters will be there always and will continue to bug you and make you just want to get through the place instead of checking it out.

March 10th? Interesting, would have to take a look into it and plan something up. I'd be interested in doing something for it!

HP 30 / 30
Food 0 / 100 (Ocean ate it all)

Fixes are made, we still have additional battle animations we want to add first and then a final test and then for open beta. I'll let everyone know when that happens! I feel bad since we had to delay the game so long but it really is very close to release time!

All I really needed was a realistic stat curve, though.

Each game has its own stat curve, so there isn't one "realistic" stat curve. I mean, compare Terranigma, where the last boss has like 1000 HP, to something like Secret of Mana where it has 9999 HP, and Seiken Densetsu 3 where it has over 50,000 HP.

Have you played any of the Paper Mario games? If not, go and play one. You start off doing 1 damage to the enemies. At the end of the game you end up doing... 4-8 or so. You can really do whatever scale you'd like. Plus, I don't think the RMVX default monster stats are good indications to go by, especially since it lacks monsters so it just rises up really quickly.

I do agree with the learning by experimentation! Every game is different. If it doesn't work, then you learned something. If it does, then... great! You would want to playtest your own game too to see if it's not too bad or if the enemy is taking too many hits or something along those lines, or if you're dying too quickly.