RYDIAMIST'S PROFILE

Oh, haha. Well, you should like the rest of that character plot going on, then. =)

That's weird... does restarting the game solve it? No one has ever reported lag in battles at all, even after extended play sessions. But then again, none of the testers were running win 8.1, so maybe there is a problem there. :/

I just tested, and 3-4 seconds is about the speed that a character's bar fills on the default speed. With the speed set to max, it's more like 2 seconds, which I figured was plenty fast when you have 4 characters and need to allow for things like Haste still being effective. That said though if there's a problem I can pretty easily just add a faster speed so that's not an issue. Let me know if that'd help!

EDIT: @WCouillard: Usually I'd think so too, but I spent a ton of time correcting any memory leaks/cache problems and cleaning up/removing offending scripts (Tsukihime's Scene Interpreter was causing a massive leak, for example). Testers have played the current version for hours and hours and the memory usages stays stable and no one has reported any battle slowdown (but again, all the testers have been on Win 7)... the only issue was the world map, which has been fixed. Of course, if you know of any problem scripts I might be using I'll definitely look into them. I have modified the ATB to run at a constant speed like a FF ATB, but what I did couldn't cause a problem as I just changed a method to return a constant rather than a variable.

You get access to the Journal and Party functions when you start getting guild quests and more than 4 party members, respectively. As for the controls, this seems to be a problem for a fair number of people... I might redo them a bit so that RPGMaker defaults all work. They were changed because most of the testers didn't like the defaults, so I made them more in line with standard PC games. Still, the game definitely does play better on a controller if you have one!

Thank you for the compliments and I'm glad you're having fun. =)

Sure thing, I'll make up a spoiler-free sidequest guide after I get the latest update sorted out. After a point, the game is almost FF6-like in that you can just go finish it if you want, or you can do like 5+ hours of extra content. The guide should be done by the morning. I'm really happy you're liking the game!

And thanks haha, it's spoiler on most sites so I was just a bit confused.

Are you familiar with RGSS3 at all? I could just give you my script but it probably wouldn't work right as I have a lot of windows behaving in non-standard ways. I also need to know what other scripts you are using. Are you using Victor's Target Arrow or a similar script to accomplish your targeting?

I'd start by copying Window_BattleEnemy, and then making a new window class. Something like Window_EnemyList (I got the names backwards in my last post, sorry about that). From there, you can just go to Scene_Battle, and have that new window be shown all the time. If you need help with setting up the window, let me know, though I'll admit I'm a pretty lousy teacher, haha.

@magnaangemon01 Tents not being sold everywhere was a bit of an oversight, we'll be fixing that as soon as we've fixed any critical bugs that come up. Thanks for bringing it back to our attention! The save points are also in place to serve a similar function as traditional RPGs: if you see a save point, a boss or plot event is probably coming up. Gives a heads up to the player so they are not caught unaware by a boss fight.

@Swish Just echoing what was said, this version contains a lot more backstory for the characters that establishes who they are and their history. The old version frankly sucked about that, and it's why I never formally released it and pulled it for a revamp. I'll explain a little.

I'm not sure it's quite FF6 level like Noel said (but the compliment is very flattering, thank you!), but characters do have backstories now that play into events of the game and serve to make them a bit more relatable. As for making them more epic, that might be my fault. I felt that if I made the characters too "badass" that people would just think they were Mary Sues. So I tried to reel that in by giving them some character flaws, not having them come out victorious in every encounter with the bad guys, and so on. Maybe I overdid it and they come off as boring to you.

Everything else has been explained by the others. I kinda knew going out the gate that this game probably wouldn't be enjoyed by everyone, and that's totally fine. Disliking it doesn't make your opinion of it invalid. Thanks for the feedback. =)