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I have a Battle Event tab that triggers on "Turns Elapsed ", which should mean once every turn. However, if I just let all enemies attack at the start of a battle, sometimes the event doesn't trigger on their turn if they have the same AGI stat value as other enemies. It's almost like their attacks all come out at once too fast because the event will be triggered for the first few/several enemies and then the last couple will decide to skip the event trigger and just do their attack. A couple scenarios: 4 enemies doing a volley of attacks, only the first 3 trigger the event; 8 enemies doing a volley of attacks, only the first 5 trigger the event.

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

This could very well be an erroneous thing about RM2k3 that I will just have to deal with if there is no kind of successful workaround.

For balance's sake, I'm trying to accurately compare the strength of skills as defined in the database to the regular Attack command. Here is the test:

I made a new skill that uses 10 ATK influence (no INT inf. or variance or uses attributes or conditions) that reduces HP (does damage). This skill has 0 effect rating so the skill is only based off of ATK influence.

I thought that this kind of skill should equate to a regular attack command. However, after using both an attack and the skill on the same enemy, attacking with the same character (so ATK/DEF on each side should be the same), these are some samples:

206 damage with the new skill. (the same every time because of 0% variation)
297 damage with the Attack command.

Now, if this skill was of the same power as the attack command, then 206 would be the average (0% variation) amount of damage dealt with the Attack command. However, this cannot be as the attack command's variation is only +/-20%. Therefore, I should be seeing only about 165-247 damage dealt with the Attack command.

I'm not sure why this is happening...Thoughts?

I am using RPG Maker 2003 (with only David Patch) right now for my game Legend of Alkior. Basically, my current goal was to have an ability where you hold down a key (in this case the SHIFT key), for a specific amount of time and then you have to release it with proper timing. However, on occasions that almost seem random, the game will respond as if you had released the key when you definitely did not, thus resetting the amount of time you have to charge the ability.

For a visual of what my goal is, take a look at this demo I just released yesterday at about a minute in. It looks like I am missing the timings on purpose, but I am actually struggling with this bug of sorts. This "bug" will persist until something seemingly switches on/off. For example, I just found recently that minimizing the game while it's running will possibly change it from always resetting involuntarily to always resetting voluntarily and vice versa. If resetting voluntarily, the bar will increase until it hits the top and then decrease until it hits the bottom and then repeat until the player releases the key.



This is really strange. I have isolated just the one parallel process event that tracks how long you have been holding the button onto a separate map, and I also gave all parallel process common events that usually had no trigger switch a trigger switch that would never be turned on while testing this. This was to remedy what I *thought* was a problem of parallel processes interfering with each other while running in tandem.

The algorithm uses this basic structure. I am emulating a loop with labels to avoid extra lag:
<>Label 1
<>Key Input Processing (Shift key only; no Wait before proceeding; store in variable X)
<>If X is Shift key
{
<>Increment or decrement ChargeLevel variable
<>Update picture for Charge Bar
<>Wait 0.0 Sec (This is just enough lag that the bar will quickly move up/down at the right pace.)
<>Jump to Label 1
<>
}

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance for the help!

This is a question I've been asking myself: How customizable should equipment of temporary/non-permanent party members be? Should items be removed from the character upon leaving the party? This wouldn't always make sense, especially if the character in question is still alive (they aren't just going to give you all their clothes and then wish you farewell, lol). However, leaving equipment on a character as they leave leads to other problems. While playing games, I don't like it when a party member, who I recently equipped with a rare, powerful item, leaves the party, and then I'm either forced to reset or I'm stuck without said item for an indefinite amount time. This would be more simple if every character had all unique equipment, but let's say that there is at least some cross over in customization. Another solution might be to lock all customization of the character's equipment, but then that might give away that the character is temporary (although an alternative might be that the character just possesses equipment that would be overpowered for the rest of the party at the time).

Assume that the character in question may or may not return to the party. Also, assume the player has never played the game before (i.e. ...
(FFT spoiler/reference)


Would any one like to weigh in on this matter?

Or maybe, are temporary party members something to avoid altogether in the first place?

Simply, is there any way to do this (ideally without extra patches/plug-ins)? I am looking at eliminating enemies' standard attack and just using skills, but then, at least right now, their regular physical skills will never be affected by my Blind status. I already have physical/magical attributes in place, which has fixed RM2k3's damage formulas so far, so maybe I could use those somehow to solve this problem?