THENECROMANCER'S PROFILE

There would have to be a hell of a lot of content for me to even consider switching. I don't think it's there yet, but I haven't been keeping track.

author=Gredge109
they tend to only work well for "watching" something, such as a player's location, and recording that to a variable. .

That's not really true. Unless things have changed in the newer RM engines, a parallel event will run along side other events while an autroun event won't. That is the important thing to remember. An autorun will prevent other events from triggering while it runs it's own code.

Oh, I see in his later reply that he says the hero doesn't move. So then it's the same and that's why you wouldn't use an autorun. I've used empty autorun events to simulate a pause, because it stops everything else from happening.

It may be that in this case Autorun is better, but it's not good to think of parallel events in that way. If you walk into a map you can have an autorun event with some code, including adding tints, then have it turn itself off so it doesn't keep running.

In the case of time of day lighting, that common event IS a parallel event. And common event is the right place for that kind of thing.

The way I see it color doesn't matter as much as the symbol. A plus/minus, or arrow up/down. If you don't have any symbol it doesn't matter which colors you pick, people will be confused.

I don't see any method as right/wrong. Basically the dev picks something and the player learns it. Everybody will have different ideas and choices anyways. I can't imagine any consensus on this heh

author=Luchino
I wanted to keep it under wraps for a while, but with so much resentment boiling up at the cancellation of this project, I'd rather admit it sooner than later. It's the price I had to pay for the project becoming so popular. Hundreds of RPGMaker
games get cancelled over the course of a year and no-one bats an eyelid...

I don't think the resentment is simply because you are cancelling your game.

it's not really about shutting people up. It's about keeping the focus of the site on games. Too often people are talking about non game stuff and that is most often where the drama comes from . Someone expresses an opinion, someone else is offended and argues, and it flames up. In the past all the drama was about the latest review or someone's rude comment on an image or the latest featured game or some game dev topic. But it was about games. Now it's all about being pc, sexuality, politics, random nonsense. mawks early days are a total epitome of what I'm talking about. I'm not saying we can't talk about that stuff at all. I'm just saying it has taken over the site and it seems like people can't not talk about it. It always comes up and it's huge turn off from the site. Every single person came here becuase of RPG Maker and making /playing amateur games. It's what they should expect to find when they browse the activity on this site. The damn URL has RPG Maker in it.

I don't know if anybody else browses the site through the latest posts page but I always have. And that is a direct reflection of all the activity on the site and it has changed dramatically over the years. Most discussion is in the now locked thread or statuses about nothing. forum games. With a few posts on game pages mixed in. very few in comparison.

Nobody is playing And talking about games. Everybody is up each other's ass about what they said about this topic or what they said about that person. Grudges are formed and personal mud slinging is accurate because many people talk about their lives in great detail. I shouldn't know people's sexual preferences and fetishes but I do. This hardly feels like a game site with a close community. It feels like a social media site and oh we also have aome games in here somewhere.

People shouldn't be leaving because of how the community is. They should be staying because it's a great place to talk about and share games. Thankfully some events are active but that's about all this site is good for nowadays.

I don't really have any suggestions or people to point at and say it's their fault. Although adding statuses was a bad idea haha I'm just sad to see the site turn out this way. Back in the day even with shump this place was game makers heaven to me. I learned a ton mostly through game dev discussions. Now all I learn is what someone had for breakfast and how their schoolwork is going. And what music they like and their thoughts on trump. No thanks.