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RMN Battledome! Round One!
The Screenshot Topic Returns
author=Magiauthor=Yellow MagicIf the English RM community was less in the habit of celebrating mediocrity I guarantee each person in this thread would have no need for envy.
Damnable Europeans. Making the rest of us look like chumps.
if we were to go into an italian forum and post pictures of a handful of our most stellar-looking games, do you really think all we would have to offer is vx rtp forest??? fuck no. we'd do what the italians did and pick the nicest-looking things to show off. you know, the things that are not mediocre
you make it sound like nobody in the thread is putting any effort into their games and that is a disgusting and condescending attitude. it is like telling a painter who can't reproduce the mona lisa that if we didn't encourage shitty artists then they would be more skilled somehow
real talk
"hey, if somebody makes custom graphics for my RTP game that I like, for everything in the entire game, for consistency, I'll change it =D"
"apparently if we didn't celebrate mediocrity, then you would put the effort into doing it yourself"
Cut scenes: how long is too long?
author=CrazeubermaxDebatable. I don't think that many oldschool RPGs told a very convincing story, but I am of a... less popular mindset.
This is all very good advice. I'm trying to keep things faster paced while providing the depth of story that makes an RPG an RPG. Old school RPGs managed to do this with only a handful of text boxes, so I should too.
more convincing than magical swords and throwing fireballs?
Button Mash - Forcing the player to use different skills
author=ferris95
All enemies will not only outnumber you, they overpower you too. Without using the combos you will die in a few turns.
Very few combos will be explained fully, most will have to be the result of careful experimentation.
That sounds really punishing to the player and not at all fun. You encourage them to experiment but unless they already know which combos are the most effective, they will die extremely quickly.
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State of the Maker: How we're doing.
author=geodude
47.17% of you are fools
really, you're going to call out firefox users and not the almost 20% of people using internet explorer
Gearing Up and Pace of Distribution
author=LightningLord2
Disgaea also has a nice equip system similar to this - you equip one weapon (which not only can give you widely customizable stats and bonuses, but also determines the physical skills you can learn and use) and three non-weapon items (bar consumables).
That's actually where Disgaea shoots itself in the foot. Classes have EQUIPMENT APTITUDE, which means a Cleric gets more than normal RES from a RES+ item, and a Warrior gets way, way less than normal. So you don't want to equip RES+ items on your Warrior ever, ever, ever. It just allows you to equip three RES Orbs on your Cleric, encouraging you to min/max the hell out of every single unit, and not actually think about what you're equipping them with unless it's numerically superior.
Also, the entire Disgaea series is "kill them before they touch you" - defensive stats are a fucking joke. You only ever want equipment that makes your attacks stronger. If you are getting killed, you are either in the earlygame, or you don't know how to play.
Allow me to make a more valid point using Disgaea: The Dark Assembly. Say what you will about its flaws, but you have to pour junk items and earned Mana into the Dark Assembly in order to actually upgrade the inventory available to you in shops. If you never bother, new stuff will never be purchasable; you'll only be able to get bonus gauge drops.
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author=ummnoms
Yep, basically, but the building was still there... You must be psychic :)
I know it isn't amazingly full at the moment, but I'm trying to continue on for a bit. This was a ten second rework of the original. So the only thing more busy is the water, I'll admit. But it is only meant to be a poor little hamlet anyways. ^^
I'd make the house smaller - it seems a bit large for a "poor little hamlet," and also seems extremely well-tended... these poor hamlet folk have a lot of spare time for landscaping, perfect white fences and Tudor architecture :) Patches of dirt in rows, like where someone grows crops, would help a LOT too, because I imagine poor folk grow their own food often.
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Religion and the After-Life
author=kentona
No, I don't think any sort of afterlife exists.
tbh the concept of "Life" is a human invention (and a pretty ill-defined one at that!). Furthermore, when most people imagine passing on to some other magical dimension, they usually imagine it as their consciousness that crosses over, which is kind of funny because consciousness is even more ill defined than life and consciousness is a learned behaviour (and not some innate state of being).
In this universe governed by its rules, what we call life arising was inevitable.
As for religions, everything about their mythos is human imagination and invention. I wouldn't put much stock into what their adherents have imagined about the afterlife over the past few millenia.
just in case anybody forgot the voice of reason
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