XENOMIC'S PROFILE

So, I looked at my damage floor tile, and it does have random encounters set on it (I believe?), yet I still get no random encounters on them. I may or may not make damage floors have random encounters, but curious what the issue could be here? Unless "Ecn. Multiplier" is "Encounter Multiplier" (which I'm assuming is the case...I have it set to 0 for said tile...). And if that IS the Encounter Multiplier, how does it handle encounters then? Does it add to the map's encounter or what?? For instance, most of my maps have 70-80 Encounter Rate, most of my maps have a 100 Enc. Multiplier (some have 20, and the damage floor has 0). How does this work out??

No, I'm not here to start any arguments or anything people! I just want to hear your opinions and stuff. Yes, this is brought over from the Screenshot thread, after discussing some things about dungeons and their lengths.

So the questions here are:

1) What is your tolerance levels for dungeons, in terms of length and time?
2) What are your most loved/hated dungeons, in terms of gameplay and designs?
3) How long do you think dungeons generally should last, as well as in comparison to final dungeons?


I'm going to post some times I have with various final dungeons in RPGs (bar one, since it's an optional dungeon, and another because it's a Zelda game) for comparison's sake. These are all taken from my LPs:

CT: 1:02:36 (Black Omen)
FFI: 58:37
FFII: 29:52 (Pandaemonium), 49:03 (Jade + Pand)
FFIII: 19:45 (Crystal Tower only), 29:38 (World of Darkness only), 49:23
FFIV: 1:28:13
FFV: 1:02:20
FFVI: 1:11:48
FFVII: 52:32
FFVIII: 52:11
FFIX: 1:07:26
FFMQ: 45:05
Legend of Zelda: LttP: 29:15 (Ganon's Tower)
Super Mario RPG: 33:08
Valkyrie Profile: 1:48:31 (Seraphic Gate)


Keep in mind, that I already knew what to do for all but FFMQ/FFII/FFIII. These videos also did not cut out any random encounters or anything, so these are actual legit times on my end. And with that in mind, I'm not of the mind that those who are playing these games for the first time would necessarily be around those times for final dungeons (for those that I already know how to do), but even looking at the dungeons I knew nothing about, hardly any of the final dungeons broke 1 hour. : S


Feel free to discuss and whatnot. I'm terrible at typing out what I wanted to say here but I hope you understand what I want to discuss? ^^;

So, because there's something that Vista (and apparently Windows 8) doesn't have that's compatible with the Help file for 2k3, I cannot check the image specifications (or the Help file in general), so I need to know if there's another way to find all of this? I need to find out the specifications for Pictures and whatnot, since I'm probably going to have someone help with character bios and whatnot...


EDIT - In addition, what font does 2k3 use by default? This is on behalf of a partner of mine, who wishes to use the same font that 2k3 does for the bios.

So I haven't really messed with switch puzzles yet in my game at all (I have one in my debug room, but it's broken and doesn't work properly for whatever reason), but I'm thinking of having a puzzle like this for a future dungeon.




I haven't started any sort of coding for this since well...I wouldn't have any idea on how this would be done. For those who have never played Super Mario RPG, the puzzle here is as such. You step on one switch, all other switches around it are depressed (or undepressed if they're already depressed). The goal therefore is to make them all depressed. Any ideas on how this could be done at all? I know it's ripping off from another game but eh...I'm no expert at switch puzzles or puzzles in general so. ^^;;



This is somewhat similar to the above, where you have to knock one thing over another to make it go away, and leave yourself with only one left. THIS one might be trickier than the other, but yeah...there's that. I'm also wondering if there wouldn't be an interesting way of handling these at all...I was thinking of having these in a beta6 dungeon, which would have a mirror image of the player character, where they have to do things both on their side and the mirror side...

I am curious, is it possible to make music loop if the song itself loops? For instance, setting a loop point in the song, and then adding that to the game?