XENOMIC'S PROFILE

So, here's a question that's related to this gimmick:

"*For Louise, give her the gimmick of phasing in and out of damage (when phasing out of damage, summon 2 spirit flames). Defeating the flames will make Louise targettable again, but Louise can absorb the spirits as well to regain 10% Max HP. After absorbing X spirits, she'll change into her second form, which has a different, more powerful moveset but without summoning the spirit flames. After X turns, reverts back to normal phase."


Essentially, I need to make it so that she switches out for another monster that's immune to everything, and then comes back later with the same HP she had before leaving. Now, normally Hidden would work for this...if I didn't have to switch back ever. However, since the fight requires the boss to switch to and fro versions, I can't go this route unless there's a way to make the enemy/boss's HP restored to what it was prior to being inflicted with Death so the player can't see that.

In addition to the above, there is going to be a Magus/Hein-type boss who will change from one form to another (same boss, but different elemental weakness/resistance). The same problem applies here in that Hidden won't work, and I need to make it so that all of the forms have the same HP upon changing to them (including reviving them but not showing their HP heal). I would think Transform Monster would work, but that would just show the name "Transform Monster" when using it (for example, for the Magus/Hein boss, I would like it to display Elemental Shift or some such instead of Transform Monster).

Any help on this matter would be much obliged. ^^;;

Ok, this has been asked a million times by people everywhere, and I need to ask this now too. I have the system in my game, but it doesn't exactly work properly, and I'll need to redo it anyways...

Anywho, the thing I need help with is setting up a multiple party switch system (i.e. FFVI's Kefka's Tower, where you control 3 parties, and with the press of the Square button or whatever button, you switch to the next party). I would like to implement this into the upcoming dungeon I'm designing right now, but I don't know how easy/hard it really is to make it work between multiple maps (I'm trying to avoid having too much stuff on one map for the most part, plus I CAN'T have everything on one map).

If anyone can help me out with the coding (I haven't even started it as I don't know where to begin), that would be fantastic. ;__;

This topic is a special one, in which I slowly ask for you, the community's, help on deciding on how to fix up enemies and bosses in my game. Yes, you! You're probably thinking "C'mon, you know your enemies and bosses better than us! You can handle it!". Well...it's always nice to hear what others have to suggest to make enemies not as difficult/underpowered as can be. Perhaps you can help by not making said enemy or boss ridiculous! So, shall we begin? Hopefully this topic won't seem TOO silly and/or begging/attention whoring/whatever. ^^;

So here's the dealio with Hina here (note, she is the 4th boss in the beta2 segment of my game, making her the 16th boss of the game. Not that that should matter):


Attack (standard fight command; 7 priority)
Bad Fortune (AoE Confusion, deals 100 non-elemental Magic damage; 10 priority)
Broken Amulet (AoE Blind, deals 100 non-elemental Magic damage; 10 priority)
Misfortune's Wheel (Single target, reduces ATK/DEF/MAG/SPD by ~20, Magic elemental; 10 priority)

*Blind reduces Accuracy to 70% and also prevents usage of physical skills.



So here's the thing...I want Hina to deal with statuses (Confusion and Blind in this case). I could easily give her another attack or two from her playable version if I really need to, but the main problem here is the AoE Confusion. It's not that it does too much damage (most characters that you bring to fight has at least 400-800 HP, so it's not super dangerous), but the Confusion proc can happen pretty easily, and you don't have protection to Confusion until AFTER the fight. I still want this to be a thing Hina can do, but I don't want the other 2 moves to take that much priority.

Now, before I go on too far, I am thinking of making a "Spellcard System" for my game, based off of the Touhou series (and by extension, Genius of Sappheiros and Devil of Decline, which is where the idea came from). Essentially, the boss's strongest move wouldn't be usable UNTIL she charged up a bomb (would probably be called Bomb Charge or something). The turn after she uses this, then the boss would use said strongest move, which would give the player ample time to prepare for it (or die to it, depending on the type of attack it is. It would vary from boss to boss obviously, and this isn't going to be used for random encounters as it wouldn't work with them). It is possible that sometimes bosses will have multiple levels of charges (so a boss later in the game could use a level 1 Bomb attack or a level 2 Bomb attack, depending on if said boss decides to use the attack or to charge up again and THEN use the level 2 bomb). Think of it as a Super or something.

Now with that out of the way, while Bad Fortune seems like it could fit the Bomb charge attack, I'm not certain. Her strongest move normally is just single-target, so it's easily recoverable from. Any suggestions here guys? And yes, I'm trying to stick to as close to canon with abilities and whatnot as possible (granted, she doesn't deal with Confusion/Blind in canon so much as curses but...).


I'm hoping this catches on, as this would help me out tremendously. Revamping enemies/bosses is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, but I just haven't figured out HOW I want to handle it.

One final note, I DO tend to keep enemy/boss stats somewhat around what the playable characters would be around that time, if not slightly higher than them at times.

Note, this happens regardless of whether I use the "Execute Custom Handler" event or not in Forced Encounter, which never happened before. I had this problem long ago, which I THINK is related to something in the Common Events. However, I cannot pinpoint what it is (I've turned a lot of things from Auto-Start/Parallel Process to Call). No matter what happens, in the test battle, I will always get a game over regardless of whether or not the Custom Handler is there or has Remove Death or anything. Can anyone help on this issue? I need to resolve this fast. @_@;


EDIT - To make matters even more confusing, sometimes it'll game over, other times it won't....I'm honestly perplexed as to what's wrong. The battle I'm testing this in has NO battle events, so nothing should be triggering from there at all...

Yes, I know there's a Help file. No, Vista (and apparently Windows 8) doesn't open the Help file so I can't look at it.

Anywho, this is concerning the Conditions tab, and the "% chance to recover each turn". Now, I'm assuming setting this to 0% makes it so that it doesn't recover at all (until the "Condition always abates after X turns" has been done). However, I am not 100% positive on this, as I have statuses that lasts 20 turns and set to 100% chance to recover, and they last the entire 20 turns (from what I know anyways). Can someone clarify to me exactly what this does at all? I want to make sure that statuses that are meant to stick around, stick around (well, I can do that by setting both % chance and turns abate to 0, but I mean if I have Regen last 20 turns, I want it to last 20 turns and not just randomly go away).


Actually, maybe it'd be nice if someone had a tutorial or file like this in their locker or on the site. Would make it a lot easier to find data on this for those who can't use the Help file like myself, but I know that'd be a lot of work to do...