ARIEDONUS'S PROFILE

Rpgmaker is honestly a terrible choice for that. You should really stick with Gamemaker, especially if you're a new programmer. Programming that system in Rpgmaker is hellish even when you have extensive knowledge of the program. If you read a couple tutorials on Gamemaker, I'm sure you would have a much easier time.

Dookie, the problem with your solution is that it will only guard attacks. If the monsters cast a spell on the party, the guard check won't happen. So, unless Laharl wants to have a real bitching time coding every monster so that the No Action leads to several different actions (which, if done through this method, would not be able to be based off the variables that normal actions can), etc. this doesn't work out. Of course, if he only wants the spell to prevent attacks, it works out a little better.

It is really important for us to know what engine you are using. If you are using Rpgmaker 2003, I foresee this being very tiresome to code. Yes, it would be possible to make, as far as I could tell, but the only method I can imagine to pull this off would likely slow down your battles and wouldn't be exactly what you want (not to say there isn't necessarily a feasible way of doing it; I just can't think of a way, at the moment). If you are using something like XP or VX, where you can script, then this is probably a lot easier to create and someone has likely created a script to replicate what you want.

As far as any other engine goes, chances are it is much more flexible that Rpgmaker and it should be a breeze to work out. I don't have much knowledge with other engines, though. Haha

As established community members, it's expected that you won't be a complete and total asshat to new users, even if they don't quite get it. While it doesn't excuse new users from taking the necessary action to read stickies, rules, etc. to become well acquainted with the way things are run around RMN, being mean and ridiculing people isn't proper either. For a community composed largely of adults, it often comes off like you're twelve year-old kids because of the way you treat new users, and even yourselves, for that matter. It is not hard at all to simply say, "Hey, you should probably go read the stickies."

Ultimately, I understand why you guys may be a little irritated or miffed, because a new user forgot to read stickies and isn't using proper grammar, but you don't have to be complete dicks to try and get your point across.

Step 4 is the most integral to that method, hands down.

I tend to just do extensive play testing to balance my game's monetary system and whatnot. I try to look for the exploits I normally look for when I play other games and prevent them as much as I can. This is much easier to handle, in my opinion, if you have on-screen encounters that are limited in number or have respawn timers. Unfortunately, you can only see so much by playing yourself, so having those outside opinions is pretty helpful.