Can You Character Battles In Town's?

[JaggedGlory]

'I've started scripting my game and I was wondering if you could make Character Battles anywhere like inside a building or in the middle of a town?.....' My story is supposed to have a lot of in town Character Battles. please let me know as soon as possible so I can change anything I need to.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: Can You Character Battles In Town's?

In the middle of town, yes. Buildings, I'm not sure, but there are a few dungeon graphics you can simply use if there are no indoors battle arenas available.

[Dark Sentry]

Re: Can You Character Battles In Town's?

You can do a scripted battle anywhere it lets you create an event. Random battles are of course limited to fields and dungeons.

[JaggedGlory]

Re: Can You Character Battles In Town's?

Thanx you guys so I won't have to change my script. Yay! That's great that means when I start my game I'll be able to get it done without having to change anything!

I have another question. 'Can someone give me some help with stats I need my characters to have at least 1500 HP by the end of the second dungeon and they all level up normally..... so what should I set for the amount of HP gain for each level up' Thanx ahead of time for any help

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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1500HP so soon? I like high amounts, but it's very pointless to allow more than 1000 HP before at least 25% through the game.

[JaggedGlory]

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Then what Attack or Defense is a good choice to defend against Monsters with High HP

[Dark Sentry]

Re: Can You Character Battles In Town's?

Thanx you guys so I won't have to change my script. Yay! That's great that means when I start my game I'll be able to get it done without having to change anything!

I have another question. 'Can someone give me some help with stats I need my characters to have at least 1500 HP by the end of the second dungeon and they all level up normally..... so what should I set for the amount of HP gain for each level up' Thanx ahead of time for any help

In all of the games I've made so far, you'd be lucky to top out at 700 HP, even at the end of the game.

For starters, I'd reduce the amount of damage the monsters do, that way you won't have to give the characters massive amounts of HP to survive. Generally when I create a character, if it's a warrior/fighter type, I give them around 120 HP to start and a level increase amount of somewhere between 10 & 20. I set strength and defense to about 5-7, and magic defense/magic to around 2-4. For mages, reverse this.

You get a lot smoother stat curves with smaller increases in stats. It makes it a LOT easier to determine how strong to make the monsters. Ideally, I like to have it so when the characters first enter a new area, it will take them 2-3 hits to kill a monster, and 3-4 hits for the monster to kill a player.

[Commander Obi-Wan]

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I second that approach.

[JaggedGlory]

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Thanx that's really helpful! I just wanted my game to be a little challenging (Revolving around battling and Leveling Up) but I guess that would turn people away. So I'll go and make changes.... But in most RPG's I've played, you'll offen face monsters with higher HP than you, would that make the game impossible or just too challenging?

[Drazus]

Re: Can You Character Battles In Town's?

Not if you had a few good items or good weapons and such. Plus, if you have, say 4 members with 150 max hp each, and the boss has 500 max hp, you'd still have a fair fight.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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Monsters in RPGs have higher HP for two reasons:

1) Your team deals more damage. At least until you reach a point somewhere mid-game where monsters' difficulty levels get high enough to overpower you some.

2) You can heal if your HP gets low. A lot of monsters can't, so they need high HP to make up for the lack of healing power.

So it all balances out in the end.

[Commander Obi-Wan]

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What if they learned heal?

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

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Either lower HP or lower attack power. Being succeptable to Silence helps, too.

[Kropolis]

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My opinion is it's best to keep your starting stats as low as possible at level 1 to insure you don't have incrementation problems. If you're unaware of the way the game deals with the formuals, your stats are figured by [Level] * [Base Stat] and the damage is figured by [Strength] + [Weapon Strength] - [Monster Defense]. What this means is if your starting stats are too high then if you level up just once or twice the curve is so high that the battles are most likely going to be too easy.

My basic rule is to keep all starting stats no greater than 4, with a varying BHP and HP. This way you control the difficulty.

[hitogoroshi]

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I also find it helps to start your characters at, say, level three. Lets you start off with more balanced enocunters. (When the inital party is say, 2, against 4 monsters, it's nice to have the enemies at a lower level.)