Battle Plans

[Neo Samurai]

Okay. Now, I'm going to discuss some of the plans I have for my Battle System and I'd appreciate if you guys gave me feedback.

Okay. In my game, I have these attributes as of now:

STR (Strength): Determines ATK
PRTC (Protection): Determines GRD
DEX (Dexterity): Determines if character dodges
WSDM (Wisdom): Determines spell efficiency
ACU (Accuracy): Determines if character hits target and determines damage efficiency for both physical and magical attacks.
S GRD (Spell Guard): Determines how much damage you receive when you are hit by a magical attack.
ATK (Attack): Determines how affective a physical attack is.
GRD (Guard): Determines how much damage you receive when you are hit by a physical attack.

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I haven't place these formulas into my game yet, but here's what I have planned:

Damage:

g= GRD
a= ATK
x= 10 to 15% of ACC
n= 10 to 15% of ATK
e= Element Protection

Damage= a(100 - e)/100 + n(100 - e)/100 + x - g/2



Defend:

g= GRD

Defend= (g/2)/2 + (g/2)

(If you select the Defend option for a character to perform, this formula will be applied)



Dodge:

a= ACC
c= DEX
x= 10 to 15% of ACC
y= 10 to 15% of DEX

Dodge= 100(c - a) + 100(x + y)

(Then a number between 100 and 10000 will be selected and if the number is equal to or less than the end result from the Dodge formula, the target will dodge the attack)



Spell:

r= Direct Rate
w= 60 to 65% of WSDM
g= S GRD
e= Elemental Protection
a= 10 to 15% of ACC

Spell= r(100-e) + w + a - g/2



Healing Spell:

r= Direct Rate
d= Damage
w= 60 to 65% WSDM

Healing= r + w

(in the case of a spell that damages, then heals equal to the damage...)

Healing= d

(In the case that Elemental Protection is 100, somewhere in the formula, ACC and WSDM will automatically equal 0.)



All of the above formulas will be created as separate scripts and called depending on the type of action that is issued. This is so I can save a lot of memory and still use complex attacks and abilities.

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For Critical Rates, I'll use the Success Rate in Direct Effects (Never liked that much). Don't worry. Those rates will be set as low as possible so Critical attacks don't happen every turn.

And, I'll also have Limit Breaks (I want to find my own original name for these. I'll have to use thesaurus.com for this one). You see, once the Limit Guage is equal to the Max HP of the character (The Limit Guage stays the same, even if you are healed), then you can perform a Limit Break.

But I don't know how I should go about showing the Limit Guage to the player, so I'll need help here for anyone else doing Limit Breaks as well.

What do you think?

[The Final Rune]

Hitou said:

And, I'll also have Limit Breaks (I want to find my own original name for these. I'll have to use thesaurus.com for this one). You see, once the Limit Guage is equal to the Max HP of the character (The Limit Guage stays the same, even if you are healed), then you can perform a Limit Break.

But I don't know how I should go about showing the Limit Guage to the player, so I'll need help here for anyone else doing Limit Breaks as well.

What do you think?

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[Neo Samurai]

Thanks, TFR. I can see how I can pull this off, now.

I could have it check percentages. Like, if the Limit Guage is equal to or greater than 30% and less than 50% than the Max HP of the character, then I could have the guage increase. And once it's 100%, I could have the guage glow like in FF7, letting the player know he/she can perform a Limit Break.

[The Final Rune]

Since there are ten lines I just check for every 10% of my limit break variable.

Also, I wanted to note that this is not the limit indicator I use in my ED games, because there, the limit is only done in batle based on current HP. I'll be using this bar in my side project, The Gunslinger.

[Neo Samurai]

I see. I guess 10% for each bar would be a better method.

[Deleted]

It seems like Accuracy is a little too much better than the others, but otherwise you've got good stats (the basic 6 - ATK, DEF, MagATK, MagDEF, ACU, EVA) which makes balancing stats on characters easier since phys, mag, and acu/eva all have the same number of stats affecting them and such. I don't really understand the Defend formula (it looks like it'll make their guard become 3/4 for a round).

For my limit breaks I'm planning to just at the end (or beginning?) of the round (via a constant Custom Indirect Effect on the main character that does stuff to their variables at the beginning and end of each round) display a text box message in the center of the screen saying something like '[ ] can now use []!'.

[Neo Samurai]

You think so? I tested out the formulas by selecting random numbers, and it seemed to work out okay. However, perhaps dropping ACC wouldn't do too much harm.

As for the Defend Formula, 50% may be a bit much, so I may just cut that to 30 or 25%, whichever may work better.

[Neo Samurai]

Okay.

Yesterday, I spent a lot of time creating abilities that I had thought up the previous day. So far, I have created spells for my Necromancer class. Basically, a Necromancer is a spellcaster that uses powerful spells with costly effects and involving other allies being dead. For example, I have a spell that does damage for every dead ally. As you can see, this gives more options to the player. Should they revive their allies or leave them dead and use their essence to attack their foe.

Also, Talents (Skills) cost SP (Skill Points) as well as Spells. However, the formulas are different from Spells. The power of Talents are determined by the physical attributes of the character (like Attack for damaging Talents and Max HP for healing Talents).

For the allies in the party and human enemies, they say dialogue in the beginning of the battle, when they attack, perform abilities, and much more. For example, a spell that can cause Rage (ATK is doubled while ACU is halved) makes them call out an insult to the enemy, which may or may not work.

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These elements are what I am using so far:

Colorless (normal damage)
Gaia (earth damage. strong against shock)
Pyro (fire damage. strong against snow)
Aqua (water damage. strong against pyro)
Air (air damage. strong against gaia)
Shock (lightning damage. strong against aqua)
Snow (ice damage. strong against aqua and pyro)
Yami (unholy damage. strong against hikari)
Hikari (holy damage. strong against yami)

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As you can see, they are very basic elements that can be found in most RPGs. I hope to come up with others.


Oh yes. And I was able to create all of my battle formulas (it's much easier when you separate each formula (dodge, damage, etc.) into separate scripts). In my Battle System, it is possible for enemies to dodge spells or talents and for criticial hits to be scored with them (which is determined by success rate, which i found to be very useless for its default use). The only type of ability that can fall under Fail are abilities that can give a target a status effect (which are determined by a random variable and their magic property).

Well, that's all I've done so far concerning the battle system, and it works out fine so far. Any questions, comments, suggestions are fine. Just don't say "Your battle system sucks!"