CRYSTALGATE'S PROFILE

I think the difference is that by removing the enemy, you don't get any exp.

All I can think of is having the skill calling a common event which in turn calls a script. I don't think this can be accomplished without a script.

That reminds me of something that happened in Kingdom Hearts II.

In the original KH, many people complained about the rather poor platforming. Then KH II came and the worlds were made more or less flat. There was some elevation differences, but nothing that leads to platforming. Now many people instead complained that the worlds are flat and boring. On a first glance it may seem like the fans are never pleased. However, it makes sense when you realize that SquareEnix never did improve the platforming, they just removed it altogether.

Whenever you make changes, think very carefully about what exactly you're accomplishing.

Anyway, I think I should explain more why I prefer changes that's geared towards improvement rather than making something new.

Imagine you make an RPG. You notice that a lot of tactical option simple aren't used by vast majority of the players, be it equipment, skills or special features like formation. Looking at for example skills, you see that 95% of the players only use about half of them (many RPGs have way lower skills existing vs skills actually used ratio.)

What you could do in a sequel is to make various changes to the underused skills. You can improve a skill, you can remove and replace it with something else or you could change other parameters that creates situations where those skills are called for. Even if you only have the same success as before, meaning you only managed to make half of the underused skills useful, you still improved your useful skill ratio to 75%. However, if you instead make a new battle system altogether, it will be much harder to make use of the feedback you got from your old game and it's likely that you again find that the players only use 50% of the skills.

Your game sounds very generic. As 0range00 said, it's not necessarily a bad thing, but it still means that you have described nothing interesting. You could put interesting spins to it, but what those spins would be or if they even exist. we don't know. As such, there aren't any advices for this project specifically that I can think of.

Of course, I can always give you generic advice such as use good writing, make the battles fun and make the maps look good.

author=kory_toombs
I have honestly made my enemies luck 999 and noticed no
difference. It's one of the more useless stats.

How much luck did the heroes have? Also, luck will only affect status and debuff rate.

Let's say the heroes have a luck of 500. They try to inflict a status effect that normally has a 50% chance of working. The luck difference will modify it to about 25% chance. Likewise, if the enemies tries to inflict a status effect on the heroes that normally only has a 50% chance to succeed, their superior luck gives them an almost 75% chance instead. This should be noticeable. Of course, if you give enemies a status attack that already has a 100% chance to land and the heroes simple don't bother with status effects, then you will indeed not notice any difference.

author=Incarnate
there is a general consensus that the game is too hard. It's painful to watch as most people struggle because of terrible decision making... whether it's from not taking the time to look for the chests i scattered EVERYWHERE, or if its from not bothering to read the dialogue and then getting lost. Or some people that spam the chain attacks and never use spells at all. I do not blame the players though, How can I? A game is fun, or it isn't I need to investigate how to overcome different players and their different skill sets.

Now you definitely have my interest. Whenever something like this happens, it's a question of whether the players are really making terrible decisions or if it's a case where making the right decisions practically requires you to be the one who made the game. Seeing as you're nerfing the monsters, it may be to late to find out though.

I wonder if people will instead complain about the game being to easy.