BULMABRIEFS144'S PROFILE

I literally have this problem:
-I have a number of homemade status effects, that start at the beginning of battle.
-Or which persistently get re-added to certain battles in case somehow you manage to remove them
-However, status priority screws this whole system up in two ways. First, if I make a number low, other statuses can actually overwrite that status. But if I make it high enough that it won't be overwritten, it can block other status effects. For example, I used to have a blind-like status that would recur within caves. But try as I might, re-adding the status resulted in it being nearly impossible for attacks to add poison or paralyze or whatever.

I want:
-To be able to make certain statuses cancel certain other status (Haste vs Slow, Bless vs Curse, and vice versa). Preferably using the DynRpg.ini to type something basically preventing Status 15 and Status 11 from coexisting.
-I want other statuses to stack, and ignore the priority number.

Could someone please help in this regard? I'm about to add in a status and have basically needed to turn it into a switch event instead.

So, what I'm trying to do is have a sort of Karma system, based on whether you kill (number of victories) or spare (End Battle apparently doesn't add to victories) monster groups. I've made a Zelda-style offering system where you give stuff like bread or meat and the creature eats, allowing the battle to end.

It's not a conventional "good karma" thing but trying to balance yourself out. The idea, is sorta fighting only when necessary (ideally bosses only). And I don't want to encourage people with karma that is too good to start killing monsters to "balance" it. Rather, I want to reward people who have previously hurt monsters trying to go back to a pacifism route.

The idea is that when your Balance stat gets higher enough, it sorta forgives the excess spares, but not continuing to kill. And also, when Balance gets over a threshold, boss battles themselves can be opted out of (sorta, "the creature senses you are powerful enough to hurt it, but don't intend to, so they leave you alone").

There's a few wrinkles to this. First, the way you typically spare creatures is offering items (kinda Zelda style rather than Undertale), and it can mainly be done at the battle start. Second, the whole problem of this is that you are basically adjusting secondary variables (not the original CreaturesSpared and BattlesWon, but Good Karma and Bad Karma which are based on if the difference between the two is less than your Balance, you set good and bad karma as equal, otherwise you set it to equal to CreaturesSpared and BattlesWon), that the primary variable BattlesWon continues to rise even when equal to stuff because of the way battles add to victory, ummm yeah I'm confused.

Can someone help me set things up?

It's something like:
* Set up a variable that is one more than the Battles Won (Won+1).
* Make a common event that checks if CreaturesSpared = Won+1 (high equal) or CreaturesSpared = BattlesWon (low equal), then set Good Karma = Bad Karma
* If it's not, check the variables. If CreaturesSpared > ummmm BattlesWon, CreaturesSpared - BattlesWon for the Difference. If BattlesWon > CreaturesSpared, then BattlesWon - CreaturesSpared for Difference. If <
* Then I think I increase Balance for certain actions while Good Karma and Bad Karma are equal, or battles won with them equal. But I kinda double check that the real number is higher to keep it from adding more and more Balance even when you're killing monsters (I did some math, and if it's two and two, you get balance 1, but that would keep increasing as the difference keeps being less than the rising balance despite you killing more monsters (that is, 2 spares and two kills makes one Balance, but if it went up without checking actual kills vs spares, 2 and 3 with 1 balance covering is "equal", then 2 and 4 with 2 balance covering, and pretty soon you have 2 and 6).

It's the shifting variables that is giving me uncertainty. And trying to adjust it, adding extra variables in.

Or am I thinking about this wrong?

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We get events every month or so, and they usually boil down to about five main ones:
1. Do half a game then swap (ahem)
2. Random theme, short amount of time
3. Dumb games
4. Review events
5. Specific Theme (usually halloween/christmas)

Ummm so there doesn't seem to be a good spot to just submit ideas like this, putting it to a poll.

Matroska - A game within a game within a game (not to be confused with minigames)

Truly Random Game - Yeah they had a random game challenge, but it was from words on a thread. Maybe something like this: http://www.ratespeeches.com/t=Impromptu-Topics
where it just pulls a random topic and gives you something.

Engine Challenge - At the start of the challenge, you choose an engine. Some other user gets sent an engine, and has to make a game with it. Probably credit for a decent effort.

Music Video - Make a music video for your game. It must include both music and animated pictures of some sort. It doesn't necessarily need to be an avi-style video, it can be cutscenes or strung together art, but should include vocals. Probably a month-long event.

Fan Adaptation - Make a game based on some already existing story. I'd love to see the Lightbringer (Dark Prism, etc) series adapted, or the Wheel of Time. But not just books! Movies or even anime works.

Opera! - This might require a team. Voice acting for your game. Musical or opera.

Tax Calculator 2003 - Essentially, your game is not a game at all. It's using one of the game makers to make something functional, such as a tax program or maybe a weather forecaster.

Cinema - A game with little or no gameplay. Something like Maranda or With His Father's Sword. The emphasis is entirely on building cutscenes, not battle balance or any of that stuff. Lighting, music, and so on must build the mood.

Historical Fiction - Think Outlander or the Through the Darkness (Harry Turtledove). Use actual history, then make changes and extrapolate what these changes do.

Chimera - A good halloween event. Basically, mix and match game genres to make a weird hybrid like Western Space Horror (with romance elements). The weirder the splice, the more stuff is awarded.

Year Long Project - See what you can do in a year. Alone or in teams. One calendar year from the date started, you submit your game. Closer to end date counts more than halfway, and rated on the level of completion and length (or something).

Or something else.

So, maybe you don't do conservative news or maybe you don't care cuz you're liberal and stuff. That's fine, people should be entitled to their political opinions. Anyway, around August 6 or so, Facebook, Youtube, Spotify, and others outright banned certain conservative news (InfoWars) personalities because reasons.

Here's the thing. You may not care. "Nothing to do with me," and such. Only, remember what I said, people should be entitled to their political opinions. The alternative is like stuff that goes on in Vietnam, Ethiopia, or whatever. The government deciding they don't like Baseball, and banning all references of Baseball. Unless, of course, they do something actually ban-worthy, like glorify violence or condone terrorism normally people shouldn't get banned. Uhhhh, this guy doesn't even curse, really. He shows what may or may not be the truth, and what definitely sounds crazy. But... if this goofball gets banned, how long before other people get banned for having opinions?

Yesterday, got rid of Facebook entirely. There's apparently a 14 day waiting period while they decide to remove your account, during which you can't log in to Facebook, or anything vaguely linked to Facebook.

Today, I added a Tor add-on to my Firefox. You may notice that my IP isn't consistently the same, and I apologize for that. I'm pretty shaken up right now, and kinda paranoid. I can verify it, but answering detailed questions about all of my games. In other news, I discovered, security can be a double-edged sword, as my Google account insisted I wasn't here, and tried to lock me out of my own account. Yay!

What are people's thoughts on this? Or is it not okay to talk about the Fight Club, so to speak?