VRPG

[Aileron]

After further investigation, I've found some things out:

 

Currently the character's don't have sprites. However, supposing when the sprites are completed, I've found out that unlike Final Fantasy, or anything normal for that matter, sprites are not incorporated into the scene. Instead, you have a scene with an animated .gif which shows up only while the player is attacking or spellcasting. Furthermore, the .gif will appear above the scene, and it looks like the character is flying through the air.

 

Also, I've found out details about the world map. I can select certain squares to be "battle" scenes and random battles in enabled, but the battle squares are optional for the player with scene selectable, and the random battles will randomly choose the scene. Thus, if the map says you are standing on a mountain, I couldn't make a "mountain" scene be mandatory for that area. Players could choose whatever they want, and the computer would choose whatever scene it felt like as well.

 

Thus, I'll probably remove the scenes entirely, and put the prettyness in the world map.

 

 

As for the map, I've started construction of one. You should see a part of an EG-themed base. However, the one I made was oversized and only half will show up. I'll have to replace it with a smaller one. I also thought that on the character marker that white was transparent, but I was wrong about that.

 

The "meat" of the map is still the defaults, so wander around if you want but don't do it too much. The shop, medic, and portal won't work where they are indicated, you will be able to walk through the ships, there will be a battle arena that shouldn't be there, and MOST IMPORTANTLY if you wander into the default and unmarked portal locations, you'll be transported to a map which doesn't exist and your character will be lost on that map forever.

[Falcoknight]

1. Images for items should be a high priority, since it seems that if an item does not have an image, it cannot be equipped to your character. So right now a majority of the items useless.

 

2. I don't know if anyone figured it out yet, but about the bug where the pet wouldn't eat the food, just click the "unactive" or whatever button, and then feed them. It has worked for me every time so far.

 

3. Bots all seem to be worth around the same exp, making it useless to attack the stronger ones.

Gamma (Level 3 bot) is worth 5% for me, and Alpha (Level 1 bot) is worth 4%.

I can one-hit Alpha, so attacking Gamma becomes a silly thing to do.

 

4. Pets incredibly powerful - The only way I could even kill Alpha in the beginning was by getting a pet. Now it seems the pet levels insanely fast and makes it so my own characters stats are irrelevant. By the time my character got to level 3, which it is now, my pet is level 21, with 66 HP. With my pet's stats stacked on mine as it seems to do, I've got 85hp, 65 Str, 41 Def, and 8 Int.

Just seems odd to me that my pet should be so much more powerful than myself.

Edited November 23, 2007 by Falcoknight

[Aileron]

The pet isn't staying. Neither are the bots. The pet will be replaced with two or three much less powerfull pets. The bots will also be overhauled and renamed to something closer to the theme, which is:

 

"In the year 2145, Seven years after the Warbird-Javelin 68 3/4 Years War, the galaxy was slowly recovering. The once mighty SVS Imperium was reduced to a fragmented group of bickering colonies. Star roads were being rebuilt, and virtually every colony in the cosmos had dead to mourn and lives to rebuild. However, peace would evade the galaxy. A group of non-respected nooblet pilots, calling themselves the "Trench Wars" colonies, was ready to pounce. They claimed that they intended to take over the galaxy under command of a man they called "Emperor Prittk". Initially, the veteran pilots of the various zones mocked the upstarts and their ambitious goals.

 

However, by 2150 any voice of mockery fell silent. The TW Empire spread like a plague accrossed the galaxy, consuming their neighbors and making all either bow before their Emperor or atleast fear his name. The other zones tried to fight back, but one by one they kept falling to TW's unstoppable juggernaut. In desperation, the Resistance was formed in the heart of The EG Federation. Previous attempts at ship to ship combat had failed due to TW's seemingly limitless supply of ships and pilots to fly them. The Resistance had a new strategy: to infiltrate the enemy colonies, and use footsoldiers to disable TW's supply installations as well as to unite all of the free zones into a fighting force. Their mission will not be easy, as entire legions stand against them. All of the galaxy's hopes rest with a small band of brave adventurers..."

 

I mentioned that because it will explain the bots: TW Grunts, Twers, and Twops.

 

Graphics will be done when I get to them. I've been overhauling the classes, weapons, and armor for the past couple days.

[Aileron]

I've put some sleep on the graphics problem, and I've come up with a solution. There will be two items added which won't be in the store:

 

The Lesser Ring of People Who Helped Ail Make the Graphics

The Greater Ring of People Who Helped Ail Make the Graphics.

 

The first will give atleast +10 all, and the second will give +30 all, probably more depending on how the rest of the settings comes together, or variable depending upon the type of help I get. If its not obvious, those two items will be reward items to people who contribute graphics. PM me if you are interested and I'll tell you what graphics I need.

[Falcoknight]

>_>

I think you should let me keep my pet, just because you're a nice guy.

It's only like level 127, and isn't helping me at all..

 

Diggama attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 327HP 10MP lost 8HP

Falcoknight attacked Diggama Diggama has now 20HP 85MP lost 100HP

 

First to beat Diggama. Wewt.

 

Edit:

Zeta attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 263HP 10MP lost 72HP

Falcoknight attacked Zeta Zeta has now 31HP 89MP lost 92HP

 

Zeta's down too.

 

Edit 2:

Eta attacked Falcoknight Falcoknight now has 216HP 10MP lost 119HP

Falcoknight attacked Eta Eta has now 27HP 95MP lost 101HP

 

And now Eta's dead for the first time.

 

I've gotta say, this VRPG is really, really addictive.

Except now I've basically "won the game" at this point in its development. So I'll go back into my hole and wait for it to be finished.

Edited November 24, 2007 by Falcoknight

[Aileron]

You know, if you aren't doing anything Falco, you could crawl out of that hole and help with the graphics.

 

I'll admit some of the stuff is gonna need one of the Photoshop masters, but I was able to do the stuff I did so far with only Paint.

[Suicide_Run]

I see ppl with -11/-11 mp....is that even possible? lol Your using negative mp =/

[Sound]

apparently it is