Ok, so, for my game, I wanna have a section of the world where monsters fight each other as AI, with absolutely no input from the player. I also want the outcome of said fights to be semi-random, based only on chance and skills of the monsters that fight.

That is, I want the outcome to be unknown to everyone, even me, the creator of the game!

The reason for this, is taht I don't want a definite pattern (such as, if Enemy A and Enemy B fight, Enemy B will always win), but something more along the lines of an actual battle, prefferably using the actual battle scene, where the monsters kill each other.

furthermore,

I have 10 possible contestants, and I want the game to decide, by variable, who will fight who, but do not want to event every single possible outcome of this randomization (it would take very long), and as such, I would like to know if there is some way to replace the variables with the correct names (NVM, I think I know how to do this, have the variable be the troop number, right? Correct me if I'm wrong).

And, after the characters are selected, I want the stats for the two contestants to be put up on the screen side-by-side so that the player can see how they match up...

but, again, I want this to be as compact and painless as possible (and how I see it now, this will be quite painful.

So, things that I will need:

A way of displaying randomized names based on variables, to be put in a text box
A way of displaying two sets of enemy stats outside of the battle scene, based on what was displayed in the text box
A way of making the two enemies who were priorly selected fight to the death (preferably without turning them into characters).
A way to find out who won said fight.

sorry, was in a post when I hurried...

Anyways, the system I am using is an SBS, Tenkanai's (sp) which is edited by (shootdang, I forgot who it was edited by... haha)... Anyways, I kinda want to have the player actually watch the fight, which is why I want to use the battle scene...

I figure I can work something up to make the enemies fight? Idk... I really don't want ot have any unneccesary chars in this game... But I guess I have no choice.

Hrm... So, I would need to have an unbreakable berserk on my monster character, in order for him to be uncontrollable, (or, yeah, check auto-battle, haha!)

So, how would you suggest setting up these chars and such???

Bumped for lack of edit on Bashar's part (perhaps help from someone else, eh?)

Eh, I didn't notice your edit.

Making the chars should be simple enough, though I don't know how it would work with a SBS. Can't help you in that department - all I use is the modified default system.

The easiest way I can think of is set up a dummy party that does auto-battle, and then have the enemies be immortal. That way, the battlers will autobattle, and you can control who wins. You'll probably want as many new actors as the max possible battlers in a party per battle (i.e. if every group can only have up to 1 person, you'll only need 1 new actor), then just change the actor graphic before the battle. I guess the cost of that is a lot more troops, though. As for the rest, you'll probably need at least 1 or 2 variables, and a bit of scripting (unless you want to make it REALLY difficult).

I could do the scripting, but I really don't feel like it (sorry...). If anyone else is interested, you'll probably want an array to get the troop id values. Then, use that information to get the name and stats, and remove the loser's id from the array every battle.

Btw, if you don't want it to look like the same side will always win a battle in Tankentai, just randomly change the switch that controls back attacks.

Sorry, but that is'nt what I want... I just want the chars to be able to battle each other as if they were a player and a monster (that is, the result isn't always the person with the best stats, but the person who used their skills more wisely)...

I didn't want to use variables to control who won, because I wanted the SBS to show the fight, and I don't know, and don't want to know, how to set who wins by variables...

So, because I consigned to making the contestant the player chooses a character, I can make this much easier, and will only need:

A quick "how-to" on setting up variables to display names based on Monster names.

A script that displays battle stats of monsters (perhaps some sort of modified bestiary?)

And some advice on how to balance the monster contestants to the character contestants (because they just don't seem to be very evenly matched, even if all their stats are the same...

I was afraid you would say that...

Well, I suppose that is alright, but what about displaying the enemy stats?

You see, I would just go and make pics of it, but I want them to be in windows... Also, I want the windows to match the player's chosen skin (I have a skin selector in the game I am making, so they can change color and style)

Do you have any ideas?

Check out the scripting tutorials here. They give you ideas for making basic windows. If you can't find a script to do it for you, that might be the next best place to look.

The closest thing I found was Modern Algebra's Bestiary script.. But that isn't nearly close enough...

I just want something that will come up like this:


and the closest anyone has offered is half of that, and only as a menu item that displays a list of monsters opposite it...

I just want the variable to select the monster, and then have the monster data displayed accordingly... with included picture.

You're going to have to script for something like that. Eventing won't be enough. I suggest requesting it in the Script Requests forum, but this is as far as I can help you.

Well Bashar, thanks for all your help!

Without you, I would still be stubbornly sticking to my dreams of event based amazingness and full auto battling (it can really only go so far, ya know?

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