Does anyone know whether you will be able to create a turn based fighting system because from what I have read the fighting will be like diablo and myst. But being a powerful tool I were hoping you would be able to choose how your fights work. (don't swear)

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myst? fighting?
I must have missed(no pun intended) part of that game.

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Har dee har har Lorenoth =P (that actually was pretty funny). Maybe he meant Myth because I dont think there is any fighting in Myst. I don't know if you will be able to select your battle system though, wouldn't that require a complete rewrite of the engine?

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turnbased games are what save magic users like me-
in other words-they better have it as an option..plz

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Yeah, he must have ment myth.

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yeah I meant myth sorry.

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If you read the progress log, I believe it says that the engine has been re-writeen to use real-time fighting. Also, I very much doubt there will be a choice, since if so why would they REwrite the engine, not just add to the engine.
Sorry Lorenth

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well then I better have some back up to take hits while I SELECT the fricking spell

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I suspect that some sort of turn-based combat could be implemented using events, but I doubt it would be easy. FF1 style battles come to mind.

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Chill is right about it being possible to one up the battle system. However, the amount of work and extra events that you would need to pump into every map with fights would make your game:
1)Never finished because there are just to many events
2) HUGE SIZE!!! That many events means you'd probably kill of all hopes of dialups downloading your game.

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You mean the only way to fight will be the diablo method ?!!!!!!

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I'm just gonna die...

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extra events that you would need to pump into every map with fights

Only one, which sends you to a battle area. With a little bit of creativity, it should be possible to make only a single battle area, and just change the background and / or monsters depending on what's needed. At worst you'd have to have one battle location for each background. Of course, if you want to fight on the main map, that's a whole different story, and, as you pointed out, probably not worth the bother.

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Originally posted by DarkBlade:
**Wyvern: You still don't have turn based, do you?
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My point was that the events needed to make turn based combat would not need to be applied to every map, just the battle area(s).

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yeah, from what I've seen of the engine and the event scripting, it looks as though you should be able to pull off turn-based combat, but it would probably have to be only the battle segment of an otherwise live action game. my thinking is that you should be able to "fake" a turn based combat system by creating an event whenever you encounter an enemy. you could load up a new, single-screen map from which you could probably build some sort of event-based battle system that waits for your commands. and without any movement of the characters durring battle it might not be THAT difficult to script all the neccessary events, just as long as you stuck to a small number battle formations.

aka: the style used in Super Mario RPG 1 or any of the other Squaresoft RPGs pre-Chrono Trigger. It might take some work, but I'll bet turn-based can be done.

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Will it be possible to make a pause system as they used in Baldur´s gate?
You click the spacebar to pause the game when you select spells and when you plan how to fight.

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**Will it be possible to make a pause system as they used in Baldur´s gate?
You click the spacebar to pause the game when you select spells and when you plan how to fight.

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If it's possible to choose actions during the pause, then it's possible to create turn based fights...

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Actually, if events could control the pause on/off mode, then a turn based system would (appear to) be extremely easy to make.

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