Hey, it's been a while since I posted here and I was working on a battle system idea. I started doing the testing for it and I have a question, is it possible to have a command be a 'free' action in the Rm2k3 DBS, as in, not causing the character to lose their turn?

Here's what I need it for: I'm thinking of having different Battle Stances, wherein the character's stats change (except HP and MP) depending on their current Stance (Offensive, Defensive, Mobile). So far I've been able to create a command that replaces the party member with a duplicate with the altered stats. This is not ideal as it uses up a turn and changes the order of the party.

So, is it possible to do something like this and if it's not, would it annoy the player to see the characters shift down the line for a specific purpose?

@sleeping_wind: I am really liking the look of that Exfont.

He's quoting some of my old screens from earlier in the topic.

Organ disruptor?

Oh yeah, not the funnest energy weapon to be hit with. It essentially makes you shit out your liver = bad status effects against target, very bad status effects.

A test screen for the Organ Deteriation screen from a project that will most likely never see the light of day. The game is set in a dark future, nuclear winter has forced people into domed cities with horrendous living conditions. The recycled air and chemicals leaking all over the place has brought about a plague of organ failures in every living person. The only way to survive is to peridically replace damaged or dying organs with new ones. The new organs can be bought or *cough* acquired in other ways. Some organs gives bonuses to field skills, stats or special abilities, as well as keeping you alive a little bit longer.

Each character has a screen like this and I still need to figure out a spot to put the percentage of health for each organ...possibly on top of the spot on the body?

Thoughts?

Edit:
I decided to put them here.

your offpeak hours extend fairly fair into the daytime

But my problem was that I didnt want to wait until 4 in the morning to start my downloads.

I found a program called Banshee Alarm, its a clock program that you can set programs for. I just turned off all the actual alarms and it works perfectly.

windows task scheduler works for anyone else interested

also 4am to 9am is pretty convenient, mine is 1am to 7am

Not really, when I was trying to specifically use the off=peak hours to dl and not kill my daytime dl limit. I would have killed for 1 to 7.

---Program found, feel like idiot, nearest mod please delete, thank you for you time----

Okay, because my ISP plan at the moment has peak and off-peak hours at ridiculous times (4am-9am is the off-peak ​) so to actually make use of this off-peak download time specifically I need to run my download program at 4am (which funnily enough is when I'm often asleep).

Is there a utility that I can download from somewhere that will allow me to delay a program launching by a couple of hours? I ask the combined knowledge of GW in it's entirety.

---Program found, feel like idiot, nearest mod please delete, thank you for you time----

@Bunsen.05:  My only suggestion to give a stronger computer look is to put horizontal lines across the facesets.  In a slightly lighter translucent green would give a nice screen effect.  Hopefully you know what I'm talking about.  I was trying to find a reference picture, but I had no luck.

When making those ones, I did add the msg box into it but only at 40%, there are scanlines in it but not so clear when in a screenshot, they are much more apparent in game, but I may try 50%.

Thanks for the tip.

That's pretty rad, are you perhaps still working on 10 thousand bullets? 

10,000 Bullets is on hold for the time being. This was the systemset for a different game that seems to be evolving into a different game, argh my stupid head.

Some menu shots from yet another game.




Going for the classic green and black computer style look. The faces are just temporary, the effect isnt.

Something that I find really blood stupid is the stupid peroxide streak every teenage boy who thinks hes street has. Its probably an Australian thing but they wear really bright shirts (hot pink, light purples, pale blue) and then walk around like it doesnt make them look like they want to shag the bloke walking next to them.

The first time I saw one of them with the random peroxide streak, I thought there was some peroxide monster on the loose jizzing in teenage boy's hair.

(Though there is a bonus, working at a department store, it makes it easier to spot the ones who will try and shoplift or just be a dick to staff)

Edit: Yep, not a fan of emos either.

Mine is a Samsung a701, it does the job (read: Mp3 ringtone, screams at me when I get a msg, shitty camera, videos etc.). The best part about this phone I think is the screen, its fucking crystal clear, like the iPhone screens and other top-end phones, not shitty LCD.

In no particular order:
*Satan from the Constantine movie: Now, I've never read Hellblazer (do with this what you will) but Peter Stormare's creepy/relaxed portrayal of the devil was awesome. My favourite part of that whole damn movie.
*I'm going with the crowd here and saying that the Joker in Dark Knight was amazingingly well done and executed.
*Mr Rictus in the Wanted Comics (funny how he comes after the Joker), a sadistic man with no conscience, a genuinely scary idea.

And thats all off the top of my head.

I honestly don't think I'm racist, I'm more classist (if thats the word and 'a' word). I hate anyone of any race who I see as scum, it doesnt matter what background they come from if they are a drugged up criminal who does nothing with their life except "bludge off the dole" (For non-Australians, google this phrase to understand it) then I will treat them with nothing but disdain. Actually I treat most people with disdain, it seems to be my natural default setting when meeting new people. Though I do hold some extra hatred for White Trash (being white myself I don't know if this is significant or not).

I'm not racist, I share my hatred for the human race around eqaully.

That story was exceedingly entertaining bled. Since I'm in Australia, how did this work exactly? Was there a market set up or were you guys just on the side of the road or what?

My sister got burgled recently, by some of the most idiotic burglars ever. She came back from work and found the back door smashed. They took some jewellery (cheap but sentimental stuff), her computer and the laptop she was borrowing from a volunteer group she belongs to.

The stupid part is that when they were taking her computer they took the wireless keyboard and mouse but cut the cables connecting the wireless reciever to the computer. They basically just took the tower, leaving the flatscreen monitor. The irony of this is that her computer was shit, about 6 years out of date and barely running, making her newer monitor the more expensive item of the two. And the laptop they took was branded inside and out with the volunteer groups logo, address and other info. Good luck fencing that morons.

I came in here to talk about Aldi then started tripping out over the very idea of 'bag boys'. I work the register sometimes at work but mostly customer greeter/store security (or as I like to call it "door monkey"). I have never considered it necessary to have someone to put shit in the bag for me. You have the open bag to your left (on a great little contraption that keeps it open), you scan it then drop it in the bag, bag is full, open new bag. It takes two seconds to do. Even when we have people doing christmas shops, buying $700+ worth of crap, have two trolleys, you can still keep up.

Back on topic: You can tell when you're uni friends are skimming it when they do their entire shop at ALDI. Their stuff is mostly okay, they actually have the best Butter Chicken sauce available in our fair town and their faux-pringles are like crack.

The idea of the reusable bags is pretty good, environmentally thinking. All the department and groceries store in Australia (except the really cheap ones like Franklins) sell the reusable bags. They are hella stronger as well, you can get your 6 2 litre bottles of coke home without having the use 3 plastic bags.

dude you're bipolar 

but seriously, that's not soooo horrible. unless i'm missing something, you're either going through normal teenage moodshifts and can't recognize that, or you actually are bipolar, which isn't the worst thing in the world, after all Beethoven was bipolar. Worst comes to worst, you'll end up like him.

(Dead)

nah i'm kidding, you'll be fine, but if it does worry you (and it only should if you CAN'T CONTROL these moodchanges, then talk to someone. not on the internet though because people here don't know shit.

Well I'm two months shy of 22 so I'm quite sure (like, 98% here) that it's not 'normal teenage moodshifts'. I think I may have bipolar tendancies but yeah, I can stop myself most of the time from feeling like shit (by stopping and thinking about the situation etc.).

Also, yeah the internet is good to vent. I've told three real life people about this, my two housemates and my oldest and dearest friend. They helped but getting it out there into the world (but in an exceedingly annonymous fashion) is somewhat theuraputic (sp?).

I never really had emo years in highschool, just general highschool bollocks that you go through. I don't know whats going on with my head at the moment though.

About two months ago, I held a sword to a guy's neck because he spilt a drink in my living room. That freaked the fuck out of my housemates and they have since taken the swords out of the living room. They really considered kicking me out but were honestly too scared too say anything to me about it. I had to instigate my own intervention to get them to talk about it.

Now that I'm out of home and being around people more often, I come to realise that my logic and brain processes don't match those of regular people. This is not an invite to say "oh there is so no such thing as normal/average/regular people", I would say that 85% of my friends are what people would call alternative, goth, geek, a combination of the above etc. and they get weirded out by the way my mind works.

I live in a constant state of switching from one mood (at best) to another or one personality to another. I can honestly label my three main states of mind to Normal Paul (who goes to uni, goes to work, makes conversation with people, is a generally accepted person), Odd Paul (who needs a specialised dictonairy to understand, doesnt follow earth logic, says funny but very out there and random shit) and Evil Paul (who purposely says or does the most damaging thing to watch his friends and acquaintances suffer and for their lives to go to hell). This is very worrying for me.

Yeah, mine is not the most harrowing of tales but hey, it keeps me awake at night.

Just checking in. Sad to say none of the above suggestions worked. What did work was getting a nasty rootkit and having to completely redo the OS from scratch. It fixed my MP3 problems, my USB ports are working again, its all good...ish.

I have version 9 installed at the moment.