Castle Paradox

[Camdog]

Just curious, does the order of heros affect the battle in any way? For example, are heros in the top slot more likely to be attacked than heros in the bottom slot, the way SNES-era Final Fantasy games were set up?

[Bob the Hamster]

[Fenrir-Lunaris]

Unless you give an enemy an attack that targets the party's leader (Hero 0) the order has no importance. There's also no such thing as a front/back row, although through plotscripting, you could possibly make a menu of some kind that allowed you to decrease a hero's attack and raise defense before battle, or perhaps make an attack that does the same thing.

[msw188]

Actually, I can imagine this having some (very small) effect in the following way: how does game decide which hero's menu pops up if two heroes' action meters fill at the same instant? Or how does it decide what attack is executed first when two attacks are qeued at the same tick (after their wait has expired)?

PS: The target first slot only bitset is broken, so right now F-L's suggestion is not an issue.
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[Newbie_Power]

[Camdog]

That's exactly msw's point. Since the computer doesn't do two things at the same time, the order in which it increments the ready bar will affect which hero goes first, all other things being equal. Of course, this difference is miniscule and would probably never affect gameplay in practice...

[Moogle1]

This is a control flow problem, not a computation problem. Even if you were running a dual-processor computer that could actually fill the ready bars simultaneously, one hero would go before the other. I haven't looked at the code, but I think the hero after the one who just acted has menu priority (e.g. if hero #2 just acted, hero #3's menu will open next if possible, then #4's, then #1's).
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[Newbie_Power]

[Bob the Hamster]

Yes, there is a bias when two heroes are ready at the same time, but the bias is cyclical, not weighted to the top.

There is a counter that goes 0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3,0,1,2,3...

[msw188]

So it is cyclical then? I guess that makes the most sense. So each 'tick' also counts as one move around the cycle? That would explain some occasions I've seen where I could have swore that action A should occur first, but action B happened first instead. This may be helpful to OHR game authors. It makes it more clear that if you want certain attacks to take longer, you should make their waits in custom larger by more than, hmm, I guess ten ticks, if it takes one tick to move along each character in the cycle, and you can have four heroes and six enemies?
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My first completed OHR game, Tales of the New World:
http://castleparadox.com/gamelist-display.php?game=161

This website link is for my funk/rock band, Euphonic Brew:
www.euphonicbrew.com