Castle Paradox

[RedMaverickZero]

Is there a way to disable hero slots? Like, to make it so only two, or three, or even one character can be put into the party. Even using the TEAM function? I know with plotscripting I can lock people, but I don't know if I can disable an entire hero slot. Maybe that's confusing, but if someone understands and knows, please let me know.
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[Machu]

Hmm... never tried this, but maybe put an invisible, nameless hero in those slots and lock them? I imagine this will make battles show extra lines with 0/0 HP and revive items could target them and do nothing. Well, now that I think about it, this would make your game appear glitchy, but that's all I could think of.
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[KainMinter]

All I could think of would be to only manipulate your party with plotscripting and make a custom menu (a simple one, that allows you to only target the first 3 character slots, that utilizes the newly found plotscripting commands to manually bring up sub menus.).

Itd be very nice, though, if there could be a set of bits added to custom to disable specific party slots.

[Setu_Firestorm]

I dunno. The only way that I can figure you do that is by just having that many party members ever join.

I need to ask James if there's any way (for the next update maybe) that we can have full customability over the ingame menu, to disable certain functions that aren't needed in some people's OHR games.
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[Guest]

Why don't you have a script that runs over and over that checks if all slots in the caterpillar are occupied, and, if they are, just swap out a hero.

A problem with this is that the loop will probably not run when the menu is pulled up. You could make a custom menu, which is what kainminster suggested, but there is a simpler way (although it may not work as smoothly).

What will happen is this:

The player puts out 4 heroes. When the player exits the menu, the loop runs and finds that hero. Then the loop swaps out the hero if all four slots are filled (because, if slots 1,2, and 4 are occupied, that still leaves only 3 heroes, so you can't just check slot 4). At this time, you could show a text box informing the player only 3 heroes allowed on the team so the player knows it's not a glitch in the game. And that was that. The only choppy thing about this way is the player will still be able to make a 4-member party in the menu, but a hero will be swapped out before the player can do anything.

Also, you may want to make use of the "pick hero" command so the player can choose which hero he/she wants out. Here's a sample of the script (un-tested and typed early in the morning, so errors will be present. You can talk to me via AIM for help if this doesn't work):

[*Worthy*]

Damnit, I could have swore I signed in ...

~Worthy
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[RedMaverickZero]

Worthy, we can talk about it via AIM. And I want to talk to you about some other neat features I'd like to add for load up scripts.
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