Creating a Difficulty Settings without a script!

Bloodmorphed · 2014-01-04T06:28:07+0900

I see people asking for difficulty setting here and there and people answer it. Well I'm going to show how to make a difficulty setting without the need for complicated scripts. This tutorial is more for newer people then vets as I'm sure you would know how to do this. Also I haven't seen a tutorial on this at all. So here it goes! First you want to figure out your settings lets go with something simple for this tutorial Easy Normal Hard Now that we have this down lets do our states. Make an Easy State: Make a Hard State: Why not make a normal state? Well normal is the normal mode and it will be the default difficulty. Then what you are going to have to do is have the player Choose their difficulty. After you have had the player pick their difficulty, it is time to make sure if it is easy or hard the enemy troop has either the EASY or HARD state! I hope this is helpful to the new guys around here. I hope it is easy to comprehend and I hope you like it! Cheers! EDIT: For the people who are interested in a Script for this, I have written one here: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/31237-ace-difficulty-script-v20/?p=303429

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Bloodmorphed

#21 Aug 22, 2014, 01:23 AM Source

Hello everyone, I have written a difficulty script, I know this is said without a script, but for the people who are interested here it is:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/31237-ace-difficulty-script-v20/?p=303429

For the people who are still interested in a Evented difficulty system, let me know and I'll try to iron out the bugs and stuff, or whatever it may be on this one.
sweetladyamy

#22 Sep 19, 2014, 01:50 AM Source

Seems easy enough.
Gothic Lolita

#23 Oct 25, 2014, 03:36 PM Source

Thank you, never even thought this would be possible.
You can learn a lot here. Thank you for sharing. :) (\s/)
Vortaxonus

#24 Mar 26, 2016, 08:22 PM Source

Is it possible to do this as a parallel process common event? I'm currently seeing if it's possible as we speak.
sarkocreme

#25 Jun 2, 2016, 05:24 PM Source

Is it more efficient (performance wise) to change difficulty like this or as a script?
Another Fen

#26 Jun 3, 2016, 12:57 PM Source

@sarkocreme:

I don't think you have to worry about performance here.

The difficulty system does not affect parts of the game that are constantly executed, so most of the time it shouldn't affect the performance at all. The system comes into effect whenever an enemies parameter value is checked (for example during action result calculation), but the time increase is minimal.

The biggest "impact" is probably the implicit 1-frame-wait at the end of each event, thus calling a battle event during "Turn 0" will delay the battle start by ~20 milliseconds.
Gothic Lolita

#27 Jun 3, 2016, 09:46 PM Source

Vortaxonus said:
Is it possible to do this as a parallel process common event? I'm currently seeing if it's possible as we speak.

No, because you can't access battle scene without any script calls.
And I'm not sure, if there are allready script calls implemented for this or it allready needs new ones. :)

sarkocreme said:
Is it more efficient (performance wise) to change difficulty like this or as a script?

I didn't seen any performance hits. Only if you use a hp bar script, you see how the bars are getting "bigger" and filled up again.
With script you don't have this issue. :)
But scripts are harder to configure if you're new to script edits. May some can correct me, if I was wrong about the performance. ;) (\ô/)
kkh829

#28 Nov 14, 2020, 05:16 PM Source

Muchas gracias!
limsoonchiong

#29 Feb 15, 2022, 03:43 AM Source

Bloodmorphed said:
I see people asking for difficulty setting here and there and people answer it. Well I'm going to show how to make a difficulty setting without the need for complicated scripts. This tutorial is more for newer people then vets as I'm sure you would know how to do this. Also I haven't seen a tutorial on this at all.

So here it goes!

First you want to figure out your settings lets go with something simple for this tutorial

Easy

Normal

Hard

Now that we have this down lets do our states.

Make an Easy State:

Make a Hard State:

Why not make a normal state? Well normal is the normal mode and it will be the default difficulty.

Then what you are going to have to do is have the player Choose their difficulty.

After you have had the player pick their difficulty, it is time to make sure if it is easy or hard the enemy troop has either the EASY or HARD state!

I hope this is helpful to the new guys around here. I hope it is easy to comprehend and I hope you like it! Cheers!

EDIT:

For the people who are interested in a Script for this, I have written one here:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/31237-ace-difficulty-script-v20/?p=303429
Hi @Bloodmorphed thanks for this tutorial. Good stuff. Can I ask if I would like Easy to gain more EXP and Hard to gain less, how do we go about doing so? I tried using SP-Parameter Experience but it's not working. I am trying not to use plugin because I'm using MZ and your tutorial works perfectly fine for me. I just can't figure out the EXP part. I tried putting states in Player side to gain more EXP but that doesn't seem to work either.

Can this part be done without a plugin? Maybe something like this?
$gameActors.actor(actorId).gainExp(n*150%);