Essentials Script that's not Essentials?

Hi,

I downloaded the infamous Pokemon Essentials after I purchased a copy of RMXP. The game making community for Pokemon is still very strong, but I don't think I want to make a Pokemon game after what Nintendo did to the many popular fan games and the Essentials wiki. I would much rather make a Pokemon clone that I could call my own and Nintendo wouldn't have the power to shut down.

The problem, though, is Essentials makes RMXP so plug-and-play and it's really the only script that extensively changes the functionality of RMXP I've played with. I guess I could build a full Pokemon fan game just to learn the program, but I'm beginning to feel like that's a waste of time. I would rather use scripts that are not attached to some "fan game code of conduct" user agreement, because Nintendo obviously doesn't care whether we adhere to it or not; if they think their IP is in danger, they'll defend it, even if that means alienating fans and shutting down fan games people have worked on for years.

Plus, it would be nice to publish a fully functional game that people can purchase if they want, even though I don't know if I will ever make anything I feel comfortable doing that with. This is mostly just a learning exercise, but I don't want to fall into the fan game trap, so I want it to be suitable for commercial publishing if I ever decide to, meaning no scripts like PKMNE, which have user agreements that the games created with them will not be sold (and make games play way too similar to Pokemon games anyway!)

I've moved this thread to RGSS Script Requests. Thank you.

It would help if you mentioned what exactly you're looking for. "Essentials" doesn't really mean anything and not everyone has downloaded Pokemon Essentials kit in the past.

Also, I would suggest to stop using the term "plugins" and instead use the term scripts. In the RPG Maker community, plugins only work in MV (they are that maker's equivalent of XP's scripts).

I think what i may need is a beginner's guide to programming games in Ruby and Java or something...

sololearn.com - plenty of beginner's tutorials.

RMXP (and VX and VXAce) uses a form of Ruby, MV uses Javascript. There is no engine that uses Java.
You don't necessarily need to know Ruby to make a game with XP. There are also already scripts available that are still being shared. (This goes for every engine.)

But if you do want to learn Ruby, Codeacademy and Rubymonk are good sites to start at.