Total Request ASM: All armor replaced by shoes

[The Damned]

Wow, I can't believe I was forgot to ask this question yet. Perhaps because I too busy asking an inane question that I could have looked up myself.

Anyway, when it comes to your "Inherent Support Abilities Limitation" hack, I was wondering something: Can you use that same hack to inherently limit a support ability on a class? Or does it "only" gets rid of the limitations that are normally in place like with Ninja and Two Swords, Chemist and Throw Item, Monk and Martial Arts and so on?

i have one..
there are blank AI flags in patcher right?
well... is there a way to make one of those blanks override priority so that ai sees it equally as important to use as say inflicting "death" status?

i ask because this could make ai want to use things more often such as zalbags destroy sword skills if its checked for them...

You mean like a "KO" flag? Not sure you mean by "death" status and I thought that computer already recognized KO flags, though maybe that's more after they exist rather than application. As with many things, I forget at this point in time.

[pokeytax]

You can change the job/ability combos to whatever you want. It's part of ALMA 3 if you want to fiddle with it.

[Zozma]

by "death" flag i meant that AI looks at a skill that inflicts "death" as high priority as an example.

wanting to make a skill like "speed ruin" be seen as that kind of priority with an ai flag that tells it to override.
currently the AI sees the whole "destroy sword" set as very low priority, the ai would even rather take no action if the ruins are the only other available action.

[formerdeathcorps]

by "death" flag i meant that AI looks at a skill that inflicts "death" as high priority as an example.

wanting to make a skill like "speed ruin" be seen as that kind of priority with an ai flag that tells it to override.
currently the AI sees the whole "destroy sword" set as very low priority, the ai would even rather take no action if the ruins are the only other available action.

This implies the problem should be fixed by fixing the AI (to make it understand that -stats is a good idea when you can't easily KO someone or status them with petrify) and not by adding more flags; in any case, you'd need to debug AI code, so you might as well do a large job that's done right.

That and I'm using all the blank AI flags in my formula hacks.

[Zaen]

Hey, pokeytax, you made a typo in the recategorising RSM hack. You have FFFF and GGGG in the last part instead of GGGG and HHHH.

[Zozma]

I see, well thats stuck then. too bad. there really should be a way to make AI use whatever you want it to lol

[Zaen]

Also, unless it has been mentioned before, the setting growths to 0 hack doesn't work at all. I was getting 15 to 18 speed level 3 archers and wizards in Dorter... which explains the quadruple turning.

[pokeytax]

Also, unless it has been mentioned before, the setting growths to 0 hack doesn't work at all. I was getting 15 to 18 speed level 3 archers and wizards in Dorter... which explains the quadruple turning.

Uuuugh, really? Well, back to the drawing board to fix the spreadsheet leveling and not just the in-battle leveling - thanks for the catch.

[Pickle Girl Fanboy]

What if you want to give nearly every class an inherent?

[pokeytax]

What if you want to give nearly every class an inherent?

That would require freespace and ASM coding, as opposed to changing the existing limitations, which is just a little hex editing. I can envision a hack that reads inherent abilities directly from job data and blocks those, rather than checking four hardcoded values and jobs. Actually, thinking through it is making me more interested! For now though you might just want to turn them all off, I have a huge pile of stuff that I want to do first.

[Pickle Girl Fanboy]

I can envision a hack that reads inherent abilities directly from job data and blocks those, rather than checking four hardcoded values and jobs. Actually, thinking through it is making me more interested!

If it's in battle.bin, then won't it be part of that project?

[pokeytax]

It's in WORLD.BIN. If you check the XML output from ALMA 3.xls, the location of the pertinent code is there (both the missing piece I found and the previously known stuff from the wiki).

As far as I know FDC is not Batman so I don't think literally everything in BATTLE.BIN is getting covered (although he did crack the AI a bit, so maybe he is Batman, or at least Superman?).

[Pickle Girl Fanboy]

He's Christian Bale Batman, for sure, but if he covers ALL of battle.bin then he's earned his silver age batwings, as far as I'm concerned.

[RavenOfRazgriz]

Well, having worked with formerdeathcorps a lot on his BATTLE.BIN mapping, I can say the way he gets through it involves a lot more "Biff!", "Bam!", and "Kapow!" than stealthy drop-shots from behind, for what it's worth...

[pokeytax]

Also, unless it has been mentioned before, the setting growths to 0 hack doesn't work at all.

I fixed it in the OP, so this should work now. If not, well, I'll fix it again!

[pokeytax]

spoiler: Inherent R/S/M Limitation Hack

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Instead of preventing Chemist & Throw Item / Mediator & Monster Talk / Ninja & Two Swords / Monk & Martial Arts, this hack prevents all inherent abilities from being equipped. So in vanilla it alters nothing, but it will adjust to whatever you do in FFTPatcher. If you're feeling silly, you can do things like giving Knights innate Equip Armor / Equip Sword / Equip Shield to prevent the player from equipping junk. It does not stack with the previous hack; you can't ban specific combos.

It also prevents equipping multiple copies of a single R/S/M ability, which again has no effect in vanilla, but is probably desirable if you're using a "merge Support/Movement" hack.

I also updated the .xml, finally, for those who want to try hacks out without painstaking effort.

[pokeytax]

I've been working on a pretty specialized hack to modify which units are allowed into combat. Unfortunately you can backdoor it at present by swapping units instead of placing them on new squares but I'm working on that.

The hack records six types of classes. Each job can be a "master" or "pet" for one of these. One version of the hack bans the pet class unless accompanied by one master for each; the other version allows a "free" pet if a master is present. (And no, I can hear the question already: you're still bound by the five unit limit. Or rather you aren't and the game glitches.)

So if Mediators were Type 1 Masters and Knights were Type 2 Masters, and Chocobos were Type 1 Pets and Squires were Type 2 Pets, you could either have:

1) Chocobos ONLY allowed into combat with an accompanying Mediator, Squires ONLY allowed into combat with an accompanying Knight
2) One free Chocobo allowed in combat for each Mediator, one free Squire for each Knight.

I'm still working out the kinks but I figured I'd ask for comments and suggestions. I plan to use it for a patch with two perma-guests and one main character, which should permit true "pet classes" (the hack will read guest data).

[RavenOfRazgriz]

Tl;dr: You can only use Class B if Class A is present?

Could be nifty for more elaborate hacks.  Could you explain 2) better, please?  What do you mean by "free"?  Do they just like, magically spawn on the map?  Can you place them without it affecting the unit limit?  Etc?

[Pride]

go go pokemon patch

[pokeytax]

What do you mean by "free"?

They can be placed after the unit limit is reached, up to X units. So if you had a unit limit of 2 and placed 2 Mediators, you could place 2 Chocobos for a total of 4 units. If you had one Mediator and one Calculator, you could place only one Chocobo for a total of 3 units. If you had one Mediator and one Knight, you could place an extra Squire and Chocobo.

This essentially mandates a global unit limit of 4 or less, so I can't see many people using it. (I can hardcap party size at 5 to avoid glitchiness, but then there's no point to the hack.)

The other version is as you said, each class A can bring one class B, otherwise banned. Still pretty niche but usable in a normal hack.

go go pokemon patch

BOCO is evolving into FROCOBO