Tell me everything about Turn Based Battles

[guo]

Hi,

I have read the entry on the wiki about turn based battles but would like some more information:

*How exactly does delay affect turn order? Does a delay of 1 merely reduce the user's speed by 1 for that round? What is the formula?

*How does attack chaining work under this system? Say My hero goes first, does an attack that chains to another attack - will it go immediately after the first? If there is a delay on the second attack in the chain will this cause it to happen at a different time in the order?

*Any other quirks, ideas or features of this battle style I should know about?

Kind regards.

[TMC]

Apparently the delay value is the number of slots in the queue of attacks that the attack is pushed back: a delay of 2 causes two other attacks to happen first. Ignore the "Delay: X ticks (Y seconds)" caption, that's a mistake.

I think chained attacks happen immediately unless there is a delay on them.

But I've never used turn based battles, and so I'm just going on what I remember hearing.

[FnrrfYgmSchnish]

*How exactly does delay affect turn order? Does a delay of 1 merely reduce the user's speed by 1 for that round? What is the formula?

Like TMC said, each point of delay pushes the attack back one slot in the order of that turn.

So putting a delay of 12 would push that attack to the end of the line past every other hero and enemy (at least so long as the 4 heroes/8 enemies maximum stays in place, but I'm not sure if there's even been any plans of changing that.) Or if you wanted to go a step more complicated than that, you could use 12 as the default delay for regular attacks, 24 for "always go last" attacks, and 0 for "Quick Attack"-style moves that always go first. Probably possible to make a whole mess of "attack speed" levels this way, just use multiples of 12 so attacks with a higher delay are guaranteed to be slower than the slowest enemies/heroes using attacks on the next "speed level" up from them.

[guo]

Thanks for the reply. That's definitely an interesting idea with the delay of 12 on all standard attacks, I might just do that in fact.

If all default attacks had a delay of 12, would setting values between 0-11 merely be different "priorities" of quick attacks? Ditto with going last at 24.

Cheers.

[guo]

Also, in turn based battles, what is the difference between "Delay ticks before attack" and "Delay turns before attack"? How about "Delay before caption"?

[Bob the Hamster]

Delay tick before attack means delaying ticks within the current round.

Delay turns before attack means postponing an attack for a later turn.

Delay before caption is cosmetic, and not very useful, sine you almost always want the caption to appear as soon as possible.

[guo]

Thanks James!