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Originally Posted by Revan

A milestone has been reached in the development of the RPG Integration Hack. I have pretty much finished the Admin backend for the Effects system.
For those of you that haven't been paying attention to the thread and wondering what the Effects system is, I'll give you a brief summary: Whatever you want it to be. You want the Blood Sword to actually drain damage? Now you can.
The Effects system will replace the generic "buff" you see in the current items, which is highly limiting and doesn't work like it's supposed to. Now, when creating items, you are asked to check boxes marking which effects you want to add to your item. You will of course be able to create these effects through an user-friendly interface on a seperate page.
I'll explain a bit how to create an effect: Say you want to create what makes your item called "X-Potion" heal all HP. First, you click Add New Effect. Then select "Healing" from the dropdown you see. Then select the following: [Increase] [Self] [HP] by {100} [Percent], then click Add New Effect button. The [] brackets indicate dropdown menus where you will be able to select other options for your effect. The {} brackets indicate values you must write in yourself.
You will be able to add effects from three categories: Damage, Healing and Stat Modifier. The Damage is most commonly used for weapons, or items like Grenade. The Healing, as we saw, is most used for potions of various nature and also healing skills. The Stat Modifier is used to increase/decrease the raw stats. Weapons will most likely want to use this primarily to increase Strength/Attack and Armor will want to increase Endurance et cetera. You will also be able to decrease stats, for debuff skills and the likes.

But wait! There's more!
Have you ever been annoyed over the fact that "Two-handed" still allowed you to use a Shield? Then I have good news for you.
In the next version, Equipment Slots are added. These Equipment Slots make sure that Two-Handed Weapons have equip scope (what slots they occupy) to Left and Right, making equipping a shield (which goes into the Right slot) impossible.

The last and also least completed change I will note today is the assigning of Battle Types to items. You know how you previously had to access a page that listed all your items and you must mark the checkbox for all the battletypes you want? Well now you have the option of doing this on a per-item basis. Just click the Edit link on the item as if it you were editing anything else about the item, and you can mark checkboxes for what Battle Types you want to be able to equip this item.


What I will begin working on next is the Skills system. This shouldn't take too long to complete the backend of, and it too will become highly customiseable. I will give a similar summary once I have completed it.

I can't give an ETA as to when this will be ready for Beta, simply because I haven't done anything on the front-end yet, and that's the most extensive part. I have also discovered a bug in the new Level Up system which will be exploitable unless I fix it. Which I will.
Not to mention how I have yet to be able to track down any of the bugs in the current system, though I admit I am guilty of letting this slide as I don't know if I will be changing the stuff that has bugs in it now.


For those of you that are wanting support for this version, I ask you to review the bold text in my signature.
Since the release of this hack, 80% of everybody who posted in this thread has not clicked Install. What's so terrible about showing your support?

I have sir . I've clicked 'install' except, I can't seem to get it installed.