about this RPG

[jack1974]

Ten skills left to add though I plan to add them all before end of week, and then finally can finish all the quest/battles of the first season

[jack1974]

Managed to add pseudo-random items:

I'll also use different color texts so people understand immediately the rarity of the item
Of course, the most powerful item will still be hand-crafted, but this way I save myself a lot of work once is fully coded. And every game will have different random weapons too

[yayswords]

About time we got rarity text!

Could you color the background too? :P

[jack1974]

The background where? of the text, the item?

[yayswords]

Of the item icon in the inventory. (i-alliteration achievement please)

So I can tell right away which items are worth taking a look at.

[jack1974]

I'm adding a small colored letter to show the rarity: F=Fine, M=Masterwork, R=rare, L=Legendary (Unique Items).
I plan to keep the red background for items the current char can't equip, and a green background that shows when the weapon is better than the currently equipped one (will work only for main hand of course, otherwise is impossible).
Deciding if "an item is better" will probably mean unmistakably better, since for example an item could have +1 attack but -1 defense vs another, so the sum would be identical. Besides, players must do something on their own!

[yayswords]

If that small colored letter appears on the item icon then we have a deal. Else choose time and place, I choose weapons.

[jack1974]

Mission accomplished:

you can notice the small colored letters, the item name in the proper color, and the "better than currently equipped item" in green. A HUGE improvement over Loren's system. I think I can relax now, has been a long day

[Miakoda]

The random item generation is looking pretty good

I have just one concern: Will the drop rate be reasonable? I've had games that had way too many drops, and dealing with the items was more hassle than fun in those cases.

[jack1974]

Yes for now doing some tests. I might just discard the "Rusty" weapon completely, since don't want to fill player's inventory with garbage.
Recently I'm playing Diablo3 on the PS3, and I find a lot of items that aren't worth it. I guess in this case is different since you have a party, so an item that is weak for one could be useful for another.
I'll make sure to have an easy way to dispose of unwanted items, or simply reduce the drop rate so your inventory isn't too much full.
In any case, you can just buy the stuff in vendors, and / or be sure that the most powerful items will come from the main plot. This option is more for the hardcore players who will spend all the time grinding playing in Nightmare mode

Having a bit of trouble finding words to combine them for the elemental weapons. Currently I have as prefixes:

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                        if i=="Fire":
                            nameE=renpy.random.choice(["Fire","Fiery","Flame","Burning","Incandescent"])
                        if i=="Water":
                            nameE=renpy.random.choice(["Water","Icy","Freezing","Frozen","Cold"])
                        if i=="Air":
                            nameE=renpy.random.choice(["Air","Flying","Wind","Quick","Ethereal"])
                        if i=="Earth":
                            nameE=renpy.random.choice(["Earth","Nature","?","?","?"])
                        if i=="Dark":
                            nameE=renpy.random.choice(["Dark","Poison","Venomous","Obscure","Black"])

so the result could be: Fire Dagger, Frozen Axe, etc. As you see have troubles for the Earth element