• While this allowed for a varied system and showing character personality in their observations of the enemies, I would have to write something for every enemy for every party member.
  
• It also - as others pointed out - gave the impression of needing every character to scan enemies, either for completionism or simply out of necessity, and that the character with the best analysis power should just be used alone. This is regardless of the unlock data being shared across save files.
  

• I think it's been suggested before of a system where enemies require a certain number of defeats to unlock stages of data. That's one idea, but it still runs into the same problem and it sounds tedious or unclear how to achieve data stage unlock.
  
• Another method could be copying Persona and that a mission control character can be asked to do the analysis which takes a few turns to do. The problem there is that there doesn't exist a mission control character. However there does exist a character who makes sense to have analytical ability. This makes me biased to making the analysis/scan ability an actual skill, so it works for character narrative.
  
• I got a suggestion earlier to make analysis work through something during enemy attacks, like reaction time events. It could be that during some attacks a character can avoid it with a button press, and this opening is what gives them the ability to give an enemy the once over and obtain bestiary info. However I do understand people don't exactly like QTEs.
  

(06-26-2015, 08:15 AM)Taylor Wrote: I think it's been suggested before of a system where enemies require a certain number of defeats to unlock stages of data. That's one idea, but it still runs into the same problem and it sounds tedious or unclear how to achieve data stage unlock.

(07-02-2015, 10:24 AM)Taylor Wrote: I have a "side" project I've been poking every so often. (It's currently getting subjected to my purchased Time Fantasy tiles.) I was stuck on how to do the world map, so I generated one in a generator, used it as a panorama, and went to paint tiles over it.

The resulting map was 216x144 tiles (6912x4608px), and it lagged VXAce so much. From 60fps to 35-40fps with a 95% empty map. It wasn't the panorama image, it was the map size itself. I wondered for a moment how well VXAce dealt with its own sample maps so I tried its big world map sample, and it was perfectly fine - that map is 140x140 tiles.

A short experiment and I discovered a map 160x144 was perfectly fine, even with the massive panorama image. (It does however take about 4 seconds to load the map if the panoroma is present.) When I increased it to 180 tiles wide, I started getting 55-57fps.

So there you have it. VXAce cannot handle a map beyond about 140-160 tiles either direction (or perhaps 19600-23040 tiles total) without beginning to curl over, and I didn't even add varied tiles or events. (In fact running around the map gave an infrequent 57fps, so I dunno if it can even deal with 160 tiles.) So I dunno how well that'd go.

Addendum: A map from my main project is 150x62, 9300 tiles. That's far beyond the total tiles of the above mentioned maps, and I haven't experienced any lag issues. So it's probably a total tile issue.

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