Tiered States

[MechanicalPen]

I could certainly try to make it work for VX Ace. It's not that complicated of a system I just need to know how VX Ace applies states.

Edit: Dowloaded VX Ace Lite just for you. It is both less and more confusing than RPG Maker XP.

So, try this; I have no way to test if it works, so let me know.

Code:

#=============================================================================
# * Tiered States
#=============================================================================
#===============================================================================??
# ** RPG::State
#===============================================================================??

class RPG::State
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Tiered States
  #     States are applied left to right, starting at the state before the =>.
  #
  # The example provided allows for negative states (stat-downs) to be
  # counteracted by positive states (stat-ups)
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Tiered_States = {
                  20 => [24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18],
                  22 => [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24]
                  }
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * has Tiered State?
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def tiered?
    Tiered_States.include?(@id)
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * How many tiers?
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def tiers
    return Tiered_States.fetch(@id, [])
  end  

end
#===============================================================================??
# ** Game_Battler
#===============================================================================??

class Game_Battler
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Alias Listings
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias_method :mpen_default_add_state, :add_state
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Add State
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def add_state(state_id)
    if $data_states[state_id].tiered?
      
      for i in 0...$data_states[state_id].tiers.size
        current_tier = $data_states[state_id].tiers[i]
        next_tier = $data_states[state_id].tiers[i+1]
        if self.state?(current_tier)
          if next_tier == nil
            #tier at maximum, regular state rules apply
            mpen_default_add_state(current_tier)
            return
          else
            remove_state(current_tier)
            mpen_default_add_state(next_tier)
            return
          end
        end
      end
      #no tiers applyed yet, default behavior.
      mpen_default_add_state(state_id)
    else
      #no tiers exist, default behavior
      mpen_default_add_state(state_id)
    end
  end
  
end