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It took me many addons to make Firefox 4 not completely suck.  But so far, it's more trouble than its worth...I'll stick with Chrome, it now has addon solutions for just about everything I had on Firefox, except for Firebug, which is basically already built into Chrome....so I wouldn't need it.

By the way, you can fix the open in new tab/window menu problem with this addon:
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/menu-editor/

It's not your fault...this got me for a while too.  I thought that since I knew the function names I could just type them in and they would automatically link, but this isn't so.  It really should be, but it's not.  You have to go into the room in question, click the Lightning bolt icon to bring up the Event panel and then link the scripts.  It will just link them if you already have them typed up, so no worries there..but you MUST click it and the "..." icon to get them linked.

And yes, it's in the manual, but I'm not sure where as I had to search to find it, and searching Event Pane brought up very little in the Index, but if you go to Search and type it in you get a list of various things...all useless except for "repeatedly_execute (_always)".

Click on that and it gives you an explanation on the difference between a script placed in global and room scripts, and why and how they differ.  But yeah...so the manual needs a lot of work, in my opinion.  I took a break from AGS, came back after a year or so and found this stumped me, yet again!

the "lined curly things" are actually bacon.

oooooooooooooooooH.

Ok then, I see bacon too.  Mmm, bacon.

For the look one, you could have his eyes BULGE out, or just one eye even.  I think that could look cool in your present style.

And for the face, ditch the eyes and just zoom in on the mouth and make him spit some letters out of his mouth while you're hovering it or something.  Some random letters, or something just pe-tooing right out of his moufff. Ptoowie!  I dunno, I'm sorry it's late at night.

I see a teapot....and a shield, and some lined curly things going around it...and a banner.

I don't see anything that makes me think breakfast.

Bowl of cereal....a spoon, a stack of pancakes...pancake syrup, a frying pan with some eggs and bacon, a jug full of OJ, maybe some salt and pepper shakers although that's not strictly "think breakfast".

That's all I can think of right now.

It's probably time for a forum upgrade 

To 1.1.13? Or different forum software altogether?

My vote is on different forum software altogether.  Invision Power Board or VBulletin, but I would first go with IPB.   Otherwise if it must be free, go phpbb.  I don't think I can find very much to like about SMF.  If you HAVE to use it, I guess...but the search feature is crap, it's slow, it looks bad.

One more thing, what's up with the server giving these Fast-CGI errors daily? I get them for hours on end sometimes and I just give up.

It's difficult, nearly impossible to kind of meander towards the goal of creating an RPG if you have little idea how they function.  If you really want to move forward, my advice is to jump over to google and start searching for "basic RPG math" until you find something that explains the very fundamental system at work.  Paper RPGs are a good resource as well, as you can just crack one open and see how they balance various things.   

The most obvious bit is that the math is often randomized.   Attacks for example might range from 1-8 (just being arbitrary here, which means I'm pulling the numbers out of thin air), 1 being the least damage, 8 being the max.  Maybe that range is defined by the value in a stat like 'Strength'.  Then further offset by a bonus received say, from being equipped with a powerful sword.   You could give a monster a 'Defense' stat then, that would absorb some of the hero's attack.  Etc etc etc.

So that's what I would do now, study that.  Put everything else aside and get some math working in your system.  Open the manual for AGS and search for terms that make sense to your math system.  You need random numbers, so search for Random.  Although you can use Random without knowing this, typically random number generators need a "seed".  A number that's constantly changing to base your result on, otherwise you'd get the same sequence of numbers every time.  AGS's Random function is seeded already (probably with the seconds of the current time or something similar), so you're good to go.

Anyway cheers, good luck with those studies.

Better not suck, depending on Snyder for this to rule and for Superman to be even better.

Not a major issue, but I did find an annoyance of sorts in the editor.

If you change the name of any room, and then go to a character and select StartingRoom's drop down menu...it shows the names of the rooms before they were renamed.  The only way to change this is to close the program down and restart it.  It's not a big deal, but I figured I'd point it out.

Also there is 1 type of indicator. If you look under the enemy hp bar it says Attack - wait.

meaning the enemy will attack then wait till next turn.

However I will still add more

Ah, I see.  Go for it dawg, looks like a sweet interface, I'd be all over this game.

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ATB? In FF3? I think you meant FF6.

Sorry for the subtle joke, but I wonder why people would still use these stupid numberings (especially for FF fans, luckily we always use the proper numbering here but I never like the FF series anyway).

Yeah screw FF...Dragon Quest!...or better yet, Phantasy Star...mmmm, phantasy star.

Anyway.  Ryan's correct, you've got no reactionary effect for your attacks, so it feels as though nothing happens.  Pop up some numbers, throw a slash on there, throw a burning fire graphic on top of the monster for fire spells.  How about popping up a bouncing "Miss!" for missing? And bouncing numbers for damage?  There are other ways to do damage too, like a status bar at the bottom which reads the status of everything, maybe in a manner much like Final Fantasy 1, but with one status message only....or several if you can squeeze it in (fading them out as they get older is a cool idea, too).

The transparency is fine though, a lot of Final Fantasy menus are partially transparent, it was a cool trick back in the day...I think it still is.

I assume you're using Windows XP? The procedure should be similar for newer versions though.

It's a little different on Win 7.  It's "bootsect /nt60 C:\".

If that were to fail you could use "bootrec /fixmbr" I believe.  Failing that on Win7 there are other options such as to fix Startup problems.  It's been ages since I used XP, I have no advice there but the interwebs has lots.

This is why thoughtcrimes and the punishment thereof need to be incorporated into the law!

YES!  First we read their thoughts and catch them in the act of thinking a horrible thing.  There will be trillions of offenses per minute, but that's ok, the computer can log them all and you can get to them one at a time! That's ok...shh shh, don't cry, I'm deputizing you since it was your idea.  That's only fair.

Now then, for punishment..hmm...oh I know, how about electro-shock therapy?! Good idea, man!

Definitely a strong case for a garage.  Or a shotgun.

Instead of actually even bothering to fix the problem, let's just get a gun. That's always a solution for anything.

"Mom, kids at school pick on me!!"
"Here's a shotgun. Get some ammo with you."

Unfortunately you can't fix the problem, you can only bandaid it.  People are going to vandalize other people's stuff because some people just don't give a shit about you or your things.  Take cops for example, they're supposed to stop or deter burglaries.  But, if someone wants your stuff and has no regard for what you feel is "right", there's nothing in this world that's going to stop them from breaking into your home or vehicle short of force or a bullet.   Or maybe electro-shock therapy.  I'm kidding about the bullet part, I don't believe in gun-violence.  Electro-shock therapy on the other hand....seems promising.

Definitely a strong case for a garage.  Or a shotgun.

Can I have both? You're an excellent salesman.

Just be glad they didn't spike a hole in your gas tank to drain it out!

Sweet baby jesus! it's a good thing they didn't, else I'd be knocking down doors in the building demanding everyone turn over their sharp objects to me immediately for inspection!  I'd catch the crook, by golly!

This morning someone tried to pop the gas tank on my car open with, what seems like a screwdriver.  Well, it's designed in a way that it can't be popped off like that, but now there are chips in the paint and scratches all over the sides of the cover / car.  The car also believes that the gas cover is eternally open.  Some part of the inside managed to get pushed in, bent a little, I'm thinking that it's some kind of sensor.  Must be desperate for gas....

Anyone else ever had someone try to steal gas from you? I'd report it to the police, but probably no chance anyone can catch the gas bandit. 

I'm glad to see many other people voicing their thoughts regarding this.

Me too, count me in towards the vote for higher resolutions.  I'm a big fan of doing my art in wide-format at higher resolutions.  I'd love to use the high-res art in games with AGS.   Crossing my fingers for this in 3.3! =D

Sorry to hear that, Snake.  I lost my father to cancer, as well as a few friends.  It's hard, and only gets easier with time....hang in there.

It's been a very long time...but, the game is not dead.  I've been studying art, industrial design, animation, and have been teaching guitar, among other things.   I've got the game re-design mostly figured out, it's gone through several different phases, and I'm working on the intro right now.

Like before, I'm open to help if you can, it would make things go faster.  Also, this game is an inspired Police Quest reboot, it's really an amalgamation of the best stuff PQ had to offer (in my opinion), and some of my own plots and approaches to design.

I'm not ready to post actual screenshots, but for those of you following the game, I do have a new facebook page set up with artwork progress that is updated frequently.  Cheers.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mesa-LE-Police-Quest-/132502253487538

*his mind goes to that time he had to manually rename 60.000 files miraculously recovered from his broken hard disk*

60,000?!??! dear god man! I would have given up after 1000 files.

So many children in this world have been brutally murdered, babies drowned by their parents, thrown into dumpsters like garbage...it's horrible, it's a sad fact of life in our world full of people with serious mental problems, depression, fear, disturbing circumstances which are not the norm for you or I, situations we could never fathom.   I have no idea what these two boys lives were like, or what could motivate them to do something so horrific.  When I was a child I did all kinds of things that were wrong, but I didn't understand why.  I knew it was wrong, because I was told so...but why it was wrong was a life lesson I had yet to experience and wrap my head around.   Maybe these two boys were deranged,  or maybe they were just lost and didn't see their act as the horrific act we see it as.  It's a sick world.

I also agree, where's the love for Japan?  Sure they're struggling with the reactor, but shit happens in a major natural disaster.  There's quite a bit of panic, there's miscommunication, and even maybe someone is trying to cover their ass at the expensive of everyone else, but we don't know any of that for sure.  All I know, is there are people hurting, hungry, lost, dying, dead, and it's just unimaginable.   If you want to be pissed off, be pissed off enough to send them some money and help someone get food.