For the first time in about 65 days I finally got some significant work on Sully done. Goddamnit.

Anyways, the battle menu inconsistancy errors are now eliminated. It was a simple matter of not having cleared the base_page string between menu regenerations. Annoying.

Also the basic algos for attacks and the such were verified as being correct, but the old equipment values were totally bum. Gayo provided equipment values that are more in line for the enemy stats for testing, and finally Darin and Crystal ain't dying at the drop of a hat. In fact, they can get all the way to the end of a battle, and start dancing. Yay!

Next up is to track down the 'lack of delay' error that occasionally happens. Once this is done, I can finally document how to augment the system (ie, create new effects/abilities, etc) and let some folks make some pretties, while I tidy up the rest of the system (status ailments, end of battle resolution).

Reworked battle use of items so items are removed from inventory when a character decides to use one, and restocked into inventory only if the charging item's action was cancelled (via death or a charging-action-cancelling-attack or something).

finished putting in the trigger hooks. remember to unset the dead_flag for the battle actors when they're revived (make a ressurect function as a single go-to point.)

Finished all of the backend for the status effects. Took hours. Whee.

• Now you can give a status effect to anyone
  
• take one from anyone (ie, cure)
  
• you can check for them in various snips of code
  
• they all automatically wipe themselves on their various triggers (currently: on_end, on_death, on_rest, on_hit, on_act, on_life)
  
• they currenly wipe out any that are set to "cancel" (e.g., "Weak" cancels "Might", so if Darin is afflicted with Weak, and Crystal casts a spell on him that gives him Might, the Might cancels the Weak (leaving him only with the Might status effect) )
  

Now I need to put the actual impl code in the battle system. I've already added "lifeline"'s re-life effect in, but most of these need Gayo to tell me precisely what numerical juju they do.

Then, I need to muck in some visual effects. Should status ailments have required little "I'm being afflicted" effects? Should little icons hang over various battle actors no matter what?

Also, I need to make the idle-animation deconstructor. Basically, what status ailments take animation priority over which other status ailments ( if someone's poisoned, weak, and stoned, what should they appear as? (stoned, in this case. Stone supercedes almost everything.) )

Mwahaha.

Actually,

Falthorn made them.

I just made all li's in the stylesheet use them as their bullet graphic.

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yeah.

Anyways, Sully work will continue shortly. I was out of town for the weekend.

Implemented the attribute-altering status ailments. Still left are:

/// Barrier
/// Protect
/// Depress
/// Fragile
/// Reflect
/// Regenerate
/// Nullify
/// Invincible
/// Poison
/// Enervate
/// Death
/// Confuse
/// Charm
/// Silence
/// Seal
/// Sleep
/// Paralysis

Not yet in any public releases...

More status conditions are now implemented. Left to do are: Reflect, Regenerate, Nullify, Poison, Enervate, Death, Confuse, Charm, Silence, Seal, Sleep, Paralysis.

Reflect and Nullify are started, but I want to implement them in a fancypantsy way that's autoresolving munging the targetting system's system-ness to it's advantage.

Yay!

Sounds great!

By the way, Castle Heck is coming along nicely. ;)

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