In this game I decided to not have enemies drop items, because I felt it would have been annoying for people to either 1) have to constantly go in their menu to trash items they don't want to free up space for key items they find on the floor or 2) have to spend almost a minute at the end of most fights to select a free slot in your item menu to put the item the enemy dropped in it (remember, in this game, items aren't stacked in the inventory, each items, even if all the same, are separate in their individual slots, and there are 100 slots). Also, I felt it would have made the game too easy, considering during the second half of the game, buying magic is very cheap. Enemies simply give experience and gold and when you cast magic, that magic gets experience points too (not based on the enemy, but based on the magic level. Takes longer at higher level to raise a magic's level). Cure magic can be leveled up outside battle too, but will only give 1 exp points per use, no matter its level (to prevent people from spamming cure outside battle to quickly level it up if they have a lot of money)


And yeah, only rings for equipping. I decided to go with no sword/armor, since in this game you can raise individual stats at a shop in particular, in addition to their regular increase at each level. Also, rings are what can add bonuses. You can equip 4 rings at once, though.

Don't worry, a lot of the important stuff hasn't been spoiled yet anyway. {AP} managed to see one of the major game spoiler a while ago, but only that sequence, so it might still have been hard for him to understand what's going on.

Quote from page 6 ftw!

RAM started to become an issue when certain events stored in I13E0 occured (the program is 15700 bytes huge), which prompted me to add partial save file compression (the inventory data is what is being compressed... 100 2-digits elements).

Because my TI-BASIC knowledges are extremly dated in overall, I had to rely on TI-BASIC Developper for almost an hour to learn about the Seq( command. After figuring out I finally managed to reduce the Illusiat 13 save data by 80 list elements. This saves about 700 bytes on the original save file and should prevent the memory problems. The only downside is that saving and loading your game now take 11 seconds on a regular TI-83+ instead of 2, but considering that's the only thing that takes a long while to load in the game I think people will not mind.

I doubt there will be memory issues anymore, because the only two events that still need to be coded on Earth maps located from prgmI130 to prgmI134 are two warp events (door/entrances/exits/etc) which leads to maps that will be stored in I13E2, not I13E0. However the game will still require the entire calculator RAM while playing (kinda like the other Illusiat games I made)

Besides the memory issue fix, I added a bunch of dungeon maps in the past two days and some more events on the Earth part of the game

Great you know seq(, but there is a new replacement 8 times (at least) faster. ^^
I don't know if it will work for what you use but worth try.
Size most times is the same.

http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/binompdf
See the advanced part for programmers.

I think this is new...

Yeah I saw it when I checked for Seq(. However it seemed extremly complicated for me so for now I decided to stick with Seq(, which is, indeed, very slow. Even Seq( was extremly technical and complicated for me. Took me a long while to figure out how to use it and required some heavy testing.

The usage is quite simple. You don't need to understand the trick, just the results.

The idea is the first argument has the size of the list you want (like end of seq()
Then the result of cumSum(binompdf(
is a string like: {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 ...
then you have to do operations with it like this:
2+3cumSum(binompdf(4,0
This is the same as seq(2+3X,X,1,4)
Other important examples: seq(2+3X+X^2,X,1,4
:cumSum(binompdf(4,0    /this cointains {1,2,3,4,5
:2+3Ans+Ans^2   // use this code


(check if it is binompdf or binomcdf and if 4 needs to be decreased or not) If you need help with this, I can check myself and correct this post.

Got it? I was feeling that writing would make you understand. It is very simple, really.

sorry, I just don't get it. As you know, advanced stuff like this is not for me. It's getting too advanced for my brain, so I think I will just stick to Seq( or get someone to convert the code I got for me when I post it. On the PC, I can't understand anything more advanced than Visual BASIC 6 and even then it's just the rudimentary tricks that I can understand.

This doesn't seem that hard. Just as hard as seq(. Anyway, one day try again.

...

*sighs*

Galandros, first warning (I think I stated this many times alerady, though): STOP being so narrow-minded. You have no respect for other's beliefs and differences. If you can understand something, it doesn't mean everyone can. If you understand something easily, it doesn't mean everyone will understand it as easily, if at all. I personally just don't get it, even after reading the tutorial over and over and people explaining me. So leave me alone about that, please. It drives me nuts when people harrass me to do something even after telling them I just don't get it and I notice a lot of ASM programmers does that. Not everyone is like you and you can't change people.

I'll stick to the Seq( method, until someone can convert the code for me. Even for Seq I got an hard time. At first, I just typed the code without understanding what it even did, then changed variables one by one in a trial and error way).

Sorry, but I just think who gets seq( even only in random, can get this trick. Eventually... or not.

That is why my persistence with this, this time. Others I didn't know you so well as now. And in forums I sometimes I seem to have tendency to forget people's characteristics, forums are not ideal to know people. But I was finished with last reply. I thought there was no problem writing it. If was me and I didn't understand I would left it and forget for some time until get it again or not... And many people would.

I did not wanted to hassle you in any way. If you don't get, it's ok but please don't get mad when someone is only trying to help. I even don't insisted that much. Only continued tries from me... But you shouldn't get bored with this, it really doesn't deserve. It is really to not get things, I admit I have some too.

Next time, I will try to remember and if you say that you didn't get it, I will say nothing more about that. This way you don't even need to warn no more insisting needed. _{(ok I am a kind of person of the reverse, so I will seem to be narrow minded from now on because I will act like you never get things after first efforts to learn it, this means either way I am narrow minded.)}

It is not easy to live with different people... I know it is not easy to live with me. But that serves to my side too.

I don't know what else to write...
PS: I saw some very bad english mistakes in my reply. If others were left, do a effort.

Heh. The whole seq( and the upgraded trick. Galandros, you really ought to be happy that DJ Omnimaga just got the whole seq( thing. I remember back when I tried to code BASIC stuff, I finally got a hold of the command and I was like, "Yes! I... have THE POWAH!"

Personally, I didn't care much about binompdf, but that seemed to be an interesting trick. Though, teh Goose on UTI *did* ask me to make a few Celtic III commands seq-abusable. UTI is where I learned how to use the seq command

But anyway. seq( by itself is way powerful, especially when dealing with lists. Used and abused it in this BASIC implementation of UNO that I somehow lost due to TiLP being a pain.