Wow I am glad you are picking this up again! I remember on SC2 you talked to me about it but I was wondering when you would pick it up again finally. Also this looks nice. I hope you finish it.

Cool to hear!

Lol ok . I personally hate optimizing old code. Often I don't even remember what it's doing. When I left Metroid II dormant for a year and went back to it I rewrote some parts from scratch and it was not just because of the switch from Omnicalc to xLIB. X.x

Yeah that too. Personally in my final programming years I just wrote down which var I used, but then I forgot as the game progressed and eventually got lost. If I ever picked up Illusiat 13 again it would be a huge nightmare...

Since this is BASIC program, I just have a bit under 30 variables that I can work with, if I don't want to use lists (cuz writing the lists require a lot more memory). So many of the variables overlap, and that can cause a lot of bugs. I need to make sure the variables do not overlap, and that's hard when there are so many nested Ifs and Repeats in many nested programs

Yeah lists are used inevitably, but I'm trying to limit the lists only for data storage, and use all the variables with Ifs and Repeats. Writing and reading A~Z and theta is a lot better than going through L1(3) or L5(2), etc.

a little bit of update:
I've finished coding the basic outline of the battle code, but realized I can't continue working on it without implementing any stats and such. While getting all the stats down, I also started working on different "classes" (?).

So for the stats, when Kiril (the main character) levels up you will have certain points that you can spend them on 3 attributes, which is Strength, Dexterity, and Intelligence. Each attributes give different stats, for example putting a point into Strength will give Kiril more life, damage, armor, and stamina. The idea is similar to Diablo system if you ever played it.

As for the classes, you do not start with a certain class. You choose what "class" you want to be throughout the game. For example, if you choose to train with The Tahlavis - a clan of magi devoted to the readings of sun, moon, and the stars, and have the ability to manipulate the foretellings of the stars - you will be able to learn their skills.

However, training in one class does not stop you from training in different classes. The only catch is that there is limited amount of skill points that you can spend, so if you choose to train in many multiple classes you may never learn the high-level skill of a certain class. One single character will NOT be able to learn all the skills. Rather, your character will only learn a fraction of all the skills available in the game, and this will allow you to play the game over again, but you might choose different skills to beat the game.

I'm hoping to finish all the different classes tonight and finish working on the stats so I can finally finish this battle engine!