Pondering over this CBS...

[Liquid Rogue]

I need to know if Heaven Cycles CBS would work or not....can you's help? I will explain it as fully as I possibly can...

Basically, you only directy control one character. (Iriquis, Luda, Luke, or Dune, it depends on what point you are at in the story) There is 2 gauges for your character : The stamina gauge and the recovery gauge.

<<Stamina>>
Stamina, or SP, is my answer to the simple "run out of teh HPs and ur ded, leik, omg". It can range from negative infinity to positive 50. Every time you are attacked, you lose a set number of SP. If your SP falls below 0, the character is fatigued and cannot take action until SP is at least +1 (you recover 1 SP every turn, and when fatigued, you recover 1 SP every 2 seconds), you will be open to any attacks from the enemy.

But, what use is being attacked if you cant die, I hear you say? Simple. If your SP is, say, -30, and the enemy attacks you with an attack power of 20, your staminas new value is -50. Lets assume the enemy gets another turn when your stamina is -40. Thats your stamina dropped to -60. Eventually, your character will reach a state where they cannot recover completly before the enemy gets a chance to stike. This means that you will have to press the cancel button and choose surrender. THAT, my freinds, is how you die.

Now, onto the skills...

<<Aura>>
Aura, or AP, is shared amongst everyone in the battlefeild. It is used for skills. Instead of the traditional attack command seen in most, if not all, RPGs, Heaven Cycles will have two attack commands : Add and Subtract. If you want to increase the amount of Aura in the feild, choose Add. The advantages of this is that you will be able to use more skills, but so will the enemy. If you want to decrease the Aura, choose Subtract. You will shorten the amount of skills avalible for use, but you will also shorten the enemys.

This, I beleive, will add a great tactical element to the game. You must decide whether or not to bombard your enemy with skills, but risk having to surrender, or play it safe and stop your opponent using skills, but risk having no healing magic at your disposal if things get rough.

Your companions can either be ordered to Add, Subtract, or Heal during battle.

So...basically what im looking for is constructive critisism and comments/suggestions. Can you's do this for me?

[SickAndWretched]

I think it is a realy interesting idea.. and you should definitely try to make.. though I believe that the game might get to hard unless you have some kinda of way to balance things.. like having status changing attacks (if there are any) as higher skills and status curing ones as lower skills.

how will the battles be set up?.. like 3 or 4 in a line with a traditional turned based system (I renomend this 'cause its easy to do).. or like a TBS or an ABS?

[LiquidXRogue]

The main character will be in front of your allies, whom you do NOT get to command directly like you can command the main character. Your allies and main character change as the game progresses, for example, at the start of the game, Iriquis will be your main character, and Luda, Dune and Luke will be the allies.

Characters grow using the growth menu. At the end of every battle, you get additions to your stats, which are Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth. Each stat represents the characters efficency to handle the element in magic, and also represent physical attributes, for example, your attack power is represented by your Fire stat, and your speed is represented by the Wind stat. You can place stat tokens on these stats to multiply them (eg : A boss gives +3 to fire after it is defeated. With 3 stat tokens on fire, you will get +12 to fire). You start with 3 stat tokens, but gain more as the game progresses, however, they are never found whole, and are always in 6 peices, which you must find to create a stat token. This is a feature that was planned to be integrated into Heaven Cycles from the start, and is respectivly complete.

[Liquid Rogue]

Ah bugger, you cant edit guest posts so ill have to make a new one...

Anyway, the battle system is a sort of ATB one. After you choose a command, it is executed instantly, but after it is finished, you have a certain amount of time you have to wait (depends what command was used) until you can enter a new command. This is known as "Recovery Time" in the game.

[SickAndWretched]

ah.. hmm.. then its a turn based with an ATB like FF7 and some mand others.. hmm sounds good but I think it would be much simular for you if you took out that and instead used the idea of recovery in a more turn based way..
i.e. Attack is like -5 recovery but a spell could be like -20 and the turns are generated by whatever choose was least goes first.. understand?... it might be more code but it would have less events running at a time.. in thoery anyway..