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Hey congrats on graduating Franklin. Welcome back.

I just can't agree with you Franklin, censorship isn't necessary at all. A proper rating system is necessary, letting us know what to expect so if we don't want to see violence/sex in a movie or game we can chose not to watch/play. And if you can't take responsibility for your own choices then clearly something is wrong. BM, your choice is totally legitimate, if you don't want to see super gory movies that's your choice and these movies have ratings letting you know that they are violent and gory. So if you still watched them isn't that your fault, not the creators? Censorship isn't just about protecting the minds of "innocent" people from blood and violence, they censor religious and political views as well which means their over all goal isn't protection but to control the message that's being spoken and ultimately controlling the media itself to prevent independent thought and creativity. They are even taking it as far as censoring scientific data to fit their own needs. If you want prof, look at the history of climate changes over the last 2000 years. We had a mini cool down in 16th-19th centuries that people are removing from our history books, and the fact that during the 13th century was warmer than it is today. This shows that the global warming crisis isn't as big a deal as the government would have you believe. Over all Censorship is a terrible political trick to confuse and control us.

I can see why they used materials as the default because people new to the game engine can easily identify what is stronger than what, instead of using unique names. That said, I never use them. I create a whole new set of equipment based on what my characters would use, not what in the default database. Some times it's because the game isn't using medieval weaponry, some times it's because my characters use unique types of weapons. And just so you know Sentay33 the Flamberge is actually a real sword and has nothing to do with elements, it was named that because the blade is wavy looking like heat distortions.

sorry, you need to contact Enterbrain for that, only they can help.

I admit that I took this a step too far, but the point is that media doesn't have as profound influence on people as you might think, given that they are healthy and have proper parenting. The problems with censorship is who is advocating it and why. Censorship isn't being used in the way you're describing Marked, It's being used by religious and parenting groups (mostly in Canada and the US, but the UK has some big groups too) who are looking to blame other people (in this case media and video games) for their children's behavior instead of looking at the real problem which is bad Parenting. Do I want my theoretical daughter to have sex at 12, no and neither does my sister who has a real daughter that is 12 years old. What I can say is that if she wants to do it there is no stopping her from doing it. What we can do as good parents is explain to her what the truth about the situation is, how she can protect herself, and raise her to see and make good decisions over bad ones. This is why my sister has faith in my niece that she won't go out and get knocked up at 12. My sister explained why it would be a bad decision and how media does play up these things. All you can do in the end is hope she makes the right choice. But Censorship doesn't even allow for the conversation, it wants to eliminate the discussion about these problem because the advocate groups believe by talking about it you become evil or influenced. But the problem is that children are not getting the proper discipline or the proper information about the world. Parents are not explaining to their children about sex, drugs or violence. They are not explaining to their children that these things they see in movies arn't really like that. Violence isn't sexy or cool, drugs will kill you, sexual abuse is a real thing. The discussion needs to happen and Censorship is blocking that by making new parents believe that the media is responsible for all their children's problems and that there is nothing directly the parent can do....WHICH IS WRONG! the parent is directly responsible for their child's behavior. Its a proven fact (yay for 50 years of university studies on children) that children gain 90% of their personality by the time they are 2. And who are the people influencing them? Their parents! But these days Parents leave their kids in front of tv and ignore their social and psychological needs. Now NZ might not have the same parenting problem we have here in Canada and the US, and so these issues might be much less relevant to you. But here it's a big problem. And where do you hear about all these problems I was talking about, US and Canada. And where are the biggest advocate of Censorship, Canada and the US.

I don't agree with you on this one Marked. People will always do stupid things without the help of Hollywood. Your argument is the same as what parental groups were saying for the Columbine school shooters, "Well they played video games so it must have been the reason why." The truth is people who do these things (be it killing, suicide packs or smoke) all have other underlying problems. School shooters couldn't have done what they did if they didn't have access to guns, children who smoke can't do it without access to cigarettes. And people who make suicide packs have major psychological and emotional problems within their lives which they can't handle. Pack or not chances are they would have killed themselves because the problems isn't that it's cool, but that they're damaged and need help. Censorship doesn't help them, having parents who can identify their problems and are willing to help them will solve the problem, getting them the professional help they need will solve the problem. Censorship is a mark of a lazy but over protective parent. They are lazy in that they can't be bothered to take the time to learn why their child is acting out and how they can fix that problem or they ignore the problem thinking their child is perfect and blame other sources. So they focus their attention on media, saying "it must be the bad thing cause my child is perfect" and so they shouldn't put bad things in it. But they also arn't monitoring what their children are watching or playing. And yes media does influence people a bit, but not as much as you would think. Healthy people don't watch a movie with gang bangers and prostitutes and think to them selves, "Killing people and beating hoes is cool." The Artist should have the right to make what they want to make. I'm all for putting a warning saying what the content contains so that parents and "sensitive people" (by that i mean religiously crazy people) can make sure they don't see it. But it all comes down to Parenting, if you won't stop your 8 year old from playing GTA4 but bitch about how the game has violence, sex, drugs and blood, clearly you have not been doing your job as a parent.

Personally i do not think censorship is necessary in any medium. The people who the censorship is intended for are children and "very sensitive" people, who should know what is in a game/movie/anything before getting into it which is why these mediums should still have a rating system. Censoring for children is stupid cause their parents shouldn't be allowing them to play or watch something that is clearly rated 18+ and so the fault fall on the parent not the creator. For people who are sensitive they should also use the rating system (most now include why the product got its rating, like contains violence, course language ext.) and stop bitching about how they couldn't watch Freddy Vs Jason because the movie contained swearing and violence. If you want more games/movies without violence then stop bitching and make your own or shut up and let us be. As for if you should make your game 18+ or not, I say "Go for it!" You should not feel restricted what so ever when making your own vision. If you want to include drugs, violence, swearing, sex or all of the above it's your right as the creator to do so. I would put a warning on the title so no one can bitch that they didn't know about it's content, but otherwise have at it! lol

Thanks :D good to see people voted after we yelled loudly lol

Your stuff is nice, you can totally hear the old school influences you've had. I can see these being used in a classic RPG of some kind.

nice stuff, thanks for letting people use them for free :D

to be honest you would think the ability to change the screen resolution would have been a basic thing. That's what I wish XP had. but what you guys said are cool and would be nice to see,

Welcome back Emanzi, good to see you're enthusiastic about making games again :)

Yeah there are cheaper places even considering the 1$ first year payment.

Well it's good to see new/old people visiting the site. Welcome all. Ratty, good to see another pixil artist on the site. I myself haven't posted much art here mostly cause I'm too busy with school and other projects, but it's nice to see some one else who can do it. Seita and DarkMessiah, welcome and I hope you visit more often, we have a ton of cool new stuff thanks to Marked's dedicated work.

It doesn't matter who the last winners were Bob, this is our chance to show off our skills. You might also want to add 1 entry per person. cause if a few people make like 2 or 3 entries they'll have an unfair advantage.

New folders will never show up in the Image Manager in RM. The system is designed to call those ones by default and no others. That said it will still recognize the folders you add (like 'Faces') if called in a script like the CMS by Hodgeelmf As for adding the faces for his script there are a few things you need to do. In a 'Faces' folder add your face images. Name them "FaceXX.png" (XX being a number) In the messages you call the faces by adding \z[XX] and it will display the face. If you want to display them outside the message bubble or change the style, his demo explains it all. They are just basic script calls. Hope that helps.

It's great that some one actually thanked you for the work you did Lizzie :D And I agree that when people are requesting scripts they do expect to be served, as if it's their right or something. But those are also the people who are far too impatient to actually do anything on their own and ultimately their game will never actually get done whether or not they actually got the help. It comes down to those who are willing to try hard at getting things done, usually that means learning the scripting language. Without enough resolve to at least try and learn it they'll never succeed. Bob, I don't see you in the same category as these people. I know you're trying to learn RGSS which is great. It isn't easy for every one (I'm still having a lot of trouble with it myself) and we notice those who are trying and we are much more willing to lend a helping hand to those who do try.

It's not that we're ignoring you Bob, but our main scripters seem to be away for the moment. On top of that Tankentai is a really hard engine to mess with. I do believe Ace is working on a new version with better instructions and add-ons. Maybe you can ask him if he could add this idea to his engine.

I'm pretty busy at the moment so I won't have time to play it for a bit (got a big list of RM to-dos), but it looks great. How far are you in the development?

Wow you guys this is looking awesome :) can't wait to see the final product.

I looked up the Sapphire Action System and it looks like it's exclusively for Ace, there is no XP version. So if you want to use it you'll need to get Ace. Also the demo has a good set of instructions with it. If you have specific problems I'm sure our Ace experts can help you out.

It does allow commercial licensing, but you need to have paid for it (bought RMXP from them) and any resources (music, graphics, scripts) you used you need to have permission from the original author, which in many cases means you need to buy them too unless the author is offering them freely. Using any licensed music is the easiest way to get your game pulled down and get sued by a big label. And if you think "oh they won't find me" there are tons of scrapped games out there with the proof to tell you they can, and will break you if they find you (legally of course). So I hope you're totally above board if you want to sell it :D

Whoop said that she got an error when trying to report stolen artwork.

Yeah if I see that something's been stolen I report it. But it's kinda hard with all the stuff that's around. Yep, that's what it's there for. I'll add it to the bug report.

yeah try to avoid necro posting, if you want to send the guys a PM go ahead, but he hasn't been online in over a year so unless I hear from them this topic is closed.