Dynamic Ally levelling

[Zackwell]

Hi guys,
Have you ever had the annoying little problem in your games to do with adding new allies later in the game, and you find that they are hideously over-powered compared to your other characters, or so pathetic, that you instantly discard them and never use them?

I request a Dynamic Ally Levelling system, as used in several popular RPGs.
Say your character is level 1 because you couldn't be bothered to level up, and you set the new ally to be level 5, then the game virtually plays itself for you, meanwhile, your friend has power-levelled the character to level 10 and they get this level 5 character, well, its useless to them; But, If a Dynamic levelling system were in place, say [Person2] level = [Person1] or something like that, then 'Person2' is inducted into the party the same level as 'Person1' to iron out any extreme level differences.

I suppose things like 'Highest level in party +1' and 'Average of two highest level +1'

It makes more sense than forcing existing characters into up-to-date levels to match the new ally.

Thanks

 

[dario8676]

Don't really need a script for this as its easy to implement. Just create a variable in your game called LevelBalancer or whatever. Then whenever a character joins your party set this variable to how many levels you want him ahead of your hero. So if you want him one level higher than your hero set LevelBalancer to 1, if you want him 5 levels higher than your hero set LevelBalancer to 5. Then all you have to do is go to the change level option on the 3rd page of the event editor and increase/decrease it by Variable: LevelBalancer

 

[Zackwell]

True, that's a simple way, It'll do for me.

 

[Myrmior]

How on earth does that take into account the level of your main character?

The event you discribe would simply add the variable of 1 or 5 to the new characters starting level.

You would have to add a little bit more to the event, such as "Control Variable [LevelBalancer] = [Player 1]s Level", and then another line for "Control Variable [LevelBalancer] += 1" or 5 or whatever.

Good luck.

 

[dario8676]

Sorry my fault, wrote a response really quick while i was at work. He's absolutely right. Just set LevelBalancer to the Hero's Lv first then add whatever values you want. So it would look like this:

*Determining Character Bob's level*

Variable: LevelBalancer = Hero's Lv
Variable: LevelBalancer += 5  (5 or any value for lv difference)
Change Level: Bob, + Variable: Level Balancer

 

[shawn006]

Similarly, to add someone with a level equal to your character's level:

Variable: LevelBalancer = Hero's Lv
Variable: LevelBalancer = Hero's Lv - 1
Change Level: Bob, + Variable: Level Balancer

I almost had a heart attack when I tried to set new people's levels equal to the hero's (not finding a set function, only increase or decrease).

 

[Myrmior]

On the other hand, there is something satisfying about throwing a level 1 character in with a group of level 20s, and watching the level gains stack