Limiting amount of people in battle

[Vash]

Alright I know how to change the limit of how many people are in the party but I want to know how to limit the amount of people going into battle.

Lets say you have 8 characters in the party but only 4 can enter battle.

 

[Daniel]

Why do you need 8 people in the party if only 4 can enter battle? Just remove the other 4.

 

[Trickster]

Yes it would be easier to just save the members, remove them, and then readd them after battle, the other (long) way would be to

modify Window_BattleStatus#refresh to only draw actors 1-4 of the party, a few of the methods in Game_Party to only test the first four actors, Scene_Battle#phase3_next_actor needs to be edited, Arrow Actor needs to be modified, Scene_Battle methods make_action_orders and set_target_battlers would also need to be edited.

here use this untested, but it may work

class Scene_Battle
  MAX_ACTORS = 4
  alias remove_main main
  def main
    @saved_actors = []
    if $game_party.actors.size > MAX_ACTORS
      for i in MAX_ACTORS...$game_party.actors.size
        @saved_actors << $game_party.actors[i].id
        $game_party.remove_actor($game_party.actors[i].id)
      end
    end
  end

  alias add_battle_end battle_end
  def battle_end(result)
    for actor_id in @saved_actors
      $game_party.add_actor(actor_id)
    end
    add_battle_end(result)
  end
end

set MAX_ACTORS to the maximum number of actors participating

 

[Vash]

I get a scripting is hang...message.

Well if you know a better way of having 8 party members and remvoing them during battle then could you please show me that?

 

[Trickster]

here this version should work
(forgot the new method name)

class Scene_Battle
  MAX_ACTORS = 4
  alias remove_main main
  def main
    @saved_actors = []
    if $game_party.actors.size > MAX_ACTORS
      for i in MAX_ACTORS...$game_party.actors.size
        @saved_actors << $game_party.actors[i].id
        $game_party.remove_actor($game_party.actors[i].id)
      end
    end
    remove_main
  end

  alias add_battle_end battle_end
  def battle_end(result)
    for actor_id in @saved_actors
      $game_party.add_actor(actor_id)
    end
    add_battle_end(result)
  end
end