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Holy hell! That's amazing!

Are we really going to see swamps? Metal armor? Warhammers? Detailed interiors?

Or just light the end of your staff and use it like a staff.
Ah, flaming melee weapons.

Into what position? Lying on the floor?

If you get kicked so hard you pop into the air high enough to get straight-punched like that, you're probably not going to be able to do anything about it during the move.

Look out, he's coming onto you.

But as Usagi said, you know what I meant, so there's no reason to get all uptight about it.

Yeah, more variation in actual hit-for-hit strength would be nice. You could toy with it in the editor but you didn't see much of it in practice. It was nice setting power to ten or so and sending a rabbit FLYING across the land from a roundhouse -- or setting it to 100 and watching a punch instantl...

Shorthand, random occurance (like EP was talking about) is a battle that happens spontaneously and unannounced at random times. A random generation means that the internal components of a battle -- the enemies you face, their skill, their weapons, etc. -- will be determined randomly.

Evil Penguin wrote:Random encounters mean that you are walking along "Lalalala, *Aaagh!* (Screen goes weird) A monster out of no where! Lets kill it and get XP!"

Wrong. That's simply how you interpreted it. That'is where the confusion came from.

It has everything to do with random encounters.

You merely interpreted it to mean "randomly-occuring" and not "randomly-generated".

I don't mean random encounters like RPGs have. I mean like, an infinite amount of fights without having to program an infinite number of scenarios.

I'd also like to bring focus back to the important issue of open-ended gameplay, random encounters (easy enough, right?) and the ability to keep playing after the game's over.

Just for the record, it was Scorched Earth. Pocket Tanks is merely a clone.
Scorched Earth is the Mother of All Games.

If you make a custom campaign, the level ends correctly.
The problem only occurs when using the "map [map name]" code.

Yeah! That's what we need!
More important differences between enemies unconscious and dead.