Aslanemperor

Set span to battle - the event will be run once per battle.

Yeah...  I reallised this later.  It seemed counter intuitive to me because I was thinking it was asking for the scope of the event.  If the scope is a single moment, I imagine it activating once at the moment the event is activated, then being done.  *Shrug* at least I know what I did wrong now and why.  Just goes to see how two people can look at the exact same info and get two completely different translations based on their thought process.

To be honest it is indeed confusing and at first I wasn't sure what it is about either. Just like with pretty much any other option in the editor, if you hover your cursor over these, the popup with some info should appear and that's what helped me, as there it is explained what the span option actually does.

Battle eventing overall is somewhat odd and not always works the way I think it should work.

I know what you mean, I often find it tough to work on my game too!

Essentially, one takes equipment to be improved, the appropriate materials, to the appropriate machina (in TES there are a few), and use it to upgrade the quality of the equipment. Each quality upgrade will thus, increase the base damage/armor rating and also, the base value of the equipment. Of course, in TES, there was a limit to how well and often equipment could be upgraded, based on the Smithing skill, and relevant boosts applied.

That sounds like something for a much longer game than the one I'm making.  This isn't supposed to be a long, drawn out game, just a few hours of gameplay with a pretty straight forward storyline.  That's one of the difficulties with deciding how I want to do this.  Do I even want an upgrade to sell in a shop, or just give the characters a basic gun, and their "special" weapon?

Hmmm...
One could also go with a weapon-based damage formula (thinking along the lines of games like Adventure Quest and such)...
13-21 Metal

Looseleaf? That's immediately what comes to mind.

Doesn't looseleaf have a very distinctive style though?  Just a little taller than standard.  Maybe I didn't notice because everything was done in that style?

Loose Leafs are the ones I'm working on for you, and that I showed you. They are all more or less custom made dating back to their origin as a modular (compiled part by part) sprite building website. I make my own using the library file someone ripped before the site died. Sheets of generic Loose Leaf builds may exist, and many devs did deploy them because of modern scaling logic, general modern gamer appeal, a character aesthetic that departs from the RTP, as well as, well, modular design, lol.

I  can no longer locate the source where I got my LL asset folder.

But the other tall sprite style that's out there isn't modular, but has many sheets in circulation are also by Mack, and are known as Mack style sprites.

The sprites I make for you are also Mack's work, just modified a lil by me. You can research Mack sprites easily and should find results. The main difference with Macks is the slight rotation of their side-to-side frames. They angle a bit toward the camera, where-as chibis and LLs face true east or west. This makes Mack sprites a bit less appealing for games with 8-way movement because when walking north west or north east, they will still face a bit to the south west or south east.

I know how you feel, but unless you really have a pressing deadline you really should take your time and not stress about it. You don't want to burn yourself out do you? I mean it's true some people thrive under pressure, but I think lotsa people push themselves too far and then can't do anything! Just work on it a little bit at a time when you can, start with what you think you can do right then! Slow and steady, that's the way!

Problem is, if you feel mentally exhausted all the time or feel like there is nothing you really can do you can get stuck for a long time. I know I do! I think that's a sign of a bigger problem though. Even so, I manage to still work on my game from time to time and I have come pretty far! Maybe it's the sunk cost fallacy but I don't think I am ready to give up quite yet, and I don't think you should either!

This is the most difficult part of making a game as an indie RM dev.

WHAT DO I DO? I know what I want to do, need to do, but I don't know what order to begin in. The story is in my head, I kinda know what the setting is like, and a few characters are designed in concept. But what do you actually do first? And why? 

Most of us pick away at stuff, setting up placeholders for characters with the graphics we want for them. Placeholders for weapons and armor for them. Some of us might even set up PHs for the style of support items we want. RM has this innate ability to woo us with the assignment of graphical assets. There's a comfort in knowing you got the graphics you wanted, and they are in place. But it's so hard to solidify a game when you can't wait to tackle each and every aspect of it's design, because you're going to do it all yourself.

1. Story - Figure out the framework of your plot and story, and along with that, a bit about the style of the game.
2. Setting - You should have some of what you need to design a world setting now, hashing out more of the game mechanics and style as you work on this. Head to Inkarnate before the beta access expires and use one of the map styles to draft a concept. Cannot stress enough how this isn't your game map, it's an editable concept sketch of the world to help you along this agonizing process. You will use this to inform you in-game world, which will need some shaping around your plots and their paths.
3. Characters - Through coming up with a plot and setting, you should have a good idea who your characters are. The pot should inform your lead(s), and the world inspire some of your supporting followers (should they even exist, you know?).
4. Scripts - Once you have your concept and playable characters, you should know what you need in terms of scripts. Gather your essentials and prep the settings on those which you can with what you have.
5. Graphic Assets - Now gather the essential graphics you'll need for all of this.
6. Draft Skills On Paper - by on paper, anything but the editor. Don't make100-200 placeholder skills or items, then kill yourself filling them in later (THIS IS HOW MISTAKES HAPPEN).
7. Animations - 
8. Skills - 
9. Weapons - 
10. Armor - 
11. Items - 
12. Classes - 
13. Complete Actors - 
14. Re-Prep scripts - 

I'm tired now. By this stage we should all have it together and be ready to go.

Couldn't hurt, but just expect to not find anyone and/or have them not remember you at all.

Wanna know what's sad?  I just saw something that gave me an idea for yet ANOTHER game concept.  Gotta just put it on the list for "Someday, maybe."

And the fun begins

@Rikifive What you've described is what using RM is for 90% of people. Were it not for the task of making a good, modern game solo being essentially a herculean task fit for Toby Fox alone (who STILL had his share of help despite the legend), most people who use RM would have a catalog of games in their portfolio by now. From golden era games with simple mechanics to a robust RPG or two.

It's just not that simple. You have to be possessed with an other-worldly willpower and have the conviction to back it up every single day. Few can do that without at least one other human being to assist in some capacity.

I'm done with RM more or less because the culture is wall to wall aspiring solo artist, or wanting a to be paid to do a small body of work as 3rd party, simply jocking for another credit in a game that may or may not ever be released. 

I have no choice but to look to things like Unity to make a profitable game that isn't defined by the limitations of its design engine.

Should of bookmarked them.
That's what I do.

Yeah, basically.  At the time I was thinking "I don't hardly ever use the generator.  I won't really need these."

My attitude has always been that if you start spending money on an RPG Maker project you probably already lost it. Heck spending near the amount of money they usually charge without sales on RPG Maker is already probably a lost, but you can't do much about that except wait for really cheap sales. Now I like RPG Maker, but I have never thought of it as a source of profit. Though honestly I am not sure how much people really make with it, so take what I say with a helping of salt.

Ether way if there is one thing that can be a massive money sink it is art. DLCs or commissions can get expensive and honestly if I were you I would just skip it and see what I can do on my own or with free resources. You might be surprised what you can do on your own! And if you can't find or make any art at all, sometimes you just gotta taper your ideas by what you can do sorry to say.

I don't mean to be a Negative Nancy though! If this is your passion don't give up on it so easily! And hey, if you have the money to spare that you would probably spend on junk anyway, you might as well spend it on your project right? I wouldn't expect you would get it back, but that's not really the point is it?

Sidenote: Getting good at Ruby might take years too you know, and getting good at art might not take long at all. It really depends on the person I think... and the type of art too I guess.

I've tried practicing art.  I'm so bad at it that I generally just get frustrated and can't stick to the practice.  I understand that technically it's possible to get proficient at anything with enough practice, but I have abysmal hand eye coordination along with a perfectionist's mind.  It's a bad combination when you want to become good at art, where sometimes you just have to draw the thing and accept a few flaws as you slowly improve.

Anyway.  Not planning on giving up, just feeling really bummed.

Yeah I feel the same way about art sometimes, but I have talked to people who get just as frustrated practicing programing is all.