Pros and Cons of RPGMaker

[Scarface Larry]

The title says it all, again. What do you like and dislike about RPGMaker? I like making maps events, char-battle-charsets, and making battle-animations. I dislike programming all those items and skills, it gets tedius, as does programming common events for things like day-night systems, or for a CBS-CMS, also because I usually press "cancel" instead of "ok". Once I actually had to make one char 5 times over because I kept pressing "cancel".
[GENERICCHEESYLINE]Your thoughts?[/GENERICCHEESYLINE]

[FFL2and3rocks]

I love making maps. Creating dungeons is oen of my favorite parts of RM2k.

What I hate is making graphics. I can make a semi-decent characterset if I take my time, but nothing big like monster graphics or battlechars.  I also don't really like to keep altering the monsters' stats so they can be the right difficulty for the heroes when they are a certain level, it takes FOREVER sometimes.

[Kijuki_Magazaki]

Indeed making maps, events, and all that good stuff. I love making the grphics but it takes too long XP

Also beta testing and testing maps and stuff is cool

[Tomi]

I enjoy making graphics, making CMS's, making maps, and that kind of stuff.

The only thing I don't like to do is figure out all of the stats, and balancing the heros, items, monsters, and bosses.  Makes my head hurt...

[Snake Eater]

Like: Map making, making the story, and making all the characters.

Dislikes: the (sometimes) tedious coding

[barnsalot]

I love the coding. The rest is pretty boring.

[InsaneJP]

Likes.....character makin...battle animation makin....and item makin

Dislikes.....extremely long coding....balancing the monster with the party so there not to strong/weak

[darkrune]

Likes: Creating new and exciting things.
Dislikes: Coding the new and exciting things.

[WarxePB]

The only thing I dislike about RPGMaker is map-making and chipsets. I love to draw (even though I'm no good at it), and I also like to code. The database stuff is somewhere in the middle - don't like it, don't hate it.

[danilynnarthur]

Coding is my worst.  Figuring out monster strength, item functions, weapons... i'm still having trouble with that...

I also have problems with map making, especially worldmaps.

[Drace]

Likes: Making a story for the game.
Dislikes: Actually making the game.

[SaiKar]

I like it all, from the drawing to the coding. The one thing I dislike is how much time it eats up.

[Sephiroth rocks]

I like everything (especially coding actually) except the kind of events you have to copy hundreds of times (as I had to do with my equipment system, it took forever!).

[Scarface Larry]

Originally posted by Tomi
I enjoy making graphics, making CMS's, making maps, and that kind of stuff.

The only thing I don't like to do is figure out all of the stats, and balancing the heros, items, monsters, and bosses.  Makes my head hurt...

Tomi is the one I agree with most, although my CMSs suck, but the maps were good Making the charsets is good, but I hate making sprite size B-chars, which is why we need a Sprite-Size B-char generator. But the maps and Char-making is my favorite.

[Moosetroop11]

I love making the database for some reason. I HATE making events; faceset, message, type, faceset, message, type, over and over.