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I have a thing in the game that I am making where the user can buy a piece of property and then they need to find someone who can build on it. Once, the party hires a builder, the land will go through a series of upgrades. I plan on doing these upgrades through multiple maps with switches since you cannot just place houses and stuff in events.


I decided to have the upgrade be initiated via certain number of steps. I thought about doing this with story progression but I realized that the user could buy the land at any time during the game so I cannot just have an upgrade be done when the user beats X boss fight or does Y thing because there is a chance that the user has not bought the land yet. I also thought about doing this via level up but the user could be level 99 when they buy the land if they totally missed the NPC.

So, steps seems to be the best option.

In my mind, this seems like it would work. However, I do not want to dive into test play and get real far only to find that it does not work the way I expected. So, I need someone to check my work.

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This is to initiate the build and to set up variables for the steps.


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This to initiate how many steps the party needs to take in order for the first land upgrade to be available


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This is where it gets tricky and I am unsure if this is set up correctly. I need someone to check my work.

Basically what we have here is when the the party walks the required number of steps, it turns on a switch, which changes what map you enter when you enter your own property and you'll see more stuff on it, then it adds some thousand steps to variable 20 that the party needs to take for the next upgrade. When the party meets that amount of steps, another upgrade, another new map, and another some thousand steps are added to variable 20 that the user must take in order for yet another upgrade. This will repeat until the property is fully upgraded.

To me, this parallel process seems it would do what I want it to do, but I know from experience that fairly often, what makes sense to me that would work does not work sometimes and I need to fix it. Which is fine for events that take place in the moment, but this is a long term event and I want to make sure it is right before I do any major progression in test play.

Will this work the way that I intended?