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Downloaded and installed 1.0.2. Great. Tested to make a battler, notised some strange flickering...
5minutes later in paint I had pinpointed the issue.
It wasn't the game, or a plugin or something like that. It was the sprite used in the generator...

Used pink jacket color instead of default yellow to help a bit with contrast.
This:

I hope I don't need to draw a clearer picture...

My suggestion is to fix it, and go over the images one more time to see that simular things isn't present on the other sprites.
1.0.2 already fixed some of it, but I think there is more... a lot more. (I have for instance noticing some strange issues with "Select color being selectable yet doesn't change any visual color... can have missed it, so no bug report on that, yet. Check those that got new from 1.0.2 for likley culprits.)

Also... Patch replaced the "gradient" files in the generator folder... Good job that... Only 2 hours of work down the drain...
Please inform us if you are going to replace those files so we can make backups. Or why not give us the complete list on all the files that are being replaced, so my new hat accessory named XXXX, isn't going to be over ridden by an earing with the same name.
Granted, this was my bad, I should have made backups before installing the new version, not of my project, but of the whole program.


Feedback:
This one but one reason why people complain about the rtp...

As for why people complain about the tileset rtp, well, I think I have figurred out one reason why:

These tiles, available in SF_Outside, know what they are for? They look like sidewalk edges... And are used as such in one of the example maps. You could also use them to add "thickness" to "platforms" or pathways that for instance are above a paralla map.
Nothing strange here, except, they were present in MV too, except, when used there, they couldn't be used as the transparent part wrote over the ground-tile information, so unless used in a combination with a parallax, they couldn't be used without leaving a hole in the map.
So why are they there?
My guess these tiles were added to the Tile-sheet, back when layers were introduced. (Think it was RPGM-XP), layers were then removed but the tiles were left as if, even if they couldn't be used as intended.
Several other pieces of the tiles-sheets have simular issues. (One example is the food cart found in SF_Outside_B, which also holds an arcade machine... to be used... outside?... I digress...)

I have a feeling/theory, that the sprite sheet is old, and instead of having a new one made, the artists are given the old and told to update it, without being told how the tile is intended to be used. As clearly seen if you comparer the MV version of said food cart and the stall to the MZ version, were food items replaces food items, but the combination/compatability with the stall is completly lost.

Not only that, but if you right click a map and choose gernete dungeon you get this:Protected download
The left is MZ, and the right is MV.
See how MV in most cases manages to align walls with floor tiles?
Granted it isn't a 1:1 100% perfect fit, but the first row is at least.
Programing error? Or a missmatch of the tileset? Who knows. But it is still an apparent thing that once again draws the "blame" towards the rtp.

But if we look at the walls we can see a clear pattern: Brown moutain, gray rock, lava stone, ice, wood, crystal, flesh, corrupted cave. The same, yet diffrent.

Is this bad?
No, absolutly not. These tiles are used to test, to prototype, as such those tiles were probably chosen for a reason (Most common settings). And there are several new ones too, allowing for a nice vararity.

But here's the thing:
Remember the game you played in kindergarden were you were to whisper a word to the person next to you, and they in turn passed it allong? Only to become a jumbled mess when it reached the last person?
That is what I think is happening to the rtp right now. Which mean that each version will be a downgrade hence forth. Now, granted this doesn't apply to the character generator, since it's art has been remade each time. But it still has some parts that are in odd colors, or looks wierd due to other reasons. (Like almost all eyes being to far appart to look "normal"...) But the tile-sets? Frankly, it isn't looking good. (as in for the future, not the pixels...)

Can it be fixed?
Not this time around. I don't think. Not unless they want to send out brand new spritesheets and tilemaps for free, and those are what keeps the company going between releases. Assets and DLC's.
But....
Seeing the state of the current rtp and assets, I doubt most people would buy any others from the same dev.

What should be done then?
By the next time a new rpg maker comes around, re-make the whole whole rtp, from the first pixel, to the last.
This backlash that has happend due to the rtp isn't makeing the dev money.


Sorry for the salt and that I yet again poke at the rtp, but people are poking at it for a reason... Several reasons infact...