Author Topic: RMXP Simple Fast Banking System Tutorial (Lot of Features)! (Read 14037 times)

#1 • Aug 8, 2009

Banking Ease
Version: 1.0
Author: Kidfox70
Date: August 12, 2009

Version History

Version 1.0 Is nice and quick. Making it is Simple. The player will be in and out.

Description

Ok so this is my First Tutorial. I’m doing it on a Banking System that I made up. I searched for Banking Systems on here, I found a few. But they are both long and complex. One of them you have to make your Gold as a Variable. Your Gold being a Variable is kind of lame, I mean you can’t even check to see how much money you have on hand unless you go to an Event that allows you to check. My Banking System is simple and you can do a whole lot. Deposit money, Withdraw money, and Gather Interest. I’m also going to have some suggestions at the end of the Tutorial, things I’ve done to make the Banking System more real and or convenient. Basically you’re going to make two Events and two Common Event. You’ll also need to make an Item, a Credit Card. So what we’re going to tackle first is the Credit Card. When you’re done with all this and you make an account your Player will get a Credit Card that will allow you to use any ATM and help you remember what your Pin Number is. The Pin Number will be given to you after you make an Account and it is VERY important, with out it…you can’t get into your Account, but well get back to that in a minute.

The Credit Card has to be an Item. You have to name it Credit Card (OR Bank Card, ATM Card, or something to that effect); the icon can be what you want. Description can be what you want. Make it usable only through Menu and no Target. Obviously non-consumable. Next we go to the Common Event Tab. We have to make a Common Event. Call it Pin Number. This would be a good time to make all the Variables you’ll need for this WHOLE Banking System. I suggest to get a pen and paper to write them down as well so you can keep track of them, all six of them. Your numbers may differ from mine, but the names should most defiantly be the same. The numbers are very, very important. You’ll know why here in a minute if you don’t already know. So to do this, make a Command to change a Variable. Open the screen and type in your Variable names. Here are the names and the number that I used to correspond them:

01: Pin Number
02: Current Bank
03: Current Money
04: Enter Code
05: Deposit
06: Withdraw

Once the six Variables are made exit out of the Command completely. Because in this Common Event there should only be one Command. Something (a Message) to remind the Player what there Pin Number is. Now the only Command you have to put here is this:

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When you make an Account you’ll get a Pin Number and your Credit Card will always know what it is from then on. Sorry if I’m going in too much detail, I just want you to understand what is happening, because I use \v[####] a lot. Next go back to the Item Tab and make the Credit Card have a Common Event of Pin Number, and now your done! You have Made a Credit card!

So now that your Card is made we can start on the Bank System. Now after you made your map of the Bank, you well need to make a new Event. It should be a person, a Bank Teller of sorts. Before you go on, you need to make a Switch. Call it, Account Made. After the switch is made make sure your looking at a Blank Page (and that the Event only has one Page). As a side note, when you see ( ) mixed in with the Commands most likely it is me talking to you! Ok your ready to tackle the Banking System. The Commands should be as such:

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And that my Friend is the end of my Banking System Event. What you just did was allow the Player to make an Account. They can get information as well from this Bank teller. You can Change what Information that can be got, for this Tutorial I wanted to be as simple as Possible. Now next you want to make a new Event. This is to be your ATM. Now what you can do is actually just make it a person. This is what I did for this Tutorial, to make it easier. So here we go, time to tackle the ATM Event. The Commands are as follows:

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So, you have just made a Bank teller that lets you (if you have a Credit Card and if you remember your Pin Number) Deposit, Withdraw, and See how much you have in the bank. But the last part is to allow Interest to gather while the player is playing. When the Player stops playing the interest stops gathering, or should I say the timer stops…but when the Player comes back the Timer starts right where it left off, so nothing is lost. This is where, if you want, you could change how much Interest is given. Before you start you need one more Variable. Call it Timer. Now go to your Data Base and go to the Common Event Tab and make a new one called Interest. The Commands are as follows:

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THERE IT IS!!! That’s it. You have a very fast and simple Banking System! There are a lot of possibilities for this Banking System and you can change any of the Text to fix it to your game. Give it more Options and completely customize the way you want! If you have any problems ask me about it, I don’t think I made any mistakes but you never know. If you want me to explain anything ask, same goes for questions. Oh and if you use this Please give me Credit, Thanks. I hope i was helpful!

So here are some suggestions (if you have any of your own tell me. Please). Most of these I’ve done my self, but there are some Ideas I have. If there is anything you want me to explain or do a Tutorial on please tell me. I can do just about any of my suggestions.

1. A Receipt for every transaction. I haven’t done this for myself because I don’t know exactly what I want. This can be really complex, if I (or you) wanted it to be. What the Receipt would be is an Item that an ATM gives you when your done with a transaction; then the Receipt would be in your Inventory and when you select it, the Receipt would give you Info on: how much Gold you have in the bank, how much you Deposited (or Withdrew, or if you did both for some reason), and other things (this is where it could be complex. If you have a time system, as in night and day, then you could put on there the time in which the transaction took place. Also if you gave your ATM’s numbers to Identify which ATM your Player used (which could be very useful), you could have the ATM number on the Receipt. Again with the same concept as the ‘ATM Identification Number’ you could say on the Receipt what Bank you used (that really wouldn’t matter if you only have one Bank within the game).). Also something that would have to be addressed is the matter on how many Receipts should you have in your Inventory before old ones delete (which is again would be complex), three (different) Receipts, five, or would you want to just keep every Receipt you get? You could make it to where you can throw them away, either go through your Inventory and just have the option to throw it away or make the player go to a ‘Trash Bin’ and then have the option. As you can see this something that really comes down to what you want, there is a lot of options you can have. If you have any thoughts on this please tell me. Thank you!

2. Improved Credit Card. I have this in my game and its elite sauce! Your Credit Card of course allows you to use an ATM and helps you remember what your Pin Number is. But it could do more. It could tell you how much Gold you have in the bank. You could keep track of your Interest. Also it could allow you to buy things and subtract the Gold in your bank. This is much more realistic. It isn’t that complex, though there are other improvements you could do to make it more complex. Something more complex would be to make shops that have Polices such as real Store in real life. Example of this: you go to shop, use Credit Card. Realize later that you want to sell it. You go to the shop you bought it from and want to sell the Item in which you have bought earlier; you think you’re getting money that goes into your pocket. But instead it goes on your card. Now that may not seem like a big deal, but you could make it a big deal for the Player. Have some shops not take Credit Cards like in real life. I’m sure there are other things that you could do to improve the Credit Card, if you think of one tell me please. Thank you!!

3. Have Multiple Banks. Like in real life. You could customize each Bank to have different Polices, Bonuses, and different Options. I have this in my game and its nothing but fun to have Rival Banks or to watch other people play test your game and see which Bank they choose and why. If you have any thoughts, ideas? Tell me please. Thank you!!!

4. A Ranking System. I don’t have this in my game, but I think I might be working on it soon. A Ranking system would be cool. What I mean is give the person a Rank or Status when they join a Bank and when they get a certain amount of Gold they go to the next Rank/Status and so and so fourth. Each Rank/Status could give the Player something new, like an Item or something. If you have any thoughts, ideas? Tell me please. Thank you!!!!

5. Have a Bank that also stores Items and things. I don’t know how to do this (never tried), but I guess it wouldn’t be hard at all. I’ve seen Systems that you can use here on this site.

6. When you make an account, the Bank Teller asks for more information. Have that information count for something in some way or any another. A Quest? Stole Information? I don’t know just a thought or Suggestion. In my game you have to have an I.D. to get a Bank Account, but that’s because it has to do with the game it self. I took out the Conditional Branch in my Bank System that makes you have to have an I.D., for obvious reasons. If you have any thoughts, ideas? Tell me please. Thank you!!!!!!

Well I guess that’s it for my Tutorial and Suggestions. If you want me to explain anything, anything at all, please tell me. If you want me to make a Tutorial for any of the things I did in the Suggestions, again tell me! And as always, if you have any thoughts on the matter or ideas/improvements, tell me. Thank you, I hope I helped and I hope this was useful! Please give me Credit if you ever use this, thanks!

#2 • Aug 10, 2009

Thanks Kipe it means alot. I'm still really new though, thats why i joined this site. i learn something new everyday...haha!

#3 • Dec 1, 2010

Um. This didn't work for me. The bank person just said "Your pin number is #v[####: *Pin Number*]."

And yes, I did everything as explained. D:
Also, the variables name is actually *Pin Number* so I know what it's for.

Help?

#4 • Dec 2, 2010

There should be a \backslash\ in front of the v, not a #pound sign#.

#5 • Dec 2, 2010

Also, you wouldn't be putting in the whole name of the variable, just the ID. So:

\v[1] would show the value in variable 1. \v[345] would show the value of variable 345. The #### was meant to be replaced by the ID of whatever variable you are using.