[4 CHARs] The Ninja Tales (NO NARUTO!!!)

[YinYin]

Is there any way of strengthening a characters base defense except for giving him an armor id or (as I do) disabling the broken defense?

I like creating an object with a larger bdy and high hp that will take all the weak hits (arest) and also makes a new hit sound. Stronger hits (vrest) will still be able to get past that and hit both object and character.
Another cool option is hitting yourself with a negative bdefend. This increases your state 7 (or armor) defense.

Exspecially the bottle=death part. Would need to override id() before implementing this, otherwise the AI will, literally kill itself.
Good to know such a thing is possible, though.

Well the id() is still a large chunk of work. Until that is tackled you can try to make the ego() aware of it and stay away/throw bottles in case it performed a release (and hope that the id() won't get a chance to pick and drink). This might be enough for a start if you want to try it.

edit: I just realized there is yet another way to remember a state per fighter/object instead of per character:
rudolfs transform
I use it to lock away moves and unlock them by transforming a character into himself (from that point on he can switch back and forth between two states and perform a move every time).
But you could also use it to prohibit a move from being performed again once the character has transformed into himself.
This one has no drawbacks as long as your character doesn't use the normal copy ability.