Gameplay Ability System + Turn Based

[Levitikon217]

@Waves

Yes I have used the Ability system in a turn based project. It is not designed to be used in this way. I haven’t touched this in a while but there are significant problems with managing active effects. There are ways to manage this and it is still a great system. You can use for it turn based project though perhaps not so effectively as what it was designed for.

That is re-assuring, but could you speak to high-level interaction of using GAS in turn based games? Or rather, how does one hack it? How might one implement a 1-turn cooldown on an ability? Or a turn-based damage over time (DOT)? For example, are DOTs considered instant or permanent and refreshed manually somehow? I think a direction for thinking about this would be super helpful.