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I would love to have Mids on other systems, but that isn't happening any time soon. It's in VB.net using .net 2.0, so in addition to porting the code, you have to swap over graphical libraries, and the program itself has grown significantly over the years and there's enough software rot to make it extremely difficult. I'm currently taking time to clean up the program and make it smaller and more efficient (my latest version has dropped a meg or so off the file size), and the changes I've made in order to get it to allow more Inherent powers has caused some rewriting of the graphics part... But, no. Just no.

I would love to have it on my iPhone, but it'd basically have to be rewritten from scratch, and my wife would kill me if I took on a project of that magnitude.

No, but he does wear a wizard robe and hat.

The unofficial update is one possible solution to the problem, but not the one we can use for a couple of reasons (Kheldians, for example; handling both legacy Fitness and inherent Fitness simultaneously). Adding powers is easy. Moving powers is easy. Increasing the number of inherent powers that can fit into the Mids screen? Surprisingly complicated.

But not too complicated.

Little known fact: if you open a build file in a text editor, you'll see that it's actually in a nice human readable format with the build chunk at the bottom. EVEN IF everything goes completely horribly wrong and you can't import from the data chunk, you should still be able to import by copying that bit and doing the standard "import from forum post" function (most people don't realize that the import function can parse the human readable part of a Mids build without the data chunk, though it loses some data).

Yeah, I finally looked into this and made the change to the install building script. So when the next version of Mids comes out, that should stop this.

Fixing exemplaring is somewhere on our list. Changing the Default Enhancement Type like that isn't something I thought of, but it makes sense. I'll plug it into our tracker as a suggestion.

Oh, cool, I wasn't aware we had the precise equations (just approximations). It'll still be difficult/annoying to code because every single stat has its own value and it varies by AT, but whenever it is I get around to coding that, I'll ring you up. (To give credit where credit is due, Arcanaville gave me a nice explanation of how Swap Ammo and Fiery Embrace work that let me implement it in a matter of hours)

I am personally running Windows 7 64-bit, so we can rule that out as a reason. It sounds like some kind of permission issue, even though Windows 7 doesn't normally need you to be in Administrator mode to run it (unlike Vista). To which directory are you choosing to install it to? Perhaps you should manually create the target directory (drive:\Program Files (x86)\Titan Network\Mids, or wherever you choose).

Obviously, we're not putting it into Mids until I19, but we're already looking into a general solution that will support inherent Fitness and Ninja Run, even if you're playing a Kheldian. Don't worry about it.

Well, I don't really have anything to say in response to your previous post because it's all pretty much agreeable. If there aren't any events going on and there isn't any source of open RP, then it would be rather absurd to expect newbies to be joining events and open RP, wouldn't it? The issue of "new people being deadbeats" is more targeted towards those who don't join the stuff that is happening and then complain that stuff isn't happening. As mentioned in my previous post, we're an active group and still get new people who just kind of fade away.

Which is also an ad hominem... And the little bit added as the reason for editing your post only reinforces that. Rather than address Genia's point (that relationships are a two-way street and as such it is unreasonable to put the burden of work on just one side), you attack her. Not exactly a beneficial part of the rational discourse (yes, I know, it is the internet).

It is far to easy to say "this person disagrees with me, so they must be x", but the point of the matter is that Five Minutes to Midnight is an active heavy RP group (about a dozen people logging in every day for the last two years straight since it transferred servers from Pinnacle) that usually has something happening 5 nights out of 7 with one night a week reserved for heavy activity (usually alternating weeks between running missions or TFs together and communal base RP). It doesn't change the fact that a large portion of those who join have to be dragged onto teams (e.g. somebody says "I'm starting a <blue side, Portal Corp mission> team", the newbie won't say anything until somebody says "Hey, <new person>, you want to join") and be reminded constantly about when the weekly meeting is even though it's in the MotD of the global channel and SG channel and put at the top of our forum. It happens, it happens quite often. We've already set up regularly scheduled sessions and our general membership does open RP stuff nearly everyday and tries to include new people and it still doesn't work. What more do you want from us?

Melee/Buff and Ranged/Armor are the two things I've been wanting for so long. BV is Dual Pistol/Willpower... *sob*

I hope not! I love this thing...

If there's anything that can be done to help, I'd be glad to (5 years of .NET programming, both VB and C#; can't remember how many years of js and php and asp and god knows what).

You can do Fiery Aura, but I highly suggest customizing it and leaving out things like the passive in order to keep its Fire Resist reasonable.

For AVs, in general, I try not to give them their mez protection powers, since the triangles are annoying enough for mezzers to have to deal with. Tier 9s I weigh heavily, and any +Regen I'm likely to throw straight out.

The speed of light in a vacuum is what's constant. Physicists manipulate the speed of photons all the time. And, in fact, have frozen it all together. Science is awesome.