Mids' Hero Designer v1.810

Greetings and salutations!

As many (if not all) of you are aware, St0n3y and Steiner stepped down a bit ago, and a new duo has been brought on to continue developing this fabulous tool. I, Diellan, am the new Lead Programmer, and DeProgrammer is assisting me with bugfixes and QA. The third person in the Mids' triumvirate, Energy Aura, has stuck around and is still handling all the database updates and bugs and pestering me for feature requests. We've been busy with the changeover and with coming up with our new version of Mids, and it is finally ready to release into the wild. Highlights include Swap Ammo and Fiery Embrace support, and finally fixing the Updater (so after you install this version manually, you'll be able to use the internal updater instead of reinstalling every time).

So, without further ado:

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Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.81 - October 2010

Game Build
Power database in line with game build 1850.201009101722.3T2 (Issue 18)

Changes & Updates:

• Fixed the automatic updater. From now on, it will be perfectly safe to update Mids from inside the software
• Added Perception and Elusivity to Totals
• Separated Endurance Drain Resistance and Recovery Debuff Resistance in Totals
• Implemented Dual Pistol ammos
• Old (pre-version 1.8) Dual Pistols builds can be loaded and imported normally
• Implemented Fiery Embrace for all melee ATs
• Added ArcanaTime option in Options->Configuration->Effects & Maths; this will display all Cast Times in terms of ArcanaTime (see ParagonWiki for an explanation)
• Increased number of significant digits to 4 in several places (numbers smaller than 10 will show 3 decimal places if they are relevant)
• Fixed salvage repetition bug in Shopping List
• Defense Debuff Resistance now displays proper ED values
• Accuracy values on powers now have a mouseover displaying their Real Numbers equivalent (e.g. 1.6)
• Various tweaks in the Database Editor to support Swap Ammo and Fiery Embrace, allow editing of power indices, and increasing size of Invention Set Type selector for powers

• Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added, all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
• The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
• 60 Month Vet reward button not added.* This means taking a Tier 3 travel pool power at level 6 or higher is automatic for everyone.* You need to know whether or not you are eligible for this reward or you must take your travel power at level 14 or higher.
• Flight Speed values are currently incorrect. On Live they are bugged such that Blasters have the value that the Issue 18 patch notes say they should, while all other ATs have a higher value.
• Some of the epic powers are wonky. This is because they are wonky on live and we reflect what is on live, not what we want to be on live.

Todah Raba

Thank you so much for your work!

Wow, this is an excellent update!

I'm liking the support for the swap ammo, but I'm running into an issue with the inherent fitness. Stamina seems to work just just fine, but on builds i've work on with the unofficial fitness inherent update seems a little wonky.

I know its not officially supported, so i should prolly just work with older builds, but I wanted to explain the issue i'm having. Stamina has somehow overwrote brawl, so it says 'stamina' where brawl is, and is keeping the sets slotted in it, even though in the information window, it says brawl. and swift/hurdle and health aren't being displayed, even though the slots i had in health are accounted for. Its just not displaying it..

i keep getting an "Error opening file for writing" message when i run the installer and get to the stage where it's supposed to writing the files to the directory. i recently upgraded to 64bit Windows 7. Is there something i'm overlooking?

You said this was a new system, right? Have you installed other things to the C:\Program Files (x86) folder without issue? Do you have other Titan software installed? It sounds like a permission error; when I first installed Win7, I copied over my Program Files folder and found I had trouble installing things on it, period, because I didn't have permission - specifically, I didn't have Ownership. So I had to follow these instructions in order to get it working.

Alternately, you should try installing it to another folder or even another drive (d:/Mids, without the Program Files). We don't have to keep it there for good, but this will help us narrow down the culprit.

My guess is that the other things all asked for Administrative access by default, while Mids doesn't unless you right click the install file and do "Run As Administrator" (which you might want to try).

So long as (a) it works, and (b) it's not my fault, I'm happy.

Something seems wrong with resistance readings. Check my planned ill/rad controller build for i19 using new Mids v1.810.

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I'll check it when I get home from work, but my initial question is "Did you have PvP mode turned on?" We don't have Diminishing Returns implemented, but we do have the PvP base values put in, so you'll find lots of unexpected Resistance.

Ooh. I am *VERY* happy about the arcanatime feature - that was always such a pain to manually calculate every time. I just hope that the database editor tweaks will finally allow me to manually proliferate powersets - I always ran into tons of error messages and stuff just not working when I tried that in the past.

Another issue i've discovered is PvP sets giving both bonuses while in PvE mode. This could confuse alot of people (i was wondering why my attacks are higher range, when i didn't slot any range in them, then say a PvP set i had slotted that boosted range)

Looks like the PvP only flag was turned off/disabled.

I've added both PvP issues (default config and set IOs) to our internal bug tracker, so they should get addressed in a coming release (I19 at the latest).

Hehe. Arcanatime added.

I'd love to see the return of Exemplaring. I, personally, don't care about the numbers. I use it A) To see what powers are available to me at what Ex'd level, and B) To help me when I transcribe my build from Mids' to Excel for level-up purposes when at a Trainer.

I'd also love to have the option to set the Default Enhancement Type as Training, DO, SO, or (Common) IO. I always use Common IOs when planning my builds.

Maybe one day... at least we can update from within Mids' itself again. NICE!!

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In the NSIS installer creation script, you need to add this

RequestExecutionLevel admin

This has been a legacy issue since Titan took over. Windows doesn't trust things writing to the Program Files folders. You need to have the program run with Admin permissions if you're still going to have the default setting be $PROGRAMFILES

Just wanted to say thanks to both the old and new Mids teams. It's a fantastic tool that is a huge benefit to the playerbase.