Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.900

A possible request - with the new plethora of inherent powers listed, the window is becoming a bit cluttered. There's got to be some way to simplify things, because as it stands the inherents go off the bottom of the window, and I keep forgetting to put slots into stamina when building because it's not on-screen without scrolling.

There are two ways I would think of addressing this. The first is simply to make the window's size default to something big enough to fit everything. As it stands when you open the program it sets the window height to be large enough to go down to the bottom edge of the box where power information is displayed. You can, of course, drag the window bigger, but it doesn't remember the setting. Having it default instead to be tall enough to show all of the inherent powers would be nice.

Alternately, would it be possible to implement some user controls for the display and positioning of these powers? I personally never use the vet sprints for anything, so I don't care about displaying them. Similarly, I couldn't care less what sprint, brawl, and rest are doing, since I never slot them for anything. Is there any way a user could simply turn off the display of these powers so that the remaining inherents like stamina and kheld forms fit better in the space provided?

There are ways to simplify things, but none of them are easy. Currently (and has been the case since the beginning), the inherent powers in Mids are all static in their placement (as in, there is a field in the Mids Database that tells it where to put it). This means that even if some powers were added or removed dynamically, it wouldn't change placement at all (you'd just got large black gaps where those powers were). Changing this to a more dynamic system is something I want to do, but is going to take a lot of work for various reasons and it is lower priority than other things (like the Alpha Slot).

Changing the default size of the window is something I don't want to do (we are currently trying to keep it small enough to work on 1024x768 resolution), but making it remember its size is something that should be done, and I'll probably do so when it hits my priority.

Haven't read all of the thread, but the Defense values for Stealth are showing up as the non-combat numbers. I liked it before how Stealth was contributing only the in-combat portion when toggled on.

Ohh! A new update! Alpha slot support still in the works though.

Gack and buggerit. The auto-update still runs into problems conflicting with Windows 7s bloomin' admin rights thing.
*sigh* Still DL to desktop and run as admin for me, it seems.

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will the web version ever be updated by chance? -for those of us who cant download it



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Surge of Power is not altering +Recovery values.

Why the heck is MIDS 1.91 downloading the 1.9110 file "mhd.mhz" to the "C:\Windows" directory?

Using the latest "autoupdate" I found where it is downloading to, and it really should NOT be putting the file there.

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Actually it dropped itself one level deeper into the system32 directory.

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Question...is there any way to signify if an enhancement is actually slotted or not?

I ask because what I typically do is print out a build and highlight (with an actual highlighter) enhancements as I get them. If I could do this right in Mids that would be really, really handy.

Quick Q; does Smoke Grenade in devices have to check accuracy, or is it an auto hit power? If yay, then it should surely take accurate-tohit debuff sets, and if nay it shouldn't be able to slot for acc should it?

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Hey, I was wrong. It's actually Windows' fault.

I just ran a shortcut from my Start Menu, and it chose an absolutely random directory for the current directory: my Christian Kinesis logo folder, which is quite distant from any software folders. I'm pretty sure I can't explain why running a program using a shortcut in "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", which points to "D:\all\GetCurrentDirectory.exe", results in a current directory of "D:\all\02 06 05\Fancy\Christian Kinesis". In fact, I moved the program elsewhere on the D drive and even on the C drive and got the same result.

Well, maybe I can partly explain it. If you organize D:\all by name, 02 06 05 is the first folder... then you organize that folder by date (which is actually how I have all my folders organized), Fancy is the first folder in there. Organize that folder by date, and you get Christian Kinesis. However, this folder also has another subdirectory in it.

While you gentlemen are still poking at the bugs, go over the animation times, please. When you added Arcanatime, you did something that threw off several animation times, and none of them have been corrected. Hasten and Domination, for instance, are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay off.

Fly is unlocking at level 4.

Whatever you were supposed to do to fix powers working in conjunction with Fiery Embrace, it didn't. Lightning Rod for scrappers was the one I checked, it references the special Fiery Embrace/Lightning Rod pet, but instead of showing an increase in damage, it shows a substantial decrease, and ignores all other damage buffs.

And why does the program default to all primary and secondary powers unlocked when it's started or an AT is selected? It's only supposed to display two primary and one secondary as available, not the entire list of both.