So, how do we mod Mid's to make the Alpha Slot available for testing?
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Posted on: 2010-12-15 20:55 in The Market and Inventions
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Are you wanting to modify Mids program code yourself? Or are you asing how Mids programmers should add this feature?|
Originally Posted by Wuigly Squigly
Im assuming making a mock up inherit power for Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual buffs, and then just clicking which one you have equipped?
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Make an Temp or Accolade power called "Alpha Slot" and give it one enhancement slot. Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual, are more like enhancement categories. Like Damage, Endurance, Accuracy, and Recharge. Think of them like IO sets, or Hami O's. Make it a global enhancement like the 7.5% Recharge proc that will be applied to all of your powers. How you code that I have no idea, I don't even know what scripting language Mids uses, C++ or something else? I am not a programmer. You may want to disregard my entire response lol.
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The people working on Mids have already stated they're working on delivering an Alpha Slot for us Soon<TM>.
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Originally Posted by Wuigly Squigly
Im assuming making a mock up inherit power for Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual buffs, and then just clicking which one you have equipped? This would be really useful to have right about now. Any ideas?
Apologies if this has already been discussed and resolved. |
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If you can't wait for the good folks at Mid's to cater to you, I'd suggest using algebra.
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Originally Posted by Wuigly Squigly
Im assuming making a mock up inherit power for Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual buffs, and then just clicking which one you have equipped? This would be really useful to have right about now. Any ideas?
Apologies if this has already been discussed and resolved. |
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I'm thinking it's not that simple. Alpha abilities have two parts to them. The part that's not affected by ED should act the same way as a global bonus, since those ignore ED as well. However the part that is affected by ED is different. It has to apply itself to every power, but also factor in how much of a boost each power has from its own enhancements.|
Originally Posted by Wuigly Squigly
Im assuming making a mock up inherit power ...
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Which isn't to say that the Mids team can't do it, 'cause they're very good.
It'll just take them a little longer.
Yeah, there's no generally applicable way to make this work until the Mid's team updates the program. There are things we could do that are sort of close, but none would be right except in specific cases.
The key thing we can't do is make an extra enhancement effect for every power that obeys ED. We could make enhancers that had the value we wanted, but what about powers that are already six-slotted? We can make global bonuses, but none of them would obey ED.
Where I've cared about it having the answer just right was in DPS chain calculations, and Mid's won't do that for you anyway, so I just added the extra calculations in my spreadsheet myself. Anything needing less intense calculation I just eyeball.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
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That wouldn't work cos the Alpha slot doesn't work as a global bonus but rather as a bonus to powers that can take enhancements of that type. So a recharge alpha wouldn't apply to Domination for example.
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Originally Posted by Red_Addiction
Are you wanting to modify Mids program code yourself? Or are you asing how Mids programmers should add this feature?
Make an Temp or Accolade power called "Alpha Slot" and give it one enhancement slot. Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual, are more like enhancement categories. Like Damage, Endurance, Accuracy, and Recharge. Think of them like IO sets, or Hami O's. Make it a global enhancement like the 7.5% Recharge proc that will be applied to all of your powers. How you code that I have no idea, I don't even know what scripting language Mids uses, C++ or something else? I am not a programmer. You may want to disregard my entire response lol. |
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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata
If you can't wait for the good folks at Mid's to cater to you, I'd suggest using algebra.
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Well, assuming the mid's designers are working on it, thats good enough for me. Here's to hoping it gets here fairly soon then.
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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata
If you can't wait for the good folks at Mid's to cater to you, I'd suggest using algebra.
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Im assuming making a mock up inherit power for Musculature, Cardiac, Nerve and Spiritual buffs, and then just clicking which one you have equipped? This would be really useful to have right about now. Any ideas?
Apologies if this has already been discussed and resolved.