Ive closed - opened Mids a few times and am not getting the prompt after my reinstall?
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I'm not saying quit your job. I'm saying get paid to rewrite Mids into something you think would be best for you and for future updates. Basically get paid for the side job your doing. |
Originally Posted by Diellan_
The thought has crossed my mind more than once. But it's not like I would just quit my job in order to build Mids once. Maybe if things go south at my workplace, I'll reconsider it.
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Look the reality is I personally could not play this game without Mids because I would have no clue how a build would come out unless I used Mids. Further I couldn't experiment with odd builds and powers to see how those builds would come out. A perfect example is my Petless Mastermind. If it wasn't for Mids I couldn't test out the build and review the numbers to compare it to other builds I have to see that I can solo 4/8 with the build.
It is Mids that allows me to squeeze every possible percent out of a build. I would be willing to pay to use it and get the updates I do.
I would imagine over the years things have changed code wise and I would guess looking back your might be saying
"Man if I could do this over I would have coded Mids using this, this would allow for some many options and plugins"
The Kickstarter I think is a decent way of doing it. They hold the money so no one gets screwed and the good thing is you already have something to show. So no one is going on blind faith that you might be able to do it. Your already doing it. So there is nothing to prove on your end. The only thing your doing is getting paid for the time to rewrite this with something that might be better then you have now. Assuming this is even an issue.
Again talking out of my backside, Even if you figured It would take you 7 days of 12 hour days to rewrite Mids with something you think is better and you calculated it worth $2,000 for your time. Even if it took 14 days of 12 hours days no one is gonna complain or if you went vice versa and said 14 but only needed 7.
The honest reality is no one would know or care. They would have this new shiny program that could a bunch of stuff the old Mids couldn't.
I know one time I asked about being able to have predetermined powers already slotted with IOs so as not to keep making the same key parts of a build over and over. You guys mentioned your looking for ways to get his done. I know others have requested other stuff as well that you mentioned you would like to have done. Maybe this New Mids can be that thing.
Honestly I do know the one thing that would hurt you maybe is not reaching the goal and I can understand that. Again I don't know so that might not be that much of a big deal as well.
End result if rewriting Mids would make it better. Let the users know why they would want a new Mids and why it's worth paying to get it done. I think the thing sells itself honestly.
How many unique IPs download Mids ? That should give you an idea right.
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I think so. I'm home now so I can't check.|
Originally Posted by cybermitheral
Ive closed - opened Mids a few times and am not getting the prompt after my reinstall?
Are you a Local Administrator on your work pc? |
Oddly, I had no trouble whatsoever here.
*Blush* Ok you can point and laugh but I'm clueless! Is there a fast way to slot a power? Like if I pick the Ragnarok IO and I want the entire set slotted in the power...or do I have to do it the ol fashioned way?
You can use middle-click on an empty slot to place another of whatever you placed last, or the next IO in the set if the previous cannot be placed (due to Unique-ness or because you already have that one in the power). So you can place the first Ragnarok through the menus as normal, then middle-click on each of the remaining slots and it will fill in the rest of the set.
Enjoy 
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Since when???? OMG I didnt know about this.|
Originally Posted by Hopeling
You can use middle-click on an empty slot to place another of whatever you placed last, or the next IO in the set if the previous cannot be placed (due to Unique-ness or because you already have that one in the power). So you can place the first Ragnarok through the menus as normal, then middle-click on each of the remaining slots and it will fill in the rest of the set.
Enjoy |
*joygasm*
Now if only I could middle-click on an already slotted IO and it would change to the next available from that set so I can 4 Slot the 4x LOTG I want all via the middle-click
There was a bug with the auto-updater notification on the server that caused it to ask people to download an old version of the database. Codewalker disabled that, so it shouldn't happen again, but those of you who did so will need to reinstall the new Mids version (and maybe delete any extraneous mhz files in the Mids folder). Sorry about that.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
You can use middle-click on an empty slot to place another of whatever you placed last, or the next IO in the set if the previous cannot be placed (due to Unique-ness or because you already have that one in the power). So you can place the first Ragnarok through the menus as normal, then middle-click on each of the remaining slots and it will fill in the rest of the set.
Enjoy |
thanks.
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Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind
Sabbatical.
Edit : If you actually need to offer incentives other than maybe a 'credits' menu button mentioning donors to this community, everyone here is an ungrateful selfish *******. That being said I bet we could do a twitter campaign for them to put in a Mids' logo chest costume option in the game and give you codes to distribute. I might do that anyway just because it's win. |
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Originally Posted by plainguy
I'm not saying quit your job. I'm saying get paid to rewrite Mids into something you think would be best for you and for future updates. Basically get paid for the side job your doing.
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If a "New Planner Kickstarter" ever went further, yeah, we'd totally be hitting up the Devs for incentives and trying to work things out with them. Sadly, there aren't a whole lot of "rewards" we could offer beyond "put your names on x" and "beta access to New Planner" and possibly "demand a feature".
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I can't see where the offensive/defensive adaptations can be found for Bio Armour?
There is an issue with 1.959 and Bio armor.
The Adaptation toggles dont appear except for Scrappers (I didnt test Stalkers).
_Diellan is aware and working on it.
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Yeah, and the people with the knowledge are expensive. Still; figure out the time and team required -- 2-3 months with 3-6 fulltimers seems like it should be able to accomplish the project (if you have a good mechanism for delegating smaller issues and testing to part-time volunteers). Then figure out how much money that would require. There's a certain amount of labor of love that's got to be involved; part of the team selection is going to have to be lowest bid for how much any given member needs for themselves per month for the expected duration of the project. We can raise one grand, I think really no problem if we can get the word out. Ten grand is definitely within the realm of possibility. Twenty grand... maybe. Anything over that and it's just not feasible.|
Originally Posted by Diellan_
The discussion of a "New Planner" is something that has come and gone in the Titan Network, and it's mostly an issue of time - all the people with the knowledge don't have the time to do it, myself at the foremost. It'd have to be a sabbatical or a job change or something, as I truly don't have time to do this on the side of my current job for more than I do now - I'm a busy, busy team leader/manager these days.
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There's also the possibility of doing 'bake sales' during the run to get some interim funds; raffles for rare in-game items or other relevant commodities. I'm confident people would pitch in for that. But you'd have to get the bulk of the funds from the initial campaign.
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The only other logical use for the kickstarter rewards tiers would be some way of getting non-CoX players interested in the game and thus donating to the project. I can't think of anything that would obviously accomplish this, but if I do I'll let y'all know.
Is it intentional that Bio Armor and Nature Affinity are not accepting IOs?
Goodbye. Not to the game, but the players. Goodbye. Everyone, remember to have fun. That's all I can say.
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Nope.
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Originally Posted by Bullet Barrage
Is it intentional that Bio Armor and Nature Affinity are not accepting IOs?
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Hi Diellan,
I was going to report what appears to be a bug through your link in your sig, but registration seems to be disabled on the site. Or maybe I need to register elsewhere in the network?
1.959 -- Energy Armor -- Entropic Armor. When Energy Cloak is activated, it kills the recharge bonus from Entropic Armor in the totals screen. Is this working as intended?
Thanks for listening, and thanks for all your hard work.
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Originally Posted by Mixlplick
Hi Diellan,
I was going to report what appears to be a bug through your link in your sig, but registration seems to be disabled on the site. Or maybe I need to register elsewhere in the network? |
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1.959 -- Energy Armor -- Entropic Armor. When Energy Cloak is activated, it kills the recharge bonus from Entropic Armor in the totals screen. Is this working as intended? Thanks for listening, and thanks for all your hard work. |
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Thanks! I'm registered to the gills now.
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After you register to the gills, you should register to the Titan Network. :P
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Originally Posted by Mixlplick
Thanks! I'm registered to the gills now.
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This is because Entropic Aura has it's +Recharge, -Recharge, and Taunt effects tagged "StealthOn", and Energy Cloak has a -100% Chance to effects tagged "StealthOn" effect for as long as you're not attacking, being attacked, or clicking on glowies.|
Originally Posted by Diellan_
Bizarre. I'll check it.
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The idea was that when you wanted to be stealthy, Entropic Aura would not alert enemies.
I haven't tested myself, but I've been told it doesn't work, not even on Scrappers (Brutes are unreliable at testing it since one of the Fury powers alerts enemies to your presence, anyway).
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Originally Posted by Trickshooter
I haven't tested myself, but I've been told it doesn't work, not even on Scrappers (Brutes are unreliable at testing it since one of the Fury powers alerts enemies to your presence, anyway).
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Correct. It's a PITA and I've been told it's not WAI >_> So we shall see...
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Maybe it has been said before, but none of the powers from nature affinity can be slotted with IO sets in Mids' 1.959 and i cannot add them manually as in previous versions.
Thanks for the updates though, and with a few beta sets this time 
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Mids 1.96 is released now, which has a couple more bugfixes plus some updates for Bio-Armor.
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Will Mids install to a USB stick or does the install have to register itself to the OS? It would be nice to bring it to work....... ( ' :0
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As long as the system has the right version of .NET it should work fine.
It's fairly self-contained so if you put it on a USB stick the only thing you don't get versus having it "installed" is the file association. I.e. you have to open up Mids first and then open a build instead of just double clicking on the build file, but that's not a huge burden.
I renamed the D:\Program Files (x86)\Titan Network\Mids Hero Designer\mhd.mhz as indicated in the screen prompt and tried again but no luck.
I renamed the "Titan Network folder", renamed my "Hero & Villain Builds" folder (in Documents) and ran the install from the Internet (didnt download the file first) to my original location.
I then renamed the "Hero & Villain Builds" back and ran Mids and it worked.
I looked at both my original Mids folder and the newly installed one and the new folder does NOT have the mhd.mhz file at all.
Was able to launch right after the latest reinstall, but after closing it I'm getting the error message again. Running a registry cleaner didn't work, either.
Not a huge deal since I'm only on my work computer, but it's still frustrating.