I'd love to see this added to Mids, would you?

As someone who uses Mids extensively (and suffers greatly from altitis) I've come to the conclusion that there's a functionality that I would love to see added to the program. The ability to flag enhancements to show what I've already purchased and slotted into a character's planned build. Be it a gold ring around the IO itself, or something to denote that I don't need to purchase it, or to find it amongst my other toons inventories.

Currently I print out the builds and highlight what I've done, but as someone who tries to be a bit conscientious about recycling, etc. I try to avoid printing as often as I can. This would save me lots of paper, ink and time.

Beyond the "Standard Code Rant": my question for you is this, if this kind of functionality could be added to Mids, would you want it? Would you use it?

(Hopefully the Mids folks won't want to beat me soundly across the head and shoulders for suggesting this. )

You could always post this suggestion on the Mids Suggestions thread, at Titan?
http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/board,61.0.html

I suppose the most effective way to do this would be to have two character files, one for 'current' and one for 'planned'. Sentinel's export function would make maintaining your 'current' build fairly easy.

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Polite suggestions are always welcome, I'd think. It's the "this would be easy for someone else to do" posts that gets people's hackles up. How do you know it's easy?

Anyway, I might use this, though I'm not sure. I tend to buy sets one power at a time, so I track them that way (i.e., what I have slotted so far, and what I'm still bidding on the market). It might be useful in some circumstances, but the enhancement screen and the market itself seem to provide a workaround.

Oh, I'd love to have it.

I thought about coming up with something similar during one of my few times of feeling ambitious, but fortunately my inherent laziness came through and saved me. I play the game to have fun, and when it starts turning into work it's no longer fun.

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You can flip to alternate enhancements...this is what I do:

Fill main and alternate with the same enhancements for the build. Remove enhancements from alternate when I obtain one. Then I can have the main enhancement 'view' with all the set bonuses and buffs and stuff, and I can have my 'shopping list' alternate enhancement 'view'.

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Oh man. 3 months ago I did a major re-inventory. I put about 500 enhancers in one base, in alphabetical order. Since then I have made oodles of characters/stripped/half stripped, etc. Oh, further complicating? I have bought lots of "Tuned" enhancers, and those cannot be stored at the base. I am looking at having to spend another day or two regathering everything for my next 3-6 months of builds. Especially with i24 coming up. What I would love? Have something in the game where I can store all my enhancers for my account. Tuned, Regular, all of it. My logic? I buy from NC Soft $15-$100 a month worth of stuff. Throw me a little storage space. In fact, you inspired me to start this as an independent thread.

grumble. the problem with it being in mids is how do you synch up the data entry with the characters. IF (Big freaking If) Mids could tell me where all my enhancers are on every character (in trays or not) and in my base? I'd PAY for that.

The preferred solution is for NC Soft to actually address their paying customers needs. Yes, i would Pay for that too.

Btw Aggelakis, you never did answer the questions.

(Not thinking about how much they've already got on their plates as it is, especially with changes coming in i24. Not thinking this would, or even should have any sort of priority. Without trying to "protect them".)

Would you like to see this added to the program? Would you use it if they did?

I would find it useful.

I typically stockpile IOs that I use a lot in my base, so by the time I get a new character to 50 the build is already halfway collected. So yeah, for a while there my half finished characters are sporting a Frankenstein build while I try to search through other characters and/or obtain the recipes that are left to procure.

Gotcha.

Okay, my brain obviously took a left turn at Albuquerque...

You are looking for some kind of "check off" function. Does it need to be a visual highlight? or could it possibly be a separate popup/window with a "shopping list" of all needed enhancements for a build, with little boxes that you could literally check off?

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Originally I was thinking of highlighting the individual IOs (or some other visual clue), but a check off list would also work.