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

Lol, no. My first 3 1/2 years in the city was on a low end comp. I recently moved up to a med range comp that can handle windows AND the game client. But my habits are to consider IF the game is on, thats all I can have.

But if you have MiDs open, it is easy to keep an alt build (or alternate enhancer build) updated with your progress in game towards getting your build done. Cheers.

Originally Posted by EarthWyrm But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

There actually is a "shopping list" feature... look under Window -> Recipe Viewer. It brings up a list of all your powers and the enhancements you slotted in them. It even shows a list of the salvage needed, the buying cost (crafting table cost for common IO recipes, and I would assume the vendor cost for DOs/SOs), and the crafting costs. You can see this for the whole build at once, or you can check just the powers you want to see that info for. You can then copy what you selected to an ingame helper window, or to the clipboard for pasting into a text file.

Unfortunately it doesn't allow you to check or uncheck just one slot at a time, it only works per power. It also doesn't retain check status if the file is closed... so you'd have to keep the file open the whole time if you want to track progress solely by that method.

However! This could* make it a much simpler request than previously believed, since it may* be just a matter of adding per-slot functionality and state retention to this feature, as opposed to creating a whole new feature.

* I am not a programmer, and know not of which I speak.

I for one would be more than happy to see a feature like you're suggesting... ripped out notebook pages and free-roaming post-its do not make for an "organized" system.

Oh yeah. My 3 or 4 year old laptop can run the game itself just fine, as long as I don't crank the graphics up too high anyway. It's the extra memory required to have both the operating system AND the game accessible at the same time, that starts to cause problems. One thing at a time? No trouble at all. Start tabbing around all over the place? At best it lags, at worst it crashes.


Speaking of alternate slotting, what's the keyboard shortcut you can use to flip to alternate for just one power? I used to have a whole list of Mids shortcuts on my other computer, but that machine's long gone and now I can't find that list anymore. It'd be downright awesome if anyone could point me to it.

Right... but....

Bolded for emphasis.

While Rangle's idea of some kind of highlight function would be a great visual, I'm more of a list person. I'm not really crazy about the way the current "build list" works. I like my lists simple.

The current "build list" divided out by power is... tedious for shopping purposes. A simpler list would lay out the enhancements alphabetically, with a check box next to each. If I need 3 health enchancies, there would be 3 listings for health with a check box next to each of them. A descriptive line of salvage needed would be bonus, or maybe even an alternate list for salvage shopping... dunno... just tossing ideas 'round.

Creating this function in a small popup window that you could optionally give "on top" status would be very useful while in game.

Saving the changing status of the list with the build would be key.

Oh lordy, you do not want to see what Rangle's desk looks like! lol

Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson

Yeah no doubt. While it can be useful, it's not what it could be. Hopefully a nice simple layouto like you suggested could be implemented at some point. I wouldn't ask right now, hehe... but in the future perhaps.