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Some kind of Schrodenbug... Didn't show up at all for me until you guys reported it, suddenly nothing works and looking at the source code, it can't ever (well, ever since I ported over that section of the code from VB to C# two weeks ago - part of why Mids 1.94 and Mids 1.93 are smaller than 1.92) have worked. Given that one of the two main builds I use for testing had Guassian's in it, and none of my QA people found it... I'm at a loss. Argh.

Anyways, it's fixed now. Hopefully, there won't be any other of these Schrodenbugs.

Well, holy crap. Not certain what happened there... Well, I know what happened, but not why. Anyways, here's a quick updated version for people to give a shot:

Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.942

Hot on the heels of our last release is a minor little bugfix and small feature update:

Download file: Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.942

Release Notes

Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.942 - May 2011

New features:

• Regeneration and Recovery caps are now implemented, so you can see just how much your Destiny helps you.

Fixes & changes

• Fixed an issue loading Arachnos Soldier builds.
• Fixed an issue with IOs with grant power effects.

Known Issues

• Windows Vista and Windows 7 have issues with the updater due to UAC interfering with writing to the Program Files folder. Many of these problems can be resolved by (a) installing as Administrator, (b) running Mids as Administrator, or (c) installing Mids to a different location than the Program Files folder.
• Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added, all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
• The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
• 60 Month Vet reward button not added. *This means taking a Tier 3 travel pool power at level 6 or higher is automatic for everyone. *You need to know whether or not you are eligible for this reward or you must take your travel power at level 14 or higher.
• Power Boost affects some powers that should ignore its buffs, such as Ice Shields.
• Temporary and Accolade powers are not being affected by buffs such as recharge rate.
• Alignment and, consequentially, Accolade powers will not load from saved builds.

At the PAX Meet-n-Greet, my friend Garent, who has a Praetorian in the high 20s who never left, asked Positron whether or not it was possible for his Praetorian to hit 50 and join trials and so forth from the D without leaving Praetoria. Positron thought really hard and said "I think so, yeah".

Cut to a later in a Beta, where the copied version of the Praetorian character was autoleveled to 50 by Arbiter Wolf and then proceeded to run trials and get Incarnate powers.

So yeah, it works.

Sorry it took so long, but between figuring out how to get Interface to work properly in Mids and running the new trials... But here you go!

Download file: Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.940

Release Notes

Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.94 - May 2011

New features:

• Incarnate slots for Issue 20 fully supported!

Fixes & changes

• Vigilance should work properly.
• Mastermind summon powers now respect endurance reduction.
• Build import and load has been altered to have a greater tolerance for corrupted save files. In many case that previously caused an error message, it will now simply try and drop the bad powers and load the rest of the build. This should help with issues resulting from save files created using the bad Epic Powers update in 1.91 and the Unofficial Fitness patch.

Known Issues

• Windows Vista and Windows 7 have issues with the updater due to UAC interfering with writing to the Program Files folder. Many of these problems can be resolved by (a) installing as Administrator, (b) running Mids as Administrator, or (c) installing Mids to a different location than the Program Files folder.
• Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added, all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
• The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
• 60 Month Vet reward button not added. *This means taking a Tier 3 travel pool power at level 6 or higher is automatic for everyone. *You need to know whether or not you are eligible for this reward or you must take your travel power at level 14 or higher.
• Power Boost affects some powers that should ignore its buffs, such as Ice Shields.
• Temporary and Accolade powers are not being affected by buffs such as recharge rate.
• Alignment and, consequentially, Accolade powers will not load from saved builds.

Whoa, nice. I like it when things arrive early.

Current development version has all four slots intact and fully available. Interface works fine except for one small bug (where it sometimes causes the debuff to be applied to you). Destiny works peachy keen except that I don't think the handy "time-slider" will make it in (a nice feature I wanted to deal with the staggered buffs). I was hoping to release it tomorrow, but these last couple bugs came out of nowhere. I'd love to say May 1st, but I can't make any promises... Stupid bugs.

My Brute has gotten mostly commons and uncommons, and on my very last run I got the 10 thread option. That last run was an 8-man Lambda where three or four of the people had never done it before and I was leading... And we successfully got all 10 of each temp and beat Marauder with six minutes remaining. I have never gotten a rare or very rare on my brute.

Oh, and the Brute is a DM/Shielder who uses Shield Charge every time it's up.

My wife's Controller has gotten a Very Rare, a Rare, and several uncommons. She's a Fire/Rad on hyper recharge who does nothing but spam her AoE powers...

It definitely looks to me like either (a) the system is random, or (b) it's skewed towards support and my Brute is going to have a lot higher climb as a result.

According to testing in beta, the unique pet buff IOs apply to Lore pets.

Any power that can accept a Damage enhancement is affected by Interface (this includes things like Judgement - it can accept Damage enhancements but it doesn't get slots so you can't put them in there normally).

I still haven't even slotted my first post-Alpha, and some people have multiple rares...

I am impressed.

The change is actually making this impossible to play for my wife. She's an albino and, as such, has absolutely horrible vision and very specific problems having to do with a lack of ability to truly focus. Bright lights give her migraines, flashy things on the side of screen screw with her head, and weird color contrasts are problematic. Up until I20, the game was good enough that it wasn't a problem.

Now, though...

The new minimum size for the chat box is ridiculous because she has to play at a resolution of 1024x768 and at this size, the chat window takes up at least a third of the screen. She can't reduce the scale of this window, or she can't read the text since font size is tied to window scale (as I said, she has horrible vision -- she's actually considered legally blind, even though she can still see).

Then there're the colors of the team UI, both old and new. They're bright, very bright, and the fonts are horrible to read (especially the green on green of the classic font). And the buff icons are gigantic now, and regularly stretch across the entire screen.

I understand the need to increase the minimum size to fit the League link, but they overshot it by a fairly significant bit of space. Furthermore, it's a poor UI decision to make their interface dependent on the number of items in it like this - this menu should be changed to a dropdown with checkbox circles, like the minimap has. Or something.

As it, she simply can't play, and that makes me sad.

We're considering an overhaul to the Requirements part of the Mids' powers and effects code, which will hopefully nip all these little things in the bud (as well as allowing us to handle more esoteric things like City Traveller). Top priority right now, though, is I20... After that, we're looking at the Requirements code and PvP DR (something we hoped to have done for 1.93, but it got dropped in order to work on some internal tools and I20).

Slightly delayed due to a certain someone (hint: it's me) going on vacation to see PAX and other things, we've got a brand new Mids' update for you guys. This one is mostly a bugfix version but has a few new features, like the ability to quickly toggle incarnate and accolade powers from the main screen and the full implementation of the Drag'n'Drop for powers (it now swaps by default, and moves with Shift click).

Mids' Hero/Villain Designer v1.930

Mids’ Hero/Villain Designer 1.93 - March 2011

New features:

• The drag-drop Move/Shift system has been enabled. Hold the Shift key while dropping if you want to Move instead of Swap. Like a book being removed from a stack, where the other books will rush to fill in the gap, this will cause the powers between the source and destination slots to shift toward the source slot in order to make room for the power being dragged-and-dropped.
• It is now possible to toggle incarnate/temp/accolade powers from the main window by simply clicking on the button. Double-clicking will result in the appropriate window being opened.
• There is now an option in the Configuration panel that will change whether or not the Enhancement values in the power popup includes Alpha Ability enhancements.

Fixes & changes

• Accolades/Temps and Incarnate windows should no longer steal focus when the window isn't already in focus.
• Accolades/Temps window will now scroll as necessary in order to accommodate for larger font sizes.
• Applying font style and color changes via the Configuration panel will now have the intended effect.
• The info tabs will no longer cover up part of the secondary powerset power list when the secondary powerset box is taller than the primary one.
• Enhancement slots can once again be removed by double-clicking.
• The damage value/graph will no longer be pushed beyond the visible range of the window under certain common circumstances. If possible, the primary and secondary power lists will shrink and require scrolling instead.
• It is now possible to use the mouse wheel to scroll in the Recipe Viewer, Accolades/Temps, Incarnate, and In-Game Helper windows. The fix for this improved compatibility with software mouse wheeling systems, such as Synaptic touch pad drivers.
• All power pools can now shrink to accommodate for smaller window sizes.
• A random "-2" is no longer being added to the enhancement list in the info tabs.
• Window scaling when dealing with Kheldian builds should finally work properly.
• The resizing event no longer occurs twice during every resize and three times when the main window loads. This should speed up the program a bit.
• The real-numbers style accuracy tooltip will now show the correct value even under the influence of ToHit buffs.
• Inherent Fitness will no longer be missing when loading certain builds.
• Inherent powers such as Scourge, Domination, and Containment work again.
• Base fly speed is now correct.
• Bile Spray for Masterminds and Blasters now has the correct static index.
• Hail of Bullets should now give an accurate value for damage per animation time.
• Burn for Scrappers and Blasters is now set as a click buff.
• Inherent Fitness is now compatible with Kheldian forms.
• Hasten and Domination now have the correct activation times.
• The damage buff from Vigilance is now applied properly, and includes a slider to show it decreasing based on number of teammates (up to 3, since more than that has no effect).

Known Issues

• Windows Vista and Windows 7 have issues with the updater due to UAC interfering with writing to the Program Files folder. Many of these problems can be resolved by (a) installing as Administrator, (b) running Mids as Administrator, or (c) installing Mids to a different location than the Program Files folder.
• Diminishing Returns for PvP mode have not yet been added, all buffs currently show their full, unmodified values.
• The Power Graphs for the current build do not display effects for pseudo-pet powers like Ice Storm. This does not affect the Powerset Comparison, which is now fully aware of pseudo-pets.
• 60 Month Vet reward button not added. *This means taking a Tier 3 travel pool power at level 6 or higher is automatic for everyone. *You need to know whether or not you are eligible for this reward or you must take your travel power at level 14 or higher.
• Power Boost affects some powers that should ignore its buffs, such as Ice Shields.
• Temporary and Accolade powers are not being affected by buffs such as recharge rate.
• Alignment and, consequentially, Accolade powers will not load from saved builds.

Finish powerset proliferation.
Buff the underperforming powersets.
Buff the ridiculous crap powers (like give Corrs, Defenders and Blasters the Dominator versions of snipes).
Rebalance Stalkers.
Buff the crappy IO sets to bring variety to build options (3% Debt Reduction? 2% Immob Resist? Seriously?).
Do a pass over the Epic Power Pools to make them evenly balanced (example for Defenders: Shocking Bolt (Tier 2) and Dominate (Tier 1) are 16 second recharging powers, the hold powers in the Patrons are 32 seconds... damage values are all over the place).
Provide parity between Defense and Resistance set bonuses, to give people an alternate slotting choice (and, coincidentally, put resistance based powersets on more even footing with the defense ones when using IOs).

Sure, that list might be more than a whole day to do, but most of them are stuff I've already thought about and made a list for. There's a reason I'm the Mids' guy.