Character Planner - Series 3.xx

[Bloodhaven]

There is now an option to change alignment in game. (for a price in TP)

so you can build that 2 pally 2 barbarian 16 bard you always wanted.

[Ron]

So does that mean that you can put 1pt into a cross class skill every level up if you actually have at least 1 level of a class that can actually use it as a class skill even if you aren't actually levelling up as that class?

Yep, exactly.

[Ron]

Ok, you can disregard my previous comment, seems i had a pre 3.5 versions till on w7 and 3.5.1 does not have these cfg files.

Neither did any pre 3.5 versions. I'm not sure where your .cfg files would have come from, unless it is something Win7 added by itself.

[Ron]

There is now an option to change alignment in game. (for a price in TP)

so you can build that 2 pally 2 barbarian 16 bard you always wanted.

LOL, swell.

I presume the alignment changes will still be restricted to allowable alignments given your classes (Chaotic neutral Paladins??). I haven't looked at the new system at all, though, so who knows how it works?

[joshmiller83]

I added a Bug on Mantis with info on the Rogue Mechanic changes in U5. Hope to use this to create my build soon.

[Jiipster]

I presume the alignment changes will still be restricted to allowable alignments given your classes (Chaotic neutral Paladins??). I haven't looked at the new system at all, though, so who knows how it works?

You can't swap to an alignment that's not allowed by any of your classes, no. For example, Paladins can't change their alignment at all.

[Iambeastx]

Neither did any pre 3.5 versions. I'm not sure where your .cfg files would have come from, unless it is something Win7 added by itself.

It was 3.32 and i'd reckon you are right, either way, i have tried to force the issue to arise but it no longer does.

[Greeka]

Not sure if this has been posted but in the current version of the planner the Rogue Pre Mechanic I does not granted repeating Light Crossbows, the second capstone of +2 int and 4d6 sneak attack dice is not there, and Mechanic II is not granting heavy repeaters as well.

[Ron]

Yeah, I know. The whole business of Enhancements granting Feats just isn't supported in the planner right now. It doesn't have any code to do that.

It's a priority to get working for the next version, since I know it affects people's builds. It's just a matter of me finding the time to code it in.

[Warwolf42]

Thank you Ron, great tool. I almost spend more time tweaking builds than playing the game

+rep

[Meetch1972]

Thank you Ron, great tool. I almost spend more time tweaking builds than playing the game

+rep

Yes, RON! It's all your fault, RON!! If it weren't for you I'd have levelled up more, RON!!! You've ruined my life, RON!!!!

Ahem. I'm better now. Yes, the tool is rather addictive and it keeps me going when "going online" would get me in trouble with the missus, and starting up the tool does not. I might be single if it weren't for you Ron! Your efforts are much appreciated here.

[SINIBYTE]

Seems to be missing Monk Animal Paths level I for all aside from Monkey.

[Lanthum]

Ron,

I love your planner! It's especially a great tool for a casual player like myself - I use it all the time! I have a quick question (which has probably been asked before) - is there a page or a link that shows what all the changes were between the versions? With the number of pages here growing to the mid 30's, it's hard to keep up with all the posts.

Thanks and +1 rep!

[Ron]

Not really.

I used to keep a file that was released with the planner (in the Data directory) called Changelog.txt that outlined all the major changes and bugfixes on a per-version basis. However, once I opened the planner code up and got a team of people working on it, that file became very difficult to maintain (not impossible, I COULD have pulled the info from the SVN logs I suppose). It just didn't seem worth the effort, so I stopped doing it.

At this point I'm pretty much just updating the planner when the game updates (as I'm now working on a totally different major project), so it just follows the game updates as far as what changes (plus any fixes for bugs that were reported in that time). If I (or a member of the team) add new features on top of that, I tend to mention them in the release post.

[KoboldKiller]

FYI my Norton is now accepting the planner.

[Ron]

FYI my Norton is now accepting the planner.

Indeed? Was that a change caused by the lastest planner, or a change caused by the latest Norton?

Can anyone else confirm?

Hopefully the Norton guys straightened it out, whatever the issue was. There is simply NO reason the planner should be setting off AV alarms, it does nothing dodgy, and far less than other programs do routinely (for instance, mess around in the system registry, or copy files around). It DOES access the windows clipboard, but then, so does just about every other program in existance, heh.

[KoboldKiller]

Indeed? Was that a change caused by the lastest planner, or a change caused by the latest Norton?

Can anyone else confirm?

Hopefully the Norton guys straightened it out, whatever the issue was. There is simply NO reason the planner should be setting off AV alarms, it does nothing dodgy, and far less than other programs do routinely (for instance, mess around in the system registry, or copy files around). It DOES access the windows clipboard, but then, so does just about every other program in existance, heh.

Not sure, I downloaded the planner on Saturday and it worked fine so I guess it depends on if the planner was updated between my last post and Saturday, if not then it was probably a change with the Norton as I have it set to update daily.

[jvnorris]

The Feats For Spell focus do not work properly. If you take regular spell focus then later try to take greater spell focus in the same school it drops the first focus. This kept happening to me when trying to get the focuses needed for Pale Master... Also To allows taking greater spell focus at level 1 which should not be possible. Sorry for not putting this in mantis But I dont like having to sign up for more accounts then I need. You can PM me here if you need more details.

~V~

[AZgreentea]

Hopefully this wont be hard for you to adjust

The prerequisites were selected as thematically appropriate, although this does prevent certain multiclass PrE combinations.

In Update 7, however, class specific skill enhancements will be replaced with "generalized" class skill enhancements. (i.e. "Rogue Hide I" will be replaced with "Improved Hide I".) All prerequisites for enhancements that previously referred to class specific skill enhancements will refer to these general skill enhancements. Improved <skill> I - IV each cost 1 AP, rather than 1/2/3/4. Due to this change, some multiclass Prestige Enhancement combinations will become possible which were previously impossible. You will need to respec your enhancements to take advantage of these changes.

It's something we've wanted to do for a while.

Oh, I should mention explicitly - some multiclass PrE combinations will remain impossible, such as Stalwart Defender / Defender of Siberys. We're only changing the skill enhancements at this time.

All classes will also receive the skill enhancements for all of their class skills (except for Use Magic Device, which doesn't have a skill enhancement line) rather than just a handful of them.

[Ron]

The Feats For Spell focus do not work properly. If you take regular spell focus then later try to take greater spell focus in the same school it drops the first focus. This kept happening to me when trying to get the focuses needed for Pale Master... Also To allows taking greater spell focus at level 1 which should not be possible. Sorry for not putting this in mantis But I dont like having to sign up for more accounts then I need. You can PM me here if you need more details.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it and see what is going on. I also saw a bug with monks in another thread (the level 3 feats not appearing where they should), so I have a couple of things to look at for monks.

No problem wrt Mantis. I know some people don't like to sign up for extra stuff they will probably use all of one time, heh. I try to make sure I go through this thread pretty thoroughly when I'm bug killing, so reporting here is a good second option.

Hopefully this wont be hard for you to adjust

Yeah, I saw that yesterday. In reality, it's not a hard change (just changes to the text files basically). It's just a matter of catching all the entries in the files.