I posted this on my allegiance site and there hasn't been much interest, but if anyone is interested please PM me and I can email it to you. The values for single skill goals were crosschecked against Surge's really nice web based one at this site:


http://www.strikefast.net/skillcalc/


If there is enough interest I can try and make it faster for goals using multiple attributes that are far from current stats. Feedback is always welcome. I also have no idea how to write a decal plug-in but if someone wanted to convert it for decal and automatically have it load all your stats, then PM me about that as well.


Cleaner's AC Calculator:


It's a stand alone program and requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1. That file if you don't have it is 23MB and is found here:


http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en


The program takes all of your unbuffed values so the fastest way I found to get unbuffed if needed is to use an olthoi statue and let one of the flying paradox ones unbuff you. Let it unbuff you a few times until it stops saying spells are coming off.


Here's what the program does:


1) Let's you design your character's race, skills and attributes and it will tell you what level you need to reach if you are including skills you haven't trained/spec'd yet.


2) It lists all of your trained/spec'd skills and secondary attributes (health, etc) and let's you choose goal values that you'd like to reach. You can put goals for as many skills, secondaries as you like.


Note: This is what I'd like to make faster. If you have many skills that use multiple different base attributes and the goals are very far away, it can take hours - otherwise it's usually a few seconds to a couple of minutes dependind on how many attributes are involved.


3) It includes experience used on current and future augmentations and if attribute augs are used it takes those into consideration on the character design page.


4) It includes the bonus skill points that you can get from quests.


5) It will tell you what to raise your primary attributes to in order to minimize the exp used to reach your goals. It will tell you how much exp total you need above what you've used so far.


6) It will tell you the minimum level needed to reach all of your goals include skill set, augs and exp in skills.


7) If you spec a skill already trained, it will adjust the skill level the way it does in game based on exp put into that skill.


8) You can look browse the data used for the calculations and if Turbine changes the level cap or exp data you can update the files.


9) You can save any number of characters (e.g. Char 1 Current, Char 2 Current, Char 1 - Level 130, etc.) and arrange them in a list in any order you want into a character set to be reloaded later.


10) It tells you the maximum reachable values for each skill if it's Trained and if it's Specd, so you can compare during creation what you'd be giving up by not spec'ng

 

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nice job, great for goal setters

 

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I am hosting it for him. You can download it at http://www.dereth.info Be aware though, that the current version does not setup a shortcut in the start menu. You'll have to go to "c:\program files\cleaners ac calculator" to run it.

 

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Awesome Job Mr Cleaner and Thanks Much!!

Thank you very much Yaroz for hosting my files


Here's the direct link for the download:


http://www.dereth.info/index.php?ind=downloads&op=entry_view&iden=1


Thanks Embalmer - but does that mean you downloaded it and tried it or did you like Surge's online calculator? I just have to ask because evidently most people are mistaking Surge's online one for mine since that was the link I provided. Just curious and crossing fingers


Thanks,

Cleaner

 

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I've put a copy of the Cleaner's utility up on the Strikefast website as well, with a link to the download on my calculator page.

 

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So, it calculates optimum xp spread by brute force?

 

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Virindi-Inquisitor: "So, it calculates optimum xp spread by brute force?"


Yes, since my calc only does one skill at a time, there's no real problems with speed, though in the Cleaner's utility, it can take a while if you are planning out multiple related skills all at once.


I'm sure there are some optimizations and/or intelligence that can be added to the code to speed things up, but these are both first trials for both of us to write this kind of utility.

 

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