Possible Improvements

[mmaxner]

I've made several changes for my personal use, and wanted to know if any of them would be wanted here. Here are the changes I've made (they can be seen and tried on this branch), please let me know if I should make a pull request to add any of them.

• added a Lock/Unlock icon to ItemStats cards, which can be clicked to Lock/Unlock same as on the Inventory tab
• added a 'Equip + Lock' button to the Optimization tab, it equips the gear as normal, then locks it all
• made Optimization tab automatically show the currently equipped gear of a hero in the right side ItemStats cards whenever a new hero is chosen from the hero dropdown
• added portrait of currently selected hero beside hero dropdown in Optimization tab (I removed the 'Force' controls since I personally have never used it, which gave me a lot of extra space to fit this extra image)
• added 'Hide Equipped Heroes' checkbox in the Optimization tab, which filters out all heroes that have all their gear equipped and locked so they're not shown in the Hero dropdown (I'm very open to any ideas to change how this works/looks, this was just very useful for my workflow with the optimizer)
• added 'Hero Priority' attribute that can be set in the Heroes tab. The hero dropdown in the Optimization tab sorts by Priority first, ID second, so if you have a lot of heroes you can easily organize them into the order of importance

Unfortunately I found that making UI changes caused a lot of auto-generated changes in the designer files, and I couldn't chain UI changes together through merges, and I ended up mashing most of my changes together into big, messy commits that changed many things at once. If any of the changes are wanted, I'll be happy to make proper commits for a pull request.

Thanks for making the Optimizer, I couldn't really play without it.

[maxnumbers]

I like these changes, personally. I was actually thinking about working on adding a "Teams & Priority" tab myself. @mmaxner

[alee1818]

Hi @mmaxner I really like these changes. I was wondering if you are gonna update it for the new sets coming out. I am also wondering how I will be able to use your changes for myself? Like what files to download and stuff and how to run it. I don't know how to run your version as there is no app to open, there are only files. I tried moving your files into the original optimizer file but it still didn't work. Thanks

[mmaxner]

Hey @alee1818 , thanks. I'll probably add the new sets if this repo doesn't.

If you want to use my version, you'll need to use Visual Studio (or another program that can build windows forms programs). You'll need to checkout my 'TerribleMergeBranch' branch to get the code with all the changes. You can open the Solution file (.sln) in Visual Studio, and from the Build Menu choose to Rebuild Solution. Under E7-Gear-Optimizer/E7-Gear-Optimizer/bin/Release (or Debug if you built it in debug mode) will be the built program that you can run. I've had troubles with the automated updater, so I never choose to update from my own version. To update, I load the new changes in VS and rebuild.

[alee1818]

Hi @mmaxner, thanks so much for the instructions, I was able to get it to work with your help. I have messaged the creator of the optimizer and he says he no longer plays e7 so he wont be updating anymore. I will be looking forward to future updates from you.

[Dalkil]

@mmaxner Hi, I just logged in after some time to see if there were any updates planned since new sets are coming, just to read that Zarrok won't be updating the tool any more. Can we expect a new version/versions from you now? It would be a shame if this tool got discontinued.

Well, thank you very much!

[mmaxner]

Ahh, I see. I guess I can continue making updates in that case, I'll have to look into the updater as well and figure out how that works. As far the new sets go, I'll probably add them this weekend.

[Dalkil]

Ahh, I see. I guess I can continue making updates in that case, I'll have to look into the updater as well and figure out how that works. As far the new sets go, I'll probably add them this weekend.

That would be really awesome. This tool is great and I feel like I couldn't play without it. So, thanks a lot! 🥇

[ProtoNova29]

Just found this thread. Your ideas are fantastic and I do hope you continue to keep it up to date as this optimizer does add an extra element to e7.

My only feature idea is an adjustment to the current WSS calculation utilizing proper weights for flats/percentages as seen on https://meowyih.github.io/epic7-gear/index.html?lang=en (https://github.com/meowyih/meowyih.github.io).

[mmaxner]

Hey everyone, I did add the new sets (on top of my other changes) here : https://github.com/mmaxner/E7-Gear-Optimizer/tree/TerribleMergeBranch

Unfortunately it looks like I'll be very busy with work for the near future, its unlikely I'll be making any other changes for a while.

[Dalkil]

Hey everyone, I did add the new sets (on top of my other changes) here : https://github.com/mmaxner/E7-Gear-Optimizer/tree/TerribleMergeBranch

Unfortunately it looks like I'll be very busy with work for the near future, its unlikely I'll be making any other changes for a while.

That's awesome. Thank you very much. Considering the new sets are just added, I don't think we will see a significative change that requires an update for a while, so if E7 database gets updated, I don't think you need to worry about this. Thank you very much! ^^