After seeing the april fools joke about the "City of sidekicks" I got to wondering, why do we have sidekicks? What good hero goes without a sidekick? What evil genius goes without a loyal minion? I thought long and hard on this.I would like to have a sidekick added as a power!
Just like the mission for capes and auras,we should be able to go to the Atlas park rep and get the mission to earn a Sidekick.It should be like a rescue mission of your biggest fans.The hardest decision a hero should ever make is which one we should save, so there should be two choices ever a male fan or female fan.After choosing which one you want to save, I figured there should be up to three missions.First should be like the cape mish, talk to some famous ex sidekicks and then go defeat some baddies in a mish.Second mish should be like aura mish, hunt some baddies.Then the third should be the rescue the male or female fan mish.After completing the missions you have unlocked the customizable sidekick in the tailor,but first you must goto a trainer and select what kind of sidekick it should be.Goto a trainer and select the option that reads"Train your sidekick".The set up should be like selecting the archtype,origin and powers.But the sidekick can only have two primary and one secondary powers.Even name him or her! The sidekick will be at the default look when you first saved him or her, you will have to goto the tailor and change the look.This should be placed at the top that after power tab.The sidekick can only have one costume.Everything just like the Hero should be customizable, from height to shoes.Whetever you have unlocked should be available to your sidekick.You can use either a discount ticket,free tailor coin, or use your influence to pay for this.
This should be a payable unlockable like the magic and ninja pack.Bring out some great emotes, new faces,and costume pieces.The power should be like a summon power.the hero would whistle and the sidekick come running up from behind ready to fight.Controlling the sidekick should be like the masterminds.You can place in defensive,attack,or passive mode.The enhancements should be enhance recharge,endurance reduction.The Sidekicks should be buffable and healable.They would fight one level under the hero.
I hope everyone would agree that this would be a great addition to the world of COH.Please take this into consideration and think about it before shooting it down.
thanks,
Stingman
