While they would be cool and represent the terror behind true masterminds and not those heroic masterminds, the devs would need to get the permission from the BBC or whoever owns the rights to Doctor Who to use their likeness.
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while the BBC owns Dr. Who, Terry Nation created the Daleks. The BBC pays the estate of Terry Nation to use the likeness of the Daleks in Dr. Who.|
Originally Posted by starphoenix
While they would be cool and represent the terror behind true masterminds and not those heroic masterminds, the devs would need to get the permission from the BBC or whoever owns the rights to Doctor Who to use their likeness.
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While the BBC is relatively easy to get in contact with... the Estate of Terry Nation isn't.
I'd be happy just being able to customize the color of my Bots. I have a ILL/EMP controller and can change the color of my Phantom Army and my Phantasm but my bots are stuck with one color scheme? I see Fire Imps running around in every color of the rainbow. Now before the HUGE debate begins about that being different because Phantom Army fades away after a few minutes or I have no control over my Phantasm like i do with my Bots..... Are they a POWER? I'd say yes since I select them just like I do any other power on any other character. So because I can rename them I can't color them the way I'd like? Hardly seems like a fair trade off.
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Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
I'd be happy just being able to customize the color of my Bots. I have a ILL/EMP controller and can change the color of my Phantom Army and my Phantasm but my bots are stuck with one color scheme? I see Fire Imps running around in every color of the rainbow. Now before the HUGE debate begins about that being different because Phantom Army fades away after a few minutes or I have no control over my Phantasm like i do with my Bots..... Are they a POWER? I'd say yes since I select them just like I do any other power on any other character. So because I can rename them I can't color them the way I'd like? Hardly seems like a fair trade off.
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Phantom Army and the fire imp auras are coded as "effects", which can be re-colored. Just getting this ability was apparently a huge pain in the bum to code - remember originally they didn't think it would be possible to get power color customization at all.
The 'Bots are coded as "actors", which don't have the color customization. They could probably change them use similar coding as the effects, but that would require a ton of extra work, similar to how changing the effect colors was a ton of work.
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Pets Customization would most likely involve a more involved process of weapon customization. Might have the option to choose between 5 different pets for each pet with their own unique upgrades. Takes more effort than just coding the color. Will certainly take a long time to create all the different models.
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I just watched the Dr. Who parody with Rowan Atkinson and found myself wishing that if MM customization were introduced to the game, I'd love to transform my bots into Daleks.
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