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Seriously, there's been tons of speculations ranging from the technical side of things
(the engine doesn't really support customizing MM pets - each pet is simply a numbered option to keep down required information passing back and forth between the servers and each player in visible range. ie instead of having to pass: this pet has head #1 with hairstyle #2 in color #3, shirt #2 with texture #4 in color #5, pants #4 with texture #6 in color #3, etc all that needs to be passed is: pet #1 is active)
to the "social" side of things where folks think the devs may have been concerned about
"Pimp-Masters" and thier bevy of slave girls.
The truth is that we don't know all the thought processes of the Devs and we don't have female minions because "that's just the way it is"
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Very well stated, I think you covered all the bases on that one.
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Originally Posted by Soulwind
Because (tm)
Seriously, there's been tons of speculations ranging from the technical side of things (the engine doesn't really support customizing MM pets - each pet is simply a numbered option to keep down required information passing back and forth between the servers and each player in visible range. ie instead of having to pass: this pet has head #1 with hairstyle #2 in color #3, shirt #2 with texture #4 in color #5, pants #4 with texture #6 in color #3, etc all that needs to be passed is: pet #1 is active) to the "social" side of things where folks think the devs may have been concerned about "Pimp-Masters" and thier bevy of slave girls. The truth is that we don't know all the thought processes of the Devs and we don't have female minions because "that's just the way it is" |
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Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
You have three female sets already:
Demons
Necros
Robots
Not to mention the Dark Servant from /Dark.
The only female controller pets are the fire imps, so I think we make out well on the deal.
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Well, I don't know about the Dark Servant thing nor fire imps, but the demons, necros, & bots, I consider to be genderless.
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Originally Posted by Larcen3
You have three female sets already:
Demons Necros Robots Not to mention the Dark Servant from /Dark. The only female controller pets are the fire imps, so I think we make out well on the deal. |
Nope.
During Ultra-Secret-Closed beta, Castle swore us to secrecy. Now that he's gone I can at last share the secret.
That's why demons were added, trying to add parity (and maybe some parody as well).
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Originally Posted by freewaydoggy
Well, I don't know about the Dark Servant thing nor fire imps, but the demons, necros, & bots, I consider to be genderless.
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
Actually.... >.> ... <.< ... the demons were neutered at an early age.
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They certainly sing beautifully, though.
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Originally Posted by Psylenz
Actually.... >.> ... <.< ... the demons were neutered at an early age.
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I have a way around this, why not add a new set--summon clones of yourself? So, if ur a girl, you summon all girl clones of you, or if you're a guy, you summon guy clones of you, no? And that way, no worry about "pimps & slaves"?
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Originally Posted by Soulwind
to the "social" side of things where folks think the devs may have been concerned about
"Pimp-Masters" and thier bevy of slave girls. |
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Well, up until recently, it wasn't really possible to generate clones/duplicates of yourself [most likely for many of the same reasons we don't have real MM pet customization].|
Originally Posted by freewaydoggy
I have a way around this, why not add a new set--summon clones of yourself? So, if ur a girl, you summon all girl clones of you, or if you're a guy, you summon guy clones of you, no? And that way, no worry about "pimps & slaves"?
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With the recent advent of the duplicate tech that's been added...who knows?, it might be possible now.
I'm having trouble coming up with what kind of other powers you'd have besides the duplicates (that could keep everyone happy that is).
So, maybe we'll see some kind of duplicate/clone MM powerset, or maybe not. Maybe we'll see alternate animations for Illusion Controllers to use duplicates for Phantom Army, or maybe not. Maybe we'll see real MM pet customization sometime in the future, or maybe not.
At this point, there's just really no way to tell until it either happens or doesn't.
[BTW during our heady pen-n-paper superhero RPG days, we used compete to come up with the most overpowered - but still within the rules and point systems - characters we could.
A friend of mine came up with a guy who had completely normal human stats, but had a single power of self-duplication. The way the power was originally written, it's cost was based on how many points your character was. Well, since his character cost ZERO, he ended up being able to create something on the order of 100 million duplicates of himself. Called the character ASIA
Of course our single most overpowered character ever had simply one power:
Teleport - Usable On Others - Extra Dimensional - Ranged - No Targetting Control
Bad Guy shows up
POOF, Bad Guy disappears
Us: "Where'd he go?"
TP Guy: "Beats me, but he won't be back."
]
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A few years ago, some friends and I got to talking about the whole 'pimp' reasoning behind there not being female pets, and my friend Kathleen pointed out that she was free to have male minions that she objectified.
Thus was born a Thugs mastermind whose minions worked for her at her male stripclub. 
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Originally Posted by Patteroast
A few years ago, some friends and I got to talking about the whole 'pimp' reasoning behind there not being female pets, and my friend Kathleen pointed out that she was free to have male minions that she objectified.
Thus was born a Thugs mastermind whose minions worked for her at her male stripclub. |
I've got a magic-origin Thugs/Dark MM - named M. Goose
She's placed soul warping/mind controlling spells into all of her "songs" for a never ending stream of corrupted youth to serve her every whim.
But, folks seem to not get as bent out of shape with the Dominitrix-Mistress types as much as the Pimp-Daddy types...go figure.
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Hello, my name is Soulwind and I have Alt-Itis.
a mm can control?
Why is it that there are no female henchman? I mean, why don't we have the option to add female thugs, mercs, or ninjas? Or even a different set altogether? Please answer, thanks.