Are Custom Pets a Good Idea?

Just an Idea i've had and I'd like to get a bit of feedback. I play a Merc/FF MM and the theme of my character is inspired by the captain scarlet Tv show.
My char is called Col. White and ive coloured him reflectively.
My soldiers are:
Lt. Green
Lt. Orange
Lt. Purple

Spec ops:
Cpt. Blue
Cpt. Yellow

Commander:
Cpt. Scarlet

It would be nice if there was some way I could colour my pets uniform and maybe add or take away some costume bits, though no where need the level of character creation. A slight customisation of pets would be cool no? If they can do it with powers surely it makes sense to do it with with pets. Thoughts?

A self posted forum request for genericing your character for breach of copyright...

Good call.

Yeah if those characters are copyrighted you will get generic'd . Happened to me twice so far.

To the question I hope they do allow customisation or at least a couple of costume choices. Maybe once MM's become exclusive they'll do some work on this for added value.

Captain Scarlet, Stingray and Thunderbirds © MMI Carlton International Media Limited. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/anderson/scarlet/spectrum.shtml

FFs forget it then.
Are custom pets a good idea? Guess people are more interested in digging for something to look slate me for than to talk about it.

I say this problem can be solved by using Skins and Colors. Skins would be overlays of your pets as ones already in the game. Such as family for mercs. Colors would be like demons; primary color affects pets base color, secondary affects pet trim color, all costume pieces at once if it makes it easier. These simple additions to systems already in the game could revitalize MMs. Also adding ranged/melee toggles for ai control could fix the run-in bug.

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Aside from pet customization, if MM's could gain the power to have the pets form a gestalt that would be fantastic.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

For colors, I did learn that on AE you can customize the colors of the pets. Though it does the entire outfit so it would only be useful to Bots and maybe zombies. The other sets would not work.

I think they just can't spare the art resources to do it. In the power proliferation announcement for i-21 they mentioned that the reason they added Ice Armor to stalkers is because they were told they had to choose a powerset that would require no art changes. I'm thinking those guys are busy doing something that takes up all their time.

I figure there are 2 ways of doing custom pets, full customization and selecting a model. Full customization has the problem of using about the same amount of computer resources as a player. So playing a mission with 6 fully customized henchmen would use up the same resources as a mission with a bunch of players in it. Now if we have 8 masterminds with 6 fully customized henchmen, then it would cost an insane amount of resources to run that mission. Selectable models uses up the same amount of resources as a regular mastermind, but we are limited to a select number of models to use. For example, robots could have steampunk robots, sleeker robots, and regular robots. Ninjas could have cyber ninjas, female ninjas, and regular ninjas. I would love to see female cyber ninjas.

Canz we makes armies of Cat Girlz?

Captain Scarlet eh?

Well I want a Supermarionation(tm) toggle similar to walk, where you'd bounce along stiff-bodied, with your hands held out waist-high unnaturally in front of you.

Paragon! @#$% ya!