Customizable MM Minions For VIP Players

I would love to be able to change the appearance of my Thugs, Ninjas, and ect. I am tired of seeing the same look, on other MM's minions.

I would like to alter their looks and customize the weapons they use.

So would everyone else that's been asking for this since the day we learned about MM's. We're still waiting.

I would also like to have fully customizable minions,but then the server would have to track that many more costume files. SCR would apply. I would settle for having choices and color-tinting for critters.

The easiest would be to just have alt models to summon in different styles maybe letting you top color them. Like gangsters for thugs, police or long bow for mercenaries, demons maybe some other less evil looking humanoid or more evil looking ones Cthulhu like ones, and for undead maybe Frankenstein monster types or some thing you get it. Would be the easy way and i think most would like it they could add more latter on.

Thugs looking like those Crey black suits would be peachy. I don't really like the motard look, especially after lvl 20 when a Mastermind should have been moving up in life.

The thing that bugs me the most, however, is that even if you name (rename) a minion, his appearance is dramatically altered every time you resummon them. Worse, once you get the 3rd minion (say, the flamethrower guy from Thugs or the medic from Mercs), you have no way to ensure that the minion's name is tied to his special abilities. Naming the medic Mr. Patch-it is useless, because the next time you resummon your minions there's a 2/3 chance that the name Mr. Patch-it will be given to a regular rifle-wielding merc instead.

The ability to lock a minion's appearance and special abilities to his name would be a start.

Ninjas Options:

Optional Theme: European Style Highwaymen (a la Musketeers or Comte de Monte Cristo style), Assassins (as in Middle East style)...other stealth types like

Boss levels: Oni, Sorcerer, Dervish...etc

Mercs: Police is probably the best other option

Thugs: Mafia, Yakuza/Triad

Robots: Rock golems, 50s style robots, anime style robots

Undead: Oriental Undead (green skin, long talons, etc), Spectres, Nazghul-style wraiths

Demons: Luciferians (more humanoid and sinister), Cthulhu-esque has been mentioned


That said, I'm hoping we get an animal mastermind soon and would like to see:

Aquatic (Black lagoon, aquatic elves, etc), Beastmen

Someone asked that question at the Pummit and I think it was Second Measure who answered that considering the number of crime fighting strippers we already have running around, the Devs are kinda nervous allowing us to fully customize our minions and end up with hordes of crime fighting strippers.

But they could allow us to choose from ready-to-order-around set of minions.

So it's possible, not promised or even in the works...

I guess I just don't like the idea that the Developers are so terrified of a few players using such character options in ways that they don't approve of, that they affectively lock out the entire idea of MM customization. As has been said, there are already a lot of superhero strippers and worse out there . . . . and yet? Remarkably, the world continues to turn, and powersets and costumes continue to be used for other purposes.

I don't know. Part of me is beginning to suspect that they jsut don't know how to make it happen, and the above is simply their excuse du jour.

I can already see the pimp on virtue with a horde of fembots/strippers doing various /em dance as part of their own ERP fantasy LOL!

I am all for variations created by the Devs for each set of the mm category.

Attacking the devs and stating they don't know how to do it is laughable at best...they know how to do it but it is a decision of time versus cost. If it costs x amount of hours for pre-created dev choices for MM and 10x for player based costuming.. I will definitely go with the dev created ones.

HINT: Attacking the intelligence/capabilities of the Dev team doesn't make people think you are smart... quite the opposite actually.

I am not the one who said the devs were making excuses......

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Originally Posted by MrMountie Uh? It wasn't an attack. At all. Lots of people don't know how to do a great number of things, and I'm not attacking anyone by saying that. The Devs themselves often admit to the inability to make the game/engine do certain things, or to the immense difficulty in working with it. In short? Some things are hard. And anyone who finds that insulting is being too sensitive. Seriously. Drama it down a notch, there.