I Will Call it..... Mini-Me!! (Player Minions)

I had an idea after killing some guy in PvP......
PLAYER MINIONS!!!

Now here's the idea......

• 2 ways: Players can pay $5 for a 25 pack of tradeable/unsellable minions of themselves OR we receive in-game for gil.

• Players will only get one chance to edit Minions appearance based on their current appearance. (Edits will cost $$$ But those who have original will keep original, or not if it causes confusion)

• Separate tab so it doesn't get mixed with regular minions

• Also as an optional bonus, minions could do a random Emote or action of players choosing, plus link directly to player.

A minion of ourselves or our retainers... pure genius.

There would be so much coding into this. The changes of gender, race, race heights(being the main point), not to mention the gear the minion would be wearing.
There are too many variables of a player minion to make one.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

There would be so much coding into this. The changes of gender, race, race heights(being the main point), not to mention the gear the minion would be wearing.
There are too many variables of a player minion to make one.

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Agreed. They already don't want to add a ton of stuff (inventory space, actual vanity slots for gear, rather than glamour, etc) because it would increase the size of the character save file too much. This would certainly be a much larger addition than any of that. Not worth it considering how few people actually use minions.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

There would be so much coding into this. The changes of gender, race, race heights(being the main point), not to mention the gear the minion would be wearing.
There are too many variables of a player minion to make one.

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There's always that "one" guy....
I am fully aware of this, it was merely a fun idea I thought I'd throw in for that miniscule chance it could be considered. The idea itself is for players to have a fun idea of it Mr. Literal.

Only if we get the pinkie pose too.

I'm all for this idea. We already have minions available of NPCs that are, (story wise even), considered less important than we are, so why shouldn't the adoring masses be creating minions of us as well?

Still, I can see how this would be a bit much on a technical standpoint, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a fun addition to the game for those of us who use minions....

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Originally Posted by Yutsimaki

There's always that "one" guy....
I am fully aware of this, it was merely a fun idea I thought I'd throw in for that miniscule chance it could be considered. The idea itself is for players to have a fun idea of it Mr. Literal.

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I'm surprised how you expect everyone online to be a "guy".

Oh man, I'd love this as an option, though it would probably be very difficult, I'd spend some money for sure to own a mini-me minion.

I would rather just have the minion the GSM leader teased us with post 2.55 XD

Would the lalafees be even smaller than the other minions?

I think having a minion of your player character is a fun idea, BUT I would say it would have to be very simplistic, especially compared to say, the Y'shtola or Thancred minions. My recommendation would be to have a base for each race that's only really customizable in terms of hairstyle and colors. And also limit the outfits to AF gear or something that's equally universal; it wouldn't be reasonable to expect every armor set in the game. In this way you could make it of your character or a friend's, and you could name it. Like it'd be a "Wind-up ______" and you fill in the blank. There'd probably be a surprisingly high amount of work to make it happen though, so who knows if anyone at SE would even go for it. But I think it'd be cool, and I'd buy one.

Someone said something about minion heights; actually, it could just be a static height, about the size of minion Uncle Lou, minion Raubahn, etc

With that, it's one variable out of the way. Another way is to limit it to just dyed AF sets or just the AF sets itself.

While I do agree it'd be awesome, the amount of work needed to make it work, plus the amount of space each minion would take on the server (because these'll add up quick) might not even be worth it.

What about a model for each race/sex combination and have it wear starter gear?

Make a lalafell retainer that looks like you = profit?

http://i.imgur.com/1GjVvGH.png

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

I'm surprised how you expect everyone online to be a "guy".

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Triggered!

i would rather want a minion of the gM's and have a dark cloud follow me with the vague shape of a red templar set :P

I like the idea of a minion based on a player's last recorded appearance on Lodestone, but not as a package of dispensable minions like presented. I think I'd more prefer it be just one minion with it's appearance decided at the point of sale with a name prompt, in case you want a minion that looks like someone else. But, again, this is a resource intensive idea that'd first need them to make a player blank minion for each race and gender that would be used. They'd probably wind up looking like someone colored a minion to look like A player and not really like the player you wanted it to look like.

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Originally Posted by Chiramu

There would be so much coding into this. The changes of gender, race, race heights(being the main point), not to mention the gear the minion would be wearing.
There are too many variables of a player minion to make one.

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no, there wouldn't

many variables can be ignored, race height is irrelavant as it is a minion. gear wouldn't have to be chosen, just use the racial gear. otherwise everything else would just go into a database and could be selected by rather simple calling functions.

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Originally Posted by Cakekizy

What about a model for each race/sex combination and have it wear starter gear?

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Could be easy to produce. But the limitation wouldn't really take off with glamour players.
I also had the idea to trade minions with players, like a personal player collection.