Sidekicks

superwaves

This topic has been discussed at nauseam. It seems like the sidekicks are slowly dying. We have not had some in quite some time. Is it now time to add customizable sidekicks? This is not difficult to do, what is the real holdup?

jaazaniah1

Not enough money to pay devs to work on them?

markhawkman

I liked how some boxes had what amounted to a mascot as the loyal sidekick. IE the character you see in RenCen near the Powerhouse.

spinnytop

superwaves wrote: »

It seems like the sidekicks are slowly dying. We have not had some in quite some time

The statement above would indicate that the answer to the statement below is "no".

superwaves wrote: »

Is it now time to add customizable sidekicks?

That's like asking "hey that factory hasn't produced many cars lately, is it time for that factory to start producing cars that transform into fighting robots?". Like... no.

superwaves wrote: »

This is not difficult to do, what is the real holdup?

The holdup is that it's difficult to do. Your sentence is an oxymoron. A lot of the discussion about this topic has been around how they would do this, and in every case it was something that required some sort of functional addition to the game's interface. Adding to the game's interface is difficult because of the nature of the game, i.e. old, poorly documented, spaghetti code. It's like trying to add another layer to an onion, but somewhere in the middle of the current layers. I think the simplest thing that was thought up was just being able to copy your current costume to one of the current sidekicks, and even that would be a big deal to implement.​​

metalheart

We need more in the color spectrum

themightyzenith

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

Not enough money to pay devs to work on them?

PW and/or Cryptic has enough money for it.