Guild Wars 2

A Mini Master License is a GEM store item which lets you get more minis active at the same time. Just think of all those mini Moa herds following you around!

Outlines:

• You can get up to 2 Mini Master Licenses to have up to 3 minis in the world following you.
• Each Mini Master License costs about 400-500 gems.

Pros:

• Easy to implement – requires minimum coding and no modeling at all.
• People do like to buy useless funny stuff like kites etc.
• It’s not P2W.
• It’s good for RP.
• It will indirectly boost sales of mini packages, especially seasonal packages, because many people would like a small herd of a certain mini.

Cons:

• These might impact the server’s performance if used by too many players at once (Lion’s Arch?), but I actually doubt that mobs with no combat skills even matter.
• Some players may be irritated by excess of minis, but you know, haters gonna hate.

I don’t mean to be Buzz Killington, but…

I know that in GW1, only X number of minis could be on one map at a time.

If that number had already been met, then you couldn’t use yours.

Imagine if someone had paid for this, but couldn’t ever use this since everyone else had paid for this and the map was always maxed out with minis.

Also, I think it’d be insanely difficult for them to differentiate one mini Green Moa from another mini Green Moa, without some major re-coding. (And, thus, it’d be difficult to allow you to actually use multiples of the same mini.)

Well there are more than 1 Moa kind you know :P

Minos.5168:

I know that in GW1, only X number of minis could be on one map at a time.

If that number had already been met, then you couldn’t use yours.

Well, time has passed, and from other threads we know that a horde of mobs with full AI, buffs and combat skills (!) – ogre pets and fire elementals from consumables – did function, even though it caused some performance issues on the server side which was the cause of the recent nerfs. I’m pretty sure that current servers are able to hold many more objects which require mostly only coordinates and mesh IDs to be synced.

Minos.5168:

Also, I think it’d be insanely difficult for them to differentiate one mini Green Moa from another mini Green Moa, without some major re-coding. (And, thus, it’d be difficult to allow you to actually use multiples of the same mini.)

I also thought that at first and even wanted to put it into the “cons”, but it actually turns out it’s not the case already. I tested it with two twisted watchwork moas I got from Scarlet’s chest: if you doubleclick the same mini, it toggles from hide to show. But if you have one mini shown and doubleclick another identical mini in your inventory, it gets replaced by another mini (it really does as you can see the animation reset).