Jeep! wrote:They'll not be back for a long time. They were broken, unfair, broken, and in the end, broken.
That pretty much sums it up, though I will add that the programmer that created them, added them, and took them away is no longer here.
I would guess our current Admin probably doesn't know where the on switch is in the mess that he's inherited, and almost certainly doesn't have the assets to fix the errors in them. Afterall, their creator apparently couldn't knock out the bugs.
To elaborate on what was wrong with the minicons:
Most of them boosted stats (by +4 or +2). Because of the way the game works, if your stats go over 10, things get out of hand. Logically, to be corrected, there needed to be a provision to make sure that If stat>10, then stat=10, but apparently that's not simple to code.
I'm going to leave this open for now in case anyone more proficient in the game's math/coding wants to offer a more accurate/in depth explanation, but in the end, unfortunately, no matter how much some of us may want minicons back, AFAIK we can't simply restock them... even if we knew how.
When I updated the weapons last week, btw, I added a "Minicon Cannon" as one of the higher power weapons. It's just a weapon, nothing special, and it will take a while to get to the point that you can use it, but if you simply want a Minicon for RP purposes, that's something to shoot for.
-CL
Edit: And please, this time, let's keep JP's love life out of this.