Adeon Hawkwood

It's a common problem in most MMOs with "end game" content. You get a huge oversupply of the more solo-friendly classes and a lack of the team support classes. The upside in CoX is that for the most part team support ATs are not required so the solo-friendly classes can form their own teams and still be reasonably successful.

Part of the problem I think you're going to run into is that it's very hard to infer demand based on the information available to us. For example nevermelting ice is in quite high demand (since it's used in endurance reduction and run speed common IOs) but the supply at the moment is so high that it's largely down to vendor trash pricing.

If you want to do it with common salvage my recommendation is to use the Tier 2 salvage since that tends to be where you get significant price variations. Tier 1s tend to be moderately oversupplied and Tier 3s tend to be heavily oversupplied unless there's an AE exploit doing the rounds.

For Tier 2 commons I would say go with:
High demand: Alchemical Silvers
Medium Demand: Masterwork Weapon or maybe Iron (the price of iron seems to fluctuate a lot).
Low Demand: Commercial Cybernetic or Circuit Board

The other option would be to do rares in which case I'd look at:
High demand: Magical Conspiracy
Medium Demand: Mu Vestment
Low Demand: Any of the Tier 1 rare salvages or possibly Synthetic Intelligence Unit if you want something with low-ish demand but some value.

What recipes and levels are you looking at? If you are talking about mid to low level recipes then yeah it has been a problem pretty much ever since merits came out. The nature of the merit system means that generating recipes at anything other than th emaximum level for the recipe is a huge pain so consequently good recipes tend to be in short supply at the mid levels.

I would say try to keep everything as free-form as possible. Look at the personal base as an extension of the character's costume. Some people will make a personal apartment, some will do a secret cave, some will make a combination, the thing here is trying not to limit people's creativity. The idea of having an apartment and a bat-cave is based on a very specific type of hero and not all character's in the game will follow that model. Some will not need hero facilities and will simply have an apartment, some will live in their secret lair while those who have a public identity will simply build any hero facilities as a simple extension to their living quarters.

Features I would like to see:

NPCs. Is your character married? Are your Mastermind's minions hanging around (i.e. a barracks for your Mercenaries or an Assault Bot standing quietly in the corner of your workshop)? Is your character poor and living in a two bedroom apartment with three other down on their luck heroes (hopefully two of them do night patrols and two day patrols)? Adding wondering NPCs allows for this sort of thing.

Trophies and Costumes. Allow for setting up costume dummies not just with your active costume slots but specially designed costumes as well. That old costume you deleted because it looked dumb? Your character keeps it in storage as a reminder of the old days. Similarly allow for the display of some of the items acquired as souvenirs. Maybe your reformed villain keeps the letter from Miss Francine framed on the wall as a reminder that 'It's never too late'.

I don't think there is much need for functional items but I would like to see some which I think could be used to help build on personality. A techie character might well have an invention table and vault access. A character who makes their own costumes might have a small sewing room to edit costumes in. A rich character might have auction house access inside their apartment.

In any case I think if such a system is to really work it needs to be viewed like the costume creator, as a means fo defining the character's personality.

Assuming that the system avoids people losing stuff (i.e. stored items, prestige etc.) I have no problem with bases being nuked. But then I'm not really a base builder, I have done a bit of building but it's been almost entirely utilitarian.

Personally I think if the current code for bases is making it impossible for the devs to update then they should nuke it and start from scratch. The problem is that this would require a huge amount of effort on their part at which point it comes down to how "valuable" (in terms of subscriptions retained/gained) is it for the devs to devote that amount of resources to a new base system?

This is partly why I think adding personal "mini-bases" is such a good idea. The costume creator has long been one of the major draws for CoX and, to me, adding "mini-bases" is a good way to expand upon that aspect of the game. They don't necessarily need to add much in the way of functionality (although limited functionality would be nice) the point it to allow the player to make a small area that is, essentially, an extension of the character's costume. At that point base building becomes open to everyone and I think a revamp would be justified (although I doubt it'll happen).

As far as I know that page has not changed since it was released. The full list of slot names based on the in-game interface is:

1. Alpha
2. Judgement
3. Interface
4. Lore
5. Destiny
6. Hybrid
7. Genesis
8. Mind
9. Vitae
10. Omega

For Acid Mortar I wouldn't bother with the damage procs, although I do find the Devastation Hold Proc quite useful.

For PGT I'd replace the Recharge IO with a Rech/Hold IO (it depends a bit on what you skipped from Basilisk's, I skipped the Acc/Hold and the Proc). I'd also recommend the Lockdown proc over Unbreakable Constraint.

Which neighborhood of Nerva is it in? The longbow base includes a large underground complex.

Out of curiosity since I've never actually seen it written down, what is the conversion from Fury to damage boost?

One thing to keep in mind is that with respec recipes you can unslot 10 IOs for about 150 million - 250 million (depending on the length of time since the last freespec). So if it costs 100+ million to unslot an IO it becomes cheaper to use a respec recipe.

I would say 30-40million is probably a good number. It's still more expensive than using a respec recipe (paying for convienience) but not so much that people won't use it.

I found with my Earth/Storm that slotting some cheap IOs into the T1 and T2 attacks made a large difference when solo. In addition to getting slightly better end reduction, recharge and accuracy numbers than standard SO slotting I was able to work in about an SO worth of Immobilize/Hold duration enhancement which helped a lot soloing. Maelstrom's Fury and Ruin tend to be cheap around level 28-32 and slotting a few of those in helps, Thunderstike is also available but tends to cost more.

Roughly speaking I would say aim for 3 multi-aspec IOs with a damage component, 1 generic level 30 damage IO and two multi-aspect IOs with a mez component. For the multi-aspect damage IOs using dual aspects will ED cap you to damage or use triple aspects for about 82%ish damage and more end/rech/acc.

I think I used:
Dam/End
Dam/Rech
Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Damage
Accuracy/Mez/Recharge
Mez/End

Assuming all level 30s that works out to (pre-ED):
95.8% damage
43.6% end reduction
56.6% recharge
34.8% accuracy
39.2% mez duration

I didn't keep a lot of track but I think I spent less than 3 million getting all 12 IOs and that was paying buy it nao prices for recipes and salvage.