wizzler

I've only got 3 so far on one of my characters:

Assualt Bots:
Idiot
Stupid

Protector bots:
Thicko

Due to their inability to follow orders most of the time.

Ok take this scenario - I join a big SG who have a functional base I spend my free time over the next 3/4 weeks earning prestige for them and seem to get on alright . Then I move house at the beginning of December and will have no phone line or cable until the end of January - I come back on to find I've been kicked and the guild don't want to know, they have 15 active players earning enough to cover the rent no need for anyone else !!

As for large SG's having everything within days well why not ? It gives them more of an insentive to open them to attack by heroes and more of a challange for heroes imagine this -

Heroes storm a base enter a room take out some defences and enter the next room where a couple of villians stand.

Hero: "Ah ha we beat your puny defences"
Villian: "Please don't attack the power generator as it took us a week to afford it"
Hero: "Ok let us beat you to a pulp"
Villian: "Ok but in 2 months our defences will be better"

From a story point of view its a bit daft - I just robbed 3 banks in 2 days (well prob more tbh) and I can't even afford to put an extra undecorated room into my base ? I do agree that large bases should cost much more and that transporters and medical facilities should be expensive to build and operate but a basic level workshop or a large computer ? IRL I can build multi processor server with 10Gb for under £2000 so why can't a villian in a game "aquire" one for the same price ?

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The solution I feel is to become one of the larger SGs

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I'm sorry but I'm not a power gamer who can spend hours a day doing missions and recruiting other players to join my SG so this isn't a solution. As I stated in my other posts as soon as a large group of people get together and have shared property the politics begins and tbh I play games to get away from that sort of trash.

Maybe limit the size of plot available to the size of the SG would be better and lowering the prices for all but the most advanced equipment. On the packaging it says - "Design your fortress of evil - Build a bastion of villiany from the ground up isong stratagy and style. Construct bases with teleporters, hospitals and elaborate defences, then ward off the attacks of meddling heroes!" but I think someone forgot to mention the rest - "All you need is 15 friends willing to let you design the base for them and 10 hours playing time a week to keep it up and running"

It seems quite silly that one of the main selling points of the game is only available to those who want to be in a large SG - some of us like soloing missions and being the social outcast villian.

Tbh other than guildwars I've never been that keen on all the guild/SG politics crap that comes with having facilities like bases or towns.