Base Repricing
1) How will the repricing of bases affect you personally?
For the most part this is positive for me. I try to work with small bases on several servers because a friend and I love hami raids. This should make it easier to have functional, aesthetically pleasing bases that aren't too expensive to maintain.
2) Will you dismantle your base to gain the additional prestige from the repricing?
Somewhat, especially since we will be paying rent again on the smallest plots. What is easy to sell and repurchase at a lower price, I will.
3) How long would this process take you if you were to engage in this practice?
Hard to say, probably a couple of hours -- if it looks too time consuming I will probably wait until I'm in a redecorating mood.
4) What are the positive and negative concerns regarding repricing?
I appreciate that you listened to us regarding costs and are working to make base building more reasonable and accessible to us all. The negative is for others really, I feel for those who have invested so much time in creating fantastic bases and who can only benefit from the repricing by having to dismantle.
5) How will this feature affect you long term and short term?
Short term, the effect will depend on how much I want to build vs. play. Long term, a great deal as it will make projects and upgrades much more accessible for me.
Base Salvage Exchange to Invention Salvage
1) What is the negative effect on your base for this feature implementation?
My groups are small, base salvage didn't matter to the other members and they were happy to drop it in the bins. I didn't even have to ask. I in return, once the base was built put in the buff stations and keep a bin with components nearby for easy use. Invention salvage, is needed for their own personal IO crafting or as a way of making influence/infamy for IO's. Sure, they delete kinetic weapons, so I suppose they might put those in the bin for me, but how helpful will that be?
2) What is the positive effect on your base for this feature implementation?
More crafting towards the badge I guess, I'm really not sure.
3) How long will it take you to adjust to learning this new system?
Thanks to the base builder forum, probably not too long. We are fortunate to have a community that is willing to share knowledge and help out when asked.
4) What side effects to this system do you currently see from transitioning the old to new system?
Storage may be tricky for awhile with the lower amount going in bins. I will have to get used to that.
5) What security concerns do you have regarding this change?
For the most part, I'm not too worried because I have known the people in my sg's for awhile. We have always felt that the bins should be open to all and I am concerned that this will make sg's smaller overall.
Additional Notes: I do appreciate that the ability to have storage, both in a base and personally must consume huge amounts of space to keep track of accurately. But I felt really blind-sided by the changes and it has taken me awhile to get used to that. Until I am able to work with the changes, I won't say I absolutely hate or like them.
I know that you don't owe me anything up front, but the base building community has been asking for a lot of changes, fixes, improvements for a long time. In my opinion they do it in a well organized and usually thoughtful way. It would have been nice if some of those things had been addressed in this first half. I apologize if you feel that is unfair or if you have addressed some of these issues, but it's how I have felt as I watched the forums since open beta.
