Shockwave007

I'm still no expert in base editing, and I know it hasn't been a huge deal for a lot of people, but I see a lot of potential extensions for base items. Some are low hanging fruit. Some are updates now that base balance has changed with raids gone. Some would make good premium items to be made available for purchase from the paragon market.
1) More inspiration vendors
Currently there is a vendor for respite, catch a breath, and break free inspirations. I believe it's time that new vendors be added to fill out the set. Perhaps an armory option would be good for offensive and defensive inspirations, although many other options are possible as long as it allows the full set. As it is, I haven't seen people really use bases for inspirations. They are readily available everywhere outside the base, and you can get full sets there.
2) Match hospital inspiration prices
Right now, all inspirations at base cost double. More incentive to not buy inspirations at base. More incentive to not even put in base items that vend inspirations. I don't see why items that are heavily invested in with prestige shoud be at a disadvantage vs everything outside the base. Even "upgrades" that will allow inspriation price matches would be viable.
3) Team Mission Transports
This idea is a mix of the team teleporter which uses the same vehicles available as base decorations. It would be nice to have the option to "board" the vehicles in the vehicle bays to use them as a team mission teleporter. I could very well see this being a premium item in paragon market that must be purchased in order to unlock it for a base, but I think it both fits well thematically, and is very useful to teams at the same time.
4) Doors pack
I'd like to see the ability to have doors in a base. Normal doors, security doors, secret doors (like sliding book cases). Another one I see as a good idea for premium items. This may have been a balance issue with raids, but now with no raids, that isn't an issue. In my mind, doors would be lockable by SG rank, so different portions of the base could be made accessable based on rank or having someone of proper rank with you to unlock it.
5) AE Access
I'd like to see the ability to access AE missions from the base. I see two versions of this that would be great in my book. The first is a "danger room" type of device. Basically, a training room gets set up, and teams can run team training missions using the AE technology. The second version I'd love to see is an AE machine that looks just like a telepad. Basically the idea here is instead of training the team is heading on "real" missions by teleporting to them, just as they would for beacons. Thematically, I think this would be huge.
6) Added permissions
Right now you can set base access to various items like storage based on ranks in the SG. I'd like to see even "lower" permissions added as an option to allow Coalition or "Public". (This would allow the leader to have a rack accessable to people they bring into the base.
7) Copy base feature for AE. I'd love to see the ability to turn a base into an AE scenario without trying to rebuild it. This could be used to simulate attacks on the supergroup's base as a scenario for SG's to play though. Having actual NPC attacks on bases would be great as well, but I don't know if the AI could handle that.

The leadership change happened again today, and happened exactly as I anticipated.

1) Leader #2 (who took over as leader 36 hours earlier in the scenario 2 posts up) hit the limit for inactivity and was demoted back down to commander.

2) A leiutenant (who for somereason was promoted directly to leiutenant immediately upon joining the group) was the highest ranking member of the SG who was not over the inactivity limit. He was immediately promoted to be the new leader. This player's last login was 4 days ago, which puts him well within the limits for a while.

So once again, who logs in first, did not have any effect on it. It's the highest ranking member who is in good standing (not over inactivity limit). If the entire SG is over the limit, then the first person to log in would by default become leader as the only person in good standing.

With two transitions now following this pattern, I'm pretty satisfied that this is how it occurs.

Soft Capping Example: Appocalypse
Being a new player, I wanted to chack to see if I'm understanding how soft capping works on abilities, and thought using appocalypse as an example would work well. I'm assuming a 6 slot set in a single power, with no other powers or set bonues in use. Please let me know if my math is flawed due to misunderstanding part of it.

Damage:
Appocalypse has 4 individual damage bonuses of 53%, 33.1%, 33.1%, and 26.5%
Total: 145.7%
With Soft Cap Adjustment: 101.9%

Recharge:
Appocalypse has 3 individual damage bonuses of 33.1%, 33.1%, and 26.5%
Total: 92.7%
With Soft Cap Adjustment: 89.9%

Accuracy
Appocalypse has 3 individual damage bonuses of 33.1% and 26.5%
Total: 59.6%
With Soft Cap Adjustment: 59.6% (No capping blow 70)

Endurance
Appocalypse has 1 individual damage bonus of 33.1%
Total: 33.1%
With Soft Cap Adjustment: 33.1% (No capping blow 70)

Then when the set bonuses are applied:
4% damage - for this ability it would actually become a .6% bonus since we are already in the .15 multiplier range. Total damage bonus = 102.5%
10% recharge - Would actually become a 5.5% bonus since the ability would get into the top threshhold putting some of it at the .7 multipler, and part at .15. Totall Recharge Bonus = 95.4%

None of the other set abilities would have capping issues in this example.

Bonus question: With all of the capping issues, is it worth slotting all 6 of a set in an ability most of the time? Seems the issue would compound with more set bonuses applied where you aren't getting full value. (I realize this still comes out better than SO's, but there seems to be a lot of diminishing returns.)

I know nothing of iTrials (I'm a noob), but I know on many other missions, it's often as fun to go on the complete failure missions if not more so. The efficient runs aren't all that interesting. I'd rather stumble through and learn, knowing I'll get better next time around.

So I think prereqs for leaders seems overboard. Go in, have fun. It's not like dying has any real downside in the game.

I've only been playing for two weeks, so actually just found out that Supergroups were just opened up to free players in that span of time. However, something I noticed was that the supergroup registry in city hall had nothing to say as a free player. That should get opened up.

Since this thread is getting attention. Are there RP supergroups on Justice at all? I see things with theme teams, but I'm not looking for something to make new characters. I just play the one character.

I wanted to check to see if my understandings on supergroups are correct. Can I get a true/false on these?

1) Only a VIP player can start a supergroup.
2) Only a VIP player can pay rent for a supergroup base (assuming they are high enough rank in the SG)
3) Only a VIP player can be the leader of a supergroup.
4) Only a VIP player can edit bases (assuming they are high enough rank in the SG)

So some questions.
1) Can leadership transfer from a VIP to non-VIP? (Assuming #3 is false)
2) If someone is a VIP and attains leadership, but goes non-VIP, do they lose control of the supergroup?

BTW, my quick count for buying level 50 single origin enhancements:
About 106 slots (25 powers, about 15 inherint powers, and 66 slots taken for levels) = 106*50,000 INF = 5.3M INF.
(50,000 is actually higher than they should cost, I just rounded up from actual costs to give a high estimate.)

If I buy a full level 45 set as well, then 10M should be able to kit me out all the way through. I didn't buy a single enhancment until level 40 ones, an that is only because I decided to be level 39 for a while turning off xp gain as I fill in back storylines. Up until that point, I flew up levels so fast, it was never going to be worth it, and I can't imagine it would slow down all that much if I was actually trying to level, so 5M is probably all the INF a character ever needs to buy a full set of SO enhancements.

It obviously gets more expensive if you go premium and start using the auction house and invention systems, so I was looking to see what maxed out a free player. You can swap out bought enhancements for Hamidon enhancements once you find them, but that is pretty much the only improving to do on a free character after collecting your 5M INF.

(Makes me wonder how big a difference there is between a maximized free char with just SO enhancements, vs a maximized VIP char.)