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OK, seems that Statesman knows that bases aren't as popular as he wanted. The situation is simple, what you have is maybe 1 or a few people designing the base. It becomes exactly what they'd want for a personal corner of the CoX universe and then everyone else in the SG simply gets to borrow it. So you have a whole SG paying for someone elses dream.
If you wanted a comparason, its like placing a maintainence cost on your costume. However 3 other players on the game cannot choose what they're character looks like as they are only allowed to look like you. On top of that fact you and these other 3 people have to keep playing the game in a state which brings them some personal loss in order to maintain their costume or have it revert to something generic.
Thats the problem. Bases aren't actually for every player, they're for those who start SGs and have admin rights.
The solution is simple. Personal player housing through SG bases.
The concept is that you're allowed to have a personal plot starting with a 4x4 room however in order to own that plot you need to join an SG. Once you join one the SG will have either doors or portals which you can enter to walk into your personal plot or other players personal plots. Inside a plot the owners has almost complete access to what the base designer tool offers but only in that room. They can make it look anyway they want and because its isolated from the main base it doesn't have to clash with the SG base's design. Prestige is generated almost as normal with one exception - all prestige goes right into a personal bank account. You can then choose to donate an amount to the SG or use it on your personal plot.
To keep things interesting though the player cannot add any functional items to their personal plot. No telepads, no medibay, no work stations. These are SG base only items. Additionally if the rent isn't maintained on the SG base as a whole then when the base shuts down the personal plots are shut down as well meaning its in everyones best interests to keep the prestige donations coming.
This idea solves both problems in one go. Everyone gets a 'base' that they can expand and develop for themselves which others can wander into any time you allow them in for a look plus you have the need to join an SG base and need to develop an SG base which provides a unified goal to the members.
Thoughts?
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I am for this idea. Only thing I would change is to have the users be able to add there own personal storage to their "Room", it could be a 4x4 room alotted one storage item. So they would have to choose what they placed but I can almost bet most would put down a Enhancement storage for it.
I would also like to add that adding permissions to your living quarters would be a good idea so that a players alts could access there other hero/villain's room and access the storage they may of left for another toon. That would increase popularity of bases by giving them the sense of security in their home and being able to place something in storage and not having to immediately switch to get it out before another sg/vg mate grabs it thinking it was put in for "community" use.
