Tyrak

Sort of, using the SG banners. Odds are that won't be suitable for what you're looking for but that will be for you to decide.

So is it a bug that the game won't let me use a crafting station until I'm level 10? I tried at 7th, 8th, and 9th with two characters; no luck until I hit 10th.

Try the Cimerora Times, also known as Marcus. No interference, and the x8 groups are chock full of leaders (I get 2-3 times as many lts as minions when set to no bosses, otherwise lts and minions are about the same and bosses are half the mobs). The smaller maps seem to be better as the groups are closer together, and the rescue the girls mission was the best for me. Extra mobs as their guards, and no time wasted trying to escort them. And if you call Marcus on his celphone (?) you will sometimes get lucky and find that the next mission is right next door.

The wooden posts didn't look quite right, though I will try them again now that I'm moving the domes into a larger, gentler curve.

First be aware that the effect depends entirely on the viewing angle; both images were done with the same components in the same locations, just a different viewpoint. The defensive item Slow Field (which has to be crafted at an advanced worktable or forge) has unusual properties when rendered, and both has a wavery distortion effect with a low-key animation and prevents rendering of any (well, at least most - haven't tried them all) transparency layers behind it. Note the difference in the SG logo plates - normally they look transparent on that kind of floor because they are underneath the transparency layer of the floor lighting. Under the slow field, though, both the floor lighting and the SG logo itself aren't rendered.

The slow field is very expensive - it requires 20,000 prestige to place, and 200 power and 10 control to operate. Also note that as a defensive item, there are many rooms in which you can't place it. It is large, occupying a full base square, so it can't always do what you're looking for. On the other hand, it is one of the few items that can extend outside of a room. The field itself is generated by a small puck-like item in the center and only that item is limited to being placed inside the room. So you could get one down to near half the size by placing the item itself against a wall. You can even get most of a doorway covered with the slow field effect by placing one at the edge of the doorway in each adjoining room. Unfortunately that does leave a two-foot gap in the middle - but if the positioning is right and the doorway style and lighting carefully selected that might not be readily visible.

The slow field is commonly used to simulate water effects; when raised off the surface it looks very different than when it rests on the floor. There are two in the first picture: one off the floor at the top of the picture, and one on the floor at the bottom of the picture. The one resting on the floor is most visible in the effect it has on the SG logo floor plates and on the lit circles in the floor itself, but there is a modest change in the color of the floor under it. The one in the air is more noticible for the distortion effect it has.

To raise items off the floor, the most convenient way is to use a floor safe from the room details tab. As you place another item (one that sits on the floor, naturally) and move the cursor over the safe, you will see that you can adjust the height of the item. A safe can even be used to raise itself, since it stays put while you adjust the placement location. Most of the time I just use multiple safes and build a tower so I have a lot of variation in height available without moving things around each time I want a new height. The floor tile, also from room details, is a surface on which other things can be put. It is very handy when you want to place multiple things at the same height.

Once an object has been placed at the desired height, if you need to move it around but still keep it at the same height, either move the floor tile around to allow placing the object in the right spot or turn the camera view straight up and zoomed out some. With the object selected, it stays at the same height unless you run it into a floor safe (where it will then adjust normally) or move it past the boundary of the room (at which it drops to the floor). I'm not sure about the desks that are stacking objects since I seldom use them except as desks; they might interfere as well.

I recommend finding a post by stacker; there are plenty in this forum. Take a look at the links in his signature, his youtube videos on base construction tricks. Definately well worth watching.

This is bugged - it is possible to hit all the badge sites in SG mode, get the exploration badge, and still not get credit for the beacon. I know this because I have run in SG mode non-stop since founding my SG and there were zones I had never entered prior to that. Because you personally have credit for the individual badge sites there is no way to tell which one is responsible (if it isn't more than one). For the first problem one I only had to revisit one site to get the beacon, for the second one I had to hit all of them again. Just unlucky in the order would be my guess.

It doesn't matter who visits what, as long as the SG accumulates all of the sites. For example I joined an SG that didn't have the KR beacon and only had to visit one site to get it. The other sites had presumably already been visited by other members operating in SG mode.

I thought of that, but discarded the idea without trying it because I thought it would look too goofy having railings three units thick. You really think it would work? True, the ceiling domes are quite large, which might help offset the thick railings. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to take a look at them.

I was surprised, figured it was a bug. It repeated, though, for a couple of days. I haven't fiddled with the plot size since, and that was before I16 released. I'll upgrade again when I get about a billion more inf, so probably this week.

The last time I upgraded, it worked like this: you'd pay 7 mil, then get back 1.5 mil. The final cost is 5.5, but you have to have the full 7 up front. It works in a similar manner for downsizing - you pay the smaller plot cost, then get a refund for the plot you had.

Thank you - always nice to get a compliment. So I might as well fish for more, right? I've finally gotten to work on my main teleport room - the telepads themselves are done, though I still need to put filler around them to block off nooks and crannies. Once that is done, I'll be putting a roof over top, making the row of teleporters into a tunnel. The floor above will be something of a lounge area, the larger open side will be a library, and the smaller open side will be a bit of storage with computers for general use.

I had hoped to get more of a 45-degree angle for the row, but with triangular telepads that wouldn't have worked out so well.

Overhead view of the row of teleporters:


A view down the row:


And an individual telepad, without filler (very close to what I'd come up with before, really):

It's a wall item - you can rotate them using torches or the round lights (try to place the wall item on the light - as you move the mouse around, the item will pivot). Using cubicles or banners to move them out from the wall, you can hang wall items in lots of ways.

The spending comes before the refund. I wasn't allowed to upgrade the plot until I had the entire price available, not just the difference. Unless there has been a change to it in the last month or so.