cannonfire

Good call man!

If theres nothing important in the rooms then simply delete them. If you're fond of a room so much and it's hard to let go then take alot of pics and let it go. IMO, as they add.. if they add.. more base abilities and/or items.. why stay with the rooms look? Just a thought in regards to deleting item by item.

Look at Hyperstrikes post(scroll up). Neo's base layout is amazing, makes me wish I used this forum to learn how to edit.


hotkeys that I am ware of:
holding down hotkeys while item is selected
[shift] moves up and down z-axis
[alt] pivots/swaps on z-axis
[ctrl] roam along X-axis & y-axis while maintaining height of z-axis

Thank you very much! The lights are already angled, I am a big fan of angled walls so those items fit right into the theme. But now that we have axis swap Im sure I would have used the ceiling lamps had that been an option. But since then I tried it and didnt like it as much, when the off lit and lit ones combine it has a lighting enhancements that other lighting doesnt seem to have so these are the better choice. I can only imagine the person who is willing to go that extra route and spin every item in a room has definately got one over on us. I have no plans to hurt my brain to such a degree.

Which brings up a good question.. Is there a macro to pop an item ready for placement? If so, can the value degree of angle be set? That would be the only way IMO to do such a project. it would be cool to hit a key and have a 39 degree angled desk pops up.

I just logged off, I am logging back on. Send me an ingame tell and Ill invite you for a walkthrough.

Rooms have a kind of default connection. The room sometimes finds an alt doorway when one is blocked by items. If you are having an item in doorway issue, just remove those items and you should be good to go.

When I made a small base to big base,I kept in mind the plot change(after countless headaches I learned my lesson). The cathedral base was based on a modular base that had versatile hall segments built so I could always center a hall with the ready made chandeliers. It worked brilliantly, so in this phase for deco purposes along with room location changes due to plot size increase... you should keep that in mind. IMHO

As far as which rooms for how much prestige, also depends on how many SG unlocks you have to say which items better suit you. I am not too pro with the mainstream rent free base cuz I was always earning prestige at a high rate. "Which rooms?" were never my issue. With secure plots, for me, granted the ability for 2 of the biggest energy and control items, aux items from that point on is purely deco IMO. Huge bases are exetremely overkill so seeking it is probably more along the lines of earning prestige out of habit or trying to top 100 your SG. I got to 41 on Liberty as a 1 man SG and I was satisfied with that and moved on to stacking more legos and still have more prestige then I know what to do with.

IMO, you have enough to build a no rent full functional base with all the storage. Now that bases allow teleport pads to have 6 locations, I dont see mini bases having any trouble at all. I would look under forums for rent free or mini bases. The most current thread would be the ports being hacked now. Those threads will probably talk about small bases and how they are going about with 3 million prestige.

As far as your control room not having aux item click "on". Make sure it isn't that starter control room(3x3), the one that turns the base on with a combo pack... that wont power you nor does it connect to aux control items. I could be wrong, but I think that may be your control increase issue. If not, I could be wrong and soemone else knows better. But if you have the first affordable control room(3x3) then thats your auxiliary problem.... I think...

Magic the Gathering Red magic user? Heh, I am Blue/White/Black. Go figure all I play on CoH is fire.
I have 2 huge projects toward their final phases. I cannot help with the base build, but if you need a tutorial in game how to stack a second floor then send me an ingame tell or global email and I'll try to help the best I can be it appearance or ingame chat. Second floors are very easy and new item movement makes it even better. Forget what you knew 3 years ago, editing has been alot more fun since then.

Good Luck and hope you find an editor dying to stack Legos.

LMAO! I know, right? We have so many rooms yet no windows. I have had similar thoughts. I have over 50 doorways and no doors? A doorway without a door is called... a hall?

I am confused why the only door we have is a "three door" door that has a monster icon on the third.. ok folks, we thought it was funny when we first saw it, but who actually uses more then 1 of these in their base. Any deco item that has only 1 basic use (attempt at being clever and funny) and so many years later. I say to the devs, "Really? dude... really?"

accessible doors/elevators to make an outdoor or upper level possible along with higher ceilings is what I'd want in the near fiture. I have no idea how hard that would be able to do.

I haven't been envolved with forums, I only logged on once wayyy back to find out and make sure I was stacking right. I haven't dug too deeply into Dev requests. But here's an idea since all of these posts envolve getting a Devs attention. Why don't we request a Dev host a 2 week forum for us or another in game chat channel that is hosted by a dev for small sessions. Is that possible? At least we as editors would have a solid answer if something is or isn't gonna happen.. and if a change could be done.. How long would it take? I think these are fair requests cuz they are free and deserve attention. The question to me now is, "If we knew that one dev was actually listening, then what does he/she have to say?"

Can someone provide me with the thread in regards to base revisions that has Dev envolvement if there is any? And if there hasn't, does this idea have any merit worth pursuing. Cuz it sounds like we all have a sense in understanding why we might not get something done... what we like to edit with (which seems we all have the same needs)

I would just be satisfied for the now with dates of revisions no matter how far off they are. Even with the game content, this game is rather boring with the same edit tools. The more I read these forum posts it seems I will have paid several hundreds of dollars/time to have this done. If thats the case, I think we deserve to know rather then have a dangling carrot that isnt really there.

For a long time I wondered why bases even had so many room restrictions such as: decorative rooms that can't hold storage and only has the plot sizes of limited choices... why does this even exist? They should scrap all the rooms and having one big room.. "Map". This idea should have been done way back before they released SGs to us. I understand to make ingame content, the priority, is obviously to keep ones interest interacting/toiling over a subject over time. I am surprised that the trend/pattern of revisions to the game isn't so obvious to the dev... When they made this game.. they made way too many obstacles to get from goal to goal, example would be having 2 different train lines.. ultimately resulting in the joint of the 2 transit systems. A telepod that increases to 6. An AE map editor over a base editor wouldn't do it for me but the integration of the two would satify all my gripe/grief. (good post). O yea, and base doorways..Why the heck do we need 1 column seperations in base from room to room which limits overall are size? Didnt these in fact limit a base raid? Why not make a wall an item that acts diff then a item, like a true barrier item vs decorative.

When it comes to my monthly cost and services rendered, I truelly believe I am living in a rented space that has a leaky faucets and everytime a maintenance actually shows up, its in and out only to change my heater filter. It really feels like my needs are not as important as other tenants and that my needs are aparently not being met. In that regard.. this subject not being addressed is pretty F-d up that we even have to talk about it for more over 5 years.

The game is great but the script of ingame actions to achieve a set amount of goals is based on toiling... that's my only issue with the game. It's not so much the editor only... its the WHOLE game that has alot of redundant travel/toiling for no reason whatsoever. For a video game, I am still hooked; I love it! But, it's like snowboarding here in Southern California. We actually spend 8 hrs on a 1 1/2 hour stretch of road, only to stand 45 minutes in line for a 3 minute rush. The difference between this video game and RL fun is that the whole point of this game I dont have to travel/work around so much to get only so far. I truelly think that is the root of our in game experience/problems/limitations and needs to be revised based on these patterns. And base edit is a constant reminder of our old days of toiling over time for a set goal.

To an outside observer one would ask, "then why do you even play such a game?" My answer would always be, "as long as I can base edit, I have something fun to do" ... if this is going to be ignored, then I have to rethink what games I play and moreso which ones I buy and pay a monthly to.

There was a chat channel for awhile previous a summit, I believe, I brought up vaulted ceilings or striga mission type ceilings with elevators to even higher levels. I wanted base above hole in the floor parking garage, elevator to atlas building elevator top floor would have been door outside. I miss that channel. Was cool cuz it was supposed to be proposed and if I recall someone reping developement in some way, came online to chat with us. I was willing to just settle with an assortment of items we already see in game, casino, video games etc. Heck, even as an expansion pack. But that was a bit over a year ago if I recall. Maybe someone else can provide more detail to my vague tale.

You may very well be right. So far Im at 2,500 in that room. The whole base might not have alot of detail because Im using the walls as most of the base structure. I count +9 more rooms at 600+. I might make it under the limit but that doesnt mean I won't still glitch my base. LOL I guess it will be a room no one can go in with out a lock up. Or worse, finish 1 block short of the glitch and not be able to find it.

So far, this has been very fun.

Heh, I hope so too. Thanks!