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davidg_EU

By davidg_EU,
Posted on: 2007-09-09 20:21 in Base Construction

 

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With a little bit of fudging its possible to get a functioning base with 2 teleports. We have recently started a new SG and have maxed it out with the combo units abilities.

Bear in mind that this is how we worked, others might do it differently.

Firstly create a salvage store and a basic workbench. Make 2 teleports from the salvage then delete the basic workbench.

Now you have everything you need as a starter base. Build a small tp room and place your shiny new teleports. Go round the 4 areas you are most interested in and get the beacons. (Find all the zone badges whilst in SG mode). Place your beacons. Place the smallest and cheapest workshop and put in a vault store and one invention crafting bench. At this point you are at the limit of power and control, but you have teleport to 4 areas and the ability to craft your inventions.

Unfortunately you are now stuck until you earn another 500k-1 million prestige, but it should tide you over for now. You can make the base look quite pretty just by altering things like style and colour, but try to avoid the urge to go mad with the decorating as it wastes prestige and will be deleted anyway as soon as you get enough to buy the next sets of rooms that you need. The annoying thing is that in heroes you need 10 teleporters to get access to all available areas and on villains you only need 4.

You can also get away without upgrading the plot if you are a small SG and can't afford the rent. You won't be able to put in decorative rooms like meeting rooms etc but it is quite easy to make your base fit nicely with the smallest of everything. And with the right amount of decorative items you can look really pretty

 

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To get around the teleporter limitations in Heroes, go into coalition with a couple of other like-minded one-man or small SGs, agree on your destinations and you can cover off the whole map. (in theory. I haven't gotten off my [censored] to do this, but if you want quick access to Faultline you could do worse than befriend the Nubsticks on Union. Well, not much worse).

In terms of earning inf, I find that on my low level alts you'll often find one or two people in a pick-up group who don't have an SG and are happy to play in SG mode for you while you're teaming so long as it's not hurting their inf earning. It's not masses of mula, but it can make the difference between having to walk to the Vault on the map or having one directly over your invention table.

Also, when a new issue comes out with new power sets, look for people experimenting with them, you can often pick up a walking talking (albeit temporary) 20K pay cheque from an alt that's only going to be played for a few weeks and then neglected or - if you're unlucky - deleted.

 

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The 20k prestige per member shortly after I11 should help.

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20,000 Prestige
Also after the launch of Issue 11, all Supergroups will receive an additional 20,000 Prestige per Supergroup member, meaning SGs could acquire up to 3 million Prestige based upon their Supergroup membership roster! Actual date will be announced shortly.

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Edited to add: Once you know when that date is, there's nothing to stop you sending yourself a buddy code, having a free account for 10 days, and padding out your SG with 12 level 1 alts (or more, if you can be bothered), which may solve a lot of your prestige problems all in one go.

 

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Is that '20k per person that is removed when they leave' or just '20k per person as a bonus'?

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Don't know.

From here. It seems to indicate that it's a "gift", at least that's how I read it, but I may be wrong.

 

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At least now that you've posted that idea on the forum, those of us who were contemplating doing exactly that can blame you for putting them up to it - cheers!

 

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"20,000 Prestige
Also after the launch of Issue 11, all Supergroups will receive an additional 20,000 Prestige per Supergroup member, meaning SGs could acquire up to 3 million Prestige based upon their Supergroup membership roster! Actual date will be announced shortly."


I'm confused...

I thought that SG's could only hold 50 characters...

If that's the case - 50 x 20,000 = 1,000,000

So how is that 3million? Or am I being REALLY stupid and missed that you could have 150 characters per SG?

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*Thinks*

So....

Is it that you get 20k per member you have when I11 is released? Or is there a time period? Or is it 'you get 20k for every member that joins after I11 is released'?

If you can currently only have 75 characters, then surely you'll only get 75x20k when I11 hits?

Am I making sense? M'schleepy...

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from what i understand when i11 released there might be few weeks gap and by that time if you have 150 member in ur sg, ur sg can get a one time payment upto 3m prestige

 

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I was playing for about 2 hours last night, was invited to no fewer than 5 VGs, which brings my total of VG invites since joinging Villains at launch to..... 5! Looks like no one's taking any chances on that date being wrong.

Incidently, if anyone wants to join a VG, just gimme a shout

 

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So what's stopping a wave of generic level one alts being created, the prestige 'yoinked' on Dec 10th, and then the alts being deleted? Seems a bit... too easy?

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So what's stopping a wave of generic level one alts being created, the prestige 'yoinked' on Dec 10th, and then the alts being deleted? Seems a bit... too easy?

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Nothing to stop you doing that at all.

 

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So what's stopping a wave of generic level one alts being created, the prestige 'yoinked' on Dec 10th, and then the alts being deleted? Seems a bit... too easy?

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Nothing to stop you doing that at all.

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Or even starting trail accounts for the sole purpose to pad out SGs...

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