Telepad Bay Advice

Soooo... I've finished the sewer entry to my base, thanks to learning to use the floor tiles making it go 10 times faster.

I'm now trying to come up with a look for my telepad bays.

This is my base layout, so you can see how I've got the telepads placed:
http://xs843.xs.to/xs843/09370/scree...5-49-44663.jpg

This was my first attempt at putting a facade on the bays:
http://xs843.xs.to/xs843/09370/scree...5-51-14923.jpg

And this was my second attempt:
http://xs843.xs.to/xs843/09370/scree...5-52-09560.jpg

The goal is to make each telepad have it's own "room", with an entrance.

After coming up with the first design, I just felt it looks too medieval/arcane. It might fit in a sewer room, but it looks too gothic/old fashioned for inside the base itself. I don't want an arcane or sewer look.

So I built the second one. The things I like about that design are the small dooways, and the beacon displays right on the walls to either side of the entry.

What I dont' like about it is that it looks like a corporate boardroom.

What I want it to look like is something like a warehouse. Something that would fit the "dingy" scheme. Sort of industrial but not shiny perfect science lab.

Can anyone give me some ideas here?

You could use Lighting to your Advantage and use the lighter Bookshelves. That way they can have a greenish tone and seem dingier. You could also use the Cubicle and the floor tiles and use the white cabinet or another wall cabinet.

I think I actually found a really good solution!

Check this out:
http://xs843.xs.to/xs843/09370/scree...7-34-20850.jpg

I used the grey straight counter from the desks set to make a large cinderblock look. The texture even looks vageuly concrete.

That looks really good

Yeah, it came out pretty well, I'm proud of it

The only downside is it cost a minor fortune. There are 116 desks in the wall you see there. At 100 prestige each, the wall cost 11,600 prestige.

I actually ran myself out of pretisge before I finished the wall separating the two telepads from each other.

Somehow I get the feeling I'm going to be measuring my farming success in number of desks I can pay for, for a while.

It'll probably cost me 50-100k to deck out the studio room I'm intending to make a lounge on one floor, and a bunk area above.

I can sympathize with the Prestige cost Paladin, hehe. Wait until you start getting really extravagant though. My new library is already over 1000 items and has cost an obscene amount when you factor in the cost of a 5x5 defensive room, 5 slow fields and the hundreds of bookshelves, blocks and other items that are going into the room. And its still not done yet XD

Nice job on the Telepads by the way.

My recent base is pretty tiny, yet it's coast me at least 900,000 prestiege so far.

Well, the base as a whole has cost a fortune, considering I've gone it alone. I have a supercomputer, and I upgraded the plot size. Most of the rooms are the standard 2x2 room size, so they cost basically 100k each. I'm not sure what the 1x2 defensive room I put in to make the sewer crossing cost. I think the 3x3 Studio decorative rooms are only 100k too... But that's still 3 teleport rooms, two studios, two of the 1x2 workshop rooms ('cause I couldn't fit a 2x2 in after I reshuffled the base to fit the two studio rooms in), control room and energy room... That's about 800 or 900k just in rooms, plus 500k for the supercomputer, and whatever my generator and two circuit breakers cost.

I'm just shocked to discover that the decorative stuff really adds up too. Not just the functional stuff (Which I already knew was expensive )

Oh, I should mention, I ran a couple of farms today and got the prestige I needed to finish that telepad bay and one of the other two. Now I just need to pick up about 14k more and I'll be able to finish the third one. Then I can start work on my lounge/bunkhouse area.

Ah, good point. That would actually work out well for me as I could use a personal invention salvage storage vault to look like a vault door that could be closed across the entrance too...