Why do SG's make their teleporters hard to find?

Our base designer was smart. Entrance is in the center, with the med bay, teleporter bay, and salvage bays off the entrance and clearly visible.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I've got a similar functional design like most have already said. My Entrance, Med, and TP rooms are all right next to each other. After that it spreads out to whatever. Most bases I go into for Silver Mantis SF or other reasons, I can find the TP room pretty easy. Have run across a couple where I get lost

Plenty of reasons.

People adding rooms as they earn enough prestige for them, and not wanting/knowing how to move existing rooms.

People who can't design a base to save their lives.

People trying to squeeze as many rooms as possible into a smaller plot, resulting in a need to play room Tetris.

People who value form over function.

The basic build strategy I have for each of my bases for my SGs/VGs has always been "keep the med, auto doc, teleporters, inspiration storage, and portal close to each other".

When you're dead in a mish, and the team is in imminent wipe, wasting time to find these three things after you rez in the base is counter-productive to your SG/VG mates. With what is currently available for base use, you need to maximize and simplify your SG/VG utilization for your SG/VG mates.

When base raiding becomes an issue again, I'll place multiple locations for med/auto doc/teleporters as required, but for now, I make them as simpistically functional for the group. And yes, I do decorate the bases, stack many things, and create themed rooms and styles, but again, not at the expense of my SG/VG mates needs.

Some base builders go hog wild with 'drop any room here and decorate with fluff and stacking' mentality, and to each their own; standard members who have need of a functional base won't stick around long though with that type of base build unless they don't care about base functionality. I don't dislike bases like this, since I'm usually impressed with the creativity of many of our builders, but, to put it simply, you don't build an aircraft carrier to be a fashion runway.

One of the best comments I continually get in all my SG/VG bases is, "Damn! Everything is so easy to find and access" (or along those lines). The base should be an asset for the GROUP not YOU (as the base builder). If you feel like going into 'awesome stacking and decorating' mode, again, go to town, but have the base designed to be 'useful' first.

One base, though it was beautifully designed, had the exit portal floating at ceiling level in mid-air. There was no way someone without fly or such could get out without jumping and trying to click in on it mid-jump.

I have one rule for all creative endeavors that I engage in...
No rule has to be followed.

I am the Archetect/Engineer for three SGs and I always place the Teleporters and Infirmary close to the Secret Entrance. I try to keep the Workshops close too so players can get at the IO crafting table. IO Vault and Enhancement bins in a short amount of time and a second hold the Inspiration collectors . Energy, Control and ROLE Playing room can go as far away as possible.. LOL Sadly not everyone in every SG agrees with that assessment.

Memphis Bill makes a good point too.. It doesn't take that LONG to take a quick tour of the new SG you just joined and scout out where things are. Sort of makes sense when you think about it. Move to a new neighborhood and I bet you take some time to ask your neighbors or just drive around a bit to find the Grocery Store, Gas Station, etc. I guess if you join an SG in the middle of a task force your team mates night take exception to you wondering around a 24 X 24 plot looking at every single room but unless the base Designer is just cruel and inhuman most bases place the Tpers and other GOOD stuff close to the entrance.. Take a few minutes to look around and find them. As mentioned unless you have a base that someone is redesigning contstantly it should only take a few trips inside before you have everything memorized

I keep my teleport pads in a series of color-coded rooms, ranging from green to purple.

Alphabetical sounds nice too. Hard to come up with an intuitive marking scheme for that, though.

An open letter to NCsoft

A little trick I do when setting up a new base is that the first two heroside TP locations I set up are to King's Row and Steel Canyon. King's Row's exit point is near the Yellow Line station and Steel Canyon's exit point is the closest of those zones that the Green Line station serves. And generally, I keep those two locations on the same teleport pad even after setting up more pads later.

Probably because most SGs strive to have MONSTER bases as big as city zones. The base of my SG is built so that you won't have trouble finding anything . In fact, you can see the teleporter room right from the entrance. I believe in convenience

Maybe some SG's teleporters are hard to find, because the bases are still set up for Raids

Which have been discontinued and its too expensive, time consuming to change the base layout.