Naming your base!

Apologies if this has been suggested before -- I ran searches on name and base with predictable results.

Although workarounds exist like using the Message of the Day or the SG motto, it would still be a nice little extra to be able to name one's base something other than "my base." A Fortress of Solitude, a Batcave, a Xavier's Academy, a Titan Tower, a Baxter Building, a Moonbase Alpha -- there are many examples in the literature.

Players could certainly be creative in naming their own bases, they wouldn't need to rip off existing comics. A dog-themed supergroup could have a Dogs' Den, and the coalition partner for new members could be the Puppy Crate. My Minotaur could have a Labyrinth or a Palace of Knossos, and so on.

How to deal with the fact that the list of bases accessed at the base portals currently clearly distinguishes your own base and the SGs/VGs that own the other bases? Well, more text could be crammed in somehow...the list might read like this:

Apartment 12B (your base)
The Dogs' Den (Terriers base)
Joe's Bar (Mafia Hitmen base)

This change would have limited effect on the game, but it would introduce another layer of customization and (I hope) increase immersion for some players, and it doesn't require much in the way of resource commitment -- no art or animation time, no new powers or rules, just a text field stored somewhere and called up in a few places (the SG information sheet screen, the base selection popup list, perhaps a few other places.

This seems like a simple enough suggestion. They'd probably have to limit the length of the new base name field to something relatively small (30 characters?) to make sure it could fit into any existing GUIs but otherwise as you say it'd probably be easy to "shoehorn" this into existing code.

I think many people would rank being able to rename their SGs at a higher priority than this, but beyond that it's a reasonable suggestion.

/signed, as they say.

I was just rebuilding one of my SGs' base the other night and it occured to me that at the end of the day, it was just another Tech base at, well, base. Base names would be one way of letting people know what the base is supposed to portray as well. You can't currently tell the Sub-Humans' Underwater Lair from Mistress Lash's Dungeon or the Freedom Satellite from Moonbase Clearwater once you're inside if they all come down to being either hewn stone, high tech or dirty.

Where is the like button on this thing?................wait.............This isn't facebook! in that case /signed

/singed.

One of many base suggestions that, in my pessimism, will probably go unnoticed or unanswered.

/signed

/signed as well.

I would love to be able to do this.

"It's hard for you to be yourself, if you don't know who you really are."

while we're at it:

windows and skylights

selection of windows:

orbit, underwater, moon, forest, mountain, arctic, high rises, slums, etc

/signed

I agree with this idea completely. And considering I basically don't care about bases in the slightest yet still fully support this suggestion, that should say something about how good it is.

Technical cost aside, this idea has literally no downsides. I like it!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

/ signed I like this idea and can't see how it would take a lot of effort to become a reality. The Taxibots have always referred tp their bases as "The Garage" or the Virtue Garage, Freedom Garage, etc.. since at one point there were active SGs on every server. Now just to come up with a name for the other bases I run. LOL


Let's see...

Sisterhood of KFKA ---- Divine Temple of KFKA (22 characters)

KFKA Two ---- Garden of the Sisterhood (24 characters)

I need more time to think of a good one for the Villain base :-D