Starting Out

Necessities:

1. Power
2. Control
3. Telepads to cover your "side"
4. A medbay
5. A crafting area

Decoration is largely what you make of it. But the bare-bones you'll need:

Now for Power and control for a full-function base with ALL the basic amenities, you can get away with the middle-tier power and control (Ley Tap/Turbine Generator and Orbits of Control/Supercomputer with some auxillary control).

1. Power: 1,000,000 Prestige
2. Medium Control: 500,000 Prestige
3. Aux Control (2): 100,000 Prestige
4. 11 Telepads: 165,000 Prestige
5. 22 Beacons: 22,000 Prestige
6. Reclaimator/Res Circle: 10,000 Prestige
7. Invention Worktable: 25,000
8. Pillar of Ice & Flame: 50,000
9. Room Cost: 973,750

• 100,000 Control
• 162,500 Power
• 100,000 Medical
• 398,750 Transport (5x5)
• 162,500 Transport (3x3)
• 50,000 Workshop

(Note: Doing telepads as 2x to a room with 6 rooms would rack up 600K in room fees as opposed to 561,250)

Now this doesn't take into account the cost of the expanded base plot you'd need to fit it. I don't have time right now to factor that (it's 2 in the morning and I NEED to get to sleep), but you understand.

Pretty much anything beyond that, storage, etc is "decoration". Crafting tables can be brought in and removed as needed.

"Nice to have" stuff.

• Inspiration Storage in the medbay
• Autodoc
• Vault door
• Raid Telepad
• Mission Computer
• Storage (Enhancement and Component)
• Empowerment Station

This is probably causing you to suction-cup to your chair right now. Don't worry, the prestige comes hot and heavy later on.

Now, how much for a "functional" one-man base for someone with access to the base editor all the time? You could probably get away with a pair of telepads running off the combo unit and swap out beacons on an as-needed basis..

This is what I did when I was building Superheroes Anonymous up.

Oversight Center (Power, Control, Crafting): 50,000
Medbay: 50,000
TP Bay: 100,000

Combo Unit (Power and Control): 25,000 (125 Power, 75 Control)
Telepad (1): 15,000 (-50 Power, -25 Control)
Beacons (2): 20,000 (-10 Control)
Invention Table: 25,000
Reclaimator: 10,000 (-50 Power, -25 Control)


Total Cost: 295,000 (If you can pack in 15 alts or friends, you have this pretty much from the get-go).

That right there, if you have all the beacons, will get you around to pretty much any place in Paragon or the Rogue Isles. And it fits on the free, default plot.

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I mostly disagree with the above recommendations, telepads are nice, but with the combining of the yellow and green lines in less than a month, they will become mostly obsolete, with the exceptions of places not served by the train/ferry.

Maybe its personal taste, but I think (personal) crafting and storage is more important than anything. It seems to be the only thing I use my base for unless Im in a hurry, then the teleporters come in handy. If Im soloing, its no big deal.

the medbay is ok if you dont mind only having part of your HP & END recovered by the time you leave.

so my priority has been (using the Oversight Center with the combo unit) storage (salvage), invention table, med bay, vault, nex on the list will be more salvage storage and maybe an enhancement storage table...

I dunno about obsolete. And what about train service to Hazard zones?

I'll just chalk it up to personal taste. Then again, I don't keep massive quantities of salvage on-hand in my base much anymore (unless it's actually a team base). Mostly because I wind up having to spend prestige for rent on stuff that just really needs to be sold.

Hence the inspie storage. Usually, by the time you've glommed a few spare inspies, you're golden (at least on a larger base).

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I think "with the exceptions of places not served by the train/ferry." covers that

I'm always building stuff so the less I have to run to WW the better. so to the OP, I guess it depends on what you intend to use your base for as to which way you want to proceed

Was before my time. My SG was founded in July of '08.

Current breakdown for my SG.

I have a couple friends and their alts in the group. So they've provided about 13.25% of total prestige earnings.

Biggest Earner: Hyperstrike: 3,038,105 (Yeah, I play him a lot.)

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Have you seen Bonker's Guide for small bases?

My personal approach is to start out with basic salvage, crafting, and 'porter.

I usually start with:
3 salvage racks
crafting table
oversight room with power/control combo unit
vault
1 porter
beacons - you can have all the beacons you want. Only 2 will connect to the porter. Keep 2 on one wall, the others on a different wall. Swap beacons in edit mode as needed.

Some folks might prefer the med bay & rez unit before adding a 'porter.

Give the guide a good look. It's lengthy, but packed with info.

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Don�t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - R.W. Emerson

1) Go to Paragonwiki.com
2) Search for prestige grant
3) Profit

Paragonwiki says:
"On 12-10-2007 there was a one-time grant of 20,000 bonus prestige per supergroup member. However, an error in the script for the test server caused that one-time grant to be repeated the following day."