Secret Lair booster pack idea

I have thought for a long time that one of the obvious things missing from this MMORPG is personal housing for our characters. So, I did a rough outline for a Secret Lair Booster Pack. I want to stay as far away from the base program as possible, so I don't think that personal space should include any of the ammenities found in an SG base. I do think that alot of this design could use artwork and systems already present in the game.

Take a look:

Residence –
Start with basic living area in your choice of styles: Apartment, Condo, Single Family Home, Mansion, Cave, Sewer, Ice Fortress, Hollow Tree…etc.
- Basic Residence area includes:
a. One Entrance area
b. One Living area
c. One Eating area
d. One Sleeping area
e. Clickable access to “Secret Lair” area
- Residence does not support Teleport or Crafting or Storage.

Living areas can be upgraded/enhanced by spending “Personal Prestige”.
- Personal Prestige is earned at the same rate and in the same manner as SG/VG prestige.
- Personal Prestige is earned both in and out of SG mode.
- Personal Prestige begins earning at level 1.
- Personal Prestige can be purchased with influence/infamy at the same rate and in the same manner as SG/VG prestige.

Any base portal will have the option to transport you to a SG/VG base (if
available) or to your residence or secret lair.

Secret Lair –
Access through a custom clickable object located in the residence area. The Secret Lair area is also available in your choice of different styles.
- Basic Secret Lair area includes:
a. One Entrance area
b. One Mission/Storage area
c. Clickable access to “Residence” area
available upgrade areas
d. Costume display area
e. Trophy display area
- Secret Lair does not support Teleport or Crafting.
- Secret Lair does support limited storage.

Secret Lair area can also be upgraded/enhanced by spending “Personal Prestige”.

Mission/Storage area includes:
- Personal Mission Computer – gives missions similar to tip or radio/newspaper missions.
- Storage – includes a limited amount of personal storage.

Costume Display Area
- A display of your available costume slots.

Trophy Display Area
- A display area for your badges, achievements, accolades…etc.

Maybe you have another idea to make this better. Maybe I got something wrong and you know a better way. Either way - lets talk about it.

I didn't even read this whole thing because I'm super-caffeinated and running late, but...

Yes, please. I've been wanting something like this for the lonnnngest time. I'd love to see, or be directed towards, any type of mechanical/coding explanation for why we can't have these. I mean, we can already port to any of our allies' bases, if they flag their bases for sharing; seems like it'd be a pretty similar idea.

Thanks for the replies.

In response-Forbin, I am aware of the deep dark hole that is the base building forum. Thank you for the suggestion, but I'm pretty sure that's where posts go to die. I really want to avoid this having anything to do with base building and the base system. That's why I posted in the "suggestions" instead "base building". I don't think it's enough new content for expansion prices. But I'd pay maybe @ $15.00 U.S. for a beefy booster .

-Fleeting Whisper, I initially thought to ask for a better exchange rate, but then reconsidered to keep the suggestion more simple. I know the rate is stupid, but I don't think earning influence is that hard and having another influence sink in the game could be a good thing.

As for myself, I'm against personal housing as it takes time and resources away from the game for things that I would find interesting.

But if it's not required it'd be okay with it being introduced. If it does affect me, it better be Apex moving out of the apartment, and me sharing it with War Witch. I could do that!

Yes.

BTW, this IS the suggestion section and personal lairs, even if you choose to call them personal bases IS a suggestion.

No wonder the OP has a low opinion of the forums.

I do agree that this would be a major undertaking but not for the reasons you may think. IF they were to ever do this they should do it RIGHT which would mean a totally revamped/new building system. Why do it if they'd be using the same crap that is the current Base Building interface/rules?

Now THAT probably belonged in the Base Building section. See the difference?

If I'm understanding what the OP is referring to, it sounds akin to the Sanctuary in Fable 3. A personal place to appreciate all of your achievements as you've progressed through the game, as well as to consider all of your future quest options. A fair suggestion, to be sure, but not quite as simple to implement as if a few extra lines of code would make it work.

For starters, as was previously mentioned in this thread, in order to implement any amount of customization it would require some sort of "Lair Builder" system. Now, the easiest way to do this would be the same way base building works, although our current base builder is a nightmare to work with and in glaring need of overhaul. I would second the suggestion to approach this topic in the base builder forum, simply because whichever dev happens to be tackling the base builder problem at this time will see your suggestion and possibly have a great idea to implement this into the next incarnation of base building, which unfortunately is unlikely to come soon. Not to say bases don't need love, but more devs are working on new arcs, new TFs, new zones, possibly even new powersets, and the further development of the incarnate system, and with all due respect to base builders, I much prefer them developing those things because I (and most of the playerbase) interact with them more often. (My comment on the playerbase is an assumption, but based in the fact that everybody who plays this game plays SOME powerset, and the majority of players run SOME arcs outside of AE, while not everybody enjoys or even attempts to use the base editor.)

On another note, regarding your "personal prestige" idea: I know it's based off of our current base builder technology, however prestige really is nothing more than "supergroup influence" and so there's no real need to create an all new economy. Just use INF and simplify the whole procedure. Make the initial furnishings cheap and build up to a 30M INF zero-gravity bed, which does nothing but look pretty and functions quite well as an INF sink.

Thanks for making the suggestion, and be sure to follow through with it. I'd love to see it in game, although I think this is the most support I'll end up showing for it simply because there's other things I'd give a higher priority. No offense, of course.

And please, don't feed the trolls.

This is such a basic ideal to superheroedom that I am suprised that it has not been done!
wow I give a BIG THUMS UP TO THIS.