SOUND OFF: Who would buy themed Base Expansion Packs?

I'd buy a base expansion pack - almost regardless of what was in it.

Price? Depends on what it does. If they manage to get a working z axis tool & add personal mini-bases, for example, I'd happily pay $30+; that sort of improved usability would be worth nearly a full expansion's price to me; if it's just a few new items with limited functionality, $10 seems more reasonable.

While I agree that the concern that one person buying the pack could spread it to 10 SGs is valid, I still think that the idea of a pack is interesting. As said, one reason Bases are neglected by Development is because its a niche part of the game and the time spent improving it would bring in few new players, hence little more money. So doing for free is pretty unlikely.

However, doing it as a purchasable pack, even if only 30 people buy it and use it to redo 300 SGs, is still around 300 bucks generated by a niche. That's more than NC soft gets from free stuff added to the game, and would raise the hapiness of returning customers. It may not generate as much money as the Animal pack, but it would generate some, and probably more than the Party Pack ever will.

But based on the fact that one purchase would affect multiple accounts, I strongly doubt they'll ever add anything functionnal like tailor interfaces to such a pack. Some of it came already with (admitedly late) vet rewards, the rest would be a mess to implement. So I can't really see Mission teleportes in-base, unless as suggested, its access was restricted to people who bought the pack and it remained a decoration for the rest (that idea I could see them implement actually, it wouldn't be that hard given what they can do already.)

All this rant aside, I'd LOVE to have such a pack, even with just decorative items. I'd pay for it if it contained a good amount of them, such as 40+ minimum for 8 bucks. I think such a pack could also contain some improved items that wouldn't add functions to the base but be better versions of the free ones (tintable lamps, tintable banners that don't necessarily take after the SG's colors, etc.)

I'd love to have options for the base entrance such as tech sliding doors or a wall portal like the ones in the RWZ (or the Portal corp ones for the CoP trial. ), alternative looks for the Energy and Control generators, and REAL, both-side-textured wall partitions and floor items, like the linoleum but better thought-out. As said, not having to use 600+ desks to make a loft would help the server load of big bases tremendously (though I can hear old-time base builders arteries bursting when they contemplate the wasted time they'd have put in those. ) Actual windows and glass panels would also be something I'd pay for.

EDIT : As for the rent part of things, I wouldn't do away with it. I would, however, drastically lower the influence to prestige conversion ratio. Since doing a mission gives my character about as much of both, I'd say a 3 to 1 or even 4 to 1 ratio would make it much more palatable while still making actual SG-mode gameplay a more profitable way to accrue it.

Another Idea...Superbases.

Only people that buy the packs would be able to form Superbases. Regualr bases would not be able to hold the Superbase items, but SB would be backward compatible.

And make leadership non-transferable (although permissions to build would be able to be assigned)...except to characters on the same account.

This would also give the devs the chance to upgrade the base editing system.

** Also, if they lower costs and swith to influence-based Superbases, many people could use this for personal housing.

I would if....

1.bundled Iphone, windows phone, or android access to the market
2. Bonus prestige
3. If I got something that was more geared toward the individual SG not the team SG.
4. Tailor in Base.

I'd pay. How much I would pay is relative to how much they put in, all the way up to $0-$50 for a major construction tool that would allow for freeform design, maybe even allowing for custom architect rooms as well.

Step one for a major base overhaul is to shelve the idea of making it PvP friendly. Raids should not be a focus, or even a consideration. There are tons of things they could do to make it useful if that goal was removed.

Not that I am anti-pvp. Its just that PvP and full customization of the setting do not mix well.

CoH shines even today over the competition because of its customization. Its time, past time, for bases to get their due.

I'd also like to see a pack with some kind of Arena and AE portals for bases as well... or better yet a portal to to something that combines the two - custom layouts designed especially for PVP rumbles - something akin to the X-Men's Danger Room.

I would not buy a base booster pack.

Hmmm. Which part would you like me to elaborate on? Seems pretty straight forward to me.

I would buy a base expansion pack if it allowed me to copy my existing base design to servers Im not currently on, so I wouldn't have to start over.

I already know a million reasons why they wont do it. But I still want it.

I'd be all over base booster packs!

I would not buy a base booster pack.

I think the resources could be better spent on something with more widespread appeal. Bases do not interest me, and I find the business of building them laborious and unrewarding. The only time I bother to do so is for my Hero characters, due to the lack of crafting benches in the vicinity of the hero-side markets.

1. Would you buy Base Expansion Packs?

Depends what's in it.

I've just returned to the game after a break of two years, tempted back by missions with decision choices, its great to see the new content but very sad to see absolutely zero base love in that time.

So really there should not be a Base Expansion Pack, there should be a proper base update first. Then you could have an expansion pack with loads of decorative items, but not before (imo).