Discussion: Player Base Spotlight: Kaison Corp Medical Center

The brainchild of Dechs Kaison, no expense was spared in the construction of this medical megastructure. To build this facility, Dechs Kaison put up a bid for the construction among some of the most reputable and experienced base-builders in City of Heroes Freedom™. The contract (which ran into the hundreds of millions of inf) was won by DemonHunter-1 and War Base, who designed the layout. We were cordially invited to tour this player-made medical treatment center at its grand opening on the Virtue server.

Entering through the main doors, it's apparent that this facility is meant to evoke a clean-yet-welcoming atmosphere, sterile as one would expect of a hospital, but not cold. Large red crosses are tiled above doorways, comfortable black leather couches line the waiting room, and a giant painting of what might be a loosely-sketched beach hangs across from the front desk. The area is bright, with blue floors and off-white walls. Around the corner you can see into the medical center's garage, where a specialized rapid response vehicle sits waiting.

Down a short flight of steps from the lobby, the building opens up into the main hallway where each of the smaller, specialized sections of the facility are situated. There's a fully-stocked pharmacy, private treatment rooms, and an examination area with rows of hospital beds. Glass panes and tall, potted ferns are the decor here; giving the place a sense of understated liveliness. It definitely feels like the type of place you would feel comfortable recovering in after the latest bout with a giant monster or invading army from another world.

The rehabilitation areas themselves, located on the higher floors of the facility, are a real highlight. There's a full-size sparring ring (complete with spectator stands), an exercise room with the latest strength-building equipment, and (my personal favorite area) a dance floor with a DJ platform and Huge-sized speakers.

Back on the ground floor, a room off to the side held a monolithic machine that easily stretched to the complex's ceiling. I questioned Kaison about its purpose; the machine was described in layman's terms as, "A really powerful microscope," presumably for analysis of conditions that even the high-powered scanners hospitals utilize today are incapable of seeing at the most minute level.

Dechs was gracious enough to allow us a view of his personal office for this tour; it's a wood-paneled, classy room dotted with plants and hanging cases of vintage weaponry. I was assured that the majority of these were collectors' pieces--and those that weren't were strictly for security. An automated security turret outside the door was definitely the latter.

With a facility this advanced and expansive, one would expect that to go in for medical care was to come out missing an arm and a leg--and not from surgery. While we weren't given quotes on how much treatment would cost, Dechs Kaison may be the most forward-thinking owner of a private hospital facility, or at least an extremely pragmatic man: the Kaison Corporation medical facility has, built-in, its own bank, allowing patients to take out a loan or a policy directly from the facility. For security reasons we were unable to take photos of this area, however it was nothing if not impressive to see a multi-windowed bank within a hospital. This section was tucked away in the back of the facility, and understandably so--it might be the only thing within the Kaison Corp medical center that isn't conductive to making patients feel better.

The Kaison Corp medical facilities are now open in the Rogue Isles.

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

They've done player base spotlights before. Not frequently, but on occasion they do (I can think of 1-2 others, I think at least one other earlier this year.)

As for why do it... why not? It looks interesting, and may give others ideas.

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Desks are the answer. In the case of Dechs' base, we mostly used the grey counters or white counters as flooring and walls. They're located in the base editor under the "Desks" tab.

If you head on over to the Base Construction board, you'll find many threads that detail some of the tricks of the trade used to create bases like the one that Dechs now has. Most people there are helpful in teaching new builders how to create their own bases, and after that, it's just a matter of experience and patience to learn what works and what doesn't.

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Doesn't take long is pretty subjective. Just the fact that I have to fill a room with desks is unreasonable to me.

That's why I paid someone else to do it!