Personal Lairs

Well since ive never really seen a good use for a SG base, and no one ever goes in one cept for CoP. Whaddaya think of personal Lairs. Maybe 1-3 rooms you can decorate yourself. Maybe a storage box of some sort in there.

Something else to do, yeah?

I like it. Makes sense.
I do nothing in my bases but store shinys, get shines and tp places. If I have to move more than 15 ft to any of these..its too far.
Especially if we could INVITE ourselves..to our own lair.

Comic book super heroes have 'em. Comic book super villains have 'em. Thumbs up. Good idea.

How is this different from having a personal SG for your toons?

It would let them build a system from the ground up, to avoid the 'playing jenga on fire' mess that is the current base system....which is a good thing, right?

I'll /sign, every time.

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Agreed. If the current system is THAT fragile that it cant take any changes..meaning its mired never getting improved..
Hell, use single person 'Lairs' as a trial system for some, you know..not jenga on fire base systems.

Well couldn't they make pre exisiting lairs? Who says they need to be totally custom? Just a few templates..cave, office, warehouse lair, 3 rooms, done. No custom stuff at all.

Oh I am sure it would be limited..that is why i said..keep it at 3 or whatever preset rooms. And the rooms would be pulled out of exisiting map content..meaning no new stuff. Possibly.

Personal player housing puts more of a strain on the game than SG bases, as it creates more instanced maps - but it also opens up a major new area for market sales, and sidesteps the need to do anything with the current base system.

We've been asking for personal lairs, apartments, etc for years. It would be great if we got them but don't hold your breath.

There are a couple of things in favor of this as a potential system.

1) All furniture pieces made as of Going Rogue are three-dimensional objects as opposed to two-dimensional decorations that you'd seen in older zones and maps. This means there is a large existing database of decorations, furniture, decorations and the like to draw upon. Three new templates for such a system exist in Manticore's mansion, the Halloween Haunted House, and pretty much all of Atlas Park.

2)These pre-existing resources means that instead of accounting for a conglomeration of multiple items in one location (such as stacking for stairs and even whole floors) database size goes down because well...it's all there. Stairs, ladders, the works. While this also means that the templates will dictate a certain pre-determined format, things like color, placement of items and so on are going to have a lot of room for customisation. It does mean a copy of the room/apartment/whatever would be generated for each user, but the amount of information in them would be far less than the amount of items in even an average size base. Additionally, making them available to the player means the actual data (say for argument's sake a 'small apartment') could be held client-side rather like files for costumes.

3)Implementation through the store becomes easy because of the mail system and is keyed to an account rather than a singular character, rather like how travel powers apply to all characters on the account instead of individual enhancements.

The question then becomes that of time and resources and available space. I'm personally okay with holding information for a personal house on my side of the fence because as data, it's not really that big. It's the server side that'd be the concern, ie how many clones of the 'house' could be stored.

I personally think it's a viable alternative seeing as all avenues regarding actual bases have been explored. They can't be fixed, they won't be fixed. We all know that as a bottom line now. It's how much commitment on both developer and player sides there'll be to exploring alternatives.



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The devs haven't been putting resources into bases because

a. It's a fragile legacy feature whose creator doesn't work for the company anymore.

b. And players have shown themselves to be determined (for the past 6-7 years) to use SG's/bases as solo content which is contrary to how the devs intended them to be used as group content.