A Soapbox Stand Against T.U.N.N.E.L. and Some Base Luvin

T.U.N.N.E.L. does not impress me. It smells of the ‘I only get to play this game 2 hours a week and I don’t want to spend it running from door to door!’ complaint. Mission teleporters are already a limo ride straight to the door. How do you improve on that? There’s a fine line between free and just giving it away, and I think T.U.N.N.E.L. goes too far.
What would be far more useful is the ability to open the map, click the city tab, then highlight the zone I want and click to open that zone’s map. Simply the ability to see where my missions are will help me decide which order I want to do them and how to best get there.

“Officer, where is the Tricorp building? There’s a bomb and I need to get there immediately.”
“Oh, that’s in Steel Canyon Superdude.”
Blink, “so… like 59th Street or closer to Independence Port? Never mind, I’ll just fly around until I see a building explode.”

It used to be that the access to zones provided by base teleporters was the coolest part about having a supergroup. Supergroups encourage group play, which in my opinion entitles their bases to premier access throughout the game. Drop T.U.N.N.E.L. and restore Base access as the ultimate way to travel. How about:
The Garage/Hanger
The game already has vehicles for ‘travel’: ferries, submarines, helicopters, black helicopters, portals, trains, and even trucks. Click on them and you go somewhere else. So what’s wrong with providing a room where such a vehicle waits? Click on it and you arrive somewhere else. Exactly where is dependent on 3 things: which city you are in, what the vehicle is, and how much you invest in it.
For example, a submarine will never take you to Skyway City no matter how much you try. A secret railcar on abandoned spur of the PTA light rail system might only take you to the green line stations for one price, or to any station for a higher amount.
Perhaps the Garage can take advantage of beacons. Picture a 2x1 room with a motorcycle facing a garage door. This Garage supports 1 beacon and that’s where the Motorcycle goes. Picture a garage as an elevator door that opens out onto a 4x4 pad where a helicopter is warming up. This ‘room’ can support 12 beacons and that’s all the places the helicopter can take you. Or a 3x2 room with a Portal gateway on the wall and 4 beacons; you could chose mundane locations within Paragon City, but this Garage allows you to slot places like Pocket D, Shadow Shard Zones, First Ward, Dark Astoria, etc. (which would all need beacons).
Perhaps the Garage can take you to missions that normally require a train or truck. Perhaps you can craft a one use beacon at a workbench (or buy them in the Paragon Store) that allows the vehicle to travel to a given zone or even right to a mission door. Should I point out that players can already buy and use such a vehicle? But bases cannot be equipped with this service - even those containing that exact vehicle.

And as long as I’m talking about making bases fun again, here are some other ideas.
Trophies
When’s the last time you opened the Souvenir tab? How about fixing that whole thing and dropping the idea of icons in the souvenir tab in favor of actual trophies that can be placed in the base? Trials, Task/Strike Forces, and Raids all add Supergroup badges if a member of the group (in supergroup mode) completes them. These badges form the ‘Trophies’ tab, and the trophies can be clicked to open a window with the mission recap. Story arc souvenirs form a tab on the personal items menu, and these are smaller mementoes that hang on a wall or sit on a desktop.
Personal Items
The personal items menu should have four tabs: personal, souvenirs, collectable, and crafted. The crafted tab is exactly what it is today; you craft a device for the base and install it. The collectable tab is all the prestige items an individual can accumulate. The souvenirs tab is filled with souvenirs from all the story arcs you’ve completed.
The Personal tab is a handful of predesigned posters that just need your character’s profile to complete. There’s the ‘Super Pose’ Poster: pick an emote and a costume slot: bam that image is framed for posterity and ready for hanging on a wall. There’s the ‘Headline’ Poster: “$target Saves City/$target Robs Paragon City Bank” with your mug shot (straight from your ID card). A simple portrait that goes on the wall along with every other member. Assorted personalized awards: the Fire Marshall Award, A Commendation from Vanguard, the Key to the City, etc.
Quarters
Okay, the group members have gone crazy pasting trophies and souvenirs everywhere. Enough already! Keep this junk in your own quarters. Oh… …right.
Much like the decorative rooms, Quarters come in various sizes and can only contain unpowered items. The size represents the quarters of a single member, and either comes with a preset budget that each member can spend to customize it, or the base designer is allowed to set aside a budget of prestige that each member can spend. This room is accessed by a sliding door. Click on the door and you get a list of all members in the group. Select the room you’d like to visit. In your own room, the base designer menu appears so that you can edit it.
Misc Other Stuff
Kitchen appliances, gymnasium equipment, lockers, benches, single doors, signs [exit, supplies, junction room, laundry, office, meeting room], elevator doors (just decorative, they don’t have to work), circuit breaker panels, clocks, framed copy of the group charter, windows, a mirror.

And might I suggest the Paragon Store as the vehicle for some of this development? If it takes a couple bucks out of my pocket to get this type of stuff, I’m fine with that. Cause I want it!

This would require the base code to be in workable condition. If they tried such a drastic overhaul they might explode the whole game, not just bases.

Bases have been declared a legacy system. They'll be maintained and MIGHT get some small additions every now and then should the odds of horribly breaking the code in doing so be small enough. But you should probably give up on expecting any major sort of changes or additions to the system.

I heard the devs said that doing anything with the base code was like playing Jenga on Ellen.

I've got no objection at all to new base features, if it's technically feasible. I am annoyed by suggestions that start with "take away this other unrelated feature because I personally don't like it and don't like that other people like it", though.

To the OP: I wanna see you do a Dr. Q as a opposite fraction like being in a villain base with villain TPers and gone hero with NO base access and say your team mates Sgs don't allow base assess to others... You. Are. Screwed. Exept using the train and mission telepoters.
The tunnel system is a god send along with the team teleporter. It brings hope to cutting the shadow shard tfs times down a ton! It also gives you more accesses to both sides if your rogue/vigilante for tfs on the different sides.
Even merging the trains as well as more helicopters on villain side makes like operative Renault sf go so much smoother.