SUGGESTION: The ability to build bases/encapments on Planets/moons.

War Eagle

War Eagle
It seems to me that - from what I hear the galaxy has only had .001% discovered, with that being true doesn't it make sense to allow for the building of camps by players as they go. They could transfer their Ships and modules as they go making the discovery much further(wouldn't it)? The bases could also generate income to the player but they would also have to hire all the different crew to run it, keep it up to standards and protect it from other players. Also with that you would need a login list rather than logging into the last place you parked.
The player would have to haul all materials to the moon/planet needed to be built.
This would be a radical change and not sure ED would want to consider it or not but seems it would facilitate exploration much faster if everything they have is not all in one spot like an anchor.

Just an opinion of a Noob.
Thoughts?
 

aRJay

aRJay
Now that would probably get very expensive fast, we have had in the past Community Goals to build stations or other facilities which required the efforts of 100s of commanders over a week or more. There are supposed to be fleet carrier ships for squadrons coming but IIRC their purchase and upkeep (refuelling etc.) is designed to be too much for any one player.

Even if this was simpler and affordable I wouldn't want to be managing a staff, I used to play another game that let you have bases and keeping them running smoothly got to be a major time sink.

Certainly won't see a login list as that is effectively instant transfer, more likely to be able to telepresence to your bases to conduct staff meetings etc.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous

Let players buy/build bases

Couldn't see a thread on it suggested recently, so I thought I'd add one. Please, let us buy or build bases. Here's some initial ideas: Purchase Option: We get to buy a ready built base. Just as you can buy a ship and then outfit it, the same with a base. So the core base options include...
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[Suggestion] Base building

Okay, before you all go Nooo! This is something that I think can work if it is set up right. Players can build a base. With certain limitations. 1. Base can only be built on airless worlds, that do not have an existing planetary POI on it. ie. you can't build on planets that already have in...
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Base Building on Planets would give the planets a real purpose!

I've dreamed about going onto a planets and exploring them with all the details they will have, but to be honest they are really empty and just some Little Things are there you can find, but imagine, if you could build on them your own stations... to be a trading post for many npc and real...
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[SUGGESTION] Own Bases to Build and Defend (with factory and storage)

Hello dear FD Dev-Team, i think to make Elite little bit more interesting for much people, it would be very nice if it is possible to build an own base. Let me explain how i think about this for better understanding: Lets say we can build an own base, in any system and have to defend this...
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Player created base's

I dont know if this has been talked about at all bur i was wanting to suggest that allowing players to build their own base in space or on an uninhabited planet might get you more people interested in the game. I myself would love to be able to make my own outpost to lock down in and be able to...
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What a dream would it be, to build bases on the giant, but also empty planets...

I've dreamed about going onto a planets and exploring them with all the details they will have, but to be honest they are really empty and just some Little Things are there you can find, but imagine, if you could build on them your own stations... to be a trading post for many npc and real...
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Probably a touchy subject but base building on moons?

Has this been discussed by FD lately, I went away for some time and haven't kept up, I only came back because YouTube personality ChaosWulff has a way of pitching stuff [haha] Anyway, I'd be interested in something touching on this by FD, thanks.
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Creating your own base....in a way....

Any chance we could have the ability to construct, at the very least, our own hangers and or storage outposts on any land able planet we see fit? Here's how we would go about it, we need to gather X of so many different materials and take it to an NPC constructor who would then build you a...
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Ideas for the game

I know this is PROBABLY gonna get a lot of negative comments, but i wanna voice my idea anyway. This idea stems from planetside 2, srv based, base buliding. Yes i know you guys are giving people bases in colonia. But wouldnt it be nice, with all the planets out there, to have a base that you...
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About Persistence and Player Bases

I found myself poking about another universe I haven't put much time into for a while - Entropia, and it dawned on me - there may be a solution that is both persistent and provides for the functionality of a personal facility at the same time. In Entropia, it is possible to purchase (you...
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War Eagle

War Eagle
aRJay said:
Now that would probably get very expensive fast, we have had in the past Community Goals to build stations or other facilities which required the efforts of 100s of commanders over a week or more. There are supposed to be fleet carrier ships for squadrons coming but IIRC their purchase and upkeep (refuelling etc.) is designed to be too much for any one player.

Even if this was simpler and affordable I wouldn't want to be managing a staff, I used to play another game that let you have bases and keeping them running smoothly got to be a major time sink.

Certainly won't see a login list as that is effectively instant transfer, more likely to be able to telepresence to your bases to conduct staff meetings etc.
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Just to clarify "The Bubble" is some area close to the centre of the Galaxy right? I've only been playing about 2 weeks now and only in solo so far(made my personal goal last night so next login will be in the main arena).
 

aRJay

aRJay
War Eagle said:
Just to clarify "The Bubble" is some area close to the centre of the Galaxy right? I've only been playing about 2 weeks now and only in solo so far(made my personal goal last night so next login will be in the main arena).
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The bubble is the volume where most humans live, in your galaxy map select the power play view and that is roughly it.

Solo is exactly the same as any other mode except for the number of players there.

Colonia is a mini bubble about 22,000 light years away from where you are, the centre of the galaxy SagA* is a bit further away.
 

Tikanderoga

Tikanderoga
J.States said:
Hundreds of millions of systems, you should be pretty safe outside the Bubble, unless you're being hunted...
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I know, right?
hundreds of millions of systems and the Thargoids are invading the bubble.... And who wants a base outside the bubble? I'd be happy to share a moon with someone.
 

Killnine

K
Vedmo said:
So long as everyone else has the ability to blow them up.
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Be careful what you wish for.

Having installations, stations and such be destructible, would be awesome in many ways - if it wasn't for the greater internet f-wad theory (https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19), which has time and time again proved 110% correct. And this is why we can't have nice things! 😡

Swarms of basement-dwelling lowlifes would descend on the Elite galaxy like biblical locusts, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake. They would literally break the game galaxy, for their selfish and childish amusement. Have no doubt about it. And they would throw such an amount of time and effort in it, that the more mature and/or well behaved community would be unable to counter that regardless of their overwhelming numbers. Because, to quote the legendary South Park WoW episode: "how do you kill that which has no life"?
 

War Eagle

War Eagle
There are many ways to look at this, if you build it small just for storage/fuel and trading for yourself and perhaps your squad then there is little to be destroyed on the surface. If you build a city then I would think that you would have it armed very much so. Also it would be hard to find by the ones that are just out to make your day(by destroying what they can) and it could be like a secret base in the side of a canyon in a massive cave only accessible by ship. Who knows. Big Galaxy.
 

andrego

andrego
I really like the idea of building a home base. Somewhere to store my ships, cargo, and materials. We could even build them up with some terrestrial defense systems.
 

Bloodsign

Bloodsign
If you look at engineer bases they are largely modular; habitats, defense turrets, landing pads all there but not connected, at least not on the surface. I think a modular approach would work well for player bases too, each building would have its own "hull" rating and would be built separately or destroyed separately if attacked.

You would have to be smart with how you place defensive turrets, pads, and outbuildings. It would be cool if some buildings could have relevant modules installed, turrets, fighter bays, hull reinforcements, maybe even shield generators. Basically functioning as autonomous stationary ships. If we could hire/transport more npc crew members, they could be stationed at player bases to better man the turrets and defense fighters.
 

War Eagle

War Eagle
The only thing I wouldn't want is it to be like OGame, where every time you log off you loose everything you built. But most of all planet side station/camps are almost all underground and being able to access the lading pad would be up to the owner so I don't see it being a problem.
 

Killnine

K
What I meant is: making things destructible, without making all the other things destructible, would seem extremely stupid.

There's a certain level of suspension of disbelief needed. Indestructible stations and bases are pushing it. Having some stations and bases destructible without making them all destructible would seem beyond silly.

Sure, player bases could be visible only to friends or squadron members, or even invitation only, instead of being visible in the navigation menu like all the other bases. Hopefully FD would also add NPC bases (hidden pirate bases, secret listening outposts, military black ops) that are hidden. But they definitely should be revealed by surface scans. Maybe some NPC bases could also occasionally give hints of their existence: for example signal sources in their vicinity, local radio traffic where there should be none, etc.

And naturally, bases could be covered by insurance as well. Of course, just getting it back like with ships would be stupid, because it's been discovered and would undoubtedly be destroyed again. Instead, just get a certain percentage of construction costs back. I'd guess some special commodities and materials would need to be spent for some of the base upgrades, and these would be lost for good.

I see player bases as something that will eventually be added, since it's definitely one of the most requested features. Would feel pretty let down if they wouldn't. But the problem of marauding ganker locust swarms would need to be addressed. Maybe stations are equipped with emergency FSDs that allow them, like capital ships, escape when they receive too much damage. They'd be "suspended" from the game for a while, with the necessary "in the docks for repairs" handwaving, to return later. This wouldn't prevent a situation where an ever growing number of stations would be missing due to the troll hordes, so the NPC authorities would really need an escalating response (and the ability to actually interdict perps) to gank gangs challenging law and order. (Well this is something long overdue anyway.)
 
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