Vic Raiden

Aye. Actually, the method does work, even on Arachnos balcony pieces... just not in the direction I want them to. And I think I now know why: the editor cares about their lower halves more than the upper ones. And come to think of it, I could actually work with that, I just need to change my approach a bit: make the hull out of the walkable surfaces instead of the undersides. Thanks for helping me, even if indirectly!

Thanks for the advice! Gonna try it the next time I'm in my base. EDIT: I tried doing that, but the items keep anchoring themselves to the decoy room, meaning all my work gets undone when I delete it.

One thing I'd appreciate above all else is increasing the tolerance for building outside the base boundaries. As it stands, it's pretty annoyingly hard to build a spaceship when outer hull pieces refuse to align the way I want them to, not to mention it's nigh-impossible to place anything even remotely resembling wings.

I'm surprised nobody has yet brought up that one room with several layers of water pools from the Fifth Column/Council set. I found it confusing to navigate due to the lighting making it harder to find the stairs leading either up or down, plus it's horrible for glowie hunting. As for entire maps, I don't really like how the Arachnos bases are laid out. I don't even mind the aesthetics or the reactor room, but the fact that it's all just cramped hallways, with proper rooms only appearing as dead ends and containing nonsensical ledges with no stairs or ramps leading up to them.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Making modular maps using the library of preset rooms would be enough for me to be happy.

This, so much this. It annoys me to no end how the spawn positions of everything are randomized. Case on point: I wanted to add some fighters to the Longbow Sea Base map as set dressing, so I set their spawn area to front... but then instead of appearing in the airstrip area as I expected, they started to pop up literally all over the base, including inside the command bunker. Another time, I wanted to place an interactable computer in a certain room in a Fifth Column base, and were quite displeased that I had to look for it in several different places between test runs. Because of that and many other things, I second the wish for more control over spawn locations for NPCs and objects. One other thing I'd personally appreciate is letting the players build their own mission maps. Not asking for anything to the extent of SG base building, but seeing as most instanced maps really are a mish-mash of preset rooms and hallways from a list, I believe allowing the players to take advantage of that would greatly increase mission variety. Even better if we could combine multiple different tilesets per map.

The AE building in Mercy was likewise removed, presumably for the same reason. Except instead of a different utility building, it was replaced with a smoldering ruin still guarded by Arachnos security drones.

Thing is, using front companies and providing support to other factions don't really belong to Stahlheim's usual modus operandi. They're not above doing either of that when necessary, though. That said, I do love the idea. Makes for a good way to introduce a new force to the canon setting.

Axel Shade, my villain-side main, doing his best "glorious leader" impression. As soon as I saw this balcony in the first Bane Spider Ruben mission, I knew I couldn't resist the urge to take a shot like this.

So! I decided to give the Mission Architect a try and make an arc. Nothing very sophisticated, just infiltrating a very large base belonging to the Stahlheim Empire - a technology-oriented dictatorship bent on world domination who serve as one of my personal lore's main antagonistic factions - and shutting down the superweapon project that's being developed there. At present, I have more or less decided on the first part, using the Longbow island base map. And I know I want to use the Council giant robot hangar for the finale. But I've got a bit of a writer's block in regards to the rest of the arc. Hence, I am asking you for advice: What sorts of locations should I include in an underground facility, and what maps should they be represented with? How could I make the intro mission more unique than just "go inside and kill the boss"? The idea here is that the boss would drop a keycard giving the player access to deeper parts of the base.

Personally, I'd be a for opening the ruined Galaxy City up as a high-level hazard zone. The map's already there, or at least part of it is, as seen in the final missions of Twinshot's and Dr. Graves' respective second arcs. All it'd take is add something going on, likely involving a large-scale battle against the Shivans not unlike what we got in the RWZ... and maybe some Incarnate arc, but I can't say much on that topic.

Just look out for an AE building, enter it, take the elevator in the foyer and click on one of the terminals in the main room. There you'll see a menu which lets you either browse arcs or create your own.

I don't really have any ideas that weren't brought up here before, but I'm gonna list my top five wishes anyway. An option to create custom maps. I don't necessarily mean anything to the extent of SG base building, I'd be entirely content with a selection of premade rooms and corridors to fit together. More control over placement of details like bosses, destructible objects or even Giant Monsters. More power sets to choose from for custom enemies, hopefully including pool powers or just an optional tertiary powerset. The ability to customize enemies' power effects in the same way as for player characters. More clothing options for custom NPCs, especially from enemy-exclusive costumes.

Up next, a couple postcard-ish views from Mercy Island.

True that... For the two frontal prongs, I have been trying to make do with Arachnos balconies, where their undersides would stick outside, but any attempt to get them in the right position was met with an error. It was supposed to look kinda like the hull of a seafaring aircraft carrier. For the rest, I would probably add Arachnos pipes and walkways to the mix.

Indeed I am. The idea was to cover up the base rooms so that there's an actual exterior instead of having constant see-through interiors. Sorry for not being online in the game at the moment, but it's pretty late for me.

Everlasting. Forgot to mention that in the opening post. So yeah, I know building outside the base borders is difficult, but I think I've seen some people pull that off fairly successfully.

Hello, this is probably my first serious post here. I am trying to build myself an airship as my supergroup base, inspired primarily by the SDF-1 Macross and its derivatives. Problem is, I just can't seem to build any outer plating without the editor returning an error. Any help or advice would be much appreciated. For those curious, the base's passcode is ARMAGEDDON-29292.

Local demoness admiring the view of Perez Park while posing as a gargoyle.