Poll: Base Editor Changes We'd Like to See

[WumpusRat]

I've given up on several bases and ended up scrapping them because of the constant shifting of placed objects. The further you get away from the "interior" section of the base, the more degradation happens. I was building a starship down around the "bottom" of the exterior space and every time I'd come back to the base the next day a few things would be out of of place. It was becoming more and more irksome for placing doorways, edging, etc, that I finally just gave up and nuked the base.

 

Something that isn't on the list that I'd like to see is the ability to just create a single massive room for a base. Fill the entire plot with one room, and so be able to build around within or outside of that without needing to play the "fill in all the gaps with rooms/doorways" game. Though this might not be possible if the "entry room" is completely static with no way of adjusting the code for it, or getting rid of the "required gap" that exists when placing hallways and rooms.

[Soulstinger]

All of the above!

[josephgudgeon]

To do  what i am trying to do in my base, i need either black fire / flame, or fire / flame that is tintable please

 

[Crystal Dragon]

I'd like to see more glowing items that could be placed. Vines, plant life, bushes, trees even. Sure, I can do a bit of kit bashing with the glowing whisps to create the appearance, but more options in the plant life that could be placed in bases would be wonderful. Even more grass templates would be great. Flowers too. I wouldn't mind them being tintable, but I'm completely fine with them being a light source themselves.

Edited July 6, 2023 by Crystal Dragon
Added just a little bit more.

[Vic Raiden]

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.

[Trauma Junkie]

I'd like to be able to "nudge" items into place and "nudge" rotate items. If I could set the "nudge" value i.e.: 1mm, 1cm, 1m, etc, then nudge an item left, right, forward, back, up and down, that would be so handy for better precision placing.

[Rush-InRoulette]

I wasn't sure if this has been suggested anywhere, but I had an idea I think would change the base editing for the better. People like to build their bases and take advantage of vertical space. Nothing is more off-putting than looking up and seeing a floating base portion. Could we get a "surface" that makes objects on the opposite side transparent? Of varying sizes, preferably.

[Oubliette_Red]

Grouping object would be my #1 ask.

 

For what's not on the list, eliminating the teleporter style connection restrictions, allowing the use of the "ech beacons with magic teleporters and vice-versa. While I look the banner look of the magic beacons, my tired, old eyes just can't scan through them as quickly as the crisp, clear images of the tech beacons.

 

A big ask for what's not on the list is having personal "apartments" and physical buildings in each zone with similar aspect as the AE building or the dome in the AP building, where you can literally look out your apartment window onto the city below. The footprint could be restricted to studio, 1br, 2br size to realistically fit within the building.

 

[ThatGuyCDude]

On 2/11/2024 at 11:23 AM, Oubliette_Red said:

Grouping object would be my #1 ask.

 

For what's not on the list, eliminating the teleporter style connection restrictions, allowing the use of the "ech beacons with magic teleporters and vice-versa. While I look the banner look of the magic beacons, my tired, old eyes just can't scan through them as quickly as the crisp, clear images of the tech beacons.

 

A big ask for what's not on the list is having personal "apartments" and physical buildings in each zone with similar aspect as the AE building or the dome in the AP building, where you can literally look out your apartment window onto the city below. The footprint could be restricted to studio, 1br, 2br size to realistically fit within the building.

 

It'd be better if they added copies of the tech teleporters to the magic list and vice-versa, rather than make the beacons interchangeable (so "Magic White Hole" and "Tech White Hole", rather than White Hole reading both beacon types).  There are some tricks you can do with tech and arcane beacons within the same door space that cease to be possible if portals can detect beacons of both types.

[NoOneAtAll]

I'd like Praetorian Clockwork versions of NPCs in the base. Functional ones for leveling and selling, then some Clockwork doing random tasks like on the streets of Praetoria.

 

 

[Chris24601]

My two big asks for the bases would be…

 

1) complete Nova Praetoria/Imperial City/Kallisti Wharf buildings. They look gorgeous and placing them around the edge of a large open to the sky base plot would just be *chef’s kiss.”

 

2) more non-vendor heroic/villain NPC options. While my ideal would be fully customizable NPCs, a practical level would be having NPCs akin to the civilians currently available for say… Arachnos, Vanguard (I know there are the vendors for those two, but I’m talking purely cosmetic ones), Longbow, and IDF (the latter just because their uniforms are so spiffy)… bonus points for having other groups like Circle of Thorns, Legacy Chain, Council (perfect for generic faceless villain minions), Freakshow, and maybe all the MM pet types (because MMs clearly have a legion of backups given how often their pets fall in battle).

 

It wouldn’t need to be the whole roster for them either… just 2-3 really iconic ones (ex. a Freakshow Juicer, Metal Slicer and Tank… or IDF Ranger, Seer, and BCU) and could probably just be in the neutral/idle pose.

[NoOneAtAll]

I'd love to have all the NPC vendors in game as an option to place in bases. In particular, I'd love to have tintable Praetorian Clockwork trainers and merchants.

 

Edited October 28 by NoOneAtAll

[SpookTheHerd]

I feel like base shift may be something way baked into the code and not easily identifiable. Like it's some odd consequence of whatever goes into making the whole thing work. Not as if it's it's own feature which can simply be removed.

Obviously the gradual deterioration of a base would be lovely to avoid, but it seems like it would be no small task.

 

I definitely need more sources for area lighting... But maybe this is just my ignorance at the moment, IDK

 

One thing I'd love to see that's not on the list is just less gaudy storage options for salvage and enhancements. If we just could get some crates with the storage properties on them, people would probably not use anything but them.

I've seen a few of the houses from the base auction, and as pretty as they are, none of them are very functional because who wants to put a salvage rack anywhere they wish to enjoy visually?

 

Oh and as far as copy/paste goes, that F4 key is just dying to be assigned to "duplicate selected object" functionality. 

Edited December 8 by SpookTheHerd

[Dacy]

10 hours ago, SpookTheHerd said:

I feel like base shift may be something way baked into the code and not easily identifiable. Like it's some odd consequence of whatever goes into making the whole thing work. Not as if it's it's own feature which can simply be removed.

Obviously the gradual deterioration of a base would be lovely to avoid, but it seems like it would be no small task.

 

I definitely need more sources for area lighting... But maybe this is just my ignorance at the moment, IDK

 

One thing I'd love to see that's not on the list is just less gaudy storage options for salvage and enhancements. If we just could get some crates with the storage properties on them, people would probably not use anything but them.

I've seen a few of the houses from the base auction, and as pretty as they are, none of them are very functional because who wants to put a salvage rack anywhere they wish to enjoy visually?

 

Oh and as far as copy/paste goes, that F4 key is just dying to be assigned to "duplicate selected object" functionality. 

Base shift has been conquered. 😄 Thanks again, devs!

 

YES to more lighting. I want invisible lighting, such as you find in the base, tintable and such, that you can place above or below the base.

 

I agree with the ugly salvage, as do most people; here are ways to hide or disguise all services so that you don't see any of them, but can still access them (note that inspiration containers were additionally changed after this was made so that now you can simply turn them upside down and sink them to access them from below; turn on hidden markers (in editor options on bar) to see the blue touch zones).