Base Style Poll

[Dacy]

Okay, folks! We did a poll about changes you'd like to see in the editor, how about a poll to see if there is another style you'd like to see presented in the base itself? Like tech, arcane, sewer, etc, style choices affect how the base walls, floor, ceiling, and trim looks. So, if you had to choose from four styles: Arachnos, Ritki, Praetorian Office or Praetorian Tech, what would you favor?

 

-Dacy

 

[Sakura Tenshi]

probably praetorian office stuff since that had some chance of working for residential stuff.

[Rudra]

How about stone walls, ceilings, and floors that match the stone blocks available under arcane? So added walls and floors can actually match the base style. Arcane and ancient base styles aren't even close in appearance.

 

Barring that? Some actual office options would be nice.

[UltraAlt]

6 hours ago, Dacy said:

So, if you had to choose from four styles: Arachnos, Ritki, Praetorian Office or Praetorian Tech, what would you favor?

 

None of the above.

[Greycat]

Of them, Praetorian Office is probably the most flexible. I have very few that could use the dark metal techy Arachnos, and while I have aliens, the Rikti aesthetic doesn't really fit them. PraeTech is probably second place. 

[Darkneblade]

Individual blocks with selectable texture option like brick or wood.

Barring that, some rularuu stuff could be nice.

[Matsiyan]

1 Praetorian Office

2 Praetorian Tech

3 Rikti

4 Arachnos

[DawL]

On 1/20/2023 at 3:43 AM, Rudra said:

How about stone walls, ceilings, and floors that match the stone blocks available under arcane? So added walls and floors can actually match the base style. Arcane and ancient base styles aren't even close in appearance.

 

Barring that? Some actual office options would be nice.

Here, here! *claps*

[Etched]

I'd be happy with Windows from any of those. Kinda limited in that section.

 

@Etched

[Dacy]

1 hour ago, Etched said:

I'd be happy with Windows from any of those. Kinda limited in that section

And limited in doors, floors, walls, roofing…there are no door frames, wall pieces for framing windows and doors, or ceilings or triangles suitable for gables. Walls are huge, wide, and thick. For requests for base improvements, there is another poll (tho the one pinned is one of two I put up, the other is AWOL). Feel free to ask for things there. The hope is that they will see what we care about, and respond. 😊

 

-Dacy

[Zilljah]

3 hours ago, Etched said:

I'd be happy with Windows from any of those. Kinda limited in that section.

 

@Etched

 

Windows, doors and door frames that can be displayed open, walls that aren't thick, ceilings, roofs and ends. Those are a start

 

[MHertz]

None of the above.

 

Snow and ice. Trees without leaves. Ice surfaces to slide on. Snowmen. Ice crystals. Icicles. Buildings and signs with snow on them.

 

Artwork exists for some of these things, but we can’t do ice bases for our cold-using characters or our Hoth Rebel Base cosplay.

Edited February 4, 2023 by MHertz

[Scarlet Shocker]

This is probably a wish too far but I'd love to be able to have furnishings and tech stuff that resembles 50s style and TV series, the funky shapes, the stick drawings, the line patterns, legs splayed wide apart with cute brass feet (and that's just the coffee table, not an arch villain)

 

I do love the new Praetorian designs but I'd love something a bit more unique for base styles

[Techwright]

On 2/20/2023 at 8:56 PM, Scarlet Shocker said:

This is probably a wish too far but I'd love to be able to have furnishings and tech stuff that resembles 50s style and TV series, the funky shapes, the stick drawings, the line patterns, legs splayed wide apart with cute brass feet (and that's just the coffee table, not an arch villain)

 

I do love the new Praetorian designs but I'd love something a bit more unique for base styles

 

Coming very late to this discussion, but I agree with this thought. That whole decade's cultural styles:  Mid-Century Modern, Populuxe, Ray Gun Gothic, and Googie (both architecture and furnishings would be very appealing.  In fact, I've literally got my Populuxe style manual by my side on my Mid-Century Modern chair as I type.

[Kheprera]

While I'd love more Praetorian stuff, what I really want/need are stand-alone walls and edging that matches the base editor designs like Arcane, Tech, Sewer, etc. It would make it easier to block off a large room into smaller ones, like on a ship (space or sailing) or an apartment complex. We only have a few actual walls, and none really work for higher tech areas, and they don't match well with the base/room design (brick walls do not match the brick of room design).

 

I'd also love cave walls instead of massive rocks. Maybe even just cave tunnel pieces (Orenbega, Council, and layer cake caves).

[BlackSpectre]

I would really like the door found in many missions on the praetorian side... the door that actually slides open and shut... or a door like it... that works.

[Snarky]

I think some of the bases already have poles and a few enthusiastic users and spectators

[Vic Raiden]

I'd be all for any kind of faction-specific base styles. Arachnos, Longbow, 5th Column, Circle of Thorns, you name it.

[StarseedWarrior]

Meh there isnt enough alien stuff in the game and people want to add more cop crap lol wth.

[ZamuelNow]

Voted for Praetorian Office over Arachnos.  Not because of Praetoria but because the lack of an office style has always felt weird.

[Ankylosaur]

If looking at offices, why not stuff (like windows) from the Khalisti Wharf office maps in AE? 

[srmalloy]

Something that I've wanted to see since back on Live was another skin type for the mission maps that would fit better to the style of the Nemesis villain group -- polished wood, leather, and brass, with a variant set of more  'steampunk' hardware, larger and full of pipework, so that Nemesis bases could look more like something that would fit Nemesis' style. Now, I'm not suggesting something like the Crossness Pumping Station:

 

 

However, massive brass and iron machinery with piping and handwheels, jets of steam, and other 'archaic' visuals would create an ambience quite different from just another sterile modern lab with widely scattered high-tech equipment in it, and one more in keeping with the 'Nemesis esthetic'. Then, once all of the textures and objects have been created and debugged, they could be translated into a new set of styles and objects for base building, and we could have bases with items looking more like this:

 

[Kistulot]

It might be silly, but what I'd love most of all is for it to be easier to create in game maps, so you can have an AE that leads in to "now go to /enterbasefrompasscode THISARC-THESENUMBERS" after someone drops a portal, and bam, same room.

 

The praetorian tiles are super useful, but I think all of them would work pretty well for this!

 

Just sharing a thought 🙂

[Oklahoman]

I've mentioned it in another thread before, but just as we have ceilings that can be "open to sky" I'd like the same option for walls and floors. Maybe even a complete "style" with invisible walls, ceilings, and floors. I know you can build that up manually, but that's more work than I'm willing to put into it and I find the process frustrating, at least with the Potato (tm) computers I have access to.