2025 Homecoming Base Contest (Rules & Entries thread)

[El Furioso]

• Your character name: Xatannah

• Your Global handle: @El Furioso

• Your base’s name: Apostles of RO

• The shard it is located on: Everlasting

• The passcode for entry: ARO-750

• The category your base is entering under: Tech/Sci-Fi

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: Just me

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand:  Repeat Offenders (RO) is one of the oldest coalitions in CoH, running since 2005. The Apostles base is built within 5261 Eureka, an asteroid at the L5 Lagrange point, near Mars. Base teleportation enters in the Deep Labs, with an available elevator to the Surface Labs, Engineering, and Command Centers.

[Quickfingers26]

• Your character name: Captain Optimal

• Your Global handle: @quickfingers

• Are you the owner? yes

• Are you the builder? no

• Your base’s name: Harker Books

• The shard it is located on: Everlasting

• The passcode for entry: bram-37189

• The category your base is entering under: realism

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: @CrashPositron (they did all the work and deserve 100% of any prize) I just had an idea.

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: Just a cozy little bookstore on a rainy day in downtown Steel Canyon.  Except the bookstore is also a secret club house to the Harker family, notorious vampire/monster hunters. Neighborhood looks great at night. This place is all about the mood.

Edited April 19 by Quickfingers26
Forgot that I was on Everlasting.

[CaptA]

• Your character name: Brainbane

• Your Global handle: @Dr. Feedback

• Are you the owner? Yes

• Are you the builder? Yes

• Your base’s name: Newport City

• The shard it is located on: Excelsior

• The passcode for entry: GIANTS-18986

• The category your base is entering under: Realism

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: Just @ Dr. Feedback
  
  Newport City is south of Founders' Falls, and is home to biotech company Gentech which is owned by David Prescott. David is a mutant, and is able to use his mind to help or harm others. He began his company to research the mutant gene and seek to help those that are born as he was. While the city itself is home to a normal population, Prescott leads a group of mutants that primarily headquarter below the city. Several group assets are accessible via several locations in the city. (Note: there is nowhere you can enter that you can get "stuck" - there is always at least one way out of somewhere you enter. I was limited by intra-base teleport points). Highlights of the city are: Mansion Row to the south and east, Lola's Cocktails and Rays to the west, city hall to the southwest, Gentech HQ and Laboratory to the southwest, Prescott Manor to the northeast. There are lots of retail, restaurant, and commercial spaces as well. Enjoy your explorations!

[Matsiyan]

• Your character name: (Red Star Holder) Ronin Raider

• Your Global handle: @Matsiyan

• Are you the owner? No

• Are you the builder? Yes (Matsiyan-Qal)

• Your base’s name: Ronin's Raiders

• The shard it is located on: Excelsior

• The passcode for entry: RAIDERS-30984

•  The category your base is entering under: Novice

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: Just me based off an idea by the base owner,  @Finkill ('an epic interdimensional pocket') and a suggestion from @Dacy ('floating giant statue'). They both agreed it was OK to enter the base.

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: An interdimensional pocket space was created by the outpourings of energy from the Well of the Furies. It expanded in nothingness until the the psychic impressions carried through the ongoing link crystallized into key concepts. The monumental interlinked nature of the universe is expressed in frozen representations of some of the major forces, The Ronin Raider discovered this through a portal mishap and began using it as a rest and regrouping area for his team's forays. A secret shared, as they say, led to a tech conglomerate starting to explore the space. A colleague of Argot'BurWot  heard of this and sent a Rikti scientific vessel to investigate. They quickly called in Vanguard, who now maintain a rapid reaction portal with logistics and training consultants on hand. In exchange the consortium agreed to develop the site sensitively without defacing the existing archeological remains. Wary of the advanced Forerunner technology, the consortium have added their own functional facilities. Come and see the primordial remains and try not to notice the expanding technology base 'sensitively' built around them.

Edited Wednesday at 12:00 AM by Matsiyan

[Viking Queen]

On 4/13/2025 at 3:39 AM, Dacy said:

The correct code for this, for everyone who is visiting, is Victrix001-3323.

 

Not sure how to fix the original post. Passcode: Victrix001-3323

[Electronuts]

• Your character name: (Red Star Holder): Lady Waft

• Your Global handle: @Electronuts

• Are you the owner? Yes

• Are you the builder? Yes

• Your base’s name: The Black Tower

• The shard it is located on: Excelsior

• The passcode for entry: TheBlackTower-32812

• The category your base is entering under: Fantasy/Arcane

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: Just me

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: inside the main tower, on the 4th floor, there are 3 arches (Past/Present/Future) each is a portal to a separate secret part of the base.

Edited Tuesday at 02:27 PM by Electronuts

[Calypso]

• Your character name: Zombie Queen

• Your Global handle: @Princess Pon

• Your base’s name: The Dragon Syndicate Supergroup Headquarters

• The shard it is located on: Torchbearer

• The passcode for entry: DSSG-258

• The category your base is entering under: Realism

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: N/A

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand:  The SG Headquarters where employees work hard keeping The Dragon Syndicate on the cutting edge of technology, R&D, and support for their hero members. Visscale of 3 is recommended.

[Emerald Fusion]

Your character name: Space Kid

Your Global handle: @Emerald Fusion

Your base’s name: Fusion Force Legends Orbital Battlestation

The shard it is located on: Torchbearer

The passcode for entry: FFLEGENDS-2882

The category your base is entering under: Tech/Sci-Fi

Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: @Kaasha

Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: The Battlestation is a half mile tall. There is a central elevator to the 10 main decks. There is an access port to the exterior located in the northwest corner of the 10 main decks. Fly/Jet Pack is required for exterior exploration. It's best viewed with /vis_scale 10. It is at the base limit of 20,000 items.

 

Additional details about the base can be found on our Grand Opening forum post:

 

[hfowler]

• Your character name: Princess Aros

• Your Global handle: Princess Aros

• Are you the owner? Yes

• Are you the builder? Yes

• Your base’s name: AEsir

• The shard it is located on: Torchbearer

• The passcode for entry: AESIR-12004

• The category your base is entering under: Novice

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: none

[Fade]

• Your character name: Dead Fade

• Your Global handle: @Fade

• Are you the owner? Yes

• Are you the builder? Yes

• Your base’s name: Zombie Fusion

• The shard it is located on: Torchbearer

• The passcode for entry: FEEDTHEFUSION-14609

• The category your base is entering under: Novice

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: Built by myself
  
  Inspired by comics events such as Marvel Zombies and DCeased, Zombie Fusion is Fusion Force's undead theme team. We created undead versions of our main characters for the Halloween season last year.
  Our base has two main sections - the sewer portion and the graveyard portion. The Zombies have taken up residence in Paragon City's sewer system, and have made a home and functional base of operations from the trash and refuse of the city. At the end of the sewer segment, ride a broken pipe into the graveyard, a purely decorative area of quiet contemplation and eerie vibes.
  If you enjoy scavenger hunts, try to locate the ten hidden blue rubber duckies! Five are hidden in the sewer section and five are in the graveyard.
  Special thanks to @Emerald Fusion, @Kaasha and @Major Pain for education and inspiration!

Edited Thursday at 09:15 PM by Fade
Clarifying builders

[Forum Roamer]

• Your character name: Random Builder

• Your Global handle: @Raphina

• Are you the owner: Yes

• Are you the builder: Yes

• Your base’s name: Station Thirteen

• The shard it is located on: Everlasting

• The passcode for entry: STATION-37194

• The category your base is entering under: Tech / Sci-Fi

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: none

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: the outside is intentionally kept bare, felt it fit the vibe better

 

Edited yesterday at 02:38 PM by Forum Roamer

[Goblinman]

• Your character name: Dubsy

• Your Global handle: @Goblinman

• Are you the owner: Yes

• Are you the builder: Yes

• Your base’s name: Lil Pad

• The shard it is located on: Everlasting

• The passcode for entry: ABODE-37697

• The category your base is entering under: Novice

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: A studio apartment & hideout for the psychedelic toad mutant / wrestler Dubsy and his partner, the out-of-work henchman Mandog (bork bork). Secret areas include a sewer hideout and a shroom adventure.

Edited yesterday at 03:06 AM by Goblinman

[Recoil]

Your character name: (Red Star Holder)
    Clumsy OAF
Your Global handle: 
    @Ms Recoil
Are you the owner: [Yes/No]
    Yes
Are you the builder: [Yes/No]
    Yes
Your base’s name: 
    Clumsy OAF
The shard it is located on: 
    Indomintable
The passcode for entry: 
    TEXT-8505
The category your base is entering under: 
    Other 
Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: (Up to 5, including yourself. Don’t forget to credit your builder if different from the owner!)
    Ms Recoil (No one else would ever claim credit for it, even if they'd done it.)
Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: 
    My intention was to build a micro-base that still had all the amenities in as few rooms as possible. There is a princess bed for Banana's Foster, a bed of hay for 
    Clumsy Oaf, and other beds and a locker room for other members.  Is it pretty? No. Sexy?  NO! A testiment to base building skills?  Hardly.  It's just the most
    base I could shove in the least space with my limited talent.  I'm pleased with the results, although I'm sure the average builder could have done so much better.

[TexArcana541]

• Your character name (Red Star Holder): Craxxus

• Your Global handle: @Commander Crimson

• Your base’s name: The Resolute

• The shard it is located on: Everlasting

• The passcode for entry: Resolute-37728

• The category your base is entering under: Tech/Sci-fi

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: NONE

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: Once you make it to the bridge, be sure to fly up through the top exit for a view from space.

[ZiNewyatt]

Hello all ! 

 

Here is a supergroup base, designed like an escape room. You have 1 hour to solve several 'visual puzzles' to find the escape.

Since it's an escape game, it's much more fun in a group (3-5 players), and with a game master who can provide some clues if necessary 🙂

 

Your character name: (Red Star Holder) Escape Room II

Your Global handle: @Ardz

Are you the owner? Yes

Are you the builder? Yes

Your base’s name: Escape Room II

The shard it is located on: Reunion

The passcode for entry: ESCAPE2-7501

The category your base is entering under: Realism, or maybe Other / Misc
 

I can't show a lot because... spoilers !

 

!!! Important !!! you'll need at least "World texture Quality" medium in Advanced Graphic Settings. 

 

If you want to plan a visit with me, contact in-game:
@Ardzog  (EU time zone)

 

It's not the best way to discover it, but

if you want to visit it all alone, I put a teleport at the entrance 'START'.

If you're stuck somewhere (because you didn't find a solution),

you'll need to use /stuck, then use that START again to come back in. And you use one of your five lifes too🙂

 

The puzzles may seem complicated, but they are always obvious once you have seen what you need to see to understand it !

Take your time, observe, discuss among yourselves... There's no point in brute-forcing the solutions!

I can give a hint here if you can't progress through the puzzles. Don't look it now ! 

Spoiler

Have you tried opening the doors?

 

Good luck, have fun !

[SupaFreak]

• Your character name: [Menokai]

• Your Global handle: @SupaFreak

• Are you the owner: [Yes]

• Are you the builder: [Yes]

• Your base’s name: [Zynavia]

• The shard it is located on: [Torchbearer]

• The passcode for entry: [Nov-3012]

• The category your base is entering under: [Arcane/Fantasy]

• Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: [@Nymloir]

• Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: [Changes since last contest entry listed below]

 

1. I do not expect any previous judges or visitors to remember the old layout.  This list is strictly to indicate how much has changed.
2. Entry "platform" is fully functional with 6 zone teleporters, 2 pillars of ice and flame, 2 invention tables and 2 ATMs.  *Check crystals and obelisks*
3. Teleporters are intentionally not labeled for aesthetic purposes.  "Once you know, you know" is our motto.  Hero city and hazard zones left / everything else right.
4. Thanks to updates, characters will no longer hit the invisible ceiling due to Open Sky.  It should be impossible to go under the base as well thanks to Collision Walls.
5. Previously hidden empty cave off the path to the left past the dual waterfalls is no longer hidden.  It now houses a small burial site.
6. Interior NPCs facing something typically indicate there is something functional in front of them.
7. New set of stairs just inside at the end of left path leads up to meditation clearing over left waterfall.
8. Storage room now combined with main teleporter room.
9. Old resurrection room is now crystal storage room off primary storage room that leads up to cabin at top of mountain.  *Ancient mining shaft?*
10. Resurrection room now combined with "worship" room.
11. Old "power" room moved to old storage room with more visuals of magical energy generation.
12. Old "power" room is now a sauna-type room with ancient bathrooms.
13. All 7 "personal" rooms received small modifications.  *I pushed to remove mansion windows since they didn't make logical sense... and I won.*
14. Added rock ledge pathways around some of mountaintops to give the ability for non-flyers to wander safely around a good chunk of the area.
15. Replaced all interior ramps with steps > combined with Collision Walls so there's no need to jump.
16. *will likely put some finishing touches on personal rooms before the deadline*

Edited 13 minutes ago by SupaFreak
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