Outfit Bases are a Long Term Goal

Hamma · 2012-03-05, 11:49 AM

I did not see this posted anywhere..

outfit bases, ability to deploy and defend your own bases are one of our long term (post-launch) goals!

https://twitter.com/#!/mhigby/status/175695482906099712

Thoughts?

RavenUSC3 · 2012-03-05, 11:51 AM

They did say that in PS1 beta too, so....

I like the idea. Anything they can do to allow outfits more personalization and a sense of ownership over something is a good thing in my opinion.

Mastachief · 2012-03-05, 11:51 AM

Awesome sauce.

Though it will be interesting on how big and easy they are to defend, also the level of outfit you'd need to deploy one.

UnknownDT · 2012-03-05, 11:54 AM

No one will touch our outfit base. No one.

WiteBeam · 2012-03-05, 11:56 AM

It's something that I could really see working in PS2 as long as there will be thousands of players on the map. Outfit logos on bases and making them somehow a HQ or hang out for that outfit would be cool.
I could also see how it could be blown and pointless if not done correctly.

Knocky · 2012-03-05, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by RavenUSC3

They did say that in PS1 beta too, so....

Yep, that was the first thing that popped in my mind.

And I thought that Higgs said that we were down to Outfit Outposts that we could build in the future, not an entire base?

Zhane · 2012-03-05, 11:59 AM

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Xaine · 2012-03-05, 12:00 PM

Xaine's flying death castle.

Lock up your women.

Hmr85 · 2012-03-05, 12:01 PM

I could see deploy-able outfit bases becoming a real mess. Could you imagine 50 or 60 of these things scattered out across a continent. Stick with the outfit ships imo. It cuts back on the cluster @#$@ that would be everywhere.

SuperMorto · 2012-03-05, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

I did not see this posted anywhere..

https://twitter.com/#!/mhigby/status/175695482906099712

Thoughts?

So what if it was posted else where, "its your site Hamma!"

And I like the idea "alot" a lot, but pulling it off

is another thing. I can imagine it would be hard to do. But of they can do it, it could be a massive benefit to the outfits.

Alduron · 2012-03-05, 12:10 PM

I think Outfit bases are a grand idea. It gives you a larger stake in your facility because it's not just gathering resources, it has your name on it.

A concern I would have is what happens when the outfit is offline? Can they be captured? Are they instanced (i hope not)? We'll need more info for sure.

Ragotag · 2012-03-05, 12:15 PM

It would be interesting if Outfit bases could also be captured and/or destroyed.

Canaris · 2012-03-05, 12:23 PM

Interesting concept, as someone said earlier it was supposed to be in PS1 but they never got around to it.

So would there be a special "frontier" continent for deployment of Outfit bases, first come first served with the necessary resources or just special areas in regular continents where you can place them?

Would they be destructible?

We had these in SWG as faction bases around player cities the only problem was people sneaking on late at night and blowing them up with them claiming to have gotten one over on their enemy, so it was switched to having to be attack at a specific peak time hour.

There's so many great sandbox ideas for having them and unfortunately just as many ways to exploit them.

Needs to have a major brain storming session over them.

ringring · 2012-03-05, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by UnknownDT

No one will touch our outfit base. No one.

You gotta be kidding ....

SgtMAD · 2012-03-05, 12:33 PM

Ht always wanted Wele as an Outfit Base,that was back around the first time SOE said Outfit Bases were a long term goal.