Doctor Vivian

Remember your first visit to the Sewers?

Remember trying to make it safely across the Hollows?

Remember the joy of getting your first travel power?

Remember falling into those terrible crevasses in Faultline?

Remember when Enhancements would infinitely stack?

Remember when there was no Aggro cap?

Come and bring your very best outfits!

The SAVE and LOAD feature in the Mission Architect and Tailor makes it easy to copy your most awesome Redside outfits right onto a brand new Level 1 Blueside Hero!

I hope to see you all there! It's going to be awesome!

-- Vivian

PS: It may be a good idea to arrive a little early and thus not risk getting locked out of Kings Row in the event the Server maxes out and spawns another instance of Kings Row. With over three and a half billion influence in prizes, turnout for both the Costume Contest and the follow-on PVP events is expected to be big.

Oh, dear. It's a pity I never found that out, as there were a lot of doorways I would have liked to double or triple to increase Base Defense Weapon arcs-of-fire.

There are few things indeed more saddening than to hear of others who are also unable to hear the call of the Sandman, for when the moon rises high overhead and innocent children sleep soundly in their beds, we few afflicted stagger on, driven by the chill emptiness inside us, seeking solace or at least distraction here as an alternative to the endless, fruitless tossing and turning in bed, wondering why although our bodies are exhausted, our minds continue to race about their endless circular track of mortal concerns?

The worst part of it all, truthfully, is that as the hours slip by, we accomplish nothing productive, since we are indeed weary, and when at long last our minds finally catch up to our bodies and we are ready to slip into a fitful slumber, there is but an hour or so left before we need to leave for work.

And thus, we shower and gulp various caffienated beverages in an attempt to restore some life into our worn-out carcasses and, burning reserves that would have best been left untapped for our health, shamble off to another day at work, where we will sit bleary and hollow-eyed, staring at our screens, gulping more and more caffeine just to stay awake, now fighting off what we had so eagerly sought the night before, a blue study in miserable opposites, just waiting for the aches and pains of the day to finally end so that we can get back home and try once more to sleep.

To sleep, perchance to dream...

We're base hounds.

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Well, I feel a little better about having missed it.

Although I did forget about the exploit entirely, which is pretty funny in retrospect, since I remember it so clearly now.

Once I found out that having multiple doors "locked" the base, rendering you unable to move or add rooms, I lost interest in it, as we were doing Base Raids and constantly changing our base room layout / optimizing our tactics. I'd never even thought about it since then.

Post some pics of your final results! I'm sure we'd all like to see them!

One different way to create a very water-like effect that I've found is to apply a slow field over the "Dingy" floor surface. This will create an almost chrome-like surface that you can actually see reflections in.

Using the "Dingy 2" floor surface accomplishes the same effect, but with slight ripples in it... useful for "moving water" surfaces.

None of the other floor surfaces act like this.

Ah! Now that you mention it, I do remember way back in the day there was a bug that let you do that, if you rotated a room around a few times so that the editor lost track of which way it was pointing and you could create side-by-side doors. The problem was that if you used that technique you wound up locking your base, and couldn't add or move any more rooms. They fixed that quite some time ago, you're right.

I had completely and utterly forgotten about it. But that must be it, you must be right, Astra. They must have built that room long ago, and never moved the room or added to / changed the base structure since then, but instead just decorated the existing rooms.

Mystery solved? Only the Architect of that base could really say for sure!

Doors cannot be built next to each other. They require a minimum 1-hex separation.

What you may have seen could be a larger single room that had wall sections built in from the edges (you can make solid square floor-to-ceiling "columns", which, in a line, form 1-hex-thick walls), leaving three spaces open between the two "walls".

This would create what would appear to be two separate rooms, with a three-space-wide doorway between them.

Yes, Slow Fields do have a watery effect on the floor that's on all the time.

I was thinking of Repulsion Fields, which have a thrumming effect and a sort of blasting-away field that emanates from them.

An annoying fact is that pre-Issue-13, when Base Raids were working, some items did not show their effects even DURING a Base Raid.

I.e., Force Fields and Stealth Suppressors showed their effect when PLACED, but during the raid, they didn't.

How did anyone know they were working? The same was true for Stealth Suppressors, and Shields attached to Elite Weapons (shields displayed their effect correctly on smaller-sized base weapons, like Sappers). It was very frustrating, not knowing if those items were working, because if they weren't (i.e., the base item was "broken"), you would want to replace them with something that was.