Kierthos

Some more pics, as I add a little more to the base:



A shot of the 'Mark I Time Sled'. I swear I've seen something similar, almost certainly in another thread on this forum, but damned if I can remember where.



A diagonal-rear view of the time sled.



Mostly finished with the decorating of this teleport bay. I'm going to have to enlarge the base again to add another bay, but that's going to have to be on the list after "upgrade the Basic Generator to the Turbine Generator".

I already summed up the majority of my feelings in that thread.

Damn if I wouldn't love to be able to delete several hundred desks and replace them with a few larger items.

Go Dark Melee, take Shadow Maul at level 2, take Flurry at level 6, and if you have the Veteran time (12 months), take Sands of Mu veteran reward.

Three attacks using basically the same animation of a flurry of punches.

I'm stalled a bit on a couple of parts of the base, but I finally took a swing at doing something with the teleporters. Mind you, I've only done this to one so far, more for "Hrm, do I like this? Let me leave it like this for a couple days and see."



Yeah, using more sewer items. Mind you, if there some sort of large, tripod-mounted spheroid tank to cover the top of the teleporter, I'd use that instead. I might end up covering the 'pad of the teleporter with something eventually, we'll see. I'm also thinking the beacons need a jacob's ladder behind each of them.

Hrm.... it should be pretty quick, but I have no empirical evidence to back that up.

AFAIK, the effects from the types of ammo 'linger' for a few seconds based on their normal duration. For example, the slow effect from any shot while using Cryo ammo will not lose any duration because you switched to another type of ammo. However, unless you're very quick or using some special gaming mouse or speed pad, you're probably going to lose a little DPS switching ammo types all the time.

On a side note, I just saw a level 50 Dual Pistols blaster on Virtue. *boggle*

From the presentation they did at the last HeroCon, some graphical updates will apply to our characters. Notably, reflective surfaces (they demonstrated with, IIRC, the riot gear helmet option) will reflect the environment. So if you panned around your character, and looked at the front of the helmet, you would see a reflection of what was in front of your character.

There are also supposed to be some new emotes in I17, and I think there are going to be new stances (I can't recall the exact phrasing) for Going Rogue, although I'm not sure if those require a pre-order or not.

I'm not convinced about pre-purchasing Going Rogue because it's not available on the NCSoft store site yet. So ner. :P

Thanks!

Got some more pics.


Overhead view of the base. (Careful observers may note that while there is a teleport room, I haven't shown a pic of that yet. That's because I haven't done a thing with it yet, other then putting in telepads.)


After many experiments with various tech items, I decided I might as well use the existing 'brass coloured' items, aka the sewer items, as the large part of the reactor. I did, however, end up placing many thousands of Prestige worth of large Jacob's ladders. This view is through the walkway glass.


An 'up in the air' shot of the reactor. (Hover is a godsend for base building.) Here you can see quite a few of the Jacob's ladders that I placed.


A close-up of the 'core' of the reactor.

I plan on changing the floor tile at some point, but right now, the tech-grid layout makes it so much easier to properly line items up.

*nod* If we were talking about the real world, yeah, no one would probably trust your former villain. But this isn't the real world we're talking about, is it?

As it stands, yes, there are going to be some people who RP not trusting villain ATs. But unless you know a specific character was actually a Rogue Isles character and not a Praetorian character, it's all going to blur after a while anyway.

What the heck, time for some possible ego-crushing.

I know it's not the best of bases, but I thought I'd put up some pics of the one-man base I've been working on for a while.


I haven't really done anything with the entrance room yet, as I'm not really sure what I want to go there. So right now, it's just some banner and a few other decorative items.


I've only got a 2x2 energy room so far, so on one side of it is the 'base scrubber' which is collecting all the dust and stuff and storing it in a holding tank.


Next to the holding tank is the generator. I'm trying to go for something of a steampunk look (which you may have guessed by the title of the base), so I've got various tanks and retro monitor in various parts of the base.


One shot of the control room. The 'sewer' computer is, RP-wise, the original computer banks for the base.


Another shot of the control room. I rather liked the look of the logo holograph inside the holodisplay control item, so I've kept that despite redesigning the room a few times.


A shot of one of the workshops. I'm actually standing on a second floor here. The turbines in the back room of the shot are actually supposed to be a conveyor belt (it's the best I could come up with), and on the left side, I built a 'clean room'. I have the worktables in there more for aesthetic reasons then to actually build a lot of things, but I don't have the control to put the last worktable in there yet, so I've just got the tech podium as a placeholder.


A better shot of the clean room.


Looking inside the clean room. The logos were covered up with a bunch of the blank paintings from the 'wall items' section. It took a lot of placing, but overall, I like the look.


A look at the second floor of the workshop.


This is a 7x7 decorative room which will eventually house a 'steampunk' nuclear reactor (or as close to one as I can make with existing items). What you're seeing is going to be a walkway around the exterior of the room.


A picture from inside the walkway.


I covered up the SG logos with small light columns. It makes the walkway pretty bright, but it was a lot quicker and cheaper then stacking even more desks or trying to use blank paintings to cover up the logos. I'm not sold on the white desks as that pillar yet, but I needed something there for now.

I had someone send me a tell recently for "Demon farm?". Of course, they immediately logged off, so I can only assume they were trying to farm names to send CGF spam to.

Okay, not just me then.

*twiddles thumbs*

I don't believe the Devs have said yet.