This is probably overpowered but I'm only suggesting it because base laying is monotonous.

Hows about the ability to access item form kits while docked and transfering your base gear onto the bases, then you can lay these geared kits (obviously they would have 0 shields and energy to start with 0) and be able to lay kits much faster.

I would say yes only if you can't deploy them if your gal is getting attacked/attacking someones gal.

I would say yes if not within the first 48 hours of reset.
The way I see it, you should be able to go in and drop and do a few defense kits yourself at reset, the only non-abusable use for this is the dozens of colonies and EE kits that are clearly not going to be rape material..Maybe some tag on it, cannot be used by a StM, nor transferred for 30mins [so the first bit isn't abusable?]

Sounds complicated... difficulty of base-laying and getting attacked in your freighter is supposedly part of the fun

Agree with this completely!



Hmm it's perhaps StM kits you want to deploy first to secure the galaxy since colonies tend to be any old gear you can throw on (of less importance).

I think if this were to go in, the base kit with the gear inside it would have to increase in size proportionally to what gear you put on it. Therefore would usually have to be laid using a sphere / thatch or whatever.

What about 'planning' these kits with the help of an item? Maybe throw in the ability to save one or two layouts as well (colos).

Open the base, throw in the coordinator and then everything else you want, in order.
(Note, the actual item remains within whichever ship you wanted, it has merely been assigned to that base).

After the base has been placed it is then possible to assign slaves to the base/a specific (in use) transmitter; the slaves will then trace whichever docked ship has the corresponding item and start to shift a % of each item. Until the appropriate amount of space an item consumes has been moved it does not function in the base (nor can it be removed from your storage ship). This proceeds in the preselected order until an error occurs or the base is completed.

If the base is destroyed or some such any gear stuck in limbo will automatically revert back to the storage ship (making it go poof seems kind of harsh... % damage that must be repaired)?

Dunno, I just think that prepackaged bases seem a bit hax. I'd rather set my slaves to work.

How would you regulate the size of these things? A normal kit is 100-200 size or so, just transfer your achilles gear into it, and boom, instant free storage!

I'd presume that it becomes a packed kit or something and is as large/weighs as much as the total components+ kit.

Hell the ability to scoop your bases would improve my life 10 fold haha, beats the need for having to whack out 20 of each sup aug every uni :l

The trouble lies in coding something like that. At the moment, changing the size of an item requires a server restart(afaik), but this would require active on-the-fly size and weight calculations. Hardly a simple matter. If it were possible, I'd be all for it, though. Any chance someone who knows how SS's coding works could comment on this, give us a feasibility estimate?

I forsee this idea as a time-saver for laying huge amounts of bases a few days into the uni, not a battle cheat. The skill taken in building a base extremely quickly under pressure is what divides players at reset, along with having Ward+es capable of raping a small army, but that's just me

This was the first uni I laid important defense bases right after reset. It was pretty thrilling and I don't think it should be made any easier.

Just do what I do, drop normal t20 shells, tell people they are Ada kits and don't aug them.

Ahem Spatzz .. where might one find these bases ?



As long as it can't be abused in battle I think it's worth looking into for galaxy defence bases at reset .. everyone will have the same ability to lay a defence base if you are wanting to attack at your boarders, would make BvB much more suprising

But yeah, making bases is tedious but it can also be cut down in annoyance by magnitudes if you plan ahead of time, which not many people do. I know some folks stick individual base sets in Thatches so they can just transfer all and set-up a base from there.

Prom also makes the valid point that building a base at a certain speed is indeed a skill. You need to know exactly what to put in what numbers to get everything on as quickly as possible with no need for any calculations or extra clicks.

This idea is sort of cool but uneeded.