CoV Beta Base Ramblings

So my Fire/Fire Dominator just hit 10 a few minutes ago and formed an SG in the CoV beta. Of which today is the last day. But at least I made it in time to take a peek at the base editing stuff and new SG interface.

So, bases. You start with a tiny little plot, which is thankfully big enough to do a minimal PvE only base with all the basic facilities ( Workshop, Control, Power, Medical, and Teleporter rooms ) because the next plot size up gets expensive. The basic SG base plot "TinyHiddenSpot" is free, and is an 8x8 grid. The next one up, "Hidden Spot" is a 12x12 grid for 3.3 million Prestige. Won't even bother looking at the 'Secure' spots yet ( basically they let you place more defensive items in rooms )since the smallest 'Secure' plot, "Small Secure Location" is 12x16 and 11.25 million Prestige. This is JUST for the land to build the base on.

Anyways, playing around I did confirm that the basic bootstrap base design would work on the basic grid, and that it would cost about 2 million prestige to build without any decorations in the base, and while a bit frustrated that I couldn't build a teleporter yet ( Have to actually craft one at the workshop tables to teleport to zones. You can buy a teleporter that is used only in Raids, but it wouldn't fit in the room I built for it anyways. ) it was still pretty neat to play with it. Definately "Sims Of Villains" sort of base building.

Also found out that the SG gets 20k bonus Prestige for every member who joins for the first 15 members, which is pretty cool too. Nice little bonus to help get started. Going from 300k to 2m is less daunting looking at least then getting to the same goal from 0.

The Items of Power don't really impress me that much. The four you can buy in the Beta right now ( in the Live game it'll be a Trial or mission to get them apparently ) are "Anger Monument" for a 1% damage increase, "Torment Monument" for a 1% debt repayment bonus, "Monument of Iron" for a 1% psi damage resist bonus, and "Fury Monument" for a 1% earned EXP increase. So the bonuses really aren't all that exciting for something that requires a special room to keep it in and I think a Raid capable base in Live to place them at all.

The other interesting one was looking at the workshops and the types of Salvage you can process into making stuff. Among the factions you can get Tech salvage from were... 5th Column, Axis America, and Spetnatz Commandos. Two groups that I didn't think were going to be accessible anymore ( though it has always been rumored that they were going to make a come back ) and a Russian special forces unit? Wacky. Can't wait to find out where you fight them all at.

That is all for the moment though. Supposed to be a big event later today to end the Beta with, "Statesman's Strike" upon the Rogue Isles or something. Not sure how that is going to work. *shrugs* But will try to snag screenshots if I figure it out at least.