Maybe add a panel on the platform just in front of the doorway so that vehicles can't spam inside
There is a fat pillar just inside the door to function as a line of sight blocker and to split attackers as well as provide more of a choke to keep vehicles out. Same with the garage. Support struts inside will act as a porous wall to prevent vehicles from getting in but let players pass.
Here is my suggestion for the ramps. See that vehicle spawn area? That thing is going to have to be at ground level no matter what. So if you could have one of the entrances run along parallel to that, you could reduce the number of places that *have* to be above ground from 3 to 2.
Making the vehicle ramp steeper will also give more wiggle room during placement.
For the other entrance, you might want to consider having the ramp start a little bit inside the building to give you more height without changing the area of the building.
The vehicle ramp does start inside the building. It’s unseen in this shot but the ramp starts at the edge of the vehicle pad itself and the dark sides are more guide rails when exiting. The ramp extends down for a while to the skirt and is at a gentle grade.
Does the building come with those vehicle pads pre-installed or are they snappable sockets where you need to drop the usual modules into?
Preinstalled currently.
Would it be possible to add foundation blocks to help placement on uneven terrain as well?
I asked that too but it just recreates the same issue of needing to support a large depth difference on all sides of the structure foundation. And it wouldn't really solve it, since then one side would have a massive wall from the block face where the other side is close to the surface.
Keeping the footprint of the building tight, and building in access ramps to each doorway is really the ideal solution.
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Another thing to do is to make another invisible ramp where the stairs are.
Old technique that not many games do nowdays.
All stairs are secretly ramps... you see any IK on those feet?
Comfy, although alittle offtopic, would there be a chance that the HIVE asset becomes repurpsed into a sort of hex-wide stategic building that gives buffs to your faction? Kinda like outfit modules, but in construction form.
That's up to design. We all pitched ideas, but there's allot of factors to take into account that "sound cool in my head" but when I discuss it with a real designer -- who understands the meta and game wide impact of every cool idea I have -- I am humbled by how complex and interdependent it all is.
Great to see you posting a response to feedback! Thanks! It is a concern of mine of how this thing is going to get placed anywhere when even the hexes DESIGNED for construction bases don't have flat terrain.
There are control points at the base of contonstrction elements which define the low-high range of terrain that is acceptable for placement. With the long skirt below the foundation line, it should be very forgiving. And we're adding ramps like this to ensure if the terrain at the front is higher than the back there's still easy access.
I'm doing everything I can to keep the footprint small at the foundation, hence the overhanging design which was suggested by Wrel to offer more play space without demanding larger flat areas.
nice to see the containment site texture sheet and geometry being used elsewhere in the game
are the existing construction assets going to have a similar pass to extend their bases?
Hi, actually this isn't anything from the containment site, but the look does feel less boxy and cleaner like we saw in the site with more rounded elements. Whether the older props get a fresh coat of paint is mostly dependent how long getting the new stuff in will take and if we have time left to go back and touch up older models. But I'm game for it.
It was mentioned that the door ramp might be too short for uneven terrain. Wrel had similar feedback and so we added a split ramp to keep the footprint tight and avoid oddly extending the stairs. Hope this addresses your concerns.
They really just need to extend the base of the structure. If people can't get into their structures because they built the entrances too high, that's their problem. But at least that one speck of janky terrain won't stop us anymore.
The base pivot is really above the first or second step but I added a split ramp that follows the round exterior to help people get on with uneven terrain without extending the footprint too much. So noted, and addressed.
Nice qol change, will this be extended to deployed lodestars as well?
It will indeed.
What about making it so that ownership of a something like a merit flash (or maybe even normal flash/jav as they're often throwaway pulls) wouldn't override ownership of other vehicles. It should be possible as manas and phoenixes are technically vehicles but they do not make you lose your actual vehicles afaik, though I bet there's a big plate of spaghetti worth of reasons why that wouldn't work.
Something like that should be possible, but I'll need to take a look.
Hey, this is a pretty timely post. We're working on this particular feature as a part of the construction update, so that folks with deployed ANTs don't end up losing them while they're out tending to their base and fighting at it, and the same will be done for a deployed Sunderer you own. If it's abandoned to pull a separate vehicle, however, that's a separate issue that comes down to performance concerns.
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