Before the wave of hideout suggestions turns into a Tsunami, let me state here, the ideas we already have for future hideouts.
KEEP IN MIND THESE ARE ALL PURELY HYPOTHETICAL IDEAS AT THIS POINT, THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT ANY OF THEM WILL BE MADE, this is just a list of ideas I've had, or have heard from you guys already:
Hideout Categories (Like Basement, Moon Base, Sanctum, Cave, etc.):
Airship/Heli-Base
Amusement Park
Apartment
.....- Normal Apartment
.....- Crappy Apartment
.....- University Dorm Apartment
Biodome
.....- Arctic
.....- Desert
.....- Underwater
.....- Alien World
.....- Jungle
Cardboard Box
Castle/Fort
.....- Fairy Tale
.....- Medieval
.....- Lemurian/Atlantean
.....- Asian (Forbidden City)
Crypt
.....- Egyptian
.....- Mausoleum
.....- Vampiric
.....- Rotting
.....- Bones (Catacombs)
Digital
Dojo
Dungeon
.....- Mistress
.....- NemCon
Elemental
Garage
Greek Temple
Gym
Hospital/Asylum
Island
Junkyard
Mansion (Vibora Style)
.....- Clean/Nice
.....- Haunted
Manor/Villa (Drug Lord Style)
Martial Arts Temple
Military Bunker
Office (Private Eye up to Corporate)
.....- Private Eye
.....- Big Cheese CEO
Outdoors
.....- Cemetery/Graveyard
.....- Dense Forest
.....- Glade
.....- Mountain Top
.....- Stone Circle
.....- Swamp
Pocket Dimension/Floating Fortress
.....- Floating Islands
.....- Asgard
.....- Digital
.....- Q Realm
.....- Elemental
Pub/Nightclub
.....- Club Caprice
.....- Vampire Club
Q Realm
Ruins
.....- Greek/Roman
.....- Egyptian
RV/Bus
Science Lab
.....- Biology Lab
.....- Chemistry Lab
.....- Physics Lab
.....- Futuristic
.....- Mad Scientist
Sewer
Space Station
Store
.....- Comic Shop
.....- Weapons Store
.....- Tech Store
.....- Clothing Store
Temple
.....- Church
.....- Egyptian
.....- Greek/Roman
.....- Greek/Roman Ruins
.....- Aztec/Mayan
.....- Kung Fu
.....- Buddhist
.....- European Monestary
.....- Atlantean
.....- Lemurian
Tree House (Kids style)
Tree House (Ewok Style)
.....- Wookie
.....- Swiss Family Robinson
.....- Tarzan
Train/Subway Station
Underwater
.....- Lemurian
.....- Atlantean
(what does this mean btw?).....- UNTIL Sealab
Volcano
(Maybe the Lava Cave covers this?)
Warehouse/Factory
Yacht/Sea Ship
Feel free to post your ideas to this thread (in a feeble attempt to keep things organized) Now that you've seen how hideouts work, hopefully that gives you a better idea of the kinds of constraints we're working within.
If you have suggestions for the existing hideouts, post them here: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=1879256
If you have ideas for future functionality within hideouts, post them here: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=1879260
Thanks for all the feedback so far.
Comments
ARE YOU SERIOUS BRO? BRO ARE YOU SERIOUS?
Also, that hypothetical list looks boss as it is. Not sure what others could be mentioned, but I look forward to reading what other people come up with (and nudging ideas along).
P.S.: You know where my mind is going to go every time you bring up 'Apartment'. To quote a boy band, quit playing games with my heart.
So each and every one of these is guaranteed to be made then, right?
...just kidding, relax
Already made the joke. Though I assumed it was isn't... So my typing is bad. </Fozzie>
I should go fix that so it looks better... maybe when I get some feeling back in my arms.
EDIT: Though. It occurs to me an Arcane basement option would be awesome, ala Harry Dresden and other modern wizard types with low funding (because they spend it all on things that they don't really need, or can't live in an actual apartment because technology doesn't like them). >>
Garage (House/Mechanic/Gas Station)
Junkyard
Mobile RV/Tour Bus
have actual Devs in the hideout as NPCS to do stuff, so whoever designs costumes to be the tailor whoever designs missions to be the crimeputer and the rest just to look cool.
maybe make it a reward or a drop for something cool.
Space Station, no moon attachments required.
Grove, put some standing Stones over there, a fire pit over here and trees all around.
Ice Place, we have Superman and the White Witch for comparison and contrast there.
Elemental hideout
Details that can be edited include ...
Specific elements that can be chosen separately after choosing this hideout type: ice, water, fire, volcano, air (ie: cloud), shadow, rock or earth
Ambient effect choices include ... moving clouds / mists / flames, growing or shrinking fires / geyers / ...
Huh? No I didn't . . . :::whistles:::
If you have suggestions for the existing hideouts, post them here: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=1879256
If you have ideas for future functionality within hideouts, post them here: http://forums.champions-online.com/showthread.php?p=1879260
Those aren't working, old sport.
Cracks in the dome, the airlock door only opening halfway, various sports balls substituting for lost or broken planets on the hanging display, missing sleeping tubes leaving exposed cables, oxygen leaking into space etc.
edit: Maybe with a glass front window with NPCs strolling past?
Science lab: Biology - With Bio-tanks, hydroponic benches full of weird plants, Petri dishes, a sample refrigerator etc...
Science lab: Chemistry - test tube racks, glowing chemicals, sealed storage vats, an 'infusion chamber' - barrels of hazardous materials, floor option for spills or no spills, hazard suits on the wall
Science lab: Physics - Flipboard covered in weird equations (Bonus points if it's the Standard Model) , Arcing Tesla coils, Particle beam accelerators, Mass Spectrometer, rack of physics books.
Fun...
N-TSS N-TSS N-TSS N-TSS N-TSS ... "The system is down"
Boiler room/janitor's closet style place.
Abandoned hospital/sanitarium
haunted house
ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK!!(*hint* I will suggest this for everything until I get it. )
Mom's Attic?
Asgard! An epic, floating golden castle, with a view of waterfalls, other castles, and the cosmos.
If that's too specific, a generic "floating fortress" category would work too, with one having an Asgard theme.
qliphotic realm
scrapyard
penthouse
workshop
Hollowed-out Mega-Destroid/ Dino/ (insert large spoils-of-war object that you can live inside of)
Ancient Ruins
Greek/Roman
Egyptian
Cyclopean/Prehuman
Mesopotamian
Jungle/Wilderness
Police Station
Cage (for some monster type heroes)
Costume shop (well, it would be perfect for one of my characters, anyway...)
Swamp
Flying saucer
The caves I love.. very nice. I think the different environmental options on the cave are awesome.
Basement's cool as hell. Got three hours RP in there this evening. Punchbag should be hittable though. I want to punch and kick that thing.
Moonbase it great, though haven't been in there much so couldn't suggest much for this one. Maybe a desert bubble with a little oasis in the distance?
OH MY GOD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE work on these next. They're basic enough that they're fitting to a good 3/4ths of my character, I would purchase them all. I'd rather you'd have put these on the table before 'Mom's basement', as good as that one is.
...so, would it be like, an alleyway space, with your character living in a cardboard box? or some sort of vast, Calvin-and-Hobbes-esque building made -of- cardboard boxes? Or just one huge cardboard box with "This End Up" in 40 foot high letters on the side, upside down?
Because I could get behind -any- of those.
Or maybe for Antiques dealer it could be a store style hideout.
We've got a couple really rough ideas, but are totally open to suggestions.
The one I'm working on now (the concept), is very modern luxury. Minimalist to an extent.
Examples:
http://www.archithings.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Luxury-penthouse-Modern-Living-room-588x314.jpg
http://homebasedecor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Modern-Interior-of-Penthouse-Apartment-with-Breathtaking-Colour-Composition.jpg
http://www.omahlicious.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Modern-living-room-decoration.jpg
Don't take any of the above as "ZOMG! That's what it's going to look like?!" Reference is just that. . . Reference. We look at all sorts of it before deciding on any given piece. And often it only serves as inspiration for the environment.
I want a kitschy girls bedroom with nyan cat wallpaper.
Ok, before I'll get punched add some cake there, cake for everyone.
Or Grandma's Kitchen. There is always cake.
Well, I think an Asian inspired style should be high on your list for penthouse.
Another one would be probably more of an older style luxury.
An industrial loft style could also work. Yes, actually I very much like that idea. Give me some exposed beams and such, some nice bookcases and display cases. For such shelving though there should be options like minimally filled and then filled to brim with stuff
Mystic Ruins - I'd imagine it to have little seaweed, with all those pillars lying on the ground, whirlpool as the "TV" for crime, and a wall to make it actually feel like a hide out.. I can't think of how furniture can be done... Maybe furniture can be "magically" floated and you see little whirlpool under them to keep them that way?
Submarine - Basically like the moon basement but with an aquatic life as an exterior
Old West Fort (think every western ever)
The Abandoned Graveyard (for the undead and those who love them)
The Vault of the Artifacts (think Indiana Jones)
Desecrated (for those demon types)
Hidden training grounds
Eastern Monastery (for MA peoples)
Also we need an outdoors woodlands/park setting with optional tents.
And a giant airship/spaceship in the sky, overlooking MC, that would be cool too.
So, my proposal:
In terms of a category with more than one look and possible set, it seems like it could fit under a general "Warehouse" or "Factory" type category, with "rusty sheet metal" as one option along with brick or more modern options for the wall surfaces. Of course, I'd love "light shafts" shining in from windows (and holes in the wall in the specific "rusty sheet metal walls" case) as well, if possible.
Props:
Along with different types of "junk" props, including the "airplane parts" one, different type of warehouse and manufacturing machinery props could also be included to fit other warehouse or factory type motifs.
Underwater Base: Lemurian Theme
Underwater Base: Atlantean Theme
Underwater Base: Until Theme
Spaceship: Space Cop Theme
Spaceship: Warrior Alien Theme
Spaceship: Alien Explorer Theme
Demonic Citadel: Hellish Theme
Demonic Citadel: Frozen Theme
Demonic Citadel: Qliphothic Theme
Cathedral: Crusader Theme
Cathedral: Templar Theme
Cathedral: Angelic Theme
This would be an outdoors-y type of hideout, surrounded by natural elements, or features made from natural elements, extending overtop to add a blocking "ceiling" while still being mostly open to the elements. It would have an arcane feel, with glowing glyphs and ley lines. Sky could be either night or day. The "computer" could be something like a scrying pool.
Possible sub-types:
Forest Glade -- Trees and vines, lots of plants, and fireflies.
Henge -- Cairn-like stonework, ritual mound, a firepit.
Graven Hollow -- Dead trees, tombstones and grave markers, candles.
Even before the hideouts came out, people had already started making threads on individual hideout ideas and it would have gotten out of hand eventually, with about a hundred or more (literally) threads showing up for just about any hideout idea people might come up with. Now back on topic...
I may come up with more suggestions later (once I flesh them out and stuff), but for now, I offer these:
Digital Room: A digital construct made up of energy (sciency pocket dimension perhaps) that severs as the hero's hideout. I'm including some pics with ideas of what I mean...
futuristic digital room
"The Matrix" -style flowing code walls
Also, the entire movie "Tron" might help with the imaging (don't know why I didn't think of that one first :rolleyes:)
Mistress Lair: Like the one suggested in this thread. I didnt see this one on the list :rolleyes:
Faerie Realm: Perhaps a glade with brightly colored flowers, giant mushrooms and floating glowing whisps of lights and stuff.
Plus more to come when I think of other stuff
EDIT: Also...
/Signed on this one
Been wanting a "Nature" one as well, for Druids, shamans, hunters and other nature dwelling and/or worshiping types (I know there's a Druid Santurary coming up, but I get the impression that one might be a more indoors type of hideout, and I'd rather have an outdoorsy one for my toons).
no need to double post: http://forums.champions-online.com/showpost.php?p=1879802&postcount=32
Let me know what you think of the Druidic Sanctum when it comes. . . not exactly what you're looking for, but might hit the major points. . .
^See above^
It's under the Category of Dungeon, which people in the thread seemed to think appropriate.
No doubt it'll hit some of them. Like VisionStorm, I just like the idea of a partially-outdoor hideout, and thought something that could be enclosed with trees or stones would be suitable. :j
I know crypt was already mentioned, but my idea is a bit different than vampire crypt, I'm thinking of that mission building in Vibora Bay with a blood fountain and a dancing cage with dancer in.
cf: http://files.champions-online.com.s3.amazonaws.com/img/revelation/screens/co_screen_021910_01.jpg
Note there would be 2 types of blood fountains, the type as in the screenshot -more classy- and the ones from the vampire crypts a bit more blood bathtub -creepy Bathory- style.
Also a pillar with shackles would fit very well in. I'd see that with an option "crypt/dungeon" floor or "palace" floor (as in the screenshot)