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I know this might be a silly question to some, but will each hideout have designated areas like bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchens? Or will this be specific to some? Or will we have none of those?
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However, I'm working on a new hideout now (not for launch) that will have a bedroom (sort of), bathroom, and kitchen. But that's largely because it's more necessary for the theme.
Now he's a bi-polar bear.
...anyway, I thought all bears went in the woods?, what do you need a bathroom for Soviet?.
Sounds like the much requested Penthouse.
You know. If you added one of these 4 things (or all 4). I'm sure you'd become a legendary figure:
1. A lava lamp.
2. A huge mirror on the ceiling
3. A Barry White-like record for ambient sounds . . . (BTW, cheesy elevator music in the Resistance entrance elevator would be dope.)
4. A lot of red.
Definately would use a Penthouse, I'm thinking a pad not unlike Stark's.
The planet Soviet had bathrooms, thank you very much :P The toilets were red and the showers were yellow.
Also, mixtures of concepts you'd normally think wouldn't work - sometimes work !..
Take for example Mom's Basement, you'd think a mixture of that with the them of 'Futuristic' wouldn't work aesthetically, stylistically... but check out the 2nd concept art piece down here - those windows onto what looks like a reactor or underwater with the light illuminating the room - fantastic!.
And some of secretly hope and wait for a crappy apartment. Something more Punisher or Peter Parker-ish (after he moved out). I also admit, I'm a little crazy.
BWAAAHAHAHAHA. Context, how I love leaving you behind~.
I.e. 1 Moon, 1 Basement, 1 Cave, and 1 Sanctum.
Penthouse is likely later on, since I just started the first version.
I'd love to see something really foresty, like a Terrarium abode!
As a roleplayer, this is not good. My voodoo sorcerer will not be using the same hideout as my modern day vigilante, it makes no sense. The result is that I either buy them all, or come up with some ridiculous reason for all of them to live in the same kind of place.
I understand that it's too late to really change anything about this, but I would have much preferred to see each character have their own separate hideout, I know for a fact I'm not the only one who feels this way. I don't know how the hideouts will be priced, but I doubt I'll be spending the money on all of them, I have a pretty good feeling I won't be able to judging from the prices of other C-Store items.
The fact that we get hideouts at all is great, I love it. But the fact that I need to pay for them all in order to have my roleplay make sense doesn't make me happy, I know full well I'm not entitled to any of this for free, the subscription fee is completely fair considering what I get for it, but I'm still voicing my opinion on this.
Very cool to see that you'll be expanding the options with the first Hideouts as time goes on.
And if I may make a request for the Penthouse - can you make a version that doesn't look quite as expensive as the preview picture? I think it's a fantastic place to live in, but it's SO beyond the budget of my Heroes that there's no conceptable reason that they'd ever live in it.
Don't make me use the Schwartz on you for a little convincing.
Is that another person on the 'Crappy Apartment' bandwagon?
Quick, buy this man a coffee and doughnut!
Sneaky blighter! - you kept that quiet didn't you!. Theres me banging on about penthouses and linking to concept art for the last 2 weeks and you guys had been working on the idea all along!. :rolleyes:
You don't gotta have them all. I see no problem paying for 1 or two hide outs. Heck the first 4 are rather generic and depending on how you kit them they can fit practially any character.
My toons:
Vivat Phoenix (Bird) -- It burns when he pees.
Cassowary Jane (Bird)-- Aboriginal Goddess that knows Kung Fu
The Taco (Chihuahua guy) -(El H
Oh, I missed that.
Interesting.
So rather than me deciding to get "the cave" and decorating it up for everyone, each character would have to decorate it for themselves.
The "issue" there is that if I wanted two characters to share a hideout, I will have to buy everything twice.
I guess they have to balance between people that want a different hideout for every toon vs. people that just want one of each hideout.
For me, I would rather have one hideout of each type decorated universally for all of my characters, but for some people, they would rather each character have their own hideout, even if it was of the same type that another character of theirs had.
In the end, as long as there is an account safe that every character can access from every hideout, then everything else is a bonus, I suppose.
What are the chances of having an open house when these go on sale so that we can get to look at the basic floor plan before we actually commit to a purchase?
Seconded!
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Also, I wonder if the Penthouse falls under an existing category, or if it'll be its own new category? Either way, that's AP/CP pre-allocated
Ahh, but will they have AI butler control pads on the walls, the heads-up-display weather and surf condition reports projected onto your panoramic windows vista on waking in the morning, and more importantly what are you going to do about an inherant shocking lack of security in superheroic penthouses allowing one-eyed black men to break into your pad whilst you're out on-duty and help themselves to your best scotch.
I'm assuming this is something that can't be answered, but still wanna try asking: will the penthouse be released with the vigilante safehouse and is "later on" something like a month or longer?
In any case, the hideouts looks awesome. Can't wait for next week
As others have said, You only need to buy all of the hideouts once, per account. Each character will have access to all of the hideouts, and each hideout will remember the set up for THAT character (or such is my understanding at this time). i.e. Eugene Sparklepants lives in Mom's Basement, Shooty McTougherson, has the Vigilante Basement, and Spacey McMoonrock lives in the retro Sci Fi Moonbase.
HA HA! You have no idea how much I laugh sitting here, reading the forums, and the requests/demands for Penthouses, and tornado flights, and jet packs. I'm rolling, all day long.
No, if you get Industrial Cave for your free token, and later buy the Primal Cave, or whatever, All of your characters will have access to all of the options from both. But it will remember what set up each of your characters choose. But you only had to 'buy' the 2 Cave bases, once. If backstory dictates that they live in the same hideout, just dress each one's version of the hideout up the same.
Penthouse is a new category.
Pffft. . . silly heroes think you can smash a penthouse into a cave?! NONSENSE SAYS THE TACO!
Maybe I misunderstood, but Vigilante is a version of the Basement Hideout.
I don't know the timeline on the Penthouse, as I don't even have the first one built yet.
Although I'm looking at it. . . right. . . now. . . :::peers at s****y penthouse.
Even if these are fully operational as featues, animations, functional doorways etc, is the tech limiting what can be done with hideouts at all?.... or indeed would you prefer to hold back that kinda thing for a SG base system at a later time waaay down the line?.
Also, are there any ambient audio sfx in the bases?, for example a penthouse like stark's you'd probably hear seagulls and waves crashing, maybe the odd electronic noise.
Thanks.
[edit]: How about the futuristic hideout opening up the option of having that heads-up display graphics holograms layered on the windows of the penthouse?.
[Double-Edit]: Nevermind, I think you've inadvertantly answered the last proposition here.
I spent a good while in the Moonbase I had built, just wandering around and listening to the sounds it made. Makes it all so much more alive! I love it.
Awesome sauce !, good to hear !.
Yes audio departments are cool, its amazing how much the right audio adds to visual work. The audio dept shouldn't be so shy, come say "hi!" and maybe do a short dev-feature like concept art do/did (even if its a one-off).
Do they do facinating things like cleaving melons with big blades or stomping in trays of gravel trying to get the right sfx for a sound?, or is it not old skool anymore and done through sfx libraries?.
Did you know Star Trek's photon torpedoes are done through pinging a suspended slinky? - you've seen the Star Trek XI blu-ray audio extras with Ben Burtt right?, or how he came up with the lightsaber noise previously by accidentally dropping a microphone down behind an amplifier.
Audio rawks! - unsung heroes all of em' - you can tell em' I said so.
\m/
Ahhhh... ok, I get how it works now.
I want eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
...You are an evil man, playing horrible games with my fragile emotions.
And I couldn't be happier.
That's what I was thinking too. There's a huuuuuuge difference between, say, Penthouse and Mom's Basement. Of course now you're going to be flooded with requests for new categories... ^_~
Dibs on the surf shack!
/me hides
There's a difference between a million dollar mansion (which the preview looks like) and say, a quarter that. The quarter is what I'm aiming for.
*slips Tumerboy a 20*
I'd like it if...you throw in a castle...down the road...
I have varied enough definitions of 'crappy' that there's a good chance that would still qualify. Depends entirely on the amount of shenanigans you can do with the environment.