What should be added in sea bases?
Justin599M
NV Join Date: 2015-09-11 Member: 207881Members
NV Join Date: 2015-09-11 Member: 207881Members
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Oh boy where to start
Mess Hall
~Counter Tops - Wall/floor mounted surfaces that you can place items on for display. Put your extra diamonds or quartz on display to snazz up your room. Put your Fragment Analyzer on top to get it off the floor. Countertops would automatically snap to adjacent counters for a solid, consistent row of counters.
~Refrigerator - Wall mounted storage for food and water to keep it fresh for longer. Same storage as a Small Locker. Automatically turns on when food is put in, and constantly drains a tiny amount of power. Automatically turns off when there's no more food inside. Must be researched from a fragment found in the Safe Shallows.
~Cooker - Floor or Countertop mounted machine, about the size of a Fragment Analyzer, that can cook and prepare meals from raw food. replaces the Fabricator as the producer of cooked and cured food. Uses power similar to the Fabricator. Must be researched from a fragment found in the Safe Shallows.
~Hydroponics Farm - Round tube like tank to grow edible plants.
~Mess Hall Table - Flat surface with two benches to sit down and eat at. Provides small bonuses to Food when eating at a Table.
~Desalinator - Wall mounted Desalinator that makes seawater drinkable. Requires Empty Bottles, which must be found in the world, such as on the Aurora. (Drinking water from bottles would leave the player with an empty or dirty bottle. Dirty bottles would need to be cleaned with bleach before becoming usable.)
Storage/Factory
~Defabricator - Can break down components and items into raw materials. Would be great for Titanium Ingots, allowing them act as compact storage for Titanium. The Defabricator would have a built in 2x5 storage unit below it that would hold excess materials if the player couldn't hold all the broken down bits.
~Foreman Interface - Wall mounted terminal that keeps a list of all nearby storage containers and their inventories.
~Advanced Locker - Locker that connects to nearby lockers to pool inventory.
~Advanced Fabricator - Larger Fabricator that can queue multiple items to construct, as well as take inventory from nearby Advanced Lockers.
Sleeping Quarters/Sick Bay
~Bed - Large comfy bed to pass time from night to day and vice versa. Would not use power.
~Medi-Bed - Large high tech bed that can also restore your health as you sleep. Uses power relative to amount of HP restored. Must be researched from a fragment found in Kelp Forests.
~First Aid Cabinet - Small, wall mounted 3x3 cabinet for holding Medkits. Same as the one in the Lifepod.
Laboratory
~Database Terminal - Catalogues discovered species and blueprints in an encyclopedia type format.
~Wall Charger - Small, 4x4 locker for tools, recharging them quickly from the Base's power.
~Periscope - Telescope that can extend 10 meters above the top of the corridor it's mounted to, and can zoom in on distant objects or creatures.
~Sensor Module - Long range sensors that mount to the top of the room or corridor and can scan for nearby predators, or places/objects of interest like the entrance to the Inactive Lava Zone, or the Floater Island. Sensors detect creatures passively, but scanning for land forms takes a bit of energy.
~Map Table - 3D hologram map table that maps out the general area of where you've been, with different biomes in different colors. Player can click and zoom in on areas similar to using the color panel on the Cyclops or Seamoth.
Maintenance/Engineering
~Maintenance Interface - Wall mounted terminal that provides a 3D map of the Base, power supply, hull integrity, with damaged or flooded sections highlighted.
~Wall Light - Lights that the player can change the color, brightness, and strobe of to provide mood lighting to the interior of bases.
~Pump Station - Increases speed of pumping out water in the event of a hull breach.
Base Construction
~Y Corridor - Standard Corridor that splits into two adjacent corridors facing the same direction.
~Square Rooms - Large rooms about the size of the Moonpool.
~Stair/Ramp Corridors - Diagonal Corridors that go up 1 Corridor's height.
~Exosuit Bay - Special hangar for storing and customizing the Exosuit.
~Glass Dome - Transparent roof for round Rooms to view ocean above the room
~Combinable Rooms - Modular rooms that combine with adjacent Combinable Rooms to make larger structures.
External Modules
~Straight/Center/L/T/X Catwalk - Flat catwalk for surface bases that attaches to the tops of Corridors or Foundations.
~External Ladder - Ladder that attaches to the edges of catwalks or foundations to allow the player to climb up onto the platform.
~Turret Mount - Stand for a Stasis Rifle, Repulsion Cannon, Torpedo Launcher, Harpoon etc that uses the SeaBase's energy. Attaches to the tops of Corridors and onto catwalks and Foundations.
~Structure Support Beam - Solid Titanium Beams for reinforcing a Seabase. Click once on a part of a base to start the support beam, then click on another part of the base, or on the terrain to create a support beam between the two points. Use the mouse wheel to cycle through beam thickness. Thickness and length of the beam affects Titanium cost.
Yep...I like all these.
I made similar mention of a ramp/stair corridor in another post. So I second the motion.
The only thing i would add is 45 degree elbow tubes (in that same prior post).
Right now there are only 90 degree ones.
...see also the recent post for a Cyclops Docking Collar for the habitats
Outdoor lights
I love all of these ideas, i could not say them better my self, but on top of the structure support beam i think they should add it to the inside that runs across the ceiling making an X with a support beam running from the floor to the intersecting beams. also if anyone played COD Black Ops 1 i think for the underwater farm they should add something like the bio-dome (smaller of course). one more thing, the maintenance interface panel should be a big TV screen and tells you where the power is coming from and for solar panels, tells the sun % and how much is charged. also having emergency flood gates would be cool(when a part of base floods it would close off the area until fixed) and can fix from outside.
Hydroponics farm- I see this as a dedicated room, perhaps moonpool size, with numerous plots for growing various things.
Desalinator- Process described seems like a more complex system to what we have now, how about a unit that completely refills hydration for more efficient use of bleach, (I think that it should use bleach and power.) Downside, it is a fixed unit and does not create storable water sources.
Adv fabricator- it has storage built in, and is fitted to a wall like a bulkhead, and can draw only from itself or from adv storage lockers if fitted to adjacent walls. (adv lockers having similar build restrictions.) Typical storage for fabricator wall = 2 full size lockers, adv storage locker = 3 full lockers. = Maybe more. This set-up in a standard room could fit an adv fabricator, drawing from its own storage and 6 adv lockers in the room.
---- Reasoning is that this implies some means of tranferring materials between lockers and fab, instead of magically drawing from stores elsewhere in base. ----
Periscope- I don't understand the usefulness of this, sorry.
Sensor module- structure version of seamoth sonar module.
Map Table- combines all taken sonar maps, structural and Seamoth.
Combineable rooms- Problem here is an increasingly large unsupported structure under pressure.
These are just alternate ideas,
Finally, I'm all for a cyclops berth as well, I see this as a set of arms that clamp to the bow of the cyclops, moving it over the docking hatch. It'd by the player's responsibility to ensure the berth area is clear of obstructions.
That way, you can keep the integrity up without detracting from your ability to build a larger base (not that titanium is in short supply, but there's currently not much use for diamond). Alternatively, materials that will be implemented for Seamoth/Cyclops depth (like reefback DNA) could also be applied for hull integrity.
Also, it would be nice to have a way to mine quartz from sand. To prevent abuse, it could require materials from lower depths. So as not to add sand as an inventory item (and all of the inherent problems that this would cause), it could be something that must be placed on sand, possibly even next to a thermal vent. After all, you expose sand to high temperatures to make glass, so you could circumvent the problem of the lack of quartz for making beautiful bases by something like this. Titanium is fine and all, but glass bases just look BETTER.
Rooms of different shapes would be nice. I appreciate the observation area, but how about a larger room, a dome, etc.?
And hydroponic farming. Definitely. Not playing on survival mode until something like this is in place so that I don't have to spend all of my time hunting food.
Edit: Also rolling for being able to flood certain parts of your base (so as to serve as an aquarium or whatever).
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Stairs built inside the room module. Takes 2 floor spaces (which would block a corridor and a corner, but could still have either a window or reinforcement). Use middle mouse to rotate the up/down side of the stairs (see line diagram above). As long as the floor above doesn't have an aquarium, storage locker, analyzer, workbench or bench in the area of the opening between floors, it would build immediately. The 'landing' part on each side of the stairs would prevent making an endless staircase that would trap you in.
I figure that this would eliminate too many ladders in the middle or making corridor loops to keep ladders out of the way.
>Having 1980's security systems on our 22nd century alien planet habitat
How about instead of that we have an interface with a 3D model of the Base with hull breaches and flooding highlighted.
I don't really see the need for these as we can already store live fish in aquariums (ignoring that they don't die yet in our inventory or lockers, etc); cured fish in normal storage; and since the fabricator is almost a Star Trek style replicator, I think it's fine that it can also cook food. That said, if the life pod also came with a cooker or if we had to eat raw food until we could build one, I would be fine with the fabricator not being able to cook food. Afterall, 3D printing something at the atomic scale isn't the same thing as cooking something.
I agree that we should have the ability to desalinate seawater, but not in this way. The fabricator is basically a 3D printer that works on the atomic scale, which is why it can turn raw copper ore into copper wire and quartz into silicone, etc. Therefore, simply removing salt molecules from seawater should be child's play for it. For the cost of energy we should be able to make all the drinking water we want from it. Perhaps adding containers like bottles would be the balance so we could stockpile said water and take it with us around the map. I would be OK if we had a dedicated desalinator unit though, it is just ludicrous that it would involves airsacks or bleach. Airsacks, as their name implies, should give us some O2 when eaten raw (would be great in caves, etc) not turn into water (which the fabricator would be able to do with any plant or animal as they are mostly water. Bleach makes sense in making medkits and could probably we used for other things, but makes no sense for disinfecting our water since the fabricator should be perfectly capable of disinfecting anything as it can just remove the offending molecules. Besides, even if we use bleach to disinfect seawater...it is still salt water...
I would be fine with a separate unit, but the fabricator can already do this with salvage, so it should also be able to do it with useless surplus fragments, etc. If we had a separate unit for recycling, it should be required for the salvage too or its inconsistent.
Couldn't agree more in the need for this except the part about it pulling from your storage, that is another thing entirely I think. I would call it a Mass or Industrial Fabricator and it should be much bigger and not be wall mountable. Come home, through 30 quartz in it, and go do something else while it turns all that into glass...awesome.
I don't think this should increase the speed of pumping, I think these should be required to pump out water from the start. I don't like how even a "base" of only a single corridor magically starts with its own hidden pump and computer core that automates it. We should start without any pumping, then you build these for that function. The more you add to your base the faster it can pump water out, but the more power it takes, and you have to activate them manually until you install a computer core that adds the base AI that handles it and other functions for you. Though it wouldn't be terrible if they detected water in your base and pumped it out automatically.
We badly need some sort of support beam for things like a long stretch of corridor that just magically floats without support as if there is no gravity under water. Such a structure should snap off your base and start a big breach. This could simply be a kind of vertical foundation you attack to the underside of tubes. It would also look so much better.
Overall, awesome ideas! We'ld be very lucky if we even get a quarter of these one day. I would particularly love the roof and floor windows, maybe even a roof or floor Observatory that you had to use a ladder to enter, and both horizontal and vertical lifts of some sort. How cool would it be to build a glass tube to another biome and take a subway-like car down that tube to reach the other side!
These were an idea i was initially dismissive of, but I think there's something to this. I imagine these as place-able anchor points on foundations or base modules, perhaps snapping to halfway between top and side of corridors, and right above or below windows on a room. I imagine multiple anchors on a base being able to share a terrain anchor and vice-versa.
Finally, I imagine any instance of the terrain anchor being above the base attach point would create a suspension cable instead of a compressive-load strut.
While the beams would become the support we should also have cables to hold stuff that is floating outside. This would be most useful in holding the escape pod, mobile vehicle bay (found out you can pick it up if your on the ladder side and get the right part of the base), and the beacons (could be made bigger). The cables would also let us attach them from one item to another (like from the escape pod to one of the subs so we can tow it, or if we have 2 sea moths so we can have one docked in the cyclops then you can tow a second behind you [unless they plan on giving us the ability to add a second dock to the cyclops])
So when it's night time, I can see what's lurking just outside my base. It would make the night time view just a little nicer too.
I also like Leonhardt's idea of a refrigerator and a medi-bed.