Basically, a rare opportunity for legions to bypass the donation requirements to advance to the next tier base. Why not?


This would only be available to legions with bases at and below level 4.

All of the current abandoned bases would have an option of being "claimed" by one of these said legions. This can be achieved through normal scanning of enemy bases. A % would be given to find one of these said abandoned bases (of course, since there are level 5 abandoned bases, it will probably require a new category or system) and a claim option would pop along side the "target" option. People who would be allowed to lay claims could be modified in the "Rules" section of the base.

Legions who have claimed a base before would not be able to claim again.

Claiming a base would do the following;
Replace base name & picture
Replace all current modules (extenders (and maybe GP modules) would be brought over to the new base)
Possibility of having the production points reset
All previous pacts would be lost.
All contribution stats would be cleaned. Base disables of the abandoned base would remain.

The base left behind would either become abandoned itself or be destroyed. Anything below a level 2 can be destroyed, anything above 3 abandoned, or just leave it to chance.

This is just a rough outline of the idea.

-1 I want those silvers

Ship module Base harvester
Size 20
Allows use of the ability "Base Disassembly"
Cost 50 GP
Limit 1 per ship

Ability
Base disassembly
You have a 10% chance to successfully scan an inactive abandoned enemy base that is level 4+
Use-once per 24 hours
Only usable if in a legion currently

If successful you must disable the base by yourself (Cannot share), successful disable will yield either 50%, 75% or 100% of the total contributed energy,CTP and exotic matter from the bases current level and add it to your own legion base.

Disabled base will still remain for others to scan...same base cannot be locked with 8 hours of previous disable

You still get those silvers
The base left behind becomes abandoned and scanable, only if it's level 3 or 4 though.

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the rest of us worked to upgrade our bases...

if you can't afford to make a lvl 5 base then you can't afford to maintain a well defended lvl 5 base and you won't enjoy the larger production from it

have to agree with that

more high level bases = more fun = more GP spent = richer Dan = more game content = even more fun for everyone

Only if there are sufficent drawbacks, otherwise it's not fair to those of us who worked to level up our base.
for example, production pt will go by the base you claimed
all artifact used on the base fizzles, including but not limited to extenders, gp structrucres and the exo clamps
the base name and img would be of the claimed base so it could be something you don't like, so you will have to "fix" it afterward

that is the least that should be done as a disincentive to getting a base w/o work

In fact, it could go further, for example. Up until the day the base reaches 100% defender bonus, if the base is disabled, the legion that disabled the base may claim the base, in which case they would get the base instead and your legion end up with a lv 1 base. Thou you are free to find other abondoned base to claim. Only when the defender bonus reach 100% would the claimed base safely belong to the legion.

Overall, the suggestion makes sense from a logical standpoint. But it must come with danger and costs so that it is fair to others.

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from the stand point of any player who's had to almost single-handedly build their legion base, this would be a major kick in the mouth. all that hard work, for absolutely nothing. a large portion of the player base already has to put up with Creditcard warriors, we don't need /regular/ players being rewarded for /lack/ of hard work. By all means, reward the players that work hard, just don't reward players that got lucky.

i agree with this BUT another weak lvl 5 base means more bases we can lock and kill without relying on energy refills

Gotta agree with Tree. Love finding abandoned 5's. Except when someone blows them up too early...

I personally would like to see an ability to salvage a base, say if you wanted to merge with another legion, everyone who contributed would get 50% of their contribution back (excluding energy) and players who bought items (extenders etc.) would get them back, providing they were still part of the legion in the previous week. otherwise they'd be shared by the members remaining.

Tho i also like finding abandoned lvl 5's lol