Safehouse & Hotel ideas

[chummer]

Hi, I bought all the safehouses so I am officially the Donald Trump of NBZ.

A couple of ideas:

1. Caching - when the cyberloader gets fixed you should be able to store extra ammo in your safehouse

2. You should be able to cache medikits and drugs

3. You should be able to cache paydata

The caching idea would be based upon quality (expense of safehouse). It would also be more effective if the game forces inventory load rules on the character (maybe based on strength), meaning the character cannot carry 1000 medikits and 8000 rounds of ammo

Also while on the topic, more expensive hotels/safehouse should give better resting bonus's then cheaper ones. Meaning if you pay 300 yen vs. 50 you can go longer before exhaustion. Also, there should be a chance of a random raid with cheaper safehouses being more susceptible. This would interrupt rest and cause a battle

[genji88]

A simple but good addition would be to add phones at safe houses costing $3000 or more. Not having a phone at a trash filled shack seems plausible, but lacking one at a high end apartment?

[captain nemo]

I like the idea of caching, especially after inventory limits are started.

I agree on the phones too.

[fallen]

Phones - great idea. Added to the list.
Caching - great idea, awesome ST name. Added to the list!
Expensive Safehouses give better rest - added to the list Complicated. I suggest you try crammers, and lots of 'em.


Thanks team!

[spectre]

I also think it would be cool to eventually be able to populate your safehouses with potential teammates, ala Fallout 3 style.

[Cory Trese]

Phones -- this will be a paid upgrade for a safehouse, and require a special Corp Contact

Caches -- These are already in testing. Some safehouses will have it, some will not. Some buildings will have caches but no safehouse and require a "MagLock" to secure your gear.

Super Safehouses -- Long term support for these are already in the game. This will include things like swimming pools, practice arenas (fight drones) and computers.

In addition a number of future features (stock trade, smuggling, production) will revolve around the "off map" safehouses.

In NBZ, you will be able to purchase a single building. In the future of CK you will be able to also purchase an entire zone map with multiple buildings, features and security.

[spectre]

These ideas sound awesome! I love what you guys are coming up with. These ideas will be a game changer for me (and my hacker).

EDIT: Almost forgot, what do you think about a "home network" feature of a building/super safehouse?

[Cory Trese]

home network as in a Matrix Node (if yes, then yes.)

It will be a great place to load your utilities into ram, allocate points to the various deck processors, etc.

[genji88]

Loving the sounds of how safe houses are progressing. Having to need security measures such as booby traps, & drones/teammates could be future options.

[captain nemo]

Wow the future plans for the safe houses sounds great.

Looking forward to them.

[spectre]

Yes, looks really good, sooooo can't wait for that!

Aug 16, 2011 2:38:11 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

home network as in a Matrix Node (if yes, then yes.).

By the way, you might need to unplug for a bit Cory, you are starting to answer the threads with near-code!

If(homenetwork = "yes"){
matrix_node = "yes"};

;D

[LordofSyn]

Aug 15, 2011 18:47:15 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Phones -- this will be a paid upgrade for a safehouse, and require a special Corp Contact

Caches -- These are already in testing. Some safehouses will have it, some will not. Some buildings will have caches but no safehouse and require a "MagLock" to secure your gear.

Super Safehouses -- Long term support for these are already in the game. This will include things like swimming pools, practice arenas (fight drones) and computers.

In addition a number of future features (stock trade, smuggling, production) will revolve around the "off map" safehouses.

In NBZ, you will be able to purchase a single building. In the future of CK you will be able to also purchase an entire zone map with multiple buildings, features and security.

forgive me for asking before reading entire thread...
if you will be wealthy enough to buy a map tile and all the buildings with it...shouldn't you also gain income per day?

[Cory Trese]

You won't probably be "buying" it as much as you'll have a Sponsor who permits you to act like you own it =)

[taatuu25]

I dont like "owning" a whole block but commanding it after getting enough rep with the owner faction(like being the mayor of it).