Bases
This article is a work-in-progress. If you are familiar with the subject, please complete it by all means. Otherwise, I will work on it a little bit at a time until I consider it complete.
Overview
With the introduction of City of Villains and Issue 6 of City of Heroes, super groups now have the ability to build bases, or places where group members may hang out. Bases also have the ability to grant certain bonuses to supergroup members if they contain Items of Power, which are special items that can only be gained by completing special missions or raiding a base that contains an existing Item of Power.
How to Build a Base
To build a base, one must first be a leader of a supergroup. The option to build a base is given by the supergroup registrar in the Arachnos Headquarters in Port Oakes.
Rooms in a Base
Once a base is constructed, one may add rooms to it. The number of rooms you can add depends upon your plot size. Supergroups start with an 8x8 normal plot, but this can be increased at considerable cost. Plots come in two types: normal and secure. As far as we know, the only difference is that a secure plot can have a backup generator.
Rooms are capable of housing specific things. For instance, you have to have an Energy room if you want to have a generator, and you must have a Control room in order to generate control. Both energy and control are necessary to build and run any of the cool toys in a base. Without them, your base is largely decorative. Below is a list of all of the available rooms. Unfortunately you can't see the number of main and auxiliary placements you can do in each room until you can afford to purchase it, so those entries are incomplete.
Doorway
Name Cost Size Main Aux
Doorway 0 1x1
Decorative
Studio 150000 3x3 na na
Recreation Room 150000 4x4 na na
Meeting Room 150000 5x5 na na
Trophy Room 150000 6x6 na na
Assembly Room 150000 7x7 na na
Great Room 150000 8x8 na na
Energy
Energy Terminal 150000 2x2 1 Unlimited
Energy Terminal 750000 2x4 ? ?
Energy Station 900000 3x3 ? ?
Energy Station 900000 3x4 ? ?
Secure Energy Station 2900000 3x4 ? ?
Secure Generator Room 4900000 4x5 ? ?
Secure Generator Plant 8900000 5x7 ? ?
Secure Generator Core 16900000 8x8 ? ?
Control
Control Room 100000 2x2 1 4
Control Room 150000 1x4 1 6
Control Room 750000 2x3 ? ?
Control Room 1500000 3x3 ? ?
Secure Control Room 1750000 2x3 ? ?
Communications Center 2500000 3x4 ? ?
Communications Center 3950000 4x4 ? ?
Operations Center 5000000 5x5 ? ?
Secure Comm Center 5950000 3x6 ? ?
Secure Comm Center 6250000 4x5 ? ?
Secure Ops Center 8450000 4x7 ? ?
Command Center 12500000 5x7 ? ?
Defense
Choke Point 15000000 1x1 ? ?
Security Corridor 3000000 1x2 ? ?
Security Corridor 4500000 1x3 ? ?
Security Corridor 6000000 1x4 ? ?
Gauntlet 12000000 1x8 ? ?
Death Trap 14000000 3x3 ? ?
Stronghold 37500000 5x5 ? ?
Transportation
Teleport Chamber 150000 2x2 2 na
Teleport Chamber 150000 3x3 2 na
Secure Teleport Bay 600000 3x4 ? ?
Secure Teleport Bay 600000 4x4 ? ?
Secure Portal Room 1350000 5x5 ? ?
Workshop
Workshop 100000 2x2 2 Unlimited
Workshop 400000 3x4 ? ?
Medical
Infirmary 150000 2x2 4 Unlimited
Trauma Center 525000 4x4 ? ?
Vault
Containment Alcove 250000 2x2 1 ?
Containment Chamber 750000 3x3 ? ?
Containment Hall 1500000 4x4 ? ?
Secure Containment Chamber 1500000 3x3 ? ?
Secure Containment Hall 2250000 4x4 ? ?
Secure Containment Vault 3000000 5x5 ? ?
Secure Dual Vault 9000000 5x5 ? ?
One of the first things that any supergroup wants is a worktable. Here is an enumeration of the prestige cost for building, controlling, and powering a worktable.
Energy Terminal 150,000
Control Room 100,000
Workshop 100,000
Generator 225,000
Mainframe 150,000
Basic Worktable 25,000
Total 750,000
Item Costs
Here is a list of the functional items in a base, and how much they cost. Note that there are more advanced and powerful items you can get for a base, but they must be crafted on a worktable. Negative numbers mean that an item produces that commodity instead of using it.
Power
Prestige Energy Control Aux
Generator 225000 -500 0 ?
Circuit Breaker 50000 -150 0 -
Tech Control
MainFrame 150000 50 -50 9
Database 106000 100 -50 -
Terminal 30000 10 -10 -
Corner Terminal 32000 15 -20 -
Work tables
Basic 25000 20 10 1
Advanced 50000 50 25 1
Expert 100000 200 100 1
Teleporters
Raid Teleporter 75000 80 15 -
Medical
(no information, please help)