A Change for Bases

[Charos]

increase base cost more? you kidding?
but base should not die so fast, I agree

Bases don't die fast with proper planning. Before you build one you should make sure you got everything it will need to survive. Make sure you don't build it in a hard-to-reach place too because you won't have much time to supply it.

What you need to do is:

• Find a location and gather the resources you'll need to build it
  
• Get one or two transports to carry 200 spaceship crew, 1k food/oxygen/water, 2k H-Fuel or 1k MOX and 2k of Panels and Robotics.
  

That's what you need to sustain a base without shields.

Next thing you'll want to do is get your shields up and fast, there are many people out there that like to explode bases for fun. Yet again, you'll need proper planning.
You'll need:

• 3-4 transports
  
• 10.000 Nuclear Devices
  
• 20.000 Superconductors
  
• 20.000 Industrial Material
  
• 20.000 Robotics
  

The hardest to get material is Nuclear Devices unless you built somewhere near Kusari. Have 2 transports to carry Nukes while the remaining transports will get the other materials you need.

Now that your shield is up, get 10-15k H-Fuel or 5-10k MOX/Promethane and 2k/2k Robotics/Ship Hull Panels to keep it running for a few hours. That leaves you with very little room for anything else so you'll need to build a storage module. This will take a while because ship hull panels take up a lot of room in your ship and should use 5kers to transport them in bulk amounts. You should probably contact some companies to supply them or get more people to join your effort in erecting a base.

Storage Module needs:

• 50.000 Ship Hull Panels
  
• 20.000 Industrial Material
  
• 5.000 Robotics
  

If you reached this part then you're done. You have a functional starting base that you can upgrade as long as you keep the supplies flowing in.

NOTE: If you're going to build in Kusari (For the easy access to Nuclear Devices, Cryocubes and H-Fuel), you should make sure you have a stock of superconductors and robotics as they will take a while to get (Robotics are 13mils/5k from Kusari but cheaper in Bretonia and Superconductors are bought from Planet Denver in Colorado)

Hope this will help the new Bob the Builder(s)

Sincirely,
~Bob the Base Builder

PS: To those that thing Barges blow now that they have 90 m/s cruise speed, you're so wrong:lol: