Moar Codename Q_Q: Player bases producing codenames.

[Zukeenee]

If people were to develop codenames, it would just be the same as any normal gun, there would be nothing unique about them, they would be mass produceable given the materials were available, unlike codenames.

They wouldn't be "the same as any normal gun". Any "normal" gun can be bought on a static base for a relatively small amount of money. Codenames produced on a player base would require:

• A player base (and all the time + materials that requires)
  
• A Codename or Weapon Production Module of some sort (also requiring time + materials to construct)
  
• Oodles of raw materials and commodities for the actual gun itself
  

Maintaining a base with a Codename Production Module would be no small feat. Maintaining any base, even as they are now, is still quite a commitment. And the materials needed to produce this module and the guns it would be making could be anything at all. If you really wanted to keep Codenames "rare", that would be possible. In the same way that the base-devs made cloak factories and cloaking devices require Nomad gibs, Codename factories and Codename guns can be made to require other hard-to-get materials.

Basically, making Codenames producible in the same way that Jump Drives and Cloaks are wouldn't make them too easy to acquire. It would just mean that making them would require a lot of time and effort. I think it would make a decent alternative to the current system, actually.



Look at it this way. There are 33 individual wrecks in the mod that drop Codename guns. Considering just how widespread the knowledge of Codename locations has become, I think it's safe to assume that these wrecks are camped 24/7. The server restarts (at minimum) once a day, allowing the codename campers to log on and collect their guns. Every day, 33 more Codenames come into existence on our server. Do you think the numbers would be the same if we removed these wrecks and made Codenames solely producible by player bases? If making a Codename were to be anything like making a Cloak, it would require at least a dozen 5K transports full of materials, plus some hard-to-get pieces (in the case of the Cloaks, Nomad stuff). I don't think we'd be getting 33 guns produced every 24 hours if we implemented this. The Codename production would slow down, the guns that already existed would become more valuable, and the Codename prices would--

Wait. Crap. If anything, this would raise the prices of Codenames even further, and they're already beyond ridiculous-level in terms of price. At the very least, it might be nice if they were made to be worth their pricetag, since as things are, they're really just mediocre energy-inefficient guns that only appeal to folks with a specific fighting style.

I don't know. I like the idea of replacing Codename wrecks with Codename factories, but there's a lot more to it than I can really come up with a plan for.

Well I could come up with a plan for it, I guess, but I don't want to make this wall of text any larger or more off-topic than it already is.
Basically, more differentiation in Codename stats, more variety of Class-10 pewing, more desirable guns, more worth their insane price. Not that I'm taking the time to put that into words or anything.

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