Base Update!

Those of you staying in prestige mode fanatically: Fabulous job!

For those of you having influence issues and finding it harder to stay in... there is a trick that can help you get a refund on your influence at critical levels and keep earning prestige. This trick works if you can bank up quite a few respecs that you don't really need, but are willing to spend at levels where new enhancements are available. Levels 32, 37, 42, 47 are the best levels to do this at, but it works at lower levels as well. The higher the better, though.

The idea is to use your respec right before you buy new enhancements and sell everything back getting a refund on all the enhancements you have slotted, but will be replacing at that level. It's a hefty influence bonus which, if done at higher levels, can result in millions being refunded to you. Granted you should always use respecs primarily for fixing your build, but if you plan your builds from the ground up as I do, you find that respecs can be used like this pretty easily. And you have may have one or two freebies lying around collecting dust from Veteran's Rewards. Use them wisely!

There are several additional rooms that we can add if control permits we may be able to add two more teleporter rooms which would be *eight* more portals to zones for us! Not bad for a little 3x3 base layout. I haven't crunched the numbers yet to see if control would be an issue but I have some concerns as we only have one auxillary connection left in the control room. If by the good graces of all our wonderful members we eventually save up enough for a larger plot, we can possibly buy one, but I'd like to make sure that rent is always easily managed so it's easy points and zero stress.

A suggestion has been made that we have a base layout map available on the website. If anyone has some serious Web-fu and is able to create a base layout map and get it hosted on some picture site somewhere I will link to it either in the side bar here or put it in a post.