Buildstructure Ideas

So, I was brainstorming on buildstructure as an engineer skill and thought of a few ways we could make this truly involved and truly useful. Here we go.

1) Apartments. I know that we can already charge people to enter buildings, but I was thinking more of a real apartment system. Engineers with a deed can build an apartment complex somewhere that players can then rent rooms from. The plays have to pay X amount of credits a standard IC month to live there. These credits are automatically taken out. The owner of the building gets the credits as payment.

2) Leadplanet. Okay, so leadplanet is apparently kind of dead and I want to infuse some new life into it and allow customization of planets. I was thinking, maybe a good thing for engineers could be the ability to buildstructures that would change a planet. The empire could hire an engineer (presumably a team) and this team could build Economic, Residential or Military buildings. The more of each you have, the more a certain thing goes up. For example, full Economic would make the planet produce more tax income and raise the planet funds. Full Residential would increase the population to a high level. Full military would cause more guards to spawn planet side and would increase the planet shields. Obviously, I would propose that Economic and Military take population and that you have to build some residential to increase population. This would represent the people working as Economic or Military persons. I also propose that each one would cost 1 planet upgrade slot and that the number of upgrade slots would depend on planet. Coruscant would have more than say Nal Hutta. And getting ever more crazy, each planet could have special buildings. Nal Hutta could get smuggling type buildings that increase revenue, crime but spawn government friendly thugs that act as guards. Kind of like the back door deal kind of stuff. Coruscant could get Research Labs that would increase the chance of develop working for that clan. Or something like that.

3) Clan Buildings. Okay, so one of my biggest things is how put down independent engineers are. We can’t develop, we can’t own a building really and so we’re stuck with our shops (Which are taken by the bigger engineering firms) and a player home if we can get it. I propose making sellable clan buildings that can be built. They would cost a high amount of money, say 1.5 million, to make sure that only those serious would get it. These buildings would vary in size. A simple office building with a workshop and barracks would be 1.5 million. A larger structure with say a small garage (for starfighters and/or vehicles) along with the stuff from the first would be 2.5 million. A truly gigantic structure would require clan approval and would feature pretty much everything a large engineering corp would need. We could even have clan buildings for other people. Espionage, Science, Slicer, Mercenary, Pirate, etc. I think it could be really fun.

4) Building Upgrades. So, ships have upgrades, why not upgradebuilding? Perhaps you could upgrade a buildings stats. For example, increase it’s resistance to damage, add a landing pad on it or even add a landspeeder garage.

That’s all I have for now.

Leadplanet is being revised currently.

Haha, we’ll reveal details at a later date.

Wouldn’t be up to me. But it’s doable.

I like it. However, in regards to the apartment thing, I’m pretty sure there is a system in to sell structures like ships on public sale. Personally, I think if a structure is going to be built and not be clan specific like, say a Clan HQ, it should immediately be put up for public sale instead of being registered to the person who built it. That way, the engineers building it wouldn’t just automatically get a free structure under their name that they could rent out for a major profit.

I really like the apartment idea.

You could set rent for each individual home if you wish and charge differing rates. IE studio vs a penthouse. The bigger ones could come with perks. (private pad, workshop, etc).
They would require upkeep, like it’s own form of rent, So there is incentive to keep it rented.

Deeds could be issued by the ruling government and places in only certain areas.

Apartments could have leasing offices. There they would tell you which room you get, the rent due, etc.
The owner of the building could have access to a few commands
Setrent price-sets rent price (per month) in whatever apartment they are in.
Tenantlist-shows the name and unit number of everyone renting-used from the leasing office
Evict name-Evicts the victim from the apartment and makes it available for rent. They are thrown out as soon as they log in.

Apartment owners could access any apartment in their building like they have the warrant empowerment.
This could also be used IC to say have the imperials force a tenant out of their home or give a BH access to their quarry a little easier.
Rooms can’t be renamed-unit 23 will always be unit 23

Diplo would get a new command Leadplanet condemn-puts or removes a condemned tag on the name of the apartment. Noone can rent from a condemned building.

I’d also like to see home prices vary between locations, like prime prices for scant vs tat where noone goes often (price of convenience 1mil vs 100k).

I have alot more ideas on this, but I kept it short.

Psh, just don’t have phome rooms in the structures that are intended to be private housing. Problem solved. Breaking into a structure is hilariously easy.

Well RP is kinda the whole point, so players do need to come together to some degree and interact, but I think it would AID RP if there were larger, semi-safe but semi-public areas for groups of players.

I, personally, have two modes. Either I’m practically alone or with 1 or two other people in an almost completely safe place, or I’m in a completely public place and trust no one and speedwalk whenever I travel and use hail and scan constantly and stuff.