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[bastionmods]

A couple things!

First off, because of the holidays, we decided to make this upcoming AC a Check-in AC. All you need to do to provide AC is to comment with your characters names, and that will be enough.

Secondly, we need to decide what to do with the next core! We mods have prepared a few options to choose from, taken both from what we thought of and from the player survey from some months back. Additionally, if there are any others you are interested in, be sure to mention them. Voting for the core upgrade will be open until Friday, December 26th, so you have time to discuss it.

Here are the ideas for core upgrades that we have so far:

-A lot more land and buildings. Currently new land and new buildings can be bought individually, but this upgrade would prepare the Bastion for housing several hundred new residents, should the space ever be needed.

-Defensive shields around the Bastion, to protect the Bastion from any outside attack.

-Light beacon to draw people to the Bastion. Basically, Ibuki's idea for a Lighthouse made real.

-Radio communication between the Skyway and the Bastion. This would not be a network, but rather an actual short-wave radio setup, which opens up communication all around the Bastion. It would also allow people in the Bastion to send messages out and possibly draw more survivors to the Bastion.

-Random weather in the Bastion: rain, snow, etc. AKA oh shit nature is working again.

-Entertainment center full of random crap people can do for fun. If this is picked, we will take suggestions of what to have in there.

-An upgrade to the farm, which will allow for the production of processed foods, like cheese and such. Basically, A way to get more than just the basic ingredients of food.

Feel free to discuss the options below, and once you have decided on one, comment to the 'vote' thread with your vote.

EDIT: Voting is closed, the next upgrade is more land!

Comments

VOTES

[bastionmods]

Once you have decided what you want for this upgrade, comment here with your choice. If you change your mind, feel free to edit your comment to reflect your new choice.

VOTES

[scary_music]

... Ibuki was convinced by Colin to vote for something useful, so basically add another vote onto whatever Colin votes.

Re: VOTES

[notfell]

Moon knows nothing about this place, but he figures "more food" is always a great option.

Feel free to talk the newbie into other options.

Re: VOTES

[freedom_engineer]

After long consideration, Colin thinks that expanding the Bastion itself would be the best use of core. More room to grow would offer them a lot of breathing room in the future.

He also assumes that the core would be able to hold it all together for a while.

If the calculations for that don't pan out, he'd honestly recommend preserving the core strictly for power purposes. XD

[four_quarts]

Ghaleon's vote is for the land and housing since most everything else can be built, and he could just make the weather himself if he felt like it. ...Or just keeping it as reserve fuel. Either or.

Alucard, however, is going for the farm upgrade, because of course he is.

[notachickenhawk]

- Tobias votes for radio communication. It makes more sense to be able to keep in contact with people who are out on the Skyway.

- AZ votes for radio for the same reason.

- Otoha votes for more land. He feels cramped.

- Ryu votes for more land since Colin seems to know what he's talking about.

[dragonsorcsandwolves]

Rob will vote for land. Specifically land that isn't just more flat grassland, because that's getting boring. A forested mountain would be nice. And a suggestion to skip more buildings and use that energy to make even more land, since they can technically make buildings without using shards at all now.

[daughterofursa]

Zuko votes for land and yeah seconding that pls more interesting land than flat grassland.

Anya votes for the entertainment center unless someone can convince her that you will use your shards to buy things that are actually fun. And by fun she does not mean a regulation swimming pool or a boxing ring thx.

Re: VOTES

[twinked_witch]

Megaera initially was thinking the farm upgrades, but decides to go with the Entertainment center after some thinking. Her reasoning on both is the same: Stress relief is a good thing.

OH LOOK I POSTED IT IN THE WRONG THREAD

[heptagram]

As nice as the radio thing might be, Patchouli decides to vote for the option to expand the Bastion.

[emissaries]

The Emissary is still a relative noob, but she'll cast her vote for the farm upgrade on account of it sounds practical.

Re: VOTES

[aprettyred]

- Anna likes the idea of radio, but thinks Colin could make that. She's going with the hope of varied land as well.

- Duke thinks that with enough work between the mages, they could make a combination of the defenses and the lighthouse. Duke also votes for land

[amphibian]

Aoi wants a lighthouse!! What good's that extra land everyone wants if there's nobody to use it, and any opportunity to maybe save more lives should be taken!

[doctor_dragoon]

The idea of more land is very appealing, but its also worrying to think about when you think about the possibility of the cores running on empty again. It would just be more for the remaining cores to support...

Gonna go with the radio communication. Connectivity is important.