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(Mega Suggestions) Dojo As Lobby; Armory, Hangar And Personal Quarters.


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Here's an idea-

Remember the hideout from the hitman games?



Something like that (Except maybe made out of Tenno stuff, not garbage like 47's) Every player gets one, a little crash-pad to start in after login. It's got a tiny closet for two warframes, and a rack for three weapons.

When you spend plat to increase your inventory, you're actually spending money to get a bigger, nicer place with more room for your stuff.

Placeable decorations like the dojo would be a cool idea.

When you join a clan, your personal apartment would be placable in a barracks bloc in the dojo.

I think the idea of having things like the chat, market, and starmap being tangible locations is cool and would lend a more finished feel to the UI.

A bar/social area is a cool idea, but let's be honest, a Tenno bar wouldn't look like a Star Wars bar.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/186/7/6/Japanese_Garden_6___Tea_Set_by_AndySerrano.jpg

 

^That's what a Tenno bar would look like.

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Dayum!!! Nice Ideas!!1. I would sure like to see all this stuff in the Dojo. The armory, the Crypod rooms ( can become your inventory area in the Dojo where u can put your frames so that you are able to make new ones), and I also like the Star Map room Idea. Teleport Idea isn't that interesting though. Dojo needs a major rework, and some of the things you mentioned in your article definately belong in the Dojo in the Next UPDATE!!!!!!!!!

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I like these ideas, kinda reminds me of the lobby in DUST514 where you chose your game, your weapons and where you accessed the market, and I was a fan of that idea instead of having a simple 'menu' so to say. It's a lot more immersive then a menu, and I love immersion in games, hence why I play stuff like DUST514

I played DUST too...but didn't have it in mind when making this thread XD

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I actually enjoy this idea, DE may not want it, but I feel like they said in the live stream that the Dojo should be more than it is. By incorporating base things it makes the dojo a nice central hub which gives it more purpose. few things I'd like to see personally to is the ability to upgrade things, like halls instead of needing to build so many different large halls. I also wish the oracle room was more than just a prereq, but like a kiosk to purchase the actual finished BP's giving you a all in one room kinda feel. 

 

Anyways Yeah I loved the ideas and I support something like this happening!

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 So, I guess this has been suggested before, but I think I'll put it up anyway.

I think the dojo could be used as the personal lobby for everyone. When you log in, you don't go to the star map, but instead, the dojo's main hall, or your personal room, if you have already built one. This is gonna be a long thread, so brace yourself and put your glasses on.

 

     First, the acquisition of personal rooms. When you go to a terminal, you get an option to claim your own level/layer of you clan's Dojo for 100000 Credits.(moon clan, the price would scale, starting at 1000 for a Shadow clan.) These levels/layers would vary according to the clan's size. The number of available levels equals the member cap of the clan, like 10 available rooms for a Shadow clan and 1000 available rooms for a Moon clan. Every time the clan grows, more rooms become available. Once claimed, you can use any terminal in the Dojo to get to your room. More info below. One level of your clan's Dojo equals one personal quarter. You can build more rooms connected to your main(starting) room. These can either be (relatively) big rooms with high ceilings to practice parkour, or small, cosy rooms with only a Cryopod and an aquarium inside. Up to you.

Note that the costs for such things should be small, as they are only things you can see. Maybe they should only cost credits(?). 

Here are the costs of the rooms for a Shadow and Moon Clan member. (Give me feedback on prices!)

-1000/100000 Credits for your first room

-Small Room extension: 500/7000 Credits(Place for 5 objects)

-Medium Room extension: 750/10000 Credits(Place for 8 objects)

-Large Room extension: 1000/15000 Credits(Place for 10 objects)

-Mega Room extension: 2000/30000 Credits(Place for either 15 objects, or a parkour room)

 

 

If you are not a member of a clan yet, you spawn inside a standard room which can NOT be customized.

"Where's that room?" I hear you think. Well, it's the Tenno's secret base, close to the sun. One of the last fully functional Orokin towers, where the Lotus resides. Nope, you cannot pay her a visit. Her room is locked. The tower is limited, there are a few standard things like the Armory and Hangar, but that's basically it.

If you want your own room, which you can customize, you gotta join a clan.

 

     The room's style mirrors that of the Dojo by deafult, but can be changed at a cost of materials and time, like any other research project. Possible appearances could be Void(classic), Dojo,(Old or new) GrineerCorpus and Orokin Derelict. Each option requires different materials, like:

-1000-5000 Nano Spores and 500 Plastids per room for the Derelict appearance

-1000-5000 Ferrite and 500 Rubedo per room for the Grineer appearance

-1000-5000 Salvage and 500 Polymer Bundles per room for the Corpus appearance

 

I think you guys get the idea. Basically, 1-5k common and 500 uncommon materials of the corresponding faction.

 

 

     Then comes your first chamber. First of all, you need to build your very personal Cryopod. It can later be moved into another room. It serves as a kind of bed/resting place. 

You can also access more options of the main menu from the pod, like HUD customization(drag&drop) camera settings(cam position, distance, effects, etc.) and so on.

When you log out from inside your Cryopod, and log back in, you gain a "Rested" bonus(much like in Skyrim) that gets you a minor Affinity/Stamina boost of 10/15% for the next 1/2/3 hours. The Cryopod can either be in a vertical or horizontal position, and be customized in different ways, like style(Void or Standard), color and possibly more.

Here is an example what it looks like when you enter it.

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     The second thing you can build in your room(s) is a teleporter. Now don't get me wrong, and let me explain it before you guys get mad. It'd be a small terminal, which is connected to the levels of the Dojo, and can be connected to other terminals across it. (i.e. a gate between your room and that of your best friend, or the dueling room.)

It uses the same technique as the Tenno when they capture a target in their missions. It breaks you down into atoms, and transports them to another terminal, where you are "put back together". There would be no need to build a new room in the Dojo's, as this would use the same terminals as you use to break down a room. I think this way, the terminals would get some use. 

 

     Once you have built these things, the rest is up to you. You can build aquariums, small gardens, statues, weapon racks to display your...wait for it...weapons, and whatever the hell you can imagine.

 

     Then comes my second suggestion. The Hangar. This would basically replace the old star map system, and be free in every dojo. The Hangar is the biggest room of the Dojo.  It would contain a bar where everyone can sit down and enjoy a drink(the mask of your warframe opens up at the mouth section, no face design is needed!) before entering a mission, and a map, which is the star map almost identical as how we know it now, with a few changes.

 

Here's the bar.

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And here is an example of how the Star Map could look like.

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You could select a mission by looking at a planet(some are actually moons, but never mind that), and press left mouse button on the mission you want to do, or:

This whole thing could be one map like this(imagine it with planets):

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And you could just click on the mission as it is now(except that this would be a bloody red and awesome looking way of doing so)

 

Of course, the arsenal, options, foundry, contacts tab would be removed, so only the map and the chat remain. Once you selected a mission, you'd get to see a five-to-ten second cutscene where you and your squad enter a Manta(the escort ship you see at the extraction points) and fly away from the hangar. The same way, when finished with a mission with your clan-mates, you'd see a "reverse" cutscene where you enter the Hangar, exit the Manta and walk into the bar. Every Warframe would have a unique way of walking. (i.e. Loki walks as if he's weightless, Saryn like a lady, Excalibur would be swinging his melee weapon, Ember would leave fiery footsteps and Rhino would walk slowly)

 

I thought of something like this, only bigger(wider?).

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     Last but not least comes the Armory. Free as well. This would yet be another room, and it would replace the Foundry and Arsenal as it is now. Here, you can do everything you could do in the places mentioned above, but with a few extras. Like, when you finish building a new weapon. You open up a locker(see pic) and take out the weapon, maybe give the melee a few swings, or aim with the new gun. Building of a Vasto finished? You take it out, roll it a few times on your finger like a badass cowboy and put it in its holster. That locker is basically the foundry, you insert the materials and it puts them together into a weapon/key/whatever. "Rushing" something would be overcharging the machine, which would explain the building process as it is now. After a rush, the machine would need to cool down, and you wouldn't be able to start another project for a few minutes(say 10).

Imagine this. but built in a wall and approximately 2 meters wide and 1 meter high.

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For the best use of these kind of buildings, the Dojo would need to be changed. Literally. It should become a tower, what it is said and shown from the very beginning.  I do not imagine it exactly like this, but I guess you get the idea.

Every level would have a set amount of rooms available, say 20. Each room could be expanded in the form of a tree branch. (Y)

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TL;DR: Read the whole thing before you comment.

 

Well, this is it, please, take your time to leave a comment, or tell how you think about it. I'm more than open for suggestions.

 

 

EDIT Nr1: As Nautilus105 suggested, we should have portals to travel between other clans' Dojos.

EDIT Nr2: Added smaller notes, made minor adjustments, added price to making rooms/extensions and a picture of the Hangar. Changed costs of room customization.

EDIT Nr3: Added more pictures.

EDIT Nr4: Added tower shape and ammo rack suggestion.

 

 

Honestly, I would love to have an update on the dojo more than a new contest update. But dude. These are friggin amazing ideas. DEVS. LOOK AT DIS S#&$. DIS DA S#&$!

Edited by Gamzrok24
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I agree to this because currently the only thing i use Dojo for is the weapons and the pvp and the new gardens (which look cool) and thats it. By making it like this you could spend more time in the Dojo decorating your very own room. :)

 

 

 

P.S. the spawning in the Dojo is absurd sometimes.

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Really like these ideas.
I also put some of mine in a new topic.
I like your consitency, but making a dojo into an actuall tower, would mean a whole lot of redoing.
First of all, you would need a closed and shaped space for the rooms, in a manner of a tower-like empty space. This would be probably best solved by a 3D turnable map.
Armory seems cool, but foundry merged into armory -not too sure about this one, and didnt like your idea of microwave locker foundry where you put in things and "food" comes out xD

Other ideas are amazing tho.
I think Dojo has a great potential. I know it is not a main feature of the game, but it is a great place to simply go and unwind from those rushing missions, mess around and stroll around in the might of our creation, time and resources that went into it :P
Dojo deserves a lot more, and I hope it will turn into much more advanced place.

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Once I started reading the "personal room" section, you had me hooked.

 

As I have not yet bought any platinum, I also appreciate your idea to have things cost credits (especially after the near-stupid amount of credits that I ended up with after the Gradivus Dilemma). The suggestion that you made for the armory also makes building weapons much more interesting ( not that trying to find morphics isn't already interesting [/jokingmode]). I also like the how you thought to switch the dojo from the current, fairly flat layout over to a true tower.

 

In short: Well played, Soulswipe. Well played.

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 So, I guess this has been suggested before, but I think I'll put it up anyway.

I think the dojo could be used as the personal lobby for everyone. When you log in, you don't go to the star map, but instead, the dojo's main hall, or your personal room, if you have already built one. This is gonna be a long thread, so brace yourself and put your glasses on.

 

I like the idea, but I think each player that isn't in a clan would have their own small version of the room. This would solve the starmap/chat priority bugs.

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I like the idea, but I think each player that isn't in a clan would have their own small version of the room. This would solve the starmap/chat priority bugs.

Read the second paragraph, it tells you about a tower that isn't owned by any clan and the Lotus lives there.

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