Just another Dojo Rant, I suppose

[SadadBelbanes]

     I posted this in a forum thread already, but I wanted to make it a rant of sorts and see the ideas people had on the subject. I REALLY feel there needs to be an update JUST for the dojo. Not the syndicate update. An update that will add a LOT more utility to our dojos. We should feel like we rely on our dojos a little more than a means to research weapons and trade. It needs to be more. And I for one feel cheated by this lack of attention from DE.

     My BIGGEST complaint with Warframe (as it is now, since I'm MR22, and really don't have much left to do in the game besides the raids, and something that isn't just grinding away at some menial thing) is that the Dojo is so underutilized. I just don't like the idea of living out of my CAR (Liset). The Dojo is a place where Tenno go to train, research better things, bond with their Clan mates in a community built specifically for them, BY them. It is a HOME. Why does it feel like just some other place I should go to? Why can I launch missions from the relays, and (after unlocking the Simulacrum) test out my equipment and play with my load outs, but not in my own home? You don't go to Walmart to play your Xbox or PC. You don't go to Chucky Cheese's to take a nap. You do these things at HOME.

     The Observatory is an EXCELLENT example of the Command Center in the relays, and can be used to launch your missions from your dojo. You should be able to START YOUR GAME in a Dojo (If you logged out in the Dojo, you should wake up there). Same if you were in your craft. There should be a room (or decoration) that you can create (like a garden) that allows Tenno to change their load outs so they can try new speed combos to beat the highest time on the course, challenge Clan mates and visitors in the dueling arena, and prepare for the next mission all without having to wait through the loading screen to get to your Craft. Instead, our only option is to go back out to the car, change cloths, then go back into the house to play some games. Then you go back out to the car.

     It doesn't make any sense to me, and I feel DE is wasting resources NOT having these things available in the Dojos. And the Tenno of this universe are wasting their resources building them without more reason than to research and trade. Why even have a dojo at all? You could do all of your research from your craft, since that seems to be the only real thing that the Dojo is needed for. Trading? That’s why they have Maroo's Bazaar. It boggles my mind as to how DE has neglected the dojo, when they put such weight into their necessity (It's the ONLY way to get Frames, Archwings, and weapons without spending Platinum on them).

     I am a firm believer that he Dojo should have more capabilities than a Relay. After all, we are spending our hard earned resources, our Forma, our credits, and our Platinum to make these things as awesome as we can. Why are our choices so limited? Why do we only have one course? Why don't we have a Holo Deck: an arena that we can use to practice missions in? It can work similarly to the Simulacrum in which it loads a separate game up (its own little world) in which we can set some parameters (enemy faction, level of mission, no alarms or you fail, Nightmare modes, etc.) and run a mission. How about a Time trial course that requires you to eliminate targets as well? They already have these systems in place. They call them Mastery Rank Trials! There are some many things the Dojos SHOULD do but don't! Hell, I’d shell out platinum to BUY these rooms and add-ons!

          I understand that there are players that are not in/do not want to be in a Clan. The relay is a great place for them to do these things and still get a feeling of community. But the Tenno that have built these communities, spending a lot of their own resources (look at all the lost Forma!) for others to come and feel a part of something (I am the Clan Leader for Blademasters of the Bur, an XBOne clan), or even for a place for actual families to be able to hang out in a virtual space (like my family does), the Dojo needs to be that. It needs to have more functions.

[Loobiz]

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[SadadBelbanes]

That's where I posted this originally. There are 24 pages, and I didn't want to feel that my post would be overlooked/ignored.