[514] GCake's Tower Design (Home Base)

My design of an effective base. Various features include: 2 team friendly spike traps, anti-bomb jump mechanism, archer nest and a catapult nest. Only problem was that it ATE up the resources like a snack. Please give feedback :)

 

Agreed. This base has some really big disadvantages:
- one entrance(I can't count upper onse because it looks like uncompleted archer nest without any exit for knights)
- lack of materials, you'll never can build this tower on front, also you literally placed spikes everywhere and this isn't good,however
- stackdoors - one of the most retarded mistakes of builder
- zero-level entrance - it's just easy to get into your tower and start to marauder inner systems
And last question. Do you tested it in practice?

 

Thank you. So basically all I need to do is: -
1. More exits and entrances
2. More archer nests
3. NO double doors
Correct me if I'm wrong
Also BlackKlit please read the title this wasn't meant to be built on the front lines, more like something that would be placed in front of our flag or DEFINITELY behind another front line tower. The spikes were designed to keep bombjumpers out, although I do go nuts with the spikes sometimes :D and yes I did test it in Sandbox (please don't call me a noob for doing that I don't have any other option). Kouji thanks for the feedback and the tower is facing left, towards red.

 

Yes, all right. What I want to say you is: "Find your desogn! Find your Balance and Garmony! Find the best solution for your tower's composition! And your tower definitely WILL be effective"Also you'll need to build it up as fast as can, so you will need building sheme and optimisation for materials list. Good luck!;)

 

Doors on floor. Enough said. Your tower is useless as hell.

One knight can rush these doors.

 

Right...thanks for the positive feedback
so all I have to do is make a trapdoor booster and raise the door correct?

 

Of course! Btw! Its a good tower but you need a lot of materials!

 

You also should put a door only at each 2 stone blocks, not each one. It's harder (impossible?) for knights to climb the next one if they break one door.

 

Ok so I've taken (hopefully) all your suggestions and made them into this bad boy right here
It still used up quite a lot of resources but it's effectiveness should counteract this.




RED - 100% team friendly anti-bomb jump spike mechanism (one way)
YELLOW - Catapault nest
ORANGE - Raised exits and/or entrances
LIME - Archer nests again reinforced with anti-bomb jump spike mechanisms
PURPLE - "Kneecapper" just to piss off the other team's knights
BLUE - Simple team-friendly spike trap



Again please give me suggestions on what problems this design has and how to fix them
Thanks!

 

Another thing to point out would be, if the enemy happens to reach the 1st Orange circle, your team mates would be unable to do anything due to the bridge being connected. It makes the 4 trap bridges (near the 2nd Orange circle) redundant during that period of time.

You can do this:


Or:


In fact for the more professional:

Spoiler

Gaps between bridges can be filled with stone. However gaps can allow bombs to pass through as well as enabling team mates to cross the bridges normally. Not only do they save resources, but can be big aids to that of us builders. The problem of other builders filling up those gaps (to enable crossing) can be overcome simply with this:

Red builders standing on the Red side are unable to break the trap bridge or reach the gap, due to Red knights crowding around that area, waiting for the builder to do something. Yet Blue knights can still cross, by walking onto the first trap bridge platform and attacking the Reds, or jumping onto/into them and attacking.

When on red team, this can simply be vertically flipped, and the same result would be gained.

 

Thank you soulrealm for the feedback :D
Btw is it just me or are you THE soulrealm? Server host and KAG Pro?

 

Thanks...you made me feel better. People nowadays are just too corrupted...

 

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ~Mark Twain

 

I dont think an archer can shoot through this. I would put a teamdoor from where the archer shoots from.



Knights like to bomb jump from the top of a building so they don't fly into an enemy building in front of the tower. Maybe get rid of some spikes at the top and put a ladder to the top.



archers like to shoot at knights when they are at the base of a tower.
......................................................................................................... this would work.

 

Unfortunately I don't really get what you're trying to say in the first two suggestions :( but for the last suggestion maybe this design would work?

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Um suggestions, Never do triple doors, Double doors are fine, Triples are plain annoying.


Archer nests, should be filled with trapdoors on the inside(where archers stand) so bombs are ineffective, Also, have a 3 block nest doesn't work well..., I think cutting into it at the base would work better






Only prob with this is that 2 bombs disable it well if the bomber knows what he is doing
On the other hand you have spikes, so ok, Also, for the spike trap, I know in personal experience that people who want to go down there but are focus on an enemy, will fall and die, and then curse you, Not sure how to make it better, Have fun:P, And even something like this




Will work along as block farthest right is the top of tower, So archers can shoot directly down

 

Have you ever actually built this in a game? Something that large would require considerable teamwork, unless you continue building beyond the build phase. Building beyond the build phase should be done as far forward as possible, which generally means small, cheap towers. A lot of these huge towers show up on the forums, but they aren't very practical. Towers can get that big, but never by design. You should focus on designing small towers and small sections that can be tacked on to existing structures.

 

Frog, you are indeed all-knowing. I'd like to emphasize to everyone reading this that you *never* build in the base after the building phase is over. Whatever you're trying to build, abandon it and go to mid.