Base Selection
 

How exactly do we select a base? I've attempted it and haven't quite figured it out... Please an explanation would be appreciated.

First, grab this machine found on the dropship.
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Then when you grab it a screen like this should pop up.
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And you'll be able to pick which bases your team owns to spawn at, it should hilight in red if your team owns the base. Click the base you wish to spawn at, and when you enter the iricia portal you will spawn on the base you chose.

I think that screen should appear when entering the portal...

No way.. that would be very anoying!

I'd prefer if when I clicked on the base I'd warp there instead of walking into the portal still and pretty much setting my spawn there forever and changing it when we lose the base.

Portal = Home Base, regardless if it's being attacked (I enjoy a bunch of lamers coming after me, because I'm not new and could care less whether or not I die and find it rather annoying when I have to run all the way back to home HQ to molest lamers and save the Hq.

Although it wouldn't fix the laming if nubs don't know how choosing a base works, which I didn't even know until I read this.

I agree with Sean, the portal should be strictly for warping you to the 'home base' even if it's under attack, and if under attack you should be able to select a spawn spot outside the base.
Also just being able to click on a base and then warping there would be considerably nice.

Also you should make this more obvious, who has the sense to randomly grab that... You need to somehow make people notice how to select a base, maybe a sign above it?

Ditto. All the years I've played, and I've grabbed it a ton of times, now all of a sudden it's a base selecter? How would I know o.o.

Imo, it should of been built into the map system.

I have added labels to the machine to make it easier to understand how to activate the base selection system.