Artifact: Intuitive Spire

Upgrades an Adaptive Spire, doubling all it's bonuses without increasing it's size.

Obtained from a Level 9 Base Crate. (I'm open to other ideas for obtaining this.)

Cost to use:
300 energy
10k em

Since there are only like 2-3? level 9 bases out there....i'm somewhat baffled how that would work.

They don't really want to lock each other and they can't lock themselves. The people who could lock them won't.

Now if it was a super rare drop from level 7-8 then maybe. Still with the large basing rate of upper legions, i suspect they would benefit the most and for many this would be a unicorn.

-1

My problem is not so much that it drops from a lvl9, (believe me they do get locked and killed) but the fact that you would be adding an unlimited arti that upgrades a limited one.
It may take a bit, but i really dont want another base drop that its best use is to scrap for ctp.

planets are being stolen with un upgraded spires. Also it cant be worth than the adumbrate station.

i get way way more crystals than i steal spires.
and i steal alot of planets

Yeah, why would i want a lower % chance of a crystal, that's the only reason to even bother hitting bases over time.

Upgraded spires are great and all, but perhaps as a seasonal daily mission. Valentines Seasonal needs a daily mission iirc....

How about a ship-bot spire?

10 rounds of completion..100 ship bots each round...make a spire that has activated ability: produce 1 ship bot...cooldown 20 seconds.

+1 Would make

Want to lock a lvl 9 base? Lock Eots... low aerlen and fixer count and they rarely defend.

I like the idea of upgrades for spires but dont think base crates are the way to go. Spires are a limited mission artifact and so the need for upgrades is minimal. For this reason -1 to the OP.

Lvl 9 bases definitely need a nice drop thats unique to them to make them worth killing.
Why kill a 9 when you can get the same stuff from a 7 or 8?

Good point there, as I hadn't thought of that.

Also, killing a level 9 base doesn't happen often. It would take a long time to get 15 adaptive spire upgrades. So perhaps for the reason of keeping the crystal percentage at current, and making it somewhat easier to obtain, make it available from a new Biweekly mission instead.

And another mission in this new bi-weekly mission chain could upgrade adumbrate stations. Able to do it an unlimited amount of times, as this particular upgrade would be for an unlimited arti. ( This could be changed to obtain it from a level 9 base instead.)

I quite like the idea of upgrading things like the adaptive spire form new missions.