History Main / RenovatingThePlayerHeadquarters

** Individual players get a Campsite they start the day in. They can get various types of shelters, a bookshelf, a robot maid, and a couple kitchen gadgets (a fancy MagiTek range and a cocktail shaker).
** Clans can buy various upgrades for their members, like excersize equipment and meat bushes. They can also get various dungeons in their basements accesible through various portals: a sewer grate to get to Hobopolis, a travel poster of [[{{Uberwald}} Dreadsylvania]], or a pit of slime to enter the Slime Tube.

* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}.'' Your tumbledown EvilTowerOfOminousness can be refurbished with new tapestries, a capstone, and looted idols for a statue garden to decorate the driveway, but with the exception of the Tower Heart-a PowerCrystal that powers the lights and teleporter-these do nothing but improve the look of the place.

** Individual players get a Campsite they start the day in. They can get various types of shelters, a bookshelf, a robot maid, and a couple kitchen gadjets (a fancy MagiTek range and a cocktail shaker).
** Clans can buy various upgrades for their members, like excersize equipment and meat bushes. They can also get various dungeons in their basements accesible through various portals: a sewer grate to get to Hobopolis, a travel poster of [[{}Uberwald}} Dreadsylvania]], or a pit of slime to enter the Slime Tube.

** Clans can buy various upgrades for their members, like excersize equipment and meat bushes. They can also get various dungeons in their basements accesible through various portals: a sewer grate to get to Hobopolis, a travel poster of [[Uberwald Dreadsylvania]], or a pit of slime.

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This trope is a feature of a video game where you expand and develop a central hub area. Physically expanding the headquarters, recruiting new people to live in your hub area, constructing new buildings--if the game allows you to do these things as a side-activity, it's probably an example of this trope.

* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Multiple players can join together in fleets, with a Starbase and several other planetary or orbital bases. The amount of resources the players collectively invest in their bases increases the size of the base and variety of vendor items available, until the base reaches maximum level. Several optional decorative projects are additionally available. The Armada update allows multiple fleets to link together and donate resources to fleets they are not members of.
* One of the features of the ''Warlords of Draenor'' expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The base has three tiers, and an additional port, that unlocks many different buildings. Many of these are related to crafting and gathering professions, enabling the players to order their workers to make items they could not craft for themselves or gather crafting reagents they would not be able to get in the wild without the right professions. The player can also take on other tasks to improve the base, such as recruiting followers and send them on missions to get gear and gold.

** ''VideoGame/DarkSouls1'': Many characters the player meets throughout the game will come back to Firelink Shrine after being discovered, becoming merchants or performing other useful services.

* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': The Blue Rogues' Island needs some serious love when Vyse finally gets ahold of it. This is a accomplished by finding [=NPCs=] in the world and convincing them to come, greatly improving the little village's aesthetic AND how it can support you. Interestingly there are actually two of each character type to find, with the allowance to choose which sets up shop in the village and which helps crew the [[CoolShip Delphinius]]. The choice will change what kind of bonuses you get in either location.

* Dirtwater in ''VideoGame/WestOfLoathing'' has several vacant lots available, which are filled in with certain shops when the coresponding sidequest is completed.

** In the original game and all of its sequels, the player is provided a small one room tent at the start of the game. Paying [[HonestCorporateExecutive Tom Nook]] a few thousand bells will have him replace the tent with a small one room house with storage. Paying more will have him expand the room size, and even more has him add on another room to the back of the house. From then on he will instead add more rooms via building a basement and second floor.
** ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'' and ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' takes this UpToEleven by allowing players to customize their town/island, the former game with public works projects and the latter game with normal furniture.

** ''VideoGame/Fallout76'': While not as expansive in build budget as the previous title in the series, ''Fallout 76'' allows you to create miniature home bases complete with defenses, gardens, pets and a recruitable companion. A later expansion allowed the addition of a Vault to the home base, an interior instance that can also be highly customized. Multiple Vaults can be chained together if the different kinds are available.

** The Saints headquarters starts off as an abandoned hotel that has collapsed underground, accessible from an abandoned church. After eleven campaign missions have been complete, construction begins, and after twenty-two missions, the hotel's inside is turned into a luxurious nightclub called Purgatory.

->''"This squalid hamlet, these corrupted lands, they are yours now, and you are bound to them."''
-->-- '''Narrator''', ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''

* One of the features of the ''Warlords of Draenor'' expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The base has three tiers, and an additional port, that unlocks many different buildings. Many of these are related to crafting and gathering professions, enabling the players to order their workers to make items they could not craft for themselves or gather crafting reagents they would not be able to get in the wild without the right professions. The player can also take on other tasks to improve the base, such as recruiting followers.

** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': Most areas in the game can be claimed as a settlement and highly customised within the limits of the build budget. Defences, shops, buildings, build it and the Settlers will come to your newly designed base as long as the radio transmitter is operational. Automatron DLC added an additional item, a Robot Construction platform which allows you to populate the base with mechanical marvels of any conceivable configuration.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout76'': While not as expansive in build budget as the previous title in the series, ''Fallout 76'' allows you to create miniature home bases complete with defences, gardens, pets and a recruitable companion. A later expansion allowed the addition of a Vault to the home base, an interior instance that can also be highly customised. Multiple Vaults can be chained together if the different kinds are available.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'': Many characters the player meets throughout the game will come back to Firelink Shrine after being discovered, becoming merchants or performing other useful services.

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': In the game and all of its sequels, the player is provided a small one room tent at the start of the game. Paying [[HonestCorporateExecutive Tom Nook]] a few thousand bells will have him replace the tent with a small one room house with storage. Paying more will have him expand the room size, and even more has him add on another room to the back of the house. From then on he will instead add more rooms via building a basement and second floor.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': Most areas in the game can be claimed as a settlement and highly customised within the limits of the build budget. Defences, shops, buildings, build it and the Settlers will come to your newly designed base as long as the radio transmitter is operational. Automatron DLC added an additional item, a Robot Construction platform which allows you to populate the base with mechanical marvels of any conceivable configuration.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout76'': While not as expansive in build budget as the previous title in the series, Fallout 76 allows you to create miniature home bases complete with defences, gardens, pets and a recruitable companion. A later expansion allowed the addition of a Vault to the home base, an interior instance that can also be highly customised. Multiple Vaults can be chained together if the different kinds are available.

* The ''VideoGame/Suikoden'' series frequently features a hub village that you can expand and develop over the course of the game.

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* One of the features of the ''Warlords of Draenor'' expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. The base has three tiers, and an additional port, that unlocks many different buildings. Many of these are related to crafting and gathering professions, enabling the players to order their workers to make items they could not craft for themselves or gather crafting reagents they would not be able to get in the wild without the right professions. The player can also take on other tasks to improve the base, such as recruiting followers

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** ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': {{Hunter|OfMonsters}}s keep Safehouses that they can improve with {{Survivalist Stash}}es and {{Booby Trap}}s.

** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'': Villa Monteriggioni serves as this for Ezio, providing a safe haven after his family is ousted from Firenze. Quite a bit of the game is spent acquiring artwork, trophies, and decorations, as well rebuilding the town's infrastructure and shops. This is Ezio's bets source of new weapons, clothing, and upgrades, as well as consumable items at a reduced price.

** Downplayed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', where the Skyhold castle, the Inquisition's HQ from Act 2 onward, starts off in ruined state, having been abandoned to the elements for over a thousand years (the fact that it even still ''stands'' after all this time foreshadows a major later plot point). As the player progresses through the main plot, the castle is gradually rebuilt, with makeshift scaffolding and piles of debris disappearing and new areas opening up. However, this happens automatically as the plot progress (and the Inquisition grows in power), without the player having to also invest their resource into it.