Borderlands 3 - Dahl Capital Ship: Command Center

Already, you wish that I knew what else needed to be coming. Here's a big one for you! It's time to start going in-depth on some of the mechanics I wish you'd see coming for Borderlands 3...

Today's Borderlands 3 Post is about:

• Dahl Capital Ship - Command Center
• Blueprint Farming

The Command Center is your main homebase away from Sanctuary, by upgrading it, it allows you to construct other buildings on your new Capital Ship. 

The concept of the Command Center is simple - by upgrading it, it gives you access to building other buildings in your Capital Ship. (not Sanctuary)

All blueprint qualities except the last tier (which is Orange quality) are Purple to allow players to identify them over customizations.

Command Center Tiers

Tier 1 - Built initially when acquiring the Capital Ship.

• Tier 1 allows players to access Tier 2. It is a simple command center, identical to the one found in Sanctuary. 
• Allows players to travel to other unlocked worlds.

Tier 2 - Costs $500,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center II

• Tier 2 allows construction of the Barracks.
• The blueprint requires Level 30 to learn
• Acquire the Blueprint via Loot Chests off of Pandora or killing a boss in Pandora multiple times. (5% Drop Rate, Blueprint quality is Purple)

Tier 3 - Costs $2,000,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center III

• Tier 3 allows construction of the Buff Gardens
• The blueprint requires Level 50 to learn
• Acquire the Blueprint via Loot Chests off of Natura World or killing the Boss in the Icebark Caverns. (4% Drop Rate, Blueprint quality is Purple)

Tier 4 - Costs $5,000,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center IV

• Tier 4 allows construction of the Transit Station
• The blueprint requires Level 70 to learn
• Acquire the Blueprint via Loot Chests off of Virtual Reality Climax, South (World 5) or killing the Boss in the Watertown Underground Sewer Facility. (2% Drop Rate, Blueprint Quality is Purple)

Tier 5 - Costs $10,000,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center V

• Tier 5 allows construction of the House
• The blueprint requires Level 90 to learn
• Acquire the Blueprint via Loot Chests off of Athenas (World 3), killing a boss somewhere in Athenas. (1% Drop Rate, Blueprint Quality is Purple) or beating a Tower challenge on Elite Badass Difficulty (any mode)

Tier 6 - Costs $25,000,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center VI

• Tier 6 allows construction of the Crafter's Workshop
• The blueprint requires Level 110 to learn
• Acquire the Blueprint via Loot Chests off of Aquanos (World 6), killing a boss somewhere in Aquanos (1% Drop Rate, Blueprint Quality is Purple) or beating a Tower challenge on Elite Badass Difficulty (any mode)

Tier 7 - Costs $50,000,000 and Requires Blueprint: Command Center VII

• Tier 7 allows construction of the Subspace Vault and Arena
• The blueprint requires Level 125 to learn
• Acquire the blueprint via Loot Chests off of Virtual Reality Climax, West (World 5), killing the boss in World 7 (Torgue's Homeplanet) (1% Chance for chest/boss), paying 1,250 Mad Moxxi's Tickets from the Watertown Gaming Complex, or beating a Tower challenge on Elite Badass Difficulty on UVHM or LVHM (if possible)
• Blueprint Quality is Orange 

Blueprint Farming

• Rather then force you to play Mad Moxxi's Minigames, there are multiple alternatives. This should allow players to pick their way through.
• When Borderlands 3 goes live (assuming Episodic format) Tiers 1-4 are available. Tiers 5-7 will be in a future episode, due to the level required for them.
• Every building has 7 tiers, this allows for many open farming options for your pleasure. All blueprints (including Orange, Tier 7 blueprints) are tradable and droppable. Feel free to farm to your heart's content.

With Capital Ship, there is something to do.

And the Blueprints are unlocked for your account, as far as what the Ship's look is, that is based on your character. And your character will need to unlock each plot and build on it. On a co-op game, the ship you all land on, is the ship of the host. Try to impress your friends in your lobby with a nice looking and well-maintained ship!

Only 3 more posts this month! Next month will have lots of new fun ideas.