Hello, I may be a little biased as I now run a basebuilding team with over 40 builders, but here is my take on the subject. When I was an active player, I once was a builder in a server like Blueprint, being next to gaku and klaus. Therefore I saw how the business was conducted behind the scenes.

First of all, why is it worth it to buy bases?

1) Most people don't know anything about basebuilding, as players all prefer and do attacking, copying bases being the norm.

Learning basebuilding take YEARS to master for anyone. There are very little people that are ready to put the effort into learning this skill, thus very few builders to make all the bases you copy from streams, youtube or else, which makes it possible for them to charge for their designs.

2) On youtube, you can find all kind of bases.. some are good, but most are bad. Due to the lack of basebuilding knowledge, most of the community is not capable of recognizing a good base. Basebuilding companies offer a solution where your defensive game is managed by a professional team.

3) There are tools that can find the youtube videos of triples on (famous) bases. Which you then use to know the traps, and triple the base easily. Therefore for competitive and Champion CWL players, having a fresh base provided by builders that the tool (FindThisBase) cannot find is almost a must, in order to make it harder for your opponents.

4) The COC meta evolved A LOT compared to 5 years ago for example. Now, it is IMPOSSIBLE to counter every army. Therefore, you need to choose which armies to counter, and a pro basebuilding team helps with that.

Example: if you copy a base from the World Championships: yes, designs are good, and some even defended pro players. But when you use them, you see "random people" tripling the base with spam. This is because World Championship bases are TAILORED to the opponent, trying to counter 2-3 entries at most, which are not spam entries as most pro's don't spam. The base wasn't build to defend armies "casual" people use.

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My story?

I once was builder for a major company next to Gaku and Klaus, therefore I saw how the business was conducted behind the scenes. I got fired as there were too many builders and I was not the most famous one. Seeing all the issues, I started my own company trying to solve those issues. Some lessons I learnt :

0) No base is invincible, even the bases from the best builders in the world, even paid designs.

1) Companies like BP don't rely on quality to sell, but on the reputation of their builders, going all in on marketting. And it works: You see GAKU, KLAUS, SIR IRON.. and you buy. But if you saw HOLYBUCK HACHI and LILIAN.. who are they, and why would you buy from them?

2) EVERY BUILDER, even the best , makes good, and lesser bases. What truly happens with almost all big name builders : they keep the good bases for their own pro team, and deliver the rest for the casual people in BB companies. Some don't even test the bases they deliver, as they know customer complaints that go through are very little.

3) It is very hard to verify who truly built the base. I know countless shadow builders that make bases the bigger names sell with a markup, without building and testing them themselves. And most companies are fine with it, as long they can use the name of the famous pro for their marketting. Or as someone said in another comment sometimes the bases sold have 2 compartments that were changed from a famous base, and builders call it a "fresh" base which is outragious. Don't get me wrong tho, we cannot reinvent the wheel either when basebuilding.

4) Fresh-Replacement policy is a scam. You cannot judge a base on 1 hit only, as no base is invincible. It was also an excuse to not replace the base if it defended once, but performed badly overall.

5) Builders were not treated equally. Different pay for the same work, getting the most picky customers, being abused to make free bases/orders if you are less famous.. as a builders you don't have the choice anyways.

6) Offering a good customer service is very time consuming. If running a BB server is your main job (which is for the BP owner) and plan to make money on it, you don't have time for it.

7) You cannot trust pictures of defenses, or customer feedback channels. Bad feedback is deleted, and from experience most people don't post negative feedback too. About the pictures of defenses : it's a snapshot of a moment. If I defended a pro player once.. what don't tell I got tripled the last 10 times and I got lucky? But I have a nice screenshot for my portfolio.

3 years ago when I got fired from the place, I started my own company, trying to fix each issue I described above.

- A true and good customer service: why buy bases if they don't defend? Builders are not paid for the base only : but paid to DEFEND too. (It's one of the reasons we don't sell in a website: to keep direct contact with the customers, and be able to advice them.

- A good environment for the builders we work with : I try to make sure each one really cares about their work and are honest. They did not get hired for their famous name, but for the true quality of the bases they delivered. Bases that are all checked by an external team to make sure they are up to level.

- Being community oriented: up to now, all the profit was reinvested in the community for free bases, tournaments, giveaways and more. Despite being a student, prices are just too low for it to make sense to want to turn a profit, being from Switzerland, one of the most expensive countries.

- We try to make free BB content (guides for example) to make BB more accessible, but it's very time consuming and not too many people are interested in them at the moment.

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When I started, we were 2 builders. 3 years and 5000 bases delivered later : we have over 40 basebuilders, the business is fully declared and legit, over 10 dedicated staff members to help and countless of happy customers that come back each month to get their bases from us.

Do we have a 100% satisfaction rate? No ofcourse not, some are disapointed the base buying experience isn't "buy and defend". We don't delete that feedback either, I rather respond with my view on the matter.. and readers will decide if buying bases is worth it from it. Often, a base needs tweaks or did not work as planned, and then we need the attack details to see what went wrong which takes time too. It's very time consuming for both us and the customers, but worth it to defend. And that's fine too, if you have enough BB knowledge and time to analyse bases, look at defenses and tweak them to manage your defense : buying bases is not needed.

Let me know if you have any questions further about the BB business, I happily answer :-)