Single person Dojo?

[LyaranTirel]

Hello there! Old noob here.

Is it worth making a dojo/clan just for yourself? What are the biggest challenges of why do/not do it?

[**DeiRowtag]

the only challenge is a solo clan is ressources, you will be the only one providing all the ressrouces for everything

[Awesomer]

there is alot available to you if you join a max lvl clan already with full research. but if that doesnt matter, go nuts tho u will have a pretty empty area for a while

[Advice Dog]

you can do it, i do it. there are some things that haven't been unlocked yet because they take 3500 oxide or something. obviously, despite playing the game for over 800 steam hours (and plenty off steam), I never acquried that much so these items will remain 'locked' forever. Defintly not farming oxide, that sucks, even with resource booster

I guess the best thing about it is, its yours. everything in it, you did. It'll still be there when you come back to the game in 10 years too, assuming the game hasn't gone offline. Its like a walk down memory lane, I guess, from when you were way younger and struggling to get forma and resources just to build a forma. Hm.

why not to do it: you need forma for every room, even for 'energy rooms' to build power up. some neat decorations/things require forma, like trading post, ascension thing. You need to have much resources, it is a real resource dump. Also take it from me, a bit lonely. If one day I want to join a cool clan, I have to abandon my dojo but I can't because it'll cease to exist. I spent how long on it?? no refunds on ALL my forma and resources? ... A price too high.

mm building until you have a railjack station might be hard I guess.

[Good Night Owl]

Well, it takes a tremendous amount of resources to build it up. Resources that are meant to be provided by a team of people. Sure you can do it yourself, but you're gonna be progressing in this game slower than everyone else.

[[88th] ColPresumptuous]

I basically solo built my Ghost Dojo, all the forma used and resources were 99% all from me, and its got all facilities plus research done (even that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hema research, god that was a grind to hell and back solo) and even some simply decorative rooms. None of the guys I started it with are around any more, was lucky the guy that initiated it at the very start transferred full control of it over to me after the first couple of months.

Took a number of years but its been fully 'completed' and functional for years now, even got a few solo'd gold and platinum trophies from events... so yes, its completely doable solo.

Just takes time and commitment, not to mention being a Ghost Clan means the resource numbers you need are the lowest, some are still a grind but their not the insane values of larger clans... just dont bother with the Hema research, it nearly drove me literally insane from the grind, but it STILL took a good year on and off to do it lol.

[GoldenGG]

I have a solo dojo and it's easy to do (just time and resources), and the benefit is having your own clan.

[Squirrely Wrath]

its a lot of grinding but its worth it in the end

[StormX]

It is not worth it to start a solo Dojo. There are plenty of clans with free slots that already have everything unlocked for you to grab. The game switched years ago from beeing "Clan oriented" to "play as you like".
If you start a solo clan you will have to invest a lot of hours into Warframe. Farming material and grinding the Forma you need for rooms will take time. In the end you will have a full research clan that you only enter to trade with other players.

If you plan to play for atleast a year consider the "solo challenge" but if you just want to look into warframe, search for clan to play in.

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

To start a new dojo after starting a new or having a low level account? Hell no. After getting a bunch of the stuff from an existing clan and leaving once experienced/well equipped enough? Sure, I think it's a great capstone to WF mastery.

I have a fully researched solo clan, complete Hema and even the paint pigments, it's mostly fine. Especially now that the clan events are easy enough to accomplish solo for gold statues, compared to back then when they weren't adjusted to how many people were in clans.

The main benefit is that you get to build the clan however you like with the caveat that it's a pain in the ass resources together to build the more hardcore stuff you see in spotlight dojos. So unless your cool with either a basic to intermediately furnished but fully functional base or grinding a ton for supplies to make a mech or cyberpunk alley, then it's more of a pita than anything.

If you do end up making your own base, for the love of god, plan your base's layout. There are dependencies and limits at the beginning the can really screw up your overall vision. While there's no actual resources lost, there's still time involved.

[Ashrock]

it's fun, delightful, I got carried away and made at least 1 of every special room and the labs. you do it really just for the hanger and the labs, but then you get carried away and 5 floors later and a sub basement of about 50 to 100 reactors...can't remember anymore..and you have a big ole base. Just don't make the mistake of trying to paint 20 rooms at once, caused all sorts of grief for customer support. To explain...the rooms didn't paint and I couldn't do anything with the paint stations. Had to make a list and ID every room, and 4 attempts later finally got them all.

[Terribad]

It's a fun project (except Hema). It can be very demanding in terms of resources, especially forma. The main benefit and disadvantage is that you get to do everything the way you want - nobody else helps.

Here's everything my clan cost me. I'm fully researched except for Hema, which I'm about 30% done with. I've decorated a little bit. The plat was because I got impatient during a rebuild, you don't have to spend any.

https://ibb.co/album/99P9v1

[Ave]

When I first started I joined a large clan for the dragon keys while I saved up the 10 forma I needed to start a solo clan. It took about a week to get all the reactors/rooms established and then a lot of resources over time to get everything. At this point as a solo player I have fully maxed the clan (including the hema and all the dojo colours).

If you are happy to do it as a long term project (12-24 months) its not too bad (except for the hema).

[XDDCC]

you can, just insane amount of grinds

[peon]

Like others have said, it may be easier to join another clan and get the blueprints and things you need, including a frame(yareli?) before attemping to do it on your own.

It does take alot of resouces, but for a single ghost clan, its manageable, I have a founders account and played alot at the beginning. I had alot of resources already. Ran out of some things like plastids at the end though.

Once you have mastered everything a fully upgraded clan can offer than yeah I would suggest making your own clan.

I however, dont suggest sharing it with anyone else and that may sound selfish but....

I 100% fully funded everything lol, Im still on the color grind with only about half the colors unlocked, ive been working at this for over a year and a half. Just doing it when I can, not trying to grind with boosters.

Anyway, after youve been afk for 30 days, anyone can ask for ownership of the clan and very often they kick out the member, so youll never see your dojo again if that happens. In that situation, may just not be worth opening the clan up, I myself dont want to kick a bunch of members if say some kinda life event comes up.

[Mooman]

One of the big issues is build time. Things will take 12 hours or so (been awhile, don't remember the exact time).

Because of this it can be easy to build yourself into a corner with no real way to expand later on. In a solo clan you have no option but to pay plat yourself to rush or wait it out.

My suggestion is to build a cross road first and try build at least 3 power rooms early on. That'll give you enough power to build almost everything you'll need.

Getting all the basic labs/rooms built will take days/weeks of wait time. Once you do get the basic building up it can be cathartic to decorate outside of the constant killing, something you likely can't do in an invited clan. Very zen.