DarkRP Making a Base

Introduction
I've played on many DarkRP servers, and it seems each server has it's own "pro basers or raiders" I use this term very lightly because most of the time they're a joke. On almost every server me and my friend join (we're a two man team) we end up raiding the "pros", and then they usally try to raid us with failure most of the time.
Selecting a Place To Base
The bigger the better is the idea when trying to find a place to base, but there is such a thing as overkill. The closer you're base to spawn the more likely cops are to notice if someone is trying to raid youre base, this gives you added protection. Pick a place with only one entrence, no windows on ground level, but some on a upper level to use as an exit is the best. The entrence to the base needs to be kind of open allowing you room to build.
Building The Front Line
The entrence is where your base is determined good or bad. Make sure to put KOS on the front of your base if the server has textscreens. You want to build a narrow hallway at the enterance to your base making any raiders feel cramped and surrounded. The best props to use here are fences, barricades, and a specific door (Included a picture). When using the material gun on this door, it will make one side clear and the other whatever material you selected, so basicly a one way window. Put a fading door at the end of the hallway, with a keypad near the actual door making it harder for the raiders to shot you, and not their teammate. Make sure to double every prop at the entrences and weld them all together, this will help amazingly with police and explosives.

Recommended Prop

Before changing the material to Rendertarget

After changing the material
The Inside
Make a raised wall a decent distance from the entrence, make it where when standing behind this wall you can jump up on another prop and see/shoot over it. The key to this is to build it in such a way when people are picklocking/hacking into your base you can shoot them, but they cant see/shoot you. Make this area accessible by a fading door, but dont put the keypad next to the fading door so you can still have the upper hand in the fight.



The last Line of Defence
This area will be like a bomb shelter, and also where you hide your valuables. You want to make it seem impossible to get in. I suggest making another hallway like at the entrence to your base With a raised wall and everything. Or you can use the 1x1 tubes under the general props section and make it where you have to crouch jump and crawl through a tube to get in. Put your printers, guns, and drugs in this part of your base.