Which means you get unique resources, which is P2W.
Thus my point.
Control plotting, control colors. Anything more will alienate most of the playerbase.
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They are just jealous they did not settle on our homeworld 
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How would I get unique resources? It wonât alienate anyone.
Yes, if I pay irl $ to rent a planet, I want control over things. Otherwise it will be like any other planet and no reason for me to rent one.
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If you can mine unique colors on unique worlds and no one else can, that means you now have the single most valuable resource in the game and everyone HAS to buy it from you. Thatâs P2W.
This is why Iâm afraid of this going live. Either people like you will be super mad or everyone else will.
You think people are leaving the game now?
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What unique resources? I didnât know Boundless had such a thing. Is there any item that you can only obtain from a single planet and nowhere else?
I suppose you could mean that people could have access to a unique color of a non-unique resource, but in that case, thereâs no guarantee that this color wonât pop up in another player planet with less restrictions, or if thereâs enough demand, on some dev-created public planet.
Anyone expecting to utilize the rental system for a monopoly is in for some disappointment. Heck, the devs could simply make a system for recoloring resources to any color in the palette and circumvent the whole argument even before player-owned planets becomes a thing.
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BL is a Sandbox, there is no âabsoluteâ way to win a Sandbox.
People right now can box in resources and keep them to themselves. Some have the only black glass in the game, some have the only antique timber on the new T6s. Did that break the game? Are they evil P2W players? NO.
If you want timber from my planet, donât get blacklisted from entering it, and come on over. Take all you want.
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If I rented a world it would be so I could essentially design it. For example surface is 98% ice⌠flat and barren and 2% volcanoes⌠but deep underground there are huge biomes full of trees & life⌠think journey to the center of the earth. Or another idea a world where the redwood trees on earth would be TINY and dinosaurlike creatures (if the Devs wanted to add).
Just throwing possibilities âŚ
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This sounds great!
Whatâs more likely is that public mines will be created for the colors a lot of people are waiting for (like white stones/timber for example) as soon as people are given the opportunity to select the color palette of their planets. 
People are always expecting that the community will suddenly turn into greedy hermits at the first opportunity, despite all the gameâs history showing the contrary. There are sooo many public farms for every rare resource / color imaginable that it just seems silly to expect that player-owned planets would suddenly turn everyone into selfish monsters. 
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You are paying for something unique, that no one else has, that can be traded for in game currency and items. Thatâs P2W, no matter how you try to justify it.
If your planet has to match the resources of an existing, public planet, then we can talk.
Paying IRL money for cosmetics I can live with. That has no effect on the game. Paying for ANYTHING unique that effects gameplay is unacceptable.
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Excuse me? Why the need for an insult?
Somehow colors are not defined as a cosmetic thing then? 
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When your game is basically a box of lego, no, itâs not.
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So now you are paying IRL money for footfall.
Thatâs soooooo much better.
Itâs not affecting gameplay tho.
You can still make, say, stone chisels, or a house, with any color of stone. The difference is merely cosmetic. Regardless, monopolies would be impossible, because as soon as someone creates some un-mineable planet with a color that everyone wants, someone else will see a market there and create a publicly mineable planet using that color and rake in the footfall from that planetâs portal hub instead.
If no one else does, I will.
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Thereâs no P2W in Boundless. By your definition, the folks that plotted around the only black glass in the game, the gems, and the antique wood on T6 have taken all the coin and are P2W. It didnât happen, no such thing here. If they didnât make public farms I wouldnât have one piece of either, but I still wouldnât be mad. Iâd just set âgoalsâ for the new planets lol
If you will be angry that you canât just take something that someone else paid for, canât help you there.
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ditto 100%
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How is that any different from running portal hubs, or public mines, or a mall, or any other public service currently in game? You get rewarded with footfall for providing a service, and the coin doesnât even come out of the pockets of the people using that service.
In this particular case youâre also helping to pay for the continued maintenance and development of the game, so that you can provide a public service, and be rewarded with footfall, so itâs win-win-win.
Semantics much?
How about âPay to Exploitâ or âPay to Get Advantageâ or âPay to Get Unique Sellable Itemsâ.
P2W doesnât just mean âwinâ in the classic sense.
If you can pay IRL money that leads to a coin stream, itâs wrong.
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Honestly the idea of rentable planets is extremely enticing for me.
Been thinking about packing up every one of my plots on various planets and just keeping a storehouse for all of my stuff until this is a reality.
Will have one day one they are available for sure
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