Have you put a warp augment in an atlas before and looked at how much of each planet is actually plotted? If you want to expand, say for a large farm, odds are you are going to get really close to someone else and have territorial disputes.
I want a private planet connected to the main universe so my friends and family can build freely without worrying about trolls or territorial issues.
Good point. I noticed that while exploring these days you are almost never out of sight from at least 1 or 2 builds if not cities on most planets. The number of plots will always only ever go up for the current playerbase, so planets get “crowded” even with only 2 people online at any given time.
I have a feeling it would cost hundreds of dollars a month.
I believe there is some correlation between the number of players that can exist on the planet and it’s server cost. So a planet that can handle 80 players at a time might cost hundreds a month. One that can handle only 10 at a time would be less. How much less, I do not know.
Edit: I do not have any idea how much the current servers cost the developers. I was just using hundreds as a starting point. I believe it is less than that.
Tbh I don’t know why we wouldn’t be able to host our own worlds if we have a machine capable of doing so.
Typically in games when you rent a server instead of hosting your own, they charge by the player count like you stated but it’s generally say 25$/mo for like 30 people and scales up and down. Tbh I’m not sure why Boundless servers would cost hundreds of dollars even if you did have 80 people limits. That doesn’t make a lot of sense unless Boundless does something so vastly different than other games.
I should clarify, this is assuming you run a server that is not connected to the main universe.
it may cost 70 maybe 80 for a server a month for 80 people idk how demanding the game servers are but i run a minecraft server that holds 105 players for $60
I would like to have my own events. Such as have a Gleambow event for a week. Or have only daylight for a week (think Alaska Summer). Any type of event I wanted.
Wonderful.
I am going to preface this with, everything that I state is only referring to servers that are connected to the main universe. I have no objections to anything people want to do in an isolated Environment.
I don’t really agree with preventing other people from mining on your server. If you pick to create a server with a special block color not found anywhere else, then I feel that should be fair game for anyone to try and mine and profit from, not just select players who are given the right to do so.
You did not mention this next bit, but I am going to bring it up because I feel extremely strongly about it. I really do not agree with being able to block someones access to your server to be able to walk around and look around. If you need this kind of power, I feel you need to make a server that is not connected to the main universe.
I do not like the idea of banning players in this manor, I feel it opens up many ways to abuse power over another player, and is a wonderful drama starter. This is not a PvP game, therefore other players should never have any kind of power that can force someone to lose their stuff, if it is in their own plots that they placed.
Personally, the way I see it, is if you pick to allow someone to plot on your private server, then you accepted the risk of that player making a home on your server, Do not let people plot on your server who you do not trust.
This feels odd, i think it might create some odd situations if it can even be done. I think the better solution to this, is allowing the creator to be able to fly around the server and preview it, to make sure it looks the way he and/or she envisioned it to be, before it is put live and hosted.
If I was to rent a planet I’d want it to be customizable to the point we’re I could makes 3 Meteors drop per region hit. Would use the world to run hunts and allow others to run them as well. As it stands I feel on regular world’s you should get bonus Meteors as more regions are hit consecutively. Such as a type of mechanic being meteor showers. Last night we hunted shedu and actually had around 6-7 Meteors fall during the final platform. It was amazing. That is how it should be. A GRAND FINALE!
A guild meteor buff option? Max give 30-50% more meteor drops? So hunt guilds can use more than the grapple and run buff
I don’t think this would be customizable. Could be wrong, who knows.
I know this isn’t what you meant, but how cool would a super Mario Galaxy style world be?
I’d also love to see worlds with custom gravity.
The more the game develops the less I agree with this sentiment, especially since the introduction of tinting and exoplanets making more different colours available for those interested. I don’t know enough about you to be sure about your motives, but whenever I hear it it usually comes across as “I would not be willing to pay for a premium service, so I don’t want people who are to be able to get something that I can’t easily get too”.
Also, if you essentially get no control over your planet beyond it’s original setup, why would you pay for one? It would be far safer for everyone to simply find space on an existing planet that is guaranteed to be permanent and will never just disappear when someone stops paying for it, because that’s exactly what will happen eventually if there’s no benefit to being the person who pays for it.
Do you simply not want private planets connected to the main universe, or the much needed revenue that they could bring to the game?
One could hope. Hunt world would probably be only reason for me to rent a world. Unless they just change it to happen now on regular hunt$!
Yeah I’m not sure about this one myself… but the reason to have the ban option is so you can address jerks yourself instead of wasting dev time. Right now if someone is being a jerk you open a ticket, wait 3 weeks and then maybe get no results at all if they aren’t found to be in the wrong.
I have yet to encounter a jerk, but it makes me sad when I see a post saying "I’ve had it with JerkyMcJerkFace prestige bombing my city. I quit! "
My motives? Typically to debate a topic and expose what I find to be flaws and problems, Sometimes it is because I feel strongly about something and don’t want to see it happen. Sometimes it for other reasons.
Here is some proof that I am not that type of player.
I bought about 100 weeks of Gleam club in one sitting some time ago, that is what is left of it at this time.
I am one of those insane players who some people might refer to the 1%, For me it is not about rather or not it is easy. I come from hard games.
For me, it is about having a level playing field for other players, who may not be nearly as insane as I am.
And the fact that some people might see the situation as being able to buy block colors and sell them as being a P2W function, Yes you still have to put in a little time to collect, mine, and process them, but it is far less time then people who did not pay for the right to have sole access to that color and import it on to the main universe. Rare colors of Gleam for example I am sure might go for a decent amount, and might rake in the coin.
So that is why, I feel that if you connect it to the main universe, it should come with out the ability to turn it in to mass profit. and that can be done by allowing everybody to also mine on the world.
I am not against control,
As long as that control doesn’t mean you are able to abuse other players, for example, being able to ban them off the world and/or cause loss of assets, despite that players last known best efforts at the time to protect the assets.
and that control doesn’t turn into a rampant P2W function that muddys the name of the game.
Personally I wouldn’t pay for a planet if I couldn’t whitelist or block jerks I like the idea of banning mining access and stuff it would work well as long as no colors can exist for a block that isn’t already available in the public servers. If its FFA and im paying for it I would feel abused by the jerks coming by with little to no control vs them. Why pay for that if I can get that for free in the already public worlds 
Edit: Additional thoughts
I was under the impression a rented planet connected to the public universe would be limited to available existing colors and if you wanted more color options etc. You could rent a private one.
Bottom line, jerks can’t be allowed to run rampant on private servers. I don’t know what the ultimate solution will be for that. But they can’t just be allowed to run server owners off while still following the “rules”. For instance, clearing and building a base where resources spawn.
Jerks could, however, own private servers. The hardest pill for some to swallow is probably going to be just not playing on a server owned by a jerk.
Never mind private servers, they shouldn’t be allowed to run rampant anywhere.
For them to hire a full time player behavior specialist or GM, whos role is nothing but resolving complaints lodged against other players, and for them to add in a ticket system so reports are tracked and the people putting in the ticket can see responses to the ticket, rather then the system we have now which causes many boundless players to think their reports are going into the void.
They can and will, and in my opinion, a few jerks creating problems for newer players on private servers is more damaging to the company’s bottom line then people not wanting to rent servers because they don’t have the power to abuse against other players.
It could cause, bad reviews, misinformation that GMs are abusing power when it was just a player that has a power he shouldn’t have. Player retention might go down.
Not to mention the in game effects and emotional effects it can have on the abused player, I am just talking about the bottom line for now.
Even if the player abusing world powers against other players is banned after awhile, the damage may already be done to the point it is too late if reviews are being posted that the GMs of boundless are banning people off of select worlds for no reason because of misunderstanding turning into misinformation.
People love drama, and in my experience, bad reviews can carry alot more weight then good ones. It doesn’t take much to plant infectious seeds into peoples minds, especially if its based on misinformation.
Sadly, this is just part of human behavior. It happens on MC servers, Roblox servers, Trove club worlds, etc.
People experience this on the current public worlds and I think that’s why some want their own rental planet.
