Sovereign world developer intentions

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@Marrash

Presumably then you’ve missed the bit on the official website where it talks about setting colours of sunsets or heights of mountains (which aren’t part of the current plan) and permission systems (which are part of the current plan)? And then missed it every time someone brought it up in a thread?

I haven’t.
I haven’t missed people referring it either.
It’s just the website presents the game in series of very general and catchy glimpses. They are not there to give detailed idea of how game-play looks like or how particular features are implemented. “Travel to different worlds”, “collaborate in citizen-driven economy” etc. are hardly phrases promising anything in detail. And all sections there are written this way - in an attractive advertising style. They are hardly lies or set-in-stone promises.

The part about private worlds is a vague statement about private worlds in general (and they are called “personal” there, without going into actual types of them). Yes, this part could be re-written to be 0% misleading, but is it really misleading as much, especially if combined with the more important details given long time ago (as long ago as 2015) across many posts? Starting here:

@james

The Private Oort Online Worlds will come in 2 flavours:

1. Worlds complying with the rules of the MMO : This means that the world was created respecting the standard distribution of resources throughout the world. They don’t break the economy of the game. They can be connected by portals to the main MMO. Think of them as a beacon that protects the entire world exclusively for you.
2. Worlds beyond the rules of the MMO : This means that the world can be anything, allowing mountains made of diamond, and trees made of glass, etc. These worlds would break the economy of the game, and so can’t be connected to the main MMO.