I don’t think this is true.
In theory the creative mod atm is local host. you can create your own universe. We just need a way to lets someone connect to your universe(localhost) and you could be able to host your own universe.
@Dhusk Long term game funding - #33 by james
the info was already posted by james in another thread.
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Updated OP with details of Testing 238.2. Main changes are:
- exposing a wider range of features into the Lua Scripting interface and
- a range of Messaging QoL improvements.
The Lua Scripting prototype will likely migrate to Live in the current state.
A few more improvements will come to the Messaging system next week before the update migrates to Live.
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Oooh interesting, I wonder if this will make the universal channels more popular. I would love to be able to be ‘constantly’ on the universal channels talking to people and answering questions. It would go a long way to making the world(s) feel more connected for sure 
+1
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Update to messaging, nice!
One question tho, when this goes Live how will creative mode planets be handled? They will stay locally on the player’s pc? Or have there been changes as well that I’ve overlooked?
Can you invite others? And how will PS4 players create their own creative planets? Or will this all be moved to remote servers instead? Or perhaps a choice of either on pc, and only remote on PS4?
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If all indies are like this, I think I now understand better why we don’t have any idea when any of this will release 
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Thank you so much! I always felt like because the “trade channel” didn’t show up in “all” it was basically useless to post anything there because pretty much no one saw it.
as a general observation, and not a dig or anything to anyone. I noticed that this news/release actually was able to auto close before it ever made it to the live game. I’ve not seen that before (could have just missed it), and I wonder why people didn’t talk more about creative mode here longer.
If I had to guess its because its not a release with anything really controversial to keep it up near the top of the page and doesn’t directly change balance in the live universe. If it doesn’t have a post for a day or two its pretty much gone on our forums.
Its just for such a vocally requested feature it seemed to die quickly, not even much in the forms of updates from people testing it and “showing off” what they can do with it. 
The holidays were probably a factor j in n the lack of discussion and testing.
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The way I see it is this test is really just for the folks that want to play with scripting. Since only PC players can test it, we already know what its like to be able to just build in creative mode since we have had the test server. Its not going to draw in the individuals who only really test to get a head start on what the new mechanics or blocks are/need.
So its probably only a very small amount of our current players who are interested in testing it compared to spending time in the game playing.
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Possibly yeah. I’m an outsider on most of this update (well until the chat updates, pretty excited about those). So its not really the update itself that interested me, but rather what others would do with it and if it lived up to their expectations.
When this migrates to Live it will remain a prototype accessible via the Debugging UI (DUI). Interest in the prototype and scripting will determined how it progresses further.
Future steps would include: moving the control into the main UI, allowing easy connection to friend’s universes, local or remote hosting, etc.
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The feature set was somewhat incomplete tbh, so not much could be done with it.
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Obviously, development based on user interest is best for you guys. I’m sure you’ve already got plans to bear this in mind, but if not:
Please do keep in mind that the people who stick with Boundless and continue to play it are people who are (largely) happy with it the way it is. This update feels really focused on players who aren’t. I’d include myself in this, because the update itself does sound very promising. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know I’m too busy to invest the time in a cool update that may or may not go anywhere for a game I know I don’t enjoy enough on it’s other merits.
Without a little more certainty, or an advertising push targeting modders to bring fresh new people with different attitudes into the game, you may find that your interest levels in this feature are driven by the same self-selecting group who push strongly for the game to be as it is now, with the (seemingly) low player retention that that entails. The people who actually want this feature may well even never hear about it.
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I’m wondering how all of this ties-in with Rental Worlds.
We all know that people are interested and demanding Rental Worlds.
I know A LOT of people who will (depending on how it works) want to get their own (me included), and many who will come back to the game for that (my friends who quit included)
However, if the Rental Worlds are first dependant on how many people work with this prototype… that might be an issue. This prototype currently looks like it will satisfy only a handful of people. 
Personally, I’m definitely not interested in playing some creative mode in local, even if there’s something bigger which comes from it later.
I’d be still playing Skyrim or Fallout 4 if that was what I was into (I know, not a 1:1 comparison - it’s just that all the real fun of these two games comes from what you do with mods, even though at the end of the day, it’s offline).
If this has nothing to do with Rental Worlds (as I hope and suspect), then I’m just going to ignore it and hope some people can have a kick out of it.
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I think there may be a little of which comes first going on. While I do have some interest in a creative mode, I do not want to spend a great deal of time building something that is likely to go away due to the next iteration of the creative mode. If I start a project that might take me 4-6 months to finish, is it better to wait until the creative mode is more established before doing that? I also am waiting for the opportunity to work with other players in creative mode. I am not sure if that is possible yet or not.
I have no experience with LUA scripting so I am probably not a good player to test that functionality.
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