Testing 245: Sovereign Worlds!

[scrufola]

@Peyago

Can definitely see the problem with placing a home beacon on a private world that gets locked though.

Same problem as when the real world is down. We should just have the ability to place a new landing zone from sanctum in these cases.

[AeneaGames]

It’s also how the game can determine prestige, it uses a higher prestige number if the block is from a colour not on the world you’re placing it on (ie. it’s not 0 so it’s from another planet)…

But am not 100% sure when the game assigns the actual colour number, it makes sense they have to before (or during) you take it to another planet otherwise it would lose it’s colour and we know that’s not the case (losing colour)…

[boundmore]

@james

You can make a custom palette from the colours already available in the private + public worlds.

Together with this my understanding of the system is this:

1. When the world is created for you, blocks colors are chosen from a random palette available for regular worlds (just the way our regular public worlds were created). Since each palette covers quite a lot of colors, it may result in getting colors that don’t exist in the current universe (for example, you could get the same palette as Boori, but the colors might be different, or they might be the same but applied to different blocks, so let’s say warm red could be the color of sand instead of sedimentary rock). Still, available palettes don’t cover all 255 colors, so some colors will remain exclusive to exo-worlds.
2. You can customize the initial palette, by changing colors of blocks. However your limitation here is, that you cannot pick any colors from the existing palettes, but only colors that already exist in the universe (public regular worlds and already created public sovereign worlds).

This is how I understand it.
I might be wrong!

[Gerentt]

The difference is the fairness to those who aren’t paying for rentals and the preservation of some color rarity. Again I know we disagree on color rarity as a whole but my personal opinion is that color rarity is a good thing so I’d want to preserve it in any way possible. I feel that people choosing exactly the palette they want from the get go is the entire issue. Once they’ve spawned randomly and according to the algorithm then yes absolutely have free reign of the color. Make 10 planets with black gleam it’s totally okay. The issue is CHOOSING black gleam from the start without having that color already available to the public. Once it’s spawned it’s free game but before that I feel people shouldn’t get the choice, specifically to preserve some sense of color rarity even if for a short while.

Just my opinions though I know we have vastly different opinions on color rarity but that’s just how I see things here

[AeneaGames]

Well thankfully the devs have decided to not do the thing you dislike, so all is well!

[james]

@Simoyd

@james can you just reroll random colors on a planet repeatedly until you get the new color you want? Or is the initial set of random colors done just once? and the only thing you can change is to select existing colors on other planets?

The colours are selected as part of the world generation.

@majorvex

So our private world will orbit the planet that we place the Sovereign planet control on?

Nope. That control is for setting permissions when you’re on the world.
Currently the public world your private world orbits will be selected automatically.

@boundmore

do we have to share our plots between public and sovereign worlds?

Currently plots are shared between public and private worlds.

Open to feedback about this.

@Nightstar

@james once a new color is random generated is it available for use/reuse on other worlds, or is it only enabled after someone sets it into a world palette?

As configured once a colour is available on a private or public world then it can be selected by others.

[DKPuncherello]

I think private worlds should still use plots, otherwise people will all move to their giant private world castles

[bucfanpaka]

Late to the party here, but so, so excited!! Can’t wait! Thank you so much devs, you all rock!!

Thank you to all you who are testing too, will try to share as much as possible and very grateful to see what you all are doing as always!! (Won’t be able to test myself since I won’t be back on the PC I play on until Monday, PS4 til then)

[Kal-El]

@boundmore

Still, available palettes don’t cover all 255 colors, so some colors will remain exclusive to exo-worlds.

This is where we need clarification.

[msnraul]

I was able to open my world control once, and while I was hovering meta rock colors it got bugged. Now I can’t open it anymore it’s on loading

[james]

@msnraul

I was able to open my world control once, and while I was hovering meta rock colors it got bugged. Now I can’t open it anymore it’s on loading

If you restart the client?

[msnraul]

I’ll try now

[msnraul]

Restarted but didn’t solve it.

[boundmore]

holy cow!!! I meant “holy wildstock!!!”

my sovereign world (t4 lush), called Arbrae-Dorance:

[msnraul]

removed the world control and after placing it again now it works.

[GrayFrequency]

This is helping with the Menu going in and out

Edit: It did for a minute

[msnraul]

Again in loading, I’ll try to reproduce it, not sure what it may causing it

[Stretchious]

we’re still not able to get into our worlds - showing as “Gamerserver Offline”

[msnraul]

I can get into mine. Just restarted several times and didn’t got that error

[DKPuncherello]

Oh they’re up? Sweet
Was helping a gaggle of noobs settle in