Some thoughts on creative world portals:
For starters, let me point out that people getting tons of free portals is probably good for my footfall overall, so I’m mostly arguing against my fiscal interest here.
If people on creative worlds get unlimited free portals, obviously all hubs would be hugely pressured move to creative, no need to cover this scenario. James gets it.
What if creative worlds came with 1-3 free portals? I think then the argument would come up “shouldn’t sovereign get the same treatment”, which is reasonable. However, if people who buy planets are getting free portals, isn’t that a version of p2w, albeit minor?
The argument has been made that people playing creative are doing so because they don’t want to farm. That’s certainly reasonable. However, if they want their creative planets to be part of the survival universe, it’s not unreasonable to expect them to play by part of the rules of the survival universe by paying oort.
I definitely think creative planets should get free unlimited portals within their own planet and to other creative planets. I think a good “sweetener” would be to reduce oort costs in the survival universe when creative pops, to make it less unequal.
TLDR: So here’s my suggestion that I’m not fully happy with. Everybody in boundless gets two free 1x2 portals regardless of whether they have a sovereign planet (creative or survival) or not. Also, everybody gets to designate two home bases for free warping, regardless of whether they have a sovereign planet or not. This way people with sovereigns get the access they need without a p2w scenario arising, and also people who don’t purchase sovereigns get a cool reward and feel less left out.
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Should creative world owners have to pay with survival oort for portals to the survival worlds?
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Should creative worlds get free portals to creative worlds?
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Should everybody get equal treatment? That is, if creative worlds get a free portal, everyone should get a free portal. If everyone doesn’t get a free portal, creatives/sovereigns shouldn’t get special treatment.
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Should everyone be allowed to designate two home beacons, regardless of whether they buy a world or not? One of the two would have to be on a public world.
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Oort UBI: everyone gets a stack of oort shards once per week as a login reward, one per account (nothing we can do about multiboxing I guess, so probably a bad idea)
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