In any conversation I had with James, he has stated that any color gleam is possible. So I will choose to stick to what I have been told until a developer says otherwise.
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As far as exclusivity being fun. Maybe for you but I can state for sure I find it frustrating not fun. And quite frankly, I cannot think of any good reason for it to exist in this game. If building was not a key part of this game then maybe I could agree, but as it is, then I will never agree that color exclusivity is “fun” or necessary.
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To me, item exclusivity makes sense. Make some fancy thrones and chests that are valuable - maybe rare hunt drops as ingredients.
Color exclusivity doesn’t make sense to me in a building game. But others feel differently.
Edit: if there were 65535 colors, I’d say exclusivity would be ok - since you’d be able to get basically the color you want. With only 255 colors, if you don’t get the color you want, there’s generally no substitute possible.
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I have heard people who have said they’d quit if they got rid of color rarity. I’d be close to that myself. Color rarity IS wanted by people in this game. And it’s, again, been confirmed by devs that color rarity is what they intend for the game. Building is a large portion of this game but it’s NOT the only thing. And getting rid of color rarity gets rid of so much of the excitement of new colors popping up on exos.
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Is wanted by SOME people in the game. Lets be specific. . since a number of players have stated in this very thread that they do not want it it is not everyone nor can you or I make a case that a majority want it any more than I can say a majority does not want it. All the time players seem to want to speak for everyone in order to intimidate or shutdown opposing views and maybe they should just stick to expressing their own opinion and not speak for others.
No its not, but if it is not that important then why is it that most of the items in game are used to either make or are in fact building items? Why is it that most of the time in the developer videos that promote the game are they showcasing builds? Color rarity is not necessary for economy to function. There are plenty of items that can be crafted and even if every color existed, there are players that world buy versus getting the item themselves. There are plenty of ways to provide rare resources like the lucents that only appear on exos without also limiting colors.
I will agree that they have said this. Does not mean I cannot disagree with this. It will be interesting as colors appear in the universe due to the rental planets, what will actually happen over time. If enough colors appear, then I guess the games economy and the players will just have to adapt.
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Sometimes people just need to say their piece and want to be heard.
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A lot of us are waiting for black gleam so we can make black glass/panes. The day we get black gleam will go down in Boundless history
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Many players have an issue with the time it takes to craft items. I have games where it takes days to create items, so it doesn’t bother me as much as it does others, but I do understand. It would be nice if there was a method available to speed up the crafting process. Something to mitigate the grind a bit for players that don’t like it or don’t have time to play as much as others… like a Super-Epic Crafting Skill with -50% crafting times or Super-Duper Machine Spark with +75% speed.
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Yup, lol
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Different games scratch different itches, for sure. I play a lot of other games
too - it just depends on what I feel like doing at the time. It’s good to have other games/hobbies/etc for when you start getting burnt out on your favorites. -
I hear you. I hope your circumstances improve so that you can receive the therapy that you want/need. There are a lot of groups, in most areas that provide low or no cost services - perhaps they would be able to help you? Insurance & medical costs are just plain stupid right now. I know a lot of people that avoid the care they need, due to the exorbitant costs. As a last resort, perhaps there is an online support community that could help you a little… like a FB group, reddit, etc where a lot of the members share advice, can relate to each other, etc?
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People will be people lol. Some people will relate, some will agree, some will disagree, some will disagree but understand, some will be dismissive…when you post on a public forum, you get all kinds of responses.
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Maybe they will provide a new roadmap soon or, perhaps they’ve decided roadmaps aren’t their thing? I dunno.
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There are several players that don’t participate in the economy. I think that’s up to each player to decide. You can def play the game without it, if you so desire.
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Are your cores getting hot? Do you have an intergrated GPU or a card? Is it getting hot? Do you have virus protection running? Automatic updates? Small/old PSU? Have you cleaned the dust out recently?
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For sure, some people like these and some don’t.
Feedback is feedback. People will read/listen, especially when posters don’t go all caps/cursing/etc
Maybe check back after the next update or two. There may be something that inspires you & your roommate to build & have fun. 
Life is short. You do you.
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If this is the case I stand corrected. But I am pretty sure black being available would undermine the whole gleambo event. Even if it will be available in the sovereign wotlds I would be surprised if it showed up at all anytime soon.
Like I said if I am wrong then I will stand corrected. I have no problem admitting when I am wrong.
I always love your responses!
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I actually do not understand why black appearing would undermine the entire event. There are 255 colors of gleam. How would black being added to the only 30 out of 255 possible gleam colors in the public non-exo universe destroy the event? Even if another 50 gleam colors appeared on rental planets. There would still be more than 50% of the colors that would only be available on an exo or through gleambow.
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Black being more prevalent in gleambow was a bug that was patched in gleambow 3.
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Me saying color rarity is wanted by people in this game was not meant as a generalization for everyone. Just saying that I personally have talked to some who would literally quit the game without it. I understand that’s anecdotal evidence and I understand there’s some who are vocal about wanting all colors available. We don’t know which is the majority. All I’m saying is there are plenty of people on both sides.
Maybe the pro color rarity people are in fact a minority. I don’t know. Maybe you guys fighting to get your black gleam are the minority. I don’t know. But regardless there are opposite opinions. The difference is one set of opinions is confirmed as the way the devs want the game to be. So why go through the work of changing it to appease the other side? It’ll just send OTHER people away from the game. There no pleasing everyone in this situation and if you don’t like color rarity then I don’t know what to tell you. Because I don’t see it leaving anytime soon and that makes some of us very happy people.
All of what I’m saying is anecdotal and just saying my piece again because, anytime this comes up I need to make sure the devs know there’s a vocal crowd FOR color rarity despite people like you who seem to hate it.
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I think it’s gonna be neck and neck
I love that people always bring up the people who “will quit” if color rarity is no longer a thing. But they never seem to think about how many people already have quit because of it.
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I like the idea of making it a poll and hope everyone using the forums would answer. The only issue is with over 3000 MAU in this game it’s hard to gauge what people actually want since there’s a lot of people playing the game who don’t participate in the forums. You could have 30 people vote for keeping color rarity, and find out that in game there’s another 2970 people who think color rarity is bad. Or vice versa. It’s a small subset of the players in the game so it’s not a representative statistic for the whole population.
Not saying you shouldnt have made a poll. Just saying why the results should always be taken with a grain of salt.
Maybe the devs could have a pop-up poll in game. Literally explain color rarity. How it currently works. What they’ve intended. And have an option to choose if the player likes color rarity as presented or if they think it should change.
Not sure if people are against popup survey’s in game but that would be interesting if they did that to get a more representative opinion of all players in game
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Honestly I think the main reason people want black gleam is to make clear glass.
Maybe the devs could make white glass much more transparent if nothing else.
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Fair enough and I know of players that are not playing or renting a planet until more colors show, so there are obviously players that feel strongly on both sides of the discussion.
The problem with this argument is the developer statements on creative planets being separate and now they are going to be part of the public universe. So they can change their mind. If they have a good enough reason to do it then they can change how something is implemented or how a mechanic is working in game. If the game had more players and more planets (hopefully this will happen), then it is very possible a lot of the rare colors would already exist. Is the color rarity really part of the design or is it more a result of what has happened with player count not growing as fast as had been hoped? That might be an interesting question to get a clear answer on.
If they already quit because of it then this game wasn’t for them. Sorry but if you don’t like the game mechanics as is, a game mechanic that’s been there from the beginning and a game mechanic that the devs confirmed as their direction for the game, then the game simply wasn’t for them.
This game already gives WAY more color options than a typical creative game. We could go back to Minecraft where there’s one color for each block.
It sucks that it drew people away from the game but that’s the way this game is and confirmed to be. It’s not for everyone.
Just like I’m sure taking away color rarity, but then adding rare hunt drops would also make people mad while making others happy. There’s ALWAYS gonna be people against exclusive items. But unfortunately this IS IN FACT an MMO and exclusivity is important to an MMO in my opinion and many other people. Some people don’t like exclusive items and will always complain that they can’t have something that other people can. And it’s frustrating because exclusive items are a cornerstone of an MMO in my opinion. Without exclusivity an MMO is just boring. We want things to set us apart from others. Give us exclusive hunt drops and trophies! I’d be all for that. But then there’s gonna be 10 more people saying “well I don’t like hunting, why shouldn’t I be able to get this special item???” People just want access to everything and that’s not how MMOs work.
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Now this is something I could get behind. White glass is not transparent enough at all.
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Even if there were no rarity, I think current exo shops could switch over to carrying all 255 colors of various items. If anything it’d be good for the economy. And you’d still have to plan ahead to get your colors and work with other people
This too. I know this is the case. If the population of this game grew as expected the algorithm would have spit out a lot of the “rare” colors by now. And hopefully sovereign world’s will fix that and help to appease the people against color rarity by giving us more of the colors people want.