The only reason I would consider one is if it would have free portals in some kind. As long as it still costs Oort it doesn’t solve my biggest and only gripe with Boundless.
I’m not really digging the idea of rental worlds but at the same time, I really want anything new so I’ll be getting one or two.
Doubt that will happen because that could actually make everyone leave the main universe and just stay forever in private planets
I don’t want one (at least not just yet) but I am all for them I think… more options, more creativity, more to explore
I’m not so worried about a lower population on the perm planets, it seems the player base is steadily increasing to me (I don’t have evidence, it just feels that way since I started)
Plus, I feel like it’s a kind of end game feature for me… eventually having enough resources and plots saved up to build something enormous on my own planet would be a great thing to aim towards
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Why is oort your gripe? Very curious on your thoughts. PM me if it’s too off topic for this thread
For me, I don’t want to have to gobble up an eighth of a planet so I don’t see pixel art and floating boxes from my build. I’m fine with people building it, its their plots and their creative side expressing itself. It just kind of ruins the immersion for me since I spend the majority of my play time running around my builds.
My daughter also wants to play, and I think it would be best not to have her playing on the same servers as the community. My son is old enough not to do anything crazy, but a 5 year old will pretty much do whatever she wants. I really don’t want to let her lose to dig out areas around people’s builds to “Make them prettier.”
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I want to wait before buying the ownership of a planet.
Mainly because everything depends on whether this development strategy works well for the development company or does not work for them.
I suppose that the time that the planets will be stored in the servers will depend on the time that the development company is profitable and continues to exist. It seems risky to me to bring the sovereign planets without first bringing content to the game that gives life to the planets, for example NPC or new mobs. So I am waiting to see how this will affect the game, to date we have only speculation.
Since the planets feel empty and dead enough because of the low variety of mobs, the buildings feel empty and useless for not having inhabitants, furniture or even utility. More planets that don’t add content, just colors, but don’t allow you to do different things like enable PVP, I don’t know if it will be attractive enough to compensate for separating players into more planets.
There’s also the issue that the available colors will get bigger over time, so waiting is the best option for me.
To the question of why I would pay to have a planet that I own, it would be because of its ability to block the planet without the beacon and fuel timer running. This allows me to stop paying the Premium and change that investment to the planet. It is much better, because if I stop paying the GC the beacon expires and its stop playing the fuel of the portals is consumed, but with the planets, if I stop paying and playing they will be stored for at least months, I suppose, without spending fuel.
I usually stop playing for a while habitually while I wait for the updates that I consider essential to enjoy the mmo experience: combat update, titans and more mobs, armor, NPC, dungeons …
Although all this will also depend on the price, of course.
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Rental planets are the best for making a Mall. They remove all issues of creating one by being able to remove any plot as you see fit as the owner. Not to mention you got a whole planet to build on and one day you could build an entire planet as you see fit. It is great.
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I very much covet the idea of a rental world, but with no idea of cost, I don’t know whether to start dreaming of it or not 
Is it something one person can do or is it a group activity? Must I sell a kidney? I’d sell a kidney…
For me it depends on what is possible with the world, can I make a full dessert dune world or a full ocan waterworld?
If yes then I’m in, if it’s just normal world thing then rather not
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Hmmm maybe I could convince you to build a giant skull on one of my planets and make it seem like you live there 
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I was really keen for rental planets. Visiting all the crazy diverse planets the player base would design with WorldBuilder would be amazing. I had my own ideas and was looking forward to designing my own planet.
But it looks like, for now at least, that we will get a random planet, not dissimilar from the planets around it.
Also, if I got this right, rental planets are not discoverable. No one will see them unless you first become friends, and are then given permission. That seems a little sad to me, but I get it considering they are “private” planets.
Anyway, not what I was hoping for, but likely something that appeals to others.
Pretty sure there are global options for visibility. I was able to visit other players planets on test that I had never met before.
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You have a world control that you can set to “accessible” - which means everyone can see it & visit it. James said they will rotate around similar tier planets like Exos do (but without the sparkly trail).
Maybe not? 
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Thanks @Soju-VB and @majorvex - that’s good news.
I’m on PS4 so haven’t had the chance to test myself and I appreciate the feedback.
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I like the idea of rental planets, potentially it introduces more block colours and sources for resources for the ones I’m allowed to visit. Also just generally expanding the universe is exciting to me.
I’m on currently the fence if I’m going to get one for myself. Primary concerns will be price point and what I get for that price point. Secondary concerns are the plotting allowance for the planet. I’m not interested in it if I have to use my regular world plots. I want to keep and use all the plots I have in the regular universe and have separate plot allowance that is locked with the rental planet. I prefer to have no plotting limitations, but would accept a very large plot allowance (say 10k range) that would give me the ability to lock down the area where I want to build and expand. The rest of the planet id leave for a free for all for others.
Also colour scheme is important, but I think I’m comfortable with what I’ve read on that so far. I’m PS4 so I really can try the test.
Please dear God give us private rental I will gladly pay for server to fun development of this game further and to keep it fun and I was always having a problem finding places to build and I love the fact that you re in allow us to control or limit the amount of people that build on a planet
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i dont like the idea of rental planets.
for more colors… no
for control… no
for ressis… no
in my opinion its the wrong way to fill members/cash, they should more focus on QoL or more content like creatures, maschines etc…
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O Hope that’s next I really want them 
Shields
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sovereign worlds are only the first type of rental worlds and the most restricted (as they follow public universe set of spawning rules) - it’s basically just to provide a semi-random world that allows permissions control and thus safe private space
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