You say it’s for ‘obvious reasons’, but if the colour of the block is the only thing that’s different, then people would essentially be paying RL money for a cosmetic. Given how most people say they’re fine with cosmetic only micro-transactions, then it’ll either be fine OR they’re a bunch of hypocrites and they’re actually only fine with micro-transactions when it suits them.
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In my experience from extensive polling on the forums (seriously what does a guy have to do to earn a forum title around here @Leahlemoncakes), for any question you ask, 40-60% of people will be opposed to it.
Block colors I would argue are not cosmetic. But even when I did polls about RMT cosmetics, there was significant opposition.
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Ain’t that the truth. We very much take a “community divided” approach to polling.
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That’s ok for some, but not for all.
Now, imagine that a world renter is denied a colour choice they want, because it’s not in the current perma-worlds… sometime later… more players join the game, new perma-worlds are created… your desired colour now appears on one of them…
I know I wouldn’t be overly happy about it.
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I probably wouldn’t if i couldn’t, because it wouldnt be that i could. But i should if i could, and i would, if it could be made of wooden pudding.
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But… how? A coloured variant that you have to pay for of something else that you can easily access is pretty much the definition of a cosmetic in terms of gaming.
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Here’s one way to prevent economic concerns:
When warping to a rental planet, bring whatever you want.
When warping out of a rental planet, your inventory is emptied.
Feel free to have alts that are based on your rental planet and never leave.
Edit: Beacon reclaim cloud storage is also rental-planet separated.
Because of sprays and exo shops, mostly. It would unbalance the economy if only a select few could access certain colors. IMO.
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A lot of the p2w arguement would be old news for the color scheme if the game ever gets a ton of players. Scarcity for colors mainly comes from a lack of planets. It was the worse part of the EA universe.
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I’m starting to wonder if every naturally generated block should just be sprayable now (including gleam)… it might cut out some of the pay-to-win gripes that people would have with colour scarcity.
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If only these can be applied to a wider variety of blocks.
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Doesn’t this imply that the economy has ever been balanced to begin with? 
IT’S JUST A JOKE GUYS PLEASE DON’T FLAG ME!
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Haha made me laugh IRL w that one
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Regardless of the how the rental planets are initially released, I will be in a wait and see mode. There’s always bugs and changes and I’d prefer not to pay for a science project.
As for when I’m ready to rent, I will only pay for something that I’m satisfied that I have the ability to control quite a few planet features. Even if these were pay per additional feature I would be interested in that. But if I pay and someone else designs and hands me a surprise… not sure my wallet will open for that.
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well, looks like it’s either limited palette /no choice at all, or all colors become more or less equal in value.
both will make people unhappy 
possible solution could be to divide the palette into ‘common’ and ‘special’ :all existing and future live or rental planets will have ‘common’ colors, while ‘special’ will be reserved for exos and gleambow
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Says the guy who bought boundless
drum riff
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Yes for color palette: I think it should be random, to avoid buyers advantage on the market (gleambow colors of blocks).
No - the whole idea behind the rented and private worlds is that of control in this area.
No - obviously, it doesn’t make much sense to give people worlds they don’t want to.
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Perhaps I should say a second science project?? 
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If a planet could be wooden pudding, it should, cause wooden pudding is good. Wooden pudding shouldnt be a couldnt, and in my mind it never would. It would be good to wood the pud, and we should if we could.
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