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I want a single contiguous Minecraft world that everyone can use. Each account could get a range of blocks allocated to them, after Credit Card validation, to
by VikingCoder 5y ago
I want a single contiguous Minecraft world that everyone can use.
Each account could get a range of blocks allocated to them, after Credit Card validation, to prove you're a real person.
You could pay to own some more blocks.
The blocks you get are just a land grab.
You can trade blocks you own for blocks someone else owns, and there could be a monetary transaction to go with it.
You can build what you want to on your blocks.
How does all of this pay for itself? We set up Pay To Download blocks. If you want to fly around my creation, you can, and it just costs a little bit to do it.
For the blocks I control, my Server lets me make permanent changes to those blocks. I can let other people on my Server, and I can give them permission to help me make changes to those blocks. We can make a shared Access Control List, and pool our blocks together, and edit them together.
If you visit my area, you're using some Server to do it, and you can be on the same Server as your group of friends. And y'all can make a Copy-On-Write set of modifications to my blocks. And those blocks will stay, as long as your Server caches them. But no one else sees your changes.
Maybe add some minor annual fee to blocks, so that if someone abandons their blocks, that they fall back to the public domain.
If you want to get fancy, you allow block owners to set up royalties for visiting, and clients can set some rate limiters for how much they'll pay, and etc.
I get that Minecraft itself has licensing terms that prevent us from doing this, and especially if money changes hands. I get that people build things that infringe copyright, and the only reason it's tolerated is because money isn't changing hands. I get that if someone hosts this, they'll have to deal with DMCA copyright teardown notices, and etc. And I get that it's not like the true Metaverse where you randomly bump into people you don't know, and can make permanent changes to the world together.
But I just think it's bizarre that someone will make a really cool Minecraft map, and I can't explore it, even if I have money and I'm willing to pay a bit.
If this whole system came with the ability to click a URL to immediately appear in some blocks? I mean, I just think that would be so cool.
Okay, I saved my idea, and hopefully someone will implement something like it.
- 4ggr0 5y ago> You could pay to own some more blocks. Let's bring wealth-gaps to the metaverse, what could go wrong ;)
- PeterisP 5y agoIt's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse (especially one made by FB, but not only that). If people treat it seriously, then it becomes linked with all the real world factors, and wealth is obviously one of those.
- 4ggr0 5y ago> It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse Unfortunately, yeah. Would've been a chance to at least make it better virtually than how we handle these issues in real life, but I think humans will take their flaws with them wherever they go and whatever they do.
- VikingCoder 5y agoI saw an article years back about MMO gold farmers, I think in Mexico. They sat in an air-conditioned room, and the wages were decent - they liked the job. If we can transfer wealth from people who have money but not time, to people somewhere else in the world, who have time but not money, then I'm calling that a good thing.
- 4ggr0 5y agoI downloaded an RPG last week and played it for 20hrs since then because it was so good. If I can earn my wage by slaying skeletons, searching for rare flowers or hunting some virtual deers then sign me up I guess. Although I wonder how fast it would get boring, you know, because of that whole "If transform your hobby into your job it can get boring pretty quickly"-thing.
- VikingCoder 5y agoMy desperate hope is that we end up paying people for creative content. Not grinding. I used to play D&D with a group of 8. We took turns being DM, but none of us were all that great at it. Well, picture how much we would pay to have someone else be our DM. $10 an hour? Could easily change someone's life, depending on the part of the world. Picture mini games that are engaging. Picture interacting with an NPC that has rich conversation trees. At some point, it's a novel or better. I dunno, man, I hope we do a good job of rewarding creative people in the future, because I can't see how the value of manual labor will be above $0. Robots will replace everything that's not creative, and a lot of things that are.