Various Community Condo Suggestions

Hey everyone! Right now, we know very little about community condos aside from the fact that they’ll replace plaza hosting, and that they will feature collaborative building. With that said, I figured I might as well take the time to share my hopes for them, so here are a few concepts I came up with!


1. Gameworld Hosting

Starting off with something basic: just the ability to put down game panels for people to join. This topic here goes into a bit more detail:
http://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/ability-to-start-gameworld-games-from-community-condos-when-they-arrive/20829?u=m2thet

This could also apply to things like typing derby, casino machines, etc., extending the amount of content community condos can offer.

I’d also like to extend this by saying that community condo gameworlds would behave like normal gameworlds and have payouts. However, I was also thinking that eventually (maybe in the very very very long-term), people could potentially make their own custom gameworlds or activities, or even alter the gameplay for existing ones. These would of course be unranked, and wouldn’t award units, but it’d be fun and allow further customization.

2. Custom Currencies & Items

While we’re on the topic of ranked/unranked servers and units, I also was thinking that community condos could potentially award their own server-specific currencies, similarly to how many Gmod servers award points for playing. I did mention this on the announcement post, but basically the concept is that each server could have it’s own unique form of unranked units. These wouldn’t be transferable to official servers. The only purpose of them is to purchase items inside these community condos.

Likewise, I think it’d be important if server admins could choose to allow previously unlocked items from official servers to work inside their community condos. For example, one community condo could have wanted it so that jetpacks were super expensive and were the only way to get to a secret area. To prevent people from simply earning 10k units and buying a jetpack, they could disable official items and make new players earn items on their servers.

This could also extend to custom items and shops, allowing players to create amazing themed worlds that might otherwise be copyrighted on official servers, such as some of the GMTower models. These settings would allow each community condo to truly be its own community and give a sense of progression on any server, whether official or not.

3. Buildings and Rooms

This one is more of a convenience thing for admins of these servers. While some of the community condos might just be larger pre-designed condos (like the Underwater House), it’d be nice if there was the ability to fully create a custom lobby, which I imagine would already come with workshop support.

Moreover, I think it’d be great if people who create these custom lobbies would have access to specific rooms and buildings that they can snap into their maps. For example, let’s say I wanted to throw the Theater from the plaza into my community condo, I could simply load the building into my world, rather than having to build my own theater out of props. This would also be a good way to add additional functionality and activities into community condos since it’d bring in whatever games, shops, etc. that were associated with the buildings/rooms.

4. Extended Server Tools

I know more server tools are already planned, but I figure it’d be good to at least list a couple that should be included, whether or not they’re already in the works.

  • Appointing Player Statuses (Like Admins, Moderators, Builders, Etc.)
  • This would mostly be a way of managing servers and only allowing trusted users to build. I won’t go into details about what each rank does or anything since I imagine server hosts would be able to edit permissions.
  • Global Message
  • Teleporting
  • Changing Payouts / Rewards of Unranked Currencies / Items
  • Ruleboards
  • Gifting/Spawning Unranked Currencies / Items
  • Custom Player Models / Hats / Etc.
  • And just for fun: Changing Physics

Conclusion

That’s it for now, and I might revisit this post if I think of anything else or if I like someone’s feedback more than my own ideas :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyways, this is all very ambitious thinking and very long-term based stuff. I do not at all expect any of my ideas to be instantly implemented, and I fully understand that some of the above concepts may not align with Pixeltail’s vision for community condos. Still, I would like to know what you people think about my ideas, and who knows, maybe the devs might like 'em :wink:

Thanks for reading!