I think there should be some items in the game that can be fully customized by the player, for instance like a painting.
The player would have to buy the canvas, different sized paint brushes (for different sizes, of course), and different colors of paint for whatever colors they want. The player would be able to then paint on the canvas, and sell it to other player, and whatever that player is selling would end up going to a certain store somewhere in the plaza and you can see everything everyone is selling between all the servers (if thats possible…) Its just a idea idk if its possible or anything but some other ideas i have are…
Pre-made homes (homes that are already decorated, but the price you buy it for is how much you give the person who made it but if you dont already have the other items inside the house, you will pay for those too but those units wont go to the player who made the home)
Paintings (already stated above)
Customized clothes? if thats ever gonna be a thing (where players can make clothing and sell them, so if a player wanted to make clothes that looks like Abercrombie or something with the logo, they can sell that.)
Idk anymore but if u support this idea and got any ideas, leave them below.
EDIT: This doesnt go with the player made things to sell, but what if there was a custom map creator too? Like forge in halo and u can make maps and spawns and everything for like minigolf
EDIT AGAIN: Now that I think about that, people will prob abuse it for all hole in one courses
The devs we’re talking a lot about steam workshop, you are like the only one who doesn’t know about it. But a lot of us do and this is not confirmed but most likely is confirmed.
First off, the short version of my opinion on this: I think this is a great idea that could inspire more creativity within the community but has the unfortunate potential for monetary abuse.
Let’s start with the biggest problem I have with this system: the potential abuse of the system for monetary purposes. Say you want 1,000,000 Units: right now, you have to earn every coin. With this system, however, it’s not unrealistic that someone might try to make a business using real world cash. There’d be an agreement: you give the guy $10 outside of the game, and he pays the outrageous price of 1,000,000 Units for your blank canvas. He doesn’t want any actual art and you aren’t looking to put effort into the game. It’s a way around the lack of microtransactions, and this is something the devs have been very careful to avoid (why do you think we don’t have a trading system yet?).
That said, I do enjoy the idea of creating something cool and selling it to someone who thinks it’s cool. Player run economies can be very nice, especially since it’s not every item up for sale but only certain items that must be personalized as the players see fit. I could see this being a very positive thing for TU, and I think it’s a good idea.
If I had to propose a system for mitigating the abuse, I’d say that you could browse available selections without being able to search for anything. Unfortunately, this would mean that players looking to buy creations from a specific creator would be out of luck, and this system falls apart if there’s not enough supply as the aforementioned microtransaction creations would be easy to find.
On more specific notes…
I think the painting idea is just perfect, though it might seem a bit redundant due to the canvas system already in place.
The condo layout system would be nice, though rather than paying an upfront cost for missing items I’d say we use the item snapping system already in TU. Basically, there’s a white outline around spots where specific items would go. Place near that outline, and the item snaps to the correct position. That way, players don’t need to have all 500 million canvases to start reconstructing AshGe’s 1:1 recreation of Lobby 1.
Clothing would be interesting, but it would probably need to be limited to accessories like hats since playermodels like the Skeleton don’t wear clothes.
Technically obscene creations would be a problem, but we already have some content options in the works that would easily make this problem disappear.
As AmGonaKOYou stated, the Workshop features still need to be implemented. That system may conflict with this suggestion, but we don’t really know anything about TU’s Workshop implementation yet.
Well, sorry for the wall of text! I guess I just wanted to throw some opinions against the wall and just kinda kept going…