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.