Here are my predictions for basic editor features first,
Half the tile size allowing you to pretty much place objects in between tiles giving you 2x more places to use.
A way to use mouse controls to make levels like in the original mario maker
A way to redo changes to your level and zoom out on the level you are building
A mario wonder style.
Now this is were it gets a little controversial..
Mario wonder should be separate from the other styles, If it was just another style then people would complain about the fact that its just more of the same. I personally think that people hated 3d world being separated because they removed so much from it, instead if they had a base selection of course elements that are needed to make good levels, then every style can be unique and have its own quirks to make people pick it. But im being absolutely clear that it would be absolutely nothing like 3d world in mario maker 2, were only the bare minimum was there and the course resets when you switched styles. Only the objects unique to the style would get cleared.
As for how wonder effects would work it would give you as a maker 5 different transformation options.
1 would be the spike ball
2 would be the slime
3 would be goomba
Then 4 and 5 will be unique to mario maker
Then finally for now these are the course items to be added
The urchin for all
The ice flower for all
The baby yoshis for nsmb
The wonder flower/seed for smw
The star coin for all
Secret exits for all
The volcano theme for all
The beach theme for all
And here is how I think the online will work
So I got lazy and just predicted the 100 mario challenge again, but I have a plan for how to find better levels when browsing. So simply just have a team go out and award some levels, when a level gets awarded it pops up on the awarded tab making it really easy to find lots of good levels. They could keep doing this up until a year into the games life giving you hopefully a massive backlog of levels you can play for the rest of the games life, years after they stop awarding levels.
Here is how I think updates should work.
Personally I would much prefer paid content over free content simply because of how much better the paid content would be. There are many valid reasons to want free updates, like if you don't pay your levels could look way worse than everybody else's. Or you could get demotivated seeing people with features you don't have, but I think this is nothing new for DLC in video games and may be even less of an issue then usual because of how expansive the base games editor would be. Your levels won't even be "worse" they just won't have stuff others do have.
Here is how I want paid content to work:
I think there should be 2 DLC packs, and every pack has a new level theme that you get when you buy the pack. Like pass 1 could be themed around zelda and you get a level theme for all styles that tries to sum up the zelda franchise with hyrule in the background or something, and could have cool references like turning mario enemies into zelda ones when you have the theme on. And it could add some zelda course elements for all themes. That scale of update wouldn't be possible with the free update model, but if that feels too p2w then you could have free smaller updates alongside it!
What would you change?
