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Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
There are ways around it, yes, unsatisfactory though they may be (and 10 dollars is actually a lot of money for me, right at the moment. I've got exactly $9.75 in free spending money that has to last atleast until Christmas-provided ofcourse, that I would even be allowed to use a pendrive on this computer. I'm severely limited by major security perogatives, and there's very little I can do, or would want to do, to get around them. The computer hardware itself isn't that bad, it's just that it can only be used in certain severely prescribed ways.) but really, I'm most bothered by the paradox: I want to post my work on the forums, I want people to see it, and I want creative freedom, but I also want more Nations from Kristoffer, and by posting my own ideas, that seems to cause Kristoffer to limit himself.
And ofcourse, multiply "I" by everyone here.
The question is, is there a solution that satisfies both the consumer who wants to produce, and the producer who wants to produce entirely original work?
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(Warning, I'm writing this while sleep deprived and having taken a StillNox... I am now in a consciousness-impaired state
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Well... I for one found HoneyBadger's planning posts very enjoyable. I don't believe in "idea squatting". 'Uncopyrightable' ideas from fiction/non-fiction should be a shared resource for everyone. 'Copyrightable' ideas can be presented for peer-review, and may even enrich competitive ideas. Even ideas that don't eventuate into a mod are valuable in my opinion. So I say, HoneyBadger, thanks for sharing in this forum, and the more the merrier! (If there's issues about newbies becoming confused, there should be other ways of overcoming that.)
Yeah, I dream of a community where research resources are shared, where mods and ideas come with references, whether to a book *cough* *Osprey*, or an author's explanation of how a fictional unit was created, eg:
- These vampiric knights are loosely interpreted from the historical Vlad II, Vlad III, and the Order of the Dragon.
- I watched the movie 'Lone Wolf and Cub' and have abdapted its fictional 'Kogi Kaishakunin' into my mod as sort of the Shogun's Champion.
- Cretan archers were famous in their era of warfare as exceptional archers, but ('for conceptual portability/invariancy') I have renamed them "Makrophetes" (Anglicised Greek = long bows) because the use long bows, unlike other Greeks.
And if the terms you're talking about cannot be found on Google/Wikipedia/Wikidictionary if would be great if something were provided so that one could read further, which might even lead to new interpretations.