Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

[Akula]

Also there's the bentusi super acolyte fighter from HW cataclysm.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Never liked the cataclysm ships. Only played the demo, though.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

No, we're actually giving the Relic people *free marketing*..... Think about it; if you have never heard of HW but you have played the HWM, and you see HW somewhere, you're more likely to click the "buy" button (or take out your wallet if you go to *actual* stores) than when you haven't played HWM.

[Akula]

Some licenses only allow you to install it, not modify any content or really do anything else but install it, I don't know about the Homeworld license that's mainly why I ask.
Also yes there's the free marketing, but some companies don't care the slightest about this.
After all you're also giving material free marketing by putting it up on peer to peer, but I hardly think any companies like that, and some companies don't see the difference.
Some companies pretty much states that they won't allow people to post material, modified or not, sometimes not even for their own game. I don't think it matters if it's just a picture and such, but some will react really harsh if you convert their material for another game, especially if you don't ask for permission first.

[zircher]

Fair enough, paranoia has its place. Does anyone want to try their hand at writing up a letter and contacting Relic and/or their parent company for permission? Of course, since Relic was bought by a competitor to Sierra, there is probably a snowball in hell chance that it will work. Did I forget to mention that there are some... complications in getting official permission?
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TAZ

Just for fun, I posted a general request for contacts message in the official Sierra HW forum. We'll see what that reveals over the next few days.

[zircher]

To continue... I got pointed to a VUGames forum admin and I'm now coresponding with him on the subject as I work my way up the food chain. Of course, at some point they might tell us to stop all activity and abandon the project, but that's the dice you roll when you ask for permission. As I'm going along, I am also making some distinctions between SE IV and SE V since they may allow one and not the other.

More info when I have it...
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TAZ

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

It did get off the ground. I've already started on the basic data files and Rudy said he was taking screenshots for the graphic files.

I think we can create a HW Mod without it actually being HW..... Perhaps in the First Time, before, during and immediately after the Great Hiigaran War after which the Hiigarans were exiled to Kharak? It'd be sufficiently different from the games to be legal, yet it'd be HW without a doubt.....

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Still involves copyrighted material. I think the best you could do would be one based on HW, much like Space Empires is based in part on Starfire? Some boardgame.