Interested in a Homeworld Mod?

narf poit chez BOOM · #1 April 14th, 2005, 03:43 AM

Thanks.

Akula · #2 April 14th, 2005, 06:11 AM

What about copyright? I don't think they'll allow us to use their images in another game.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #3 April 26th, 2005, 06:25 AM

To continue my earlier rant about us being the Progenitors being the Hiigarans:

It could very well be that the colonization fleet found no other (intelligent) life at all in the HW galaxy, and that the splinter factions that destroyed the Mothership (as I said before) completely broke away from each other and became the Hiigarans, Taiidan, Vaygr, Bentusi etc.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #4 June 2nd, 2005, 05:55 AM

So a unit with a component with that ability will not work? Dammit. Going to have to rethink Sensors Distortion Probes.

Fyron · #5 May 1st, 2005, 03:23 AM

Akula said:
What about copyright? I don't think they'll allow us to use their images in another game.

zircher said:
Hmmm, don't shoot the messenger, but here's the result of my quest to get something official ruled on concerning the mod...

Thanks guys for effectively killing off (or at least severely maiming) a potentially great mod for no good reason at all...

Sivran · #6 May 1st, 2005, 04:11 AM

Mods to make one game look/act like another are common. Using images from other sources is also common. It's also non-commercial. I say, damn the lawyers and full speed ahead.

EaX · #7 May 1st, 2005, 04:24 AM

i agree.

zircher · #8 May 2nd, 2005, 12:03 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Thanks guys for effectively killing off (or at least severely maiming) a potentially great mod for no good reason at all...

You're welcome. Actually, I did have a very good reason to ask. I wanted to export the actual ship models from the HW series to SEV V when it was released. The technology exists, but I wanted to see what the legal waters looked like and see if a friendly agreement could be reached.

Also, everyone here is now aware of the real situation and can take appropriate precautions: either filing off the serial numbers or moving the project out of the public forum. While I might have kicked the project in the shins, I didn't kill it.

Too many people were standing around with their heads in the sand thinking that it would cover their ***. The real world doesn't operate that way.
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TAZ

Fyron · #9 May 2nd, 2005, 01:47 PM

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Too many people were standing around with their heads in the sand thinking that it would cover their ***. The real world doesn't operate that way.

Thats a load of hogwash. What's next, going to go report the lot of us to Infogrames/Atari (or whoever it is that owns the ashes of Microprose these days) over 8+ year old images in the Image Mod? Who the hell cares? Seriously... Let people have their fun. It was no loss to anyone.

What did you think would happen? What corporate lawyer has ever said, "sure, go ahead and let people use our "property" freely and publically?" That's right, none of them.

Gandalf Parker · #10 May 2nd, 2005, 02:43 PM

Come on guys. Be nice. You know that we are seeing representatives of both the "been around awhile" crowd and the "rules dont affect me yet" group. Check out the age thread and then take some of this stuff with a grain of salt.

Having said that..
there are many examples of "go ahead and use that" from the corporate world. It usually comes with rules like "be sure and say where its from" and "do not sell what you make with it" and "dont make us look bad".

So its not wasted effort to ask. And since it is the way its supposed to be done, it is a good suggestion if anyone likes the guy making the mod. Now if the author of the mod wants to ignore that then thats his decision but it would not be a good idea for anyone to suggest that he not at least make an effort at CYA

Gandalf Parker