Democracy at work :)

apache · #1 March 31st, 2001, 05:26 AM

I think that would be nice and all, but I don't think MM could officially include those kinds of shipsets with their game. My guess is that they would run into copyright or trademark or patent or whatever type of laws that would force them to pay royalties or face legal action if they included shipsets referring to such well known sci-fi races. Of course, modders can do whatever they want since they don't profit from it, but I don't think MM could do it without trouble.

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 31st, 2001, 05:44 AM

What about just linking to a major fan site that has all the empires for download?

Who here is a lawyer?

Will · #3 March 31st, 2001, 06:01 AM

You think anyone in here would be crazy enough to admit that they are a lawyer???

Possum · #4 March 31st, 2001, 07:01 AM

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Originally posted by Deathstalker:
LET THE PEOPLE BE HEARD! How about a referendum (yes, we Canadians love them..)

I vote against having the french-speaking ships secede from the fleet. Furthermore, I'm really tired of getting my combat results Messages from those guys in french only. Would it be asking too much to get an english translation here?

Oh, and I'll be posting the files for my NEWFIE race here very soon now...

Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz · #5 March 31st, 2001, 11:11 PM

I don't know if it's compatible with the modpack ethos of preserving compatibility with the base game, but I'd really like to see Suicide_Junkie's pirate mod in the next release.

That way I could be sure that the .emp files were SJ compatible and also I suspect this would improve the odds of MM one day adding pirates to a patch.

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Dracus · #6 April 1st, 2001, 01:56 AM

Each mod pack is owned by the people who wrote them. So they each have rules on what should and should not be included.

dogscoff · #7 April 3rd, 2001, 01:45 AM

I know MM are busy but I'd really like to see some of these user mods and races making it into "official" updates (ie the patches).

I already have 2 installations of SEIV to cope with the two different configurations needed for my 2 different PBEM games.

It would be much better if MM included what they thought were the best mods into the game so that ppl could play with a standard installation but not feel they are missing out on anything.

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