Ns Singleplayer
ThePhilips
Join Date: 2002-09-09 Member: 1302Members
Join Date: 2002-09-09 Member: 1302Members
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This looks like it could be fun
Righto, good to know!!
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but well, id say, just work on it, when flayra thinks its crap we just dont release it, if he likes it, then everything is ok.. its easy, not?
1. Intellectual Property 'theft'. If you do it without permissions, its theft. Even if you get permission, you're still making Flayra's world your own.
2. Workload. It doesn't seem like anyone has a clue how huge this project will be if its to work. AI alone will be huge.
3. Quality. Flayra and a good number of others are professionals in the game industry. NS is a retail strength product. Even if you DO pull this off, I doubt it will match NS' quality.
I'd LOVE to see NS single player, but as an actual single player game, designed to BE single player, set in the world of NS. Making a Metamod plugin so you can play a multiplayer game by yourself seems really, really stupid.
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Realists use logic in deducing there conclusions. Logically, this project has snowballs chance. Why?
-Immature dev team. Not personality wise, but skill wise. How many people on it have seen projects of this size or even close to this size get completed.
-Unprofessional approach. You didn't get Flayra's permission to use HIS ideas and HIS game?
-Unrealisitic expectations. Saying "it'll be a lot of hard work" doesn't acknowledge exactly how difficult this is. You can't whisk away problems just by saying "I'll give it 110%!" This isn't an eighties movie.
And jammer. While I agree with you on many of your points, you ARE forgetting that this is a completely optional thing.
A) It will never be packaged into an official release
B) This isn't a life-or-death thing.
I can tell you now that I plan on checking it out, regardless of my moral and logical feelings about the entire deal. Otherwise, I'd like for everyone to reserve judgement until a finished product is in hand. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
i hope all goes well for you guys. look for me in the forums! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
It would be an add-on with original maps you install into your NS folder, which in itself is freely distributable. The NS artwork would be used, not copied. As for the name, it doesn't need to reference any trademarked terms, even if a term as common in everyday life as "Natural Selection" is a valid courtproof trademark. And if any of the accused is not resident of the USA, things get even more difficult.
Intellectual property is a very muddy thing to begin with because the concept of owning ideas has little foothold in reality. It's more or less a lawyer's invention to protect Disney's Mickey Mouse.
Legalities aside, a look at the website didn't inspire confidence into this project. It seems they don't even know the difference between a story and a plot.