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Lockethot

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    Lockethot got a reaction from Sky Asa in Selling Constructs based on existing IPs   
    You cannot be sued for using an idea in this way, as this qualifies as fair use. However, I recommend you you disclaim this information when you post images and stuff of your ship on the Internet to make it clear that you don't claim ownership of the ideas.
     
    This sort of thing is classified the same as modding. You may notice, there are all sorts of games out there with mods based on other company's IPs. The only time that a modder needs permission, is if they want to use assets owned by the company, like textures, models, and other things used in other games. Making your own assets based on their creations constitutes as fair use, as long as you don't use it for anything that will earn you a profit. Freeware fan games are another huge example of this. The only ones that get in trouble and get shut down, are the ones that use assets without permission.
     
    Another game where this sort of thing can be seen is Empyrion: Galactic Survival. I find this game to be a bit buggy so I refunded it, but this game has a ship building system very similar to the one advertised publicly for Dual Universe (never been in the game, so I have no idea what its actually in our game like due to the NDA). On the Steam workshop for Empyrion, many players upload ships that are based on the designs of ships from Star Wars, Star Trek, and other Sci-Fi IPs. This is fine, since these ships are free for anyone to obtain. However, the development team of Empyrion will never add one of these ships as an official prefab found in the main game, because by including it in a sold product, they are breaking copyright rules and may be sued.
     
    If a player sells a blueprint with real world money or transferable money, this is a gray area. You might be sued, but I doubt that the owners of each IP will notice or even care enough to sue you. For an IP owner to care, they need to see huge amounts of money being made on their idea, in a way that harms their own reputation. Players selling ships to other players in a different game, is actually a good thing for them because it is free advertising. Also, it would make themselves look really bad for suing players who copied their ideas because they liked them so much.
     
    Hope this explanation is helpful. Good question!
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    Lockethot got a reaction from STEALTH7 in Any good free MMORPG?   
    Empyrion Galactic Survival, good game. You mentioned space engineers, and this game is just the same, private servers with maybe 200 or so players on them. Only problem is that many of these servers have PTW shops and stuff, but you can easily play on ones that don't. Its an all around fun game, in alpha but they are updating it constantly. Heck, last update they added planets that are 2048 km^2! and there can be 100s of these on a single server. This means that there is a ton of places to explore, but also, its really easy to hide from people since there are not many sensor systems in the game (yet).
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    Lockethot got a reaction from robert131997 in Files and Networks   
    Lua scripts are cool, but what about some sort of way to save files? Some sort of thumb drive and memory storage device for computers? You could save log files, images, news articles,  and maybe even entire Lua programs that you can execute on any computer. Perhaps this could even be used for a sort of virus minigame between programmers, where they attempt to infect and patch each other's systems. Computers would need a virtual "backend" where they emulate what an actual computer would do, so that programmers can interact with them better. I would love this so much.
     
    Also, why not networking? Could be a public Internet as well as local clan run networks for file sharing and stuff. Could even be html website support. What are your thoughts?
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    Lockethot reacted to CoreVamore in Forum bug?   
    Sounds like you have something protecting your browser (anti virus/ anti malware / security / blocker) program that may be deactivating/removing a cookie or something.
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    Lockethot got a reaction from Warden in Can we get space weed?   
    Space Kahjit has wareez if you hav coin.
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    Lockethot got a reaction from Excavy in Can we get space weed?   
    Space Kahjit has wareez if you hav coin.
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    Lockethot reacted to yamamushi in Inspirational Architecture   
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    Lockethot got a reaction from Ghoster in Convince Me To Buy a Pledge   
    Sorry I will watch this game with great interest, but I will not purchase ahead of time (especially at the price). Its kinda a personal rule of mine after I saw what happened with Star Citizen. Hope you guys understand
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