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There’s only so much intellectual dishonesty I’m willing to read before I tune someone out. GMOrz, you are either choosing to be ignorant of the dispute and it’s elements or you are choosing to misrepresent the facts of the dispute. In either case, I’d advise you to move on.

GMOrz, the ethical fluidity you display when trying to justify Paul and Fred’s threat to send bogus DMCA notices against Star Control:Origins is impressive. [quote]Paul & Fred have taken no action that would threaten SC:O. [/quote] Except DMCA Star Control: Origins - Fleet Battles I assume you meant to say. I noticed you still haven’t explained or justified their DMCA of Star Control: Origins - Fleet Battles. The court document

[quote who="GMOrz" reply="674" id="3726372"] There's quite a lot of fans out there that object to Stardock's behavior. Keep in mind, Stardock isn't a huge company - a half million sales are a lot to them. Even a few thousand fans refusing to buy the game because of Stardock's behavior will be a significant dent in their sales. But that overlooks the other risk: by violating the license agreement and using Reiche's IP without permission, Stardock also opens itself up to legal a

[quote who="GMOrz" reply="675" id="3726373"] Some of us have noticed that Elestan got banned again. What rule did he violate? [/quote] Elestan wasn't banned for having a different opinion. There's a certain threshold of obnoxiousness we'll put up with on our own forums.

[quote who="Alverez" reply="672" id="3726367"] I don't think you have contempt for long time fans. I don't think you respect differing opinions. I assume I'll be banned at this point. [/quote] Why would you be banned for having a different opinion? My job depends on taking lots of different opinions, often ones very different than the first one I form. I would argue you can't have it both ways: You can't simultaneously deny that my mind can

[quote who="Alverez" reply="670" id="3726363"] The contempt you show for long time e fans is sad. [/quote] I assume that response wasn't to me.

[quote who="Alverez" reply="660" id="3726324"] You suspect wrong. Until I know that your original promise will stand there will be no Stardock products on my systems. Adding the Arilou 2 months in after launching without is still going back on your word. [/quote] You use this term "word" loosely. It wasn't some promise to the players (since the players were the ones, as you very well know, who wanted to see species they associate with Star Control in the ga

[quote who="Alverez" reply="658" id="3726290"] Understandable. Good luck on your launch. Unfortunately, I can't end my little protest until I am sure that your original promise will be kept. I did enjoy participating in the Founders program. Even when we disagreed. Especially then actually. [/quote] Well I suspect you'll be pleased with the launch.

[quote who="Alverez" reply="656" id="3726284"] That's too bad. I've been gone for a few months but had heard that you had reversed your decision regarding the original Star Control aliens. [/quote] For the release, we are looking to have as little controversy around it as possible.

Greetings! This is the LAST screenshot Friday my friends! That's because next week at this time, Star Control: Origins will be in your hands. I'll be obsolete. Here is one shot from the Multiverse feature that will be added in v1.1. So now I can keep my job. :) <img src="https://cdn.stardock.us/forums/0/0/1

[quote who="GMOrz" reply="652" id="3726008"] Okay, but if I buy Star Control: Origins on September 20th, will I be getting a game with Arilou in it? [/quote] You'll just have to wait and see.

Star Control aliens will be in Star Control games based on the needs of the story. They will be expressed in such a way as to not violate anyone’s alleged copyrights. They also will not appear in other games without our permission.

Glad you're excited! The good news is that Star Control: Origins will run on extremely low end hardware. Like, think Intel Nuc level hardware. As long as your PC has 4 logical processors (duo core with hyperthreading) you should be good to go. So here's the deal on the console side: We have to port our underlying engine to those consoles. The first step is we're going to be porting it over to Linux first because Linux is the "clean slate" position.&

Sorry this is a bit late! Here we go! The importance of knowing what type of a planet is without landing on it has made us emphasize more time on improving the visuals on the different planet classes. Why are resources presented as objects on the scre

The map is 130x130.

Very excited for this!

Don't worry, this isn't a spoiler. The Star Control map is based on a 2D projection of the real universe going out around 130 light years. You might enjoy this as it took some effort to try to create a reasonably accurate depiction of where we are compared to other stars. One major change from real stars is that we took the liberty of naming some of the stars ourselves because a lot of the ones that have been discovered in recent years have alpha numerical name

[quote who="zoberraz" reply="2" id="3724955"] Unfortunate, but understandable. [e digicons]:([/e] As I felt the Earthling Cruiser was very symbolic, I was a bit upset... but I now realize that likely for that very same reason the why of the compromise you had to make. I may not like it, but at least now I can relate... which really does help. Hopefully the new defense cruiser will grow on me just as the Vindicator-class has. Thanks for having taken the tim

Unfortunately, Paul and Fred continue to threaten to DMCA Star Control: Origins unless we placate them. So even if I were to agree with you, we have to weigh the risk of further harassment from Paul and Fred versus changing the design to be different to ensure we are able to release the game without Paul and Fred filing additional DMCA take down notices which, unfortunately, are automatically complied with. Once the dispute is resolved, we can revisit this.&n

You won’t really need to scan a whole system. By mid game you know what a give. Planet is based on what it looks like.

Irony time: I requested they send me their newest but least powerful machine for me to sink my teeth in. Fast machines are like programming on easy mode.

With labor day nearly here in the United States, we are putting the finishing touches on what will be the version that goes out for review. Here are some highlights from this week: Better late than never. Your ship's fuel range is now showed on the map. Very convenient if you want to avoid Tywom fan fiction (yes, that's a thing). <img src="https:/

Lol. I’m an “advocate” Ayn Rand? What does that mean? I’m not an “objectivist” or whatever it’s called.

The very last one is now in the Vault! It's been a real privilege to write these for you guys. These past 3 years have been pretty amazing. There's some new screenshots in the entry and feel free to discuss anything you'd like here. Cheers!