Man, you two need to get a room... ;-)
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Origins: Which aliens from the original series do you want in?
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I still want to see more Orz, which of course makes sense now that we have Arilou (they being opposites and *above* and *below*). Plus, the Orz was always my favourite ship, so...
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[quote who="BionicDance" reply="50" id="3714280"] ut if there is a World Builder available to the players, does that mean there will also be a Galaxy Creator? Will we have access to tools that will allow us to make our own Star Control stories/plots/adventures? Cuz...that would be all kinds of awesome. [/quote] As someone who has been lucky enough to play around with some of this stuff, let me assure you that it IS "all kinds of awesome". You can ma
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IGN's first look at Star Control: Origins Adventure Mode!
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[quote who="BionicDance" reply="2" id="3714333"] Only criticism: not a huge fan of the landing zone thing for the planet. Oh, not because of the mini-game; that looks nifty enough. It's the fact that it looks like you can't choose your landing site, like you make planetfall where the game decides. Maybe I'm wrong, and we just didn't get to see the selection process for that...but you'd think--realistically, anyway--that'd be something the player could cho
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[quote who="Elestan" reply="437" id="3714516"] I also like to use the example of generic medication. When the patent expires, such that the only thing protecting a drug is the trademark on it, generic manufacturers can enter that market and sell the exact same product under a different brand name. [/quote] That's completely wrong. They can absolutely NOT sell the exact same product. They can sell a very similar product with the same active ingredient(s), but th
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Shacknews: Star Control: Origins Preview: Space Odyssey
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What an awfully written (and researched - over a decade? It's been 22 years since Starcon 3) article. I hope the author's band is great, because his writing isn't.
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[quote who="BionicDance" reply="8" id="3714246"] I suppose it's possible that I've just built some truly amazing ships, but...I don't think so. [/quote] Well, no, that is quite possible (your ship designs are awesome, btw). How do you go when you're playing the stock ships?
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Nice stuff. I wish I was as artistic as you! My ships all look pretty crappy.
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It's a tricky balance, because it wouldn't be hard at all to (accidentally or not) make an essentially unbeatable AI, given that the computer would always know exactly when to fire, how to move to avoid your shots, etc.
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That's some awesome stuff, haomaicl!
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Can we store our fleet ships at the Sol starbase or Precursor starbase? Or is buying more ships just like UQM?
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I've always been thinking that the way it should work is that you can store fleets at each starbase. While you're flying around, you can stop at a starbase and swap out ships there with ships travelling with you, etc. Then, occasionally, a starbase might get attacked and you have to defend it, but unless you can travel there in time you can only defend it with the ships you left there.
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[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="373" id="3714059"] ...anyway you can bet, many Trekkies were not happy about that - especially, since the creators claimed continuity with Prime Universe...and then first thing they do is to change the looks of their most iconic race. I, for one, was not impressed. [/quote] I'm with you on that one. Other than the fu manchu mustache ridiculousness that was ST:TOS Klingons, they have had a stable and recognisable look for all of Star Trek history
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[quote who="Lakstoties" reply="367" id="3714036"] Accolade got the trademark just to prevent anyone else from putting the title "Star Control" on their game boxes and putting those on shelves next to their game. That's it really. That's all trademarks do. [/quote] That is absolutely, utterly, demonstrably NOT all Trademarks do. You're delusional. I can't even be bothered going over your other points or conversing further with you when you constantly
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[quote who="tingkagol" reply="358" id="3714021"] I think it's unfair to assume P&F don't have IP lawyers of their own. [/quote] They seem to have spent all their money on PR firms to make disparaging tweets instead of a legal team, so they probably can't afford lawyers now ;-) But yes, more seriously you're probably right. I certainly HOPE they have a decent legal team, because my impression so far has been that they are relying in large part on public opinion to
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[quote who="Taslios" reply="352" id="3714013"] So question for Stardock... Will we see a May update similar to the April one? I'm not a founder (didn't have the free floating cash when the founders stuff was offered or I would be...) but I'm very hungry for updates on the development and teasers [/quote] There's a reasonably major update every month, but it's only for founders and is under the NDA so we can't share it wit
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[quote who="Elestan" reply="343" id="3713995"] But the major sticking point comes in because there is a basic disagreement over exactly what is controlled by copyright, and what is controlled by trademark. [/quote] The only disagreement on that has you, Lakstoties and the other armchair lawyers on one side, and actual real IP lawyers who do this for a living on the other side. Can you honestly not understand why we don't take you seriously? Like, seriously?
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[quote who="Lakstoties" reply="276" id="3713657"] Here's my position. Stardock's stance upon how to interpret Trademark law is confusing on a few different levels. [/quote] Dude, just stop. Stardock's position is based on their legal team who are, you know, lawyers. You're not a lawyer (I'm quite sure you would have mentioned that). So if there's any confusion, it's you who is confused, and it's because you have no idea what you're talking about. <
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[quote who="Taslios" reply="300" id="3713856"] Soooo... when will any of the news from today's meeting be public? [/quote] Don't hold your breath. There's a settlement detail gag order imposed by the court, so we're unlikely to learn anything unless it's all been fully settled and both parties agree to let us know everything. And neither of those two things are likely to be the case today, so I don't imagine we'll hear much other than maybe "there has been no agr
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[quote who="Pyro411" reply="297" id="3713808"] With all that said, if a separate fan project came up named "Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters" or any variant of it like Happy Campers edition or whatever would most definitely have to be issued a C&D to protect the rights to the Star Control property. [/quote] ... which is precisely why it's called the UQM and doesn't have Star Control in it's name. When Paul released the source code, he *knew* he had no legal grounds to
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[quote who="LORD-ORION" reply="37" id="3713555"] Star Flight: An RPG Space Exploration / Management game. Not very friendly to casuals. (seriously, try playing this game without internet access, and no pre-knowledge) [/quote] I fully disagree. I played Starflight back in the day before there WAS an Internet. I finished it. It was fucking awesome.
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This is the correct answer. Especially that it's called a Ghost of the Precursors. Not from every rock, biut some special looking rocks are actually ancient desicated remains of precursors and you collect their DNA data or something. The fact that you call it GotP is just so much gravy, I can't even.
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[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="687" id="3713465"] Well if it can be done hopefully a out of court settlement would be better. [/quote] Let me preface: I'm not a lawyer and I don't work for Stardock and I know no more than you, really. But IMO it's unlikely at this point. Brad could (but may not want to) confirm or deny, but P&F have poisoned the well so much at this point and are heading for such a massive crash, so why would Stardock settle out of court
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I've always been of the opinion (on save scumming) that it's none of anyone else's business how I play a game. I really hate when developers put in limitations on savegames because saving too often makes the game "too easy" in their opinion. My response to that is a hearty "fuck you" - let me play the game the way I want and others will play the game the way they want. If I want to save it every 30 seconds that's my business and none of anyone elses (and hey, maybe I have an awesome reason fo
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Looking more and more awesome every day!
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[quote who="Taslios" reply="7" id="3713340"] I would totally buy a cloth map and a lore book should Stardock sell such. not sure if enough people would buy those these days however... [/quote] That's what POD (Print on Demand) services are for.
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