New petition

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New petition

Postby lordmoore » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:48 am

Ok...its been a long time since we (as in this community) have asked HDI if they would be willing to release the source code for EFS. Its about time that we get together and try again. Who's volunteering to type up the request? :p
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Re: New petition

Postby Shocker » Fri Sep 10, 2004 2:53 am

You need a lawyer and a responsible party to "own" the product and commit to abide by the terms of any licensing agreement.
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Re: New petition

Postby lordmoore » Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:05 am

Here's the link to the last message:

http://www.kborek.cz/forum/NonCGI/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000012#000000

Shocker:
Not always, several companies have release there code without this before.

Besides, it doesn't hurt to try!
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Re: New petition

Postby Grimly » Fri Sep 10, 2004 5:07 am

You might contact Mike Ely if you are interested in doing some work on it yourself. He has some interesting things in mind.

Ken
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Did anyone ever contact Mike Ely about the "interesting things?"

I've got an interesting idea---FIX IT!!!

Oops, sorry, that just slipped out. :p
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Re: New petition

Postby Shocker » Sat Sep 11, 2004 2:02 am

Mike is one of the most active players of this game.

Can you share what you had in mind Mike?
Was it what Deathifier did for us or something else?

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Re: New petition

Postby map101ca » Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:02 am

OHHH, now this sounds like an interesting prospect of possibilities.

As far as I can see they arn't working on any new games this time. Unless NA is going to pop up again. I also don't see any evidance of an EFS 2 on the horizen.

Maybe, who ever writes to HDI can drop a line about us promo-ing EFS 2, if they decide to look at going that route.

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Re: New petition

Postby lordmoore » Sat Sep 11, 2004 8:56 pm

I wonder who we would need to email the request too? Anyone have a good email address?
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Re: New petition

Postby Sukayo » Sat Sep 11, 2004 9:22 pm

Fromthe mess around Nobelarmada i know that HDI is reading and forwarding the mails incoming via the adresses on theire website. And i believe Andrew Greenberg registered here in the summer, so possible they are discussing already about this issue and waiting only for our request ;-).

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Re: New petition

Postby Deathifier » Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:16 pm

Yes they do read and sometimes respond to mail sent to them via the website and I'm not sure if their contract has expired yet that would allow them to release source.

Mike was certainly working on interesting stuff and I believe still is.

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Re: New petition

Postby lordmoore » Mon Sep 13, 2004 7:57 pm

Awww....come on! Somebody volunteer to email them so its not left to me. Geeeesh! Can't find good help when you need it! :D
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Re: New petition

Postby Sukayo » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:36 am

If a mail will have a chance for any success, then IMO at least a few things needs to be clearified:
1. a single person has no chance
2. a dedicated group is needed, and a (or more) dedicated persons speaking for this group.
3. a target must be clear: what you will achieve by getting the answre yes.

So who has the time and the power and knows how to handle things like that, go on.

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Re: New petition

Postby lordmoore » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:02 pm

Agreed! The group would have to be the EFS vets (mod'ers) and there are several here. In addtion, we will need several programmers.
Not sure who has the time, but I would be happy to assist in anyway I can.

Once we get a group together..we can decide who will send the email/letter. I just have a feeling that now would be a good time to ask.
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Re: New petition

Postby lordmoore » Tue Sep 14, 2004 6:08 pm

Oh...btw...I'm volunteering anyone with a member# lower then mine :^)!!!
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Re: New petition

Postby Aloid » Wed Sep 15, 2004 3:00 am

I hope it works this time. :)

Would love to see the code in the hands of the community at large!

Charge ahead!

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Re: New petition

Postby Sukayo » Thu Sep 16, 2004 6:40 pm

wesnoth was discussed as a base for source for EFS2.

Take it as a base for building up a DEV team.

Another example i know is merchant empires, http://www.merchantempires.com/ where for a long (very long) time a (one at the start) developing team is around and spending a lot of effort to make the game great.

I am having a lower member number, being the admin here (and it is my site), so i was the one setting up this forum ;-).

a lot of the 1st time members are in RL today fully envolved in family, job and other things, with other words normal "ppl". So a good source can be the active members today (minus me) and any volunteers anybody from us can get for this project.


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