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  1. 0 A.D. Fantasy Mod (Was: "Just wonder.....")

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    The people working on TLA have all either just plainly disappeared several years ago, or announced that they left, the end result is still that no one is still around (=no one of us who are around at this point can be considered the creators). The issue is more complicated than just copyright law. And finally, if someone else would have loved to do it, where have they been all these years? It's not as if TLA didn't accept new people to join once it was active, and we haven't had any proposals from anyone after that point either.

    That said, we should definitely make it more clear in an official way that the project is dead. Part of the reason why we haven't though is that none of us who are active at the moment were involved in TLA, and thus we haven't felt that we were obligated to say anything on behalf of the TLA team.

    Oh. Earlier you made it sound like copyright law was the only thing.

    You should write something like, "Programmers, artists, researchers needed!". I doubt that you would not get a large enough response.

  2. 0 A.D. Fantasy Mod (Was: "Just wonder.....")

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    Posted · Edited by Prime624

    @Prime624: Insult one of our staff or community members again and I will personally ban you. No discussion.

    I've removed the offending sentence this time.

    Now my freedom of speech. Great. (Not an "insult")

    If TLA is never gonna take off, can you at least remove it from the website or better, announce that it is officially dead because you and the other creators are afraid of copyright law? I bet someone else would love to take it onto themselves to make it.

  3. 0 A.D. Fantasy Mod (Was: "Just wonder.....")

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    Not sure whether or not you read what I posted above? Doesn't seem like it from your comment, though it is not so much the Tolkien Estate as Warner Bros in that case =) Either way, if someone wants to get in trouble with lawyers - do something related to LoTR :P And while it would be cool to see TLA come to life I'm not sure I can recommend it, at least not unless the people who decide to work on it have thought it through very carefully. The thing that would speak in TLAs favor is that the idea always was to portray the events that happened before LotR/Bilbo, something I can't remember having seen another game aim for - and that would lower the risk of companies trying to shut it down as people rarely want to spend money fighting something that isn't a direct competitor to themselves. (+ I'm not sure anyone even has the game rights to e.g. Silmarillion, which of course lowers the risk even further.)

    WB shut MERP down because it infringed on the movie. Third Age was never shut down. I don't see what you're so paranoid about. [Removed]

  4. 0 A.D. Fantasy Mod (Was: "Just wonder.....")

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    Posted · Edited by Prime624

    The Tolkien Estate has as far as I've read been quite aggressive in shutting down people using Tolkien lore for their own projects.

    I did not know that. Wow.

    But even so, Tolkien didn't shut down any other mod (that I've heard of). Not Third Age:TW, not MERP. Why this one?

    EDIT: Oh and BTW, I just played 0 A.D. and I like it. RTS isn't my cup of tea, but it was still fun. I think they should release a :beta: and add more features after they release V1. It's taking too long. Eventually they can add the rest, but after they have a finished game to brag about. (And then maybe TLA can start up again). :D

  6. 0 A.D. Fantasy Mod (Was: "Just wonder.....")

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    As mentioned in the post two posts above you yes, it has been abandoned due to real life taking up too much time in the life of the TLA contributors. If enough interest exists once 0 A.D. part one is done, and most importantly enough people with enough time to work on it are available, there exists a possibility that it can be restarted. It should be noted that the legal status of TLA is and has always been debatable, so perhaps the best option would be to do something more generally fantasy-oriented to stay on the safe side. But that remains for the possible new TLA team to decide once/if it exists.

    How so? Tolkien Estates won't sue you (I hope).

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