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Suggestions / Re: [Suggestion] How to work on projects unrestricted by copyright/trademark

« on: February 23, 2016, 07:05:47 pm »

It's a little bit surprising because:

https://www.moddb.com/games/ufo-the-two-sides


NinjaBunny, Creator: Bad news, guys, sorry. The project has been stopped, due to possible legal issues. It's still being discussed, but I may have to take down the downloads. My apologies :\

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Suggestions / [Suggestion] How to work on projects unrestricted by copyright/trademark

« on: February 23, 2016, 01:31:16 pm »

I'm not a modder, but was sad to see The Two Sides shut down. Anyway, I am pretty sure this should work:

- Openly make a mod where all the sprites and text is contained in separate files, called "Invasion of the Bug Men" or "Angry Guys from Outer Space"
- Someone unknown to the modding team happens to spread a link to a complete graphics and text replacement which you simply unpack in the mod directory to overwrite the files

A company has to protect their intellectual property, so they are to some extent forced to send cease and desist letters even if they don't want to. In this way they wouldn't have to, only to those who hosted the entire integrated project or the imitation graphics. Would probably make game companies very skeptical towards any participants, but hey.

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Suggestions / [SUGGESTION/REQUEST] Option to make TFTD ship missions only one level

« on: February 23, 2016, 11:08:06 am »

Whenever I think about replaying the XCOMs, I always hesitate to get into TFTD. Mainly because of the ship attack missions. It's just a very very very tedious painstaking slog. I don't really have the time or patience anymore to put in so many hours.

Maybe a randomizer whether you get top deck or bottom deck, so both map types are still in use?