Browsing the forums today I see that someone is importing Elite:Dangerous models into Oolite, and I saw somebody else using Elite: Dangerous scrrenshots and artwork as their BGS screens... got me thinking.
Has anybody approached the Elite:Dangerous people about making a YAH set to promote their game within the Oolite commmunity? Same for other games / communities / products of interest to Oolite players (Pioneer?). They must have promotional artowrk and banners and things they could trivially repurpose, there's nothing to stop them creating real adverts for their real products and then inviting people to add them to their Ooniverses. Installing them would of course be completely optional.
I'd happily download and install an Elite: Dangerous YAH pack. Would you?
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I don't think we should be using any Elite: Dangerous stuff!
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Agreed!Cody wrote:I don't think we should be using any Elite: Dangerous stuff!
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Well, the BGS backgrounds was someone's private project, and was not publicly released.. and as for Dertien's Station design, frankly, I think it's a dangerous thing to do (pun not intended). Blatantly importing Frontier's brand-new intellectual property strikes me as rather foolish.Potential Debris wrote:Browsing the forums today I see that someone is importing Elite:Dangerous models into Oolite, and I saw somebody else using Elite: Dangerous scrrenshots and artwork as their BGS screens... got me thinking.
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Real ads IMHO are not a good idea either way, even if unrelated to Frontier's newest game.
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Many of the YAH ads are parodies of real ads anyway (which is legal).
Definitely no 'Dangerous' stuff...very bad idea.
Definitely no 'Dangerous' stuff...very bad idea.
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Parodies yes, but not real ads themselves.Smivs wrote:Many of the YAH ads are parodies of real ads anyway (which is legal).
Definitely no 'Dangerous' stuff...very bad idea.
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Well of course not...who would use 1000+ year old advertsZireael wrote:but not real ads themselves.
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There is one advert in there for a real product, for Status Quo (Drew's first novel - not the other advert, for the musical stylings of the well-preserved Old-Earth band "Stasis Quo"). But I don't see many outside organisations wanting even a free advert which will then be mixed in, randomly, amongst a whole mass of spoofs. This is fine for something like Status Quo, produced by and for the community, but for anything else, even if the adverts are free, it's skirting towards the quicksands of commercial activity, for no real benefit.
There's already an advert in there for "Elite IV", anyway: "coming soon" is the tagline, I believe. Originally a spoof, now true, and soon to be out-of-date ...
There's already an advert in there for "Elite IV", anyway: "coming soon" is the tagline, I believe. Originally a spoof, now true, and soon to be out-of-date ...
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That was always one of my favouritesDisembodied wrote:There's already an advert in there for "Elite IV", anyway: "coming soon" is the tagline, I believe. Originally a spoof, now true, and soon to be out-of-date ...
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Seconded. Using stuff from commercial games could cause serious legal trouble.Diziet Sma wrote:Well, the BGS backgrounds was someone's private project, and was not publicly released.. and as for Dertien's Station design, frankly, I think it's a dangerous thing to do (pun not intended). Blatantly importing Frontier's brand-new intellectual property strikes me as rather foolish.Potential Debris wrote:Browsing the forums today I see that someone is importing Elite:Dangerous models into Oolite, and I saw somebody else using Elite: Dangerous scrrenshots and artwork as their BGS screens... got me thinking.
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