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Originally Posted by elanaiba
The wasp is not 100% historically accurate. Its meant to represent early fleet carriers of the US Navy without running into potential legal trouble with the owner of the Yorktown...
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I have never heard of copyright issues with ship designs before, although I had heard of such issues in regards to aircraft. Does this have anything to do with Robert Ballard and his discovery efforts in relation to the Yorktown?
If so, then doesn't the ship (and the class design) still belong to the US Navy? (sunken warships remain the property of the nation which operated them, unlike merchant ships). If not, then I assume he doesn't own the Hornet or Enterprise (I would honestly be quite surprised if anyone was able to piece the Enterprise together again.
). I would just like some clarification on this, as there doesn't seem to be an issue with other US warships in the game.
(If it really was impossible to use the Yorktown class, then you did do the best you could in that situation.
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BTW - Great work on the merchant selection this time - this is the first SubSim that has really hit the nauil on the head in that area.
And the merchants have customizable variable tonnage as well.
I would have modeled a Juyusen class Coastal Tanker for the Japanese, and converted the SHIII Small Tanker (Patapsco class) for the Allies, but those are minor issues.
