[REQ] BUY the rights on SH5 on our own?!

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/Devils advocate on

Originally Posted by urfisch

DFTD is crap, sorry for these honest words. Its been a nice idea, but the engine is extremly old fashioned and the team seems to be very small. The progress on this game lasts for over 4 years now. I guess, THIS will never be finished or reach a status of an honorable gameplay.

Well, one reason for lacking progress may be because they are lacking funds and time.

Anyway. Think big!

As you cant think big, it seems as if many of you are also not able to think in "virtual" scenarios. Let me explain the idea a bit more detailed:

- Community votes/forms a task force, with all needed positions of a working dev-team (graphics, 3d, 2d, coding, administration, etc. - the skills are already available here!)

Nothing wrong with this, except see below..

- The Silent TF™ sets up a concept of how the game should be optimized and enhanced. Together with all community members, of all available communities for the SH-series.

Now it gets tricky. "All community members, of all communities..."
That is going to be a ginormous bitch fest. Lets say you have 100 people in a community (just to name a number), be prepared to hear 150 different opinons on what should happen or be done. Also be prepared, to deal with members/shareholders that will be get really pissy if the TF does not put the focus where they think it should be and threaten to withhold further support.

- The idea reaches UBI, (best case: )the TF meets with ubi officials

And what are you going to offer them for an IP that is still on the market?
And what guarantees are there, that they just don't take our ideas and react on them on their own?

- (worst case: ) concept needs to be revised, or we meet with AKELLA

- Together with UBI/Akella all ideas are collected and a basis of further cooperation is beeing discussed.

See above

- An official company with legal form is founded. Work is taking place via the net.

That's going to be interesting, especially when it come to the legalities and ownership. Not to mention tax laws and employment laws.

- The TF gets the SDK (and the code from SH6 or PTBoats) and starts working on...

...WHATEVER YOU WANTED!

Should the TF/Company/Community/whatever get hold of the SDK in an agreement with UBI/Akella, you can bet, there will be a clause limiting the usage of said SDK to certain projects.

This is visionary, this is constructive and this might be a successful way in creating the sim, we ever wanted. With all features we are waiting for since WOLFPACK™ or Silent Service™

Instead of throwing more money down Ubi's throat, you could come up with an idea to heighten the awareness and support for one of the community projects, such as DFTD, which according to your words, is crap.

/off

Don't get me wrong.. I am all for a newer, better, shinier and functional sim. But this has nothing to do with lacking imagination or thinking too "small".