[MOD WIP]Honor of a Solar Empire

An Honorverse Mod

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Hey all. After reading most of the Honor Harrington books I've decided to start work on an Honorverse mod for SoaSE. Figured I'd throw up a thread to see if there's any interest, and to keep those who are interested updated on progress. For the moment I'm working alone, mostly to see if I can, so updates will depend on school and whatnot, but it's always motivating to know people are waiting on you.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Finished modeling the first ship; a Manticorian Super Dreadnaught (Pod). I'll start doing the texture work sometime this week, but in the mean time I've got a few renders on my deviantart page (my browser does not seem to like the "insert picture" button on the reply box). http://aspasticninja.deviantart.com/

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Decided to try and adapt the Manticore and Haven fleets to the mechanics of the game rather than try to stick 100% true to the mythos. This way they'll be better balanced with the existing races, which should make them more fun to play.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I do not want to be a party pooper but Honoverse mods have been started and shutdown time and time again throughout the past 5-6 years. David Webber (when asked by a Homeworld 2 modding group) stated that he while he did not have a problem with people making things, Baen Books would likely serve a cease and desist notice. And they were served that notice. I would be careful distributing what you have because technically, as far as the lawyer world is concerned, that is copywrited material, owned by a large publishing company, that will likely have no problems serving you a cease and desist notice. :\  So, unfortuanately we can't really go down this road the way that you and many others have intended. Warnings have been issued and I would rather not get sued or get IronClad sued somehow. We can make Sins play like the honorverse but we can't use the honorverse ... Maps on the other hand are a different story. Don't ask me how but they are. Copyright rules and junk, they're wierd.

 

Just something to think about. We have already attempted to get some stuff working in another 'honorverse' thread. I have mostly steered towards trying to get an honorverse map up and running. I am currently running into a few issues and am hoping to get some feedback from IronClad themselves about the issues. It is possible that these issues have been updated in a 'hopefully' soon patch from IronClad. I will be exploring a potential mod/fix from myfist0 later tommarow. If this fix works, I will continue work on the map.

 

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/344769/page/2/#replies

 

Below is the link to the Honorverse Mod forum for Homeworld2, complete with a letter from David Webber.

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?s=8435f8d79c6543e5ad5b1910ac66e1b3&t=78913&page=10&pp=50

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Well shit.

Thats odd, considering that the guys behind Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Stargate, etc seem to have no problem with it. Ah well, guess i'll have to do something else; only had one model done anyway. Thanks for the heads up.

 

 

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

The big thing here is that Baen Books has a very tight grip on their IP. Really I wish they didn't, because I would LOVE to see something like this come to fruition. Biggest thing is I just wanted to save you the trouble of putting a lot of time in and then getting shut down with a C&D order.

 

Check out www.honorverse.com

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

When I get some more work on my map done later this week I'll shoot you a PM. At the very least, we should be able to have a nice long campaign map across the Honor Harrington universe with the TEC, Vassari, and Advent.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks for the heads up man, I'm gonna switch to making my own mythos and whatnot. Little more work, but no one will get mad at me or whatnot. I'll definitely take you up on that offer too, I could use a long match with actual people for a change.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

The good thing abouth not living in the Us, is that you can tell a us lawyer to go sit on a pole when he comes with hes cease and desist. :D

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

This is a US Hosted website or at the very least US affiliated. Just in the same way that the US lawyers work with other governments to track down illegal file sharing, prosecuting someone for infringing on IP and copywrite is actually easier than knabbing someone for downloading an mp3.

 

You can tell them to sit on a pole, but it's not going to do you a whole lot of good, especially if you have content that is hosted on a us or us affiliated website. Those websites are considered US property and us lawyers for one have jurisdiction because of that. Just a thought. ^_-

 

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