I am making a plug for EV that will continue the Galactic Civil War to the end- either a Rebel or Confed victory. I have a few questions:

1. Copyrighting. The New Horizons people say that nobody can use their graphics without their express permission. Well, one of their graphics is a landing pic of Stardock Alpha wrecked- it is just like the one in the regular EV except for the fact that the station is in ruins and there are no Confed warships in from of Earth. I used this pic- and modified it- because I wanted a Rebel Stardock Alpha pic- as the Rebel string will eventually involve Rebel rule over the Sol system- and the "New Horizons" pic already had the Confed ships removed. I used the same pic as a beginning for MAGMA versions of the Confed and Rebel Stardock Alphas. Earlier today I e-mailed the creators and asked them for permission to use their (modified) pic in my plug. When I checked my e-amil later today,I saw that it did not get to two of them (failure to deliver the message). Do I still need permission, or have they just forgotten the plug. I think I still need to ask them, my e-mail is ue_patriot@hotmail.com.

2. Which mission bits do the regular EV missions take up? I would like to know because I want to have as many mission bits as possible - this is going to be a long plug?

3. How do you figure out the long name, comm name, etc. of a ship in Escape Velocity? I know in EVO you use that program (forgot what its name was) which tells you a certian ship's/planet's/whatever's STRs, spins, and so fort for all its different aspects. Are the numbers the same in EV as they are in EVO, or is it different?

That's all for now.

God bless,

UE Patriot

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Originally posted by UE Patriot:
**I am making a plug for EV that will continue the Galactic Civil War to the end- either a Rebel or Confed victory. I have a few questions:

1. Copyrighting....

2. Which mission bits do the regular EV missions take up?...

3. How do you figure out the long name, comm name, etc. of a ship in Escape Velocity?...

UE Patriot
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1. No comment.

2. Somewhere on this site there was a list of missions and mission bits, probably in the FAQs. If you can't find that, the essential utility 'Plug Checker' will produce a list of all missions and the bits they use (and lists of all other EV resources too, in addition to finding errors in plug-ins.) Get it here
(url="http://"http://www.ixoft.com/")http://www.ixoft.com/(/url)

3. Use Pontus Ilbring's 'EVO Formula Calc' available at
(url="http://"http://members01.chello.se/warlordpontus/ev/")http://members01.che...rlordpontus/ev/(/url)

EV and EV:O use the same system of numbering resources, but EV:O has more of certain types of resources - missions and mission bits, for example.

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A plugin will earse the missions from the original EV- so you can use all 256 mission if you like. You may want to you some of them again, like the missions in the mission computer when you start the game.

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Originally posted by UE Patriot:
1. Copyrighting. (SNIP) Do I still need permission, or have they just forgotten the plug.

Yes, you still need their permission to reuse their graphics. If, however, their Stardock Alpha pic was just a reworked EV one, you end up on tricky ground. Ambrosia/mcb have never released the models for EV, so afaik the copyright remains with Ambrosia or mcb (tired, cant spell =P), so you need their permission. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in that case you could use the image.

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