| 03-20-2005, 07:15 AM | #1 |
ok im just thinking about how silly it is that we (the mapping community) have to go to such extreme lengths to attempt to keep our work...our own. heres my plea to blizzard: add a heavily encrypted entry in the map file and require a user to "sign up" to their map. ie, you would enter a name and a password as well as an email address. if you actually forget the login/password for your map you can have WE email you (or connect to a blizzard server and have blizzard email you) the login/password for your map. going even farther, blizzard could add "read only" support for a map, so that WE wouldnt save anything, ie, you could release a map, and if you wanted noobs to be able to see how you did things but not be able to rip your map off you could "read only" it. even further: several login names/passwords so multiple people in a mod team can work on a map. this may sound rediculous to some of you... "oh man why do i have to log into my own map wtf is this" but i think it would be a great way to keep maps safe. especially since it shouldnt be that hard to have WE remember your login/password for a map so YOU dont have to log in each time. just a little crazy idea i had :) Anarki oh btw im not sure if this is in the right forum O_O |
| 03-20-2005, 07:29 AM | #2 |
I Highly doubt blizzard is going to change such a large thing about the world editor, so i think its near hopeless such a farfetch idea would actually work out, but it would be a good idea i think. |
| 03-20-2005, 03:51 PM | #3 | |
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I think Blizzard made a clear statement about what belongs to who in their EULA (something like "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" ;) ). Blizzard won't implement any major changes in the map format, the WE or the game itself. The only things you can expect from Blizzard are bugfixes if needed, some balance changes for the trolls on Bnet saying it's imbalanced and a new hero along with some new trigger functions for the WE at Easter and Xmas at best. Oh and about the "right" forum: Since there was a big discussion about these copyright and protection issues in this forum (there is a link in the important threads thread), I'd suggest to rename it to "Warcraft III Editing Tools and Legal Discussion" ^_^ |
| 03-20-2005, 04:14 PM | #4 |
Just release an open source with broken JASS triggers and then they can't save the map and be like WTF?! Make it crashing triggers lol. |
| 03-20-2005, 05:26 PM | #5 |
like a trigger that never gets called but looks like: function blah takes nothing returns nothing local integer i = 0 if i = '1' then endfunction i think that will crash :P |