Keeping to the game mechanics was, I grant you, one of our goals. Remaking 40K with Xcom units did cross our mind, but where is the fun in designing that. Plus creating miniatures would have cost a bundle.
I may be a little biased with what I say, but the learning curve is not much more steep than most tabletop RPG's. If you can figure out how D&D or paranoia works then the rules to this aren't that much more difficult.
I grant you that some of the images come from the game. Most of these are also freely available on websites around the world.
Maps were entirely created by hand by Paul. You can't just cut and paste an isometric image into a topdown view.
Legalwise it wasn't really an issue. We just wanted to play the game. If Infogrames has a problem then we will deal with that then, but I really don't think a game that they no longer sell would cause them to much grief.
There is always harm caused. Not only has this script kiddy hampered the use of a valuable resource, by his/her malicious acts. But from what I gather will continue to do so. These threats are no worse than a terrorist threat. "I will kill 1 hostage a day, until my demands are met". So while very few governments will negotiate with terrorists, very few Servers should negotitate with these terrorists.
And it has probably cost these people money, certainly it has cost the ISP's money.
I agree with someone above, who I forget, when they said that we should send him/her a bill for Monetary,and other costs.:)
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This is off topic, but if you like paranoia. I have made a paranoia muder mystery which is online.
babylon.alphacomplex.org/~evan/para.html
Keeping to the game mechanics was, I grant you, one of our goals. Remaking 40K with Xcom units did cross our mind, but where is the fun in designing that. Plus creating miniatures would have cost a bundle.
I may be a little biased with what I say, but the learning curve is not much more steep than most tabletop RPG's. If you can figure out how D&D or paranoia works then the rules to this aren't that much more difficult.
I grant you that some of the images come from the game. Most of these are also freely available on websites around the world.
Maps were entirely created by hand by Paul. You can't just cut and paste an isometric image into a topdown view.
Legalwise it wasn't really an issue. We just wanted to play the game. If Infogrames has a problem then we will deal with that then, but I really don't think a game that they no longer sell would cause them to much grief.
Thank you, you have said everything I wanted to and much more eloquently.
Everyone is talking about submitting logs to the FBI to hunt down and procescute the attacker. Does anyone know of it's equivilent is Australia?
There is always harm caused. Not only has this script kiddy hampered the use of a valuable resource, by his/her malicious acts. But from what I gather will continue to do so. These threats are no worse than a terrorist threat. "I will kill 1 hostage a day, until my demands are met". So while very few governments will negotiate with terrorists, very few Servers should negotitate with these terrorists. :)
And it has probably cost these people money, certainly it has cost the ISP's money.
I agree with someone above, who I forget, when they said that we should send him/her a bill for Monetary,and other costs.