After seeing a petition for a "Release the code" which had a handful of signatures, I wondered about the actual possibility.
Well Microsoft won't willingly dish it out to us, no matter how hard we stomp our feet, or shout out in rage!
...But what if a few freelancer fans were to bribe someone with access? There must be thousands of fans, if each fan was to throw but a few dollars and such into the "Pot" there would be a fairly hefty sum to sway a lowly programmer, wouldn't you say?
Obviously handling the money and collecting it all would be hard, and having someone contact us with the actual source code would be nothing more than a pipe dream. But hey, I think that's our best bet, but what about you? What's your idea to get us what we need for this mod to grow and advance beyond levels it's never seen before!
-Edit: Ah crap wrong spot, was browsing through too many threads at once....any admins able to move it or delete?
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[FF] Seth Askura - Serving commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Askura - Off duty commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Muraka - Elderly Kusarian trader.
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It's been asked it's been talked about.
Microsoft will not release the source code without being a profit to it.
Freelancer community is not large enough to be seen as corporate profit.
Bribing is illegal, even if the code is obtained by such means it would place the mod and it's creator in a criminal light.
Still if you had the money to spend, would you bribe someone who had access? :3
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[FF] Seth Askura - Serving commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Askura - Off duty commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Muraka - Elderly Kusarian trader.
[FF] Is now a (mainly) lawful mercenary group. Anyone under the tag who commits unlawful activities should be reported at once to myself, [FF].Jaden.Crow or [FF].Klauss.Schneider. Thank you.
I've only pirated in game once, and maybe because I'm inept at it....
Fail pirates fail...
Anyway, are you saying you wouldn't put $1 in? :3
Characters:
[FF] Seth Askura - Serving commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Askura - Off duty commander in the lawful mercenary unit "Faith of the Fallen"
Muraka - Elderly Kusarian trader.
[FF] Is now a (mainly) lawful mercenary group. Anyone under the tag who commits unlawful activities should be reported at once to myself, [FF].Jaden.Crow or [FF].Klauss.Schneider. Thank you.
The idea that Microsoft will not release the source code into the independant community is unfortunately correct, however... If the development of Discovery was backed by a legitimate game company (saaaaay... one from Edinburgh;)hehe), then the chances are greatly improved.
I doubt that Igiss would want to go down that road though, and lose a portion of the creative control. It would also incur the very real possibility that future updates (although much larger and intricate) would probably have to be bought on DVD-ROM by each player...
Well we might try just asking nice, calling, writing to Microshaft and getting other freelancer servers involved.
At least that way there might be more interest or latitude to be found at Microsoft, think about how many new copies of freelancer are they selling lol so monetary hit would be negligible.
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