Comments - Storm258

Says their archenemy Sauron? xD

Indeed it is, but WB would never put enough money into a project that would be this big and of high quality. They want games which don't need much money to produce and can be finished in a short amount of time. The resulting product sucks, of course, but they hope to sell enough because of they strong licenses with many fans, like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. Be should be happy that this horrible trend hasn't reached Bethesda yet, as it already happened to BioWare, which was ruined by their EA overlords.

Yes, those are just their lame excuses to justify something that is not right by law. There are other huuuuge Lord of the Rings mods for other games. Just think of Third Age - Total War, has it "confused" me that it exists, because there's already Battle for Middle-Earth? No, it hasn't why would it? Every gamer knows what a mod is, WB is just afraid that this mod could turn out to be so good that people won't buy their rushed low-budget 5 hour long LotR-games.

Hey folks, you still have my support, today, I have posted this message on WB's facebook page:

As various others already have, WB, I am writing this to you regarding MERP - The Middle Earth Roleplaying project, the Mod for Skyrim you want to stop from being made. First of all, you don't have any right to do this: Under Section 107 of
the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. You see? MERP is a non-profit project and only for personal use of players, which tips balance in favor of fair use. Also, why would this mod be illegal, while so many others like "Third Age - Total War" and many more for various other games are okay? It is obvious that you only did this for your financial and economical interest, not because it is your right by law. Notice how many of your consumers you are making angry with this. Hundreds of people who were fans of MERP will now think twice before they buy any of your products in the future. This does more damage to your company than it helps you, so let the MERP team continue their great work!

I agree, just ignore WB and continue making the mod! They just try to scare you off, but there's nothing they could actually do about it, this falls 100% under "fair use" and your not stealing anything from their games or something like that anyways. (As this mod is going to be far better than what they've done, lol)

Because they're afraid that this mod could be so good that nobody would buy the ****** Lord of the Rings games they produce, so they do anything to stop this. What big companies like WB never seem to think about is how many people they **** off like that, so much that they won't buy their products any more.

It was said before, but I just wanted to drop this here quickly:

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

The last sentence is especially important: NON-PROFIT and PERSONAL USE -> tips the balance in favor of fair use

Oh okay, now I am at week 15 and was just attacked, so ignore this post. ;-)

I got a question: I am playing the Thrawn Campaign as Imperial Remnant, and I chose the easy "Recruit" difficutly at first to see how things will go. So now I am in week 13 or so and havn't been attacked so far. Is that normal? If not, could it be a problem with my installation (maybe remains of other mods?)

I have a question there, what is the best/highest armor you can have in the game? I mean, historically there should not be any plate armor or sth., so I was wondering if just regular chain mail was the best or sth. else?

But I think in 1.1 AT-PTs were overpowered, even one "squad" was stronger/more useful than an AT-TE and their main cannon destroyed both droid infantry and CIS vehicles easily. Only way to kill them without high losses was by airships (HMPs), even OG-9 Spiderdroids took much damage from them and needed a long time to take them down.

Yes it is, but that was said thousands of times, it even says it in the Mod's description, just scroll up.
You'll have to buy FoC - but really, how much does it cost right now, 10 bucks or less.

I always tried to understand, but it seems impossible. There are so many games so many fans want for years - Republic Commando 2, Battlefront 3, Empire at War 2, Knights of the old Republic 3 - and what do we get? Kids game of The Clone Wars or lego (or both ..) and a whiny canon raping boy who thinks he is cool because game creators gave him force powers which are completely out of any proportion. -__-

Oh yes, yes, ode to joy!! *waves hand*
By the way, only the music is from Beethoven, the text is by Friedrich Schiller ;-)
Original: Youtube.com

Got a little question there as the forum is down: In the current Build Mod 14 Patch 5, which ship is the biggest/strongest/most powerful one, and where can I find it?

Same here! A friend of my father is quite the computer expert and he ordered the parts and built my PC for like, 400 Euros. Its now about 4-5 years old and still runs all the newest games, maybe not on highest settings, but still ...

*cough* German unit descriptions by me *cough cough* ;-)

Actually it wouldn't be so hard for the CIS to counter that. With enough Droidekas you get down even Jedi Masters pretty fast.

This is stupid, don't believe in any of these "new movie" rumors, all of them are fake. George Lucas always said he wouldn't do another movie, and if he would change his mind he would announce it - and if there actually would be a new movie (which is extremely unlikely), do you really think George would give a **** about the Expanded Universe and include Ben Skywalker?! Watch The Clone Wars and you got your answer.

Unreal Engine 3? Well, if they're not doing TFU 3 with this, I'm happy with it ...

Lol, and besides, Durge is stronger than any darksider in the mod, you seriously don't need Savage Oppress xD

Bugs, in my view, aren't the central problem, most of them can be fixed quite fast. In my eyes Gameplay and Balancing is the more important thing to work on, as far as what I've seen at my testing.

The old series was way better. Let's see, the old series was a very good connection between episodes 2 and 3. You see some of the biggest and most important battles of the war, and other important events like Ventress becoming Dookus assassin, Grievous' first appearance, Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight and so on. You gotta get used to the look, but it's still good. Big battles, good storys, character development and villains who are a real threat. And what about the new show? A childish kids show with no other content than some small skirmish battles and rescue missions, much stuff that simply has NO mean for the actual war. Additional to that, lots and lots of canon rape (cause George Lucas himself is working on it -_-) and it's just not exciting - I don't even have to look at the screen to know the Republic wins, especially when there are characters who can't die as they still live in Episode 3, which is the case most of the time. Awesome villains were made into little whiny dudes who have no idea of fighting and warfare and always run away - the show is EXTREMELY Pro-Republic, it's more like Republic Propaganda than an actual TV-show. Nah, I really could've lived without it, it coul have been great, but George screwed it.

B1 battle droids, what everyone forgots is that those droids strength lies in logistics. I can send thousands of them to death without any real damage to my troops - perfect infantry. You can overwhelm clone troopers easily with such a mass of droids, that's just something TCW does not show.

I would love that, than we'll see which side is superior. Or has the better strategists :P 2 on 2 battle maybe? Got another good CIS pal.

YEEES, FOR THE CONFEDERACY, BITCHES!
Nobody can hold us, the Republic will have no chance!

You know that most Mandalorians who were engaged in the war fought on the CIS side? ;-)

I am a very big CIS fan, and as far is as I know, z is quite neutral, I'm pretty sure there will be a good balancing. And I understand your point, there's nothing to great about the Republic. The Republic is not good, the Separatists are not evil. The new TV show just shows a completely wrong view of the war - 2,5 years of the war, both sides were even, the CIS won as many big battles as the Republic did. And Clones? They are slaves with no rights and no hope for a happy life in the future, not much more than machines made to fight and die.

Hey z, I've written a message to you a couple of weeks ago, about the "Do I count as a staff member?" stuff, but I have no answer so far.
Would be nice if you could write back, just that I know what's the status ;-)

Well, I would want games like Republic Commando 2, Knights of the old Republic 3 or Jedi Knight 5 even more, but Battlefront 3 also would be good - everyhting is better than this The Force Unleashed **** ...