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I dont see any reason why I must not talk about the game, even though I think everybody knows I had no intention to make an AD.
There is no business competition or smth so I dont think your argument is valid.
Besides if there are rumors about 2-3 years (from now on) to full completion of SIII I think its just rational to look for other possibilities in this time.
But: DC must not (and surely wont) try to compete with "others", the originial style of Stranded is very important for me and I guess for many others of the Stranded community.
And tbh:
Nobody is playing Stranded because the graphics look so fancy. I play(ed) it because its a quite complex game with interesting mechanics and good potential for modding etc. And thats what DC is going for, I hope.
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DC: Did you know that program Tree It is now free? You can use trees, palms or bushes in non-commercial or even in commercial projects 
Tree IT by EVOLVED I'm just dreaming how would S3 look like with the USGN system and multi player . We're still waiting DC 
, hope its doesn't require a power full computer @ CaneCorso: Well, i think S3 won't requie too much spec for a computer since S3 use Unity and doesn't consume soo much memory. @ GestrandetDrei: I guess I'm not talking about competition between developers but most of Stranded community that may left to Stranded Deep. Sometimes graphics win the battle between originality. I don't see your argument is valid either. But since you want to tell about the game to DC so these argument maybe useless. I think everybody's PC can run Unity. Just dreaming about servers, players, hosting, etc.... Dousea has written
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GestrandetDrei: I guess I'm not talking about competition between developers but most of Stranded community that may left to Stranded Deep. Sometimes graphics win the battle between originality. I don't see your argument is valid either. But since you want to tell about the game to
DC so these argument maybe useless.
first of all wait for the release of Stranded Deep. Many Early Access games (especially survival games) are just horribly bad. Good day, Gentlemen!
As polite as I always am, I would like to call the highly honoured "Stranded Deep" Developers ASSHOLES.
I don't really blame them for stealing the idea, but stealing the name.
Anyway, DC, I hope you'll stalk the comments (on their blog and steam reviews) for new ideas. Dirty_tricks: mode ON.
To receive great help of our us.de community, please, focus even more on modding. SD (Sloppy dumbgame) doesn't have mod support at the moment and it will take some time for them to get a modding community (not all to long though, cause they've such a big player base)
Good luck. @ DC: You ''As inventor and developer of the Stranded series'' didnt mind 2 aussies, using your Stranded series, but did they ask you or contacted you in anyway...but theres positive and negative. Just Askin.
Stranded III and Stranded Deep..oh god there will be problems rising up. 1 Highly good semi-bad Game and 2 Developer Aussies and theres 1 Man and 2/3 Stranded Series (1's in Development).
I wonder what the income of this will be. @ Sparty: what I actually wonder is if what they did is even legal, they copied the name and most of the gameplay from the Stranded series, didn't they? Not Trying to Break the Rule.
You Are right. There are similarity between the 2 Games. DC has to take some action because its illegal for some 2 dev's to use the game name (Stranded) and Copy gameplay. without the permission"Creator/Inventor, Developer" of the Series.
And I know this is, 
Stranded III Dev. Blog - Comments And DC giving details and coming up. But.. Aren't they allowed to use it unless in commercial purposes? Stranded Deep is like a new stand-alone game from DC. I laughed almost 1 minute because of the image that DC gave. About the gameplay I think there're few similarities. I don't buy Stranded Deep, save the money for Stranded III (if it's not free).
I don't know anything about illegal copying name stuff but Stranded series are non-commercial game series so it's legal?
They use the name of Stranded Deep, not Stranded so it's legal? Admin/mod comment
No reason to use a spoiler here. Removed /DC Well, if you want my 2 cents, here's the thing about taking legal action against the game's name: it takes a lot of time, is incredibly annoying, costly, probably won't gain DC all that much since he already stated that his stuff would be free and usually turns out to be bad PR for the ones placing the charges, especially against a title that just released and is getting a lot of attention.
EDIT: grammar Might I suggest, dear DC, that you put a crashed plane somewhere in the story mode to mock the huge number of survival games that start that way? 
@ DC: I know that the client and the server will be both running each one with their own Lua States and their own scripts, but is there a way that some server scripts could be sent to the client via server transfer and then executed there? DC Admin 
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@ Starkkz: It probably wouldn't be very hard to implement that but of course a feature like this can easily become a major security risk. At the moment I can't tell if I'll allow this or not. @ DC: if it's about the script being able to access io/os functions, I could help you on that. I know some stuff about safety measures on Lua (within Lua code because I'm not used to C#). DC Admin Offline
Native OS functions won't be accessible anyway. But there are other functions like removing save games for instance which would have to be restricted some way. @ DC: It could be done in plain Lua. The problem is that if users do it by themselfes this wouldn't come by default on S3. I'm going to put an example of how it could be done.
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-- We get a function that loads the Lua Script
Function, Error = loadfile("path")
if Error then
-- Checking that there aren't syntax errors wouldn't be a bad idea
end
-- Running this function by calling it directly as a normal function is a risk, so we must put it in a separate environment without access to the core functions.
Env = {}
Env._G = Env
Env.string = string
Env.table = table
Env.math = math
-- setfenv changes the "work place" of the function
setfenv(Function, Env)
-- Calling this function by "pcall" would be a great idea so we can output the errors on the console
Success, Error = pcall(Function)
if not Success then
-- output the error
end
Edit: The Lua 5.2 implementation is a bit shorter. setfenv is unavailable as a function, but it is available on the loadfile function.
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Function = loadfile("path", "bt", Env)
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