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Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:10 am
by Gilligan
Yeti, there are still games open!

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:26 am
by Gnome
Don't worry, it's not that map that is in copyright, it's the names...
So this map normaly will come back...but with diffrent names...
Or I hope I will be able to get it back on the site, I can understand lack doesn't want to take any risks...

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:28 am
by rebelman
Gnome wrote:Don't worry, it's not that map that is in copyright, it's the names...
So this map normaly will come back...but with diffrent names...
Or I hope I will be able to get it back on the site, I can understand lack doesn't want to take any risks...


i thought this had been checked out sooner
:shock:

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:34 am
by rebelman
Gilligan wrote:Yeti, there are still games open!


i just took the last place available in a public game only private games open now

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:40 am
by unriggable
f*ck how soon will it be back up?

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:58 pm
by Coleman
1) It will be back when the copyright issues are resolved.
or
2) Never.

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:40 am
by Gnome
Ok guys, It will be back.

I need to change all names so they don't involve copyright.
the names of the cities are easy to change, change some letters so they do sound the same but are diffrent.

Now the only thing is the title. it's midkemia but I can't make it that way. Feel free to give suggestions about all names :wink:
What about Mitkemia instead of Midkemia...sounds the same...

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:11 am
by Gnome
Changed all names that were in copyright (not all names are changed because I already invented/changed some)


Small map:
Image

Large map:
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Xml:
http://h1.ripway.com/Gnomepy/midkemiav19.0.xml

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:19 am
by lord voldemort
i was gona say mikidemia, i keeep calling it that anyway...its a really good map i hope it gets back

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:26 pm
by unriggable
Queb should become Quench.

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:36 pm
by Tisha
lord voldemort wrote:i was gona say mikidemia, i keeep calling it that anyway...its a really good map i hope it gets back


i agree

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:29 pm
by oaktown
I don't think that changing the name from MIDkemia to MITkemia will free you of copyright issues... you have already demonstrated that it is the same product.

Can I make a proposal:

Call it WIKIDEMIA, and ask each user of the Foundry who has been active in helping with this map to submit one territory name, however stupid or ridiculous, as long as it is under a certain number of characters. This would be the first foundry WIKI map, and might start a trend.

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:45 am
by Incandenza
oaktown wrote:I don't think that changing the name from MIDkemia to MITkemia will free you of copyright issues... you have already demonstrated that it is the same product.

Can I make a proposal:

Call it WIKIDEMIA, and ask each user of the Foundry who has been active in helping with this map to submit one territory name, however stupid or ridiculous, as long as it is under a certain number of characters. This would be the first foundry WIKI map, and might start a trend.


A brilliant idea, this is.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:22 pm
by Gnome
Ya it is a brilliant idea but it is impossible to do...it will take ages to get all names...I changed all the names, the map looks like midkemia but I made it like it really has nothing to do with it...
The world calls 'Elendil' (random name in elven name generator 8) )
And I changed almost all of the other names...
I hope it can back in the map list like this...sorry for all midkemia fans...the name is changed but you can still pretend like it is midkemia :wink:

let me know what you think of it...

edit*: -I changed the signature on the large map but not on the small one...(what's best?)

Image

Image

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:29 pm
by Herakilla
i can barely read the sig on the small ver and only because i know what it says so i would say the one on the big map is better

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:30 pm
by Incandenza
Dunno if you're aware of this (or give a shit), but Elendil was a rather important character in the Silmarillion. Specifically, he was the Numenorean king that fought alongside Gil-Galad against Sauron some fifteen hundred years or so before the Lord of the Rings story.... plus he was the father of Isildur, the guy who cut the ring off Sauron's finger.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:21 pm
by The1exile
Gnome wrote:The world calls 'Elendil' (random name in elven name generator 8) )


Too obviously LOTR imho. This coming form a guy who used the everlasting book of names to create his fake business names for an ICT project. Elendil is what Aragorn shouts, isn't it?

Gnome wrote:edit*: -I changed the signature on the large map but not on the small one...(what's best?)


I like the new one - less Worth1000.com feel about it.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:23 pm
by The1exile
if you want an entirely new name but with the whole elvish thing, how about Tar-Minkaneut?

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:38 pm
by Coleman
Just so we are clear. I believe we can do as much LOTR stuff as we want. We received permission for Middle Earth anyway.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:45 pm
by Incandenza
Yeah, but in the wide scope of fantasy-sounding names, no need to use one that's so identifiably Tolkein. If it were some really obscure name from one of the innumerable Chris Tolkein crapfests, that's one thing, but Elendil is a bit too front-and-center. It's not quite as egregious as calling the map, say, Elrond, but it's close.

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:58 pm
by AndyDufresne
As Incandenza mentioned, perhaps a name that is more obscure.


--Andy

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:49 am
by Gnome
AndyDufresne wrote:As Incandenza mentioned, perhaps a name that is more obscure.


--Andy


ya ok lol...I didn't know about that name...that's what you get if you random some things out a generator...that's not a big deal to change that...
Tar-Minkaneut seems a bit to long to fit in the title space :?

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:17 am
by AndyDufresne
Midkemia + Elendil = Midkendil? :)
Elendil + Midkemia = Elenmia? :)

Maybe not the best names....hehe


--Andy

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:18 am
by lord voldemort
AndyDufresne wrote:Midkemia + Elendil = Midkendil? :)
Elendil + Midkemia = Elenmia? :)

Maybe not the best names....hehe


--Andy


i like that

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:42 am
by Gnome
ya Midkemdil sound fine to me...
I'll post an update so you can see how it looks on the map :wink: