Spring RTS Engine

Vadi wrote:I'm saying the legal issues with it, not that TA should be gone. Argh.

Warlord Zsinj wrote:Making the link without incurring the ire of Atari shouldn't be that difficult - Supreme Commander was mentioned with TA in almost every article, and practically coined the term "spiritual successor", and Atari did nothing, even though they theoretically would have a lot more to gain from a suit against GPG/THQ then a suit against an open source project that has been specifically trying to distance itself from legal grey areas.

Supreme Commander was widely marketed as the 'successor to TA', and Atari didn't bat an eyelid. If you go back to when it was about to be released, every single article would mention Total Annihilation - even though SupCom had no legal ties to TA whatsoever. Firstly, it's a major selling point, because TA was regarded as one of the most innovative games of it's genre, and was voted by Gamespy as the best RTS of all time. Secondly, if a major company can get away with making a link between TA and their game, and directly profiting off that link, we can easily do the same, assuming we use legally safe language (while still making the direct link).

Convince everybody in here of that, and we're gold.