Better permission process suggestion.

[Indeity]

First, some back story.

I'm working on a rather large project for myself, that does and will have a lot of my work own in it. But it too will have a lot of others work in it. The idea is to make incompatible mods compatible, to simplify the load order by making it less confusing and to make mods run and balanced they way I want them. *I'm a survival HC player* With all of this work I'm doing, I feel It important for me to at least share the idea with the original mod authors, Trying to do this, much less asking for permission, is hard or impossible to do because they are unavailable to contact.

I think a mod asset donation button is needed. This way a mod author can post a "donate X value for part, X value for full permission to use assets in your mod". And it's a done deal. auto gen, maybe get a code and be able to show a certification that you purchased rights to use those assets.This would limit things down to sirous modders only and allow authors to go mia and collect off of their mods from other authors who wish to share expansions of their ideas. It would also help generate more merged mod projects, which would help simplify everyone's load order.

With all of the mods out there, things get pretty crazy and overlap rather quickly. They don't always cater to how you like to play either.. and doing a patch.. well that just makes the load order that much more drastic. Plus I think original authors deserve a reward of some kind. Just a thought though..
*mods that contain work from others should not be eligible for this kind of option*

[WastelandAssassin]

well , even if such a system were to be implemented (and I highly doubt it ever would be) , these mod authors will still need to be active to set their mods up with this system

if they are already active , you don't need such a system to contact them . if they aren't active anyway , they won't be here to set the system to work with their mods

so it won't help you with your current project (this will only ever help with future games , if this is set up)

 

as for why this system wouldn't work , I honestly don't think you can set up such a system

basically , you are setting up a system for selling mods , not for usage but for their resources (which I'm pretty sure we can't do anyway , especially not here on the Nexus)

this actually requires a legal consideration , because I'm pretty sure you can't sell permissions to use your creations (which is what you are suggesting , even if you use donations . I doubt that donating and selling in this regard are legally different , but this requires a legal discussion , and I'm no lawyer)

 

you really need to ask the staff regarding this (and I hope they'll see this soon) , as they would obviously know best

but I wouldn't keep my hopes up with such an idea , I really don't think this will ever come to pass

[Indeity]

I'm just here to outline the general idea. It might not work as I have stated but I'd like to think that it would at least be taken into consideration and implemented as needed, in a system that works.

 

well , even if such a system were to be implemented (and I highly doubt it ever would be) , these mod authors will still need to be active to set their mods up with this system

if they are already active , you don't need such a system to contact them . if they aren't active anyway , they won't be here to set the system to work with their mods

so it won't help you with your current project (this will only ever help with future games , if this is set up)

It's would should who is active, who has returned etc. and on that note, people would return and update their mod in this fashion.

 

basically , you are setting up a system for selling mods , not for usage but for their resources (which I'm pretty sure we can't do anyway , especially not here on the Nexus)

this actually requires a legal consideration , because I'm pretty sure you can't sell permissions to use your creations (which is what you are suggesting , even if you use donations . I doubt that donating and selling in this regard are legally different , but this requires a legal discussion , and I'm no lawyer)

It's not buying the ability to DL the mod. You're purchasing a rights agreement which could be tracked and monitored thru the purchase. So no. a donation option wouldn't work, it would have to be an actual buy option. There are lots of sites that have this kind of option set up only it's thru the use of watermarking. The difference here is that there is no watermark but that's pretty easy to work around. On that note, the difficult part is setting of the legal agreement or agreements and adding the purchase option.

[Rabbit1251]

I think a mod asset donation button is needed. This way a mod author can post a "donate X value for part, X value for full permission to use assets in your mod". And it's a done deal. auto gen, maybe get a code and be able to show a certification that you purchased rights to use those assets.This would limit things down to sirous modders only and allow authors to go mia and collect off of their mods from other authors who wish to share expansions of their ideas. It would also help generate more merged mod projects, which would help simplify everyone's load order.

 

 

 

We had such a system some years past. Everybody loved it however nobody made use of it. It wilthered and died.

 

 

The Rabbit

[Indeity]

 

 

We had such a system some years past. Everybody loved it however nobody made use of it. It wilthered and died.

aw man, welp, maybe I should just continue creating / merging and worry about weather other get to see it later.