Quoting: ChrisLane

Quoting: dimkoWhen comes to actual coding - game was and still is in poor optimization state.

The game has also had a huge RAM and VRAM leak in the Vulkan Linux build for a long time now, it's not present in the OpenGL version but the downside of that is that performance isn't as good.
Apparently the leaks aren't present in the Vulkan Windows builds but unfortunately running the game with Proton gets you kicked from servers with the anti-cheat enabled which is required for crossplay.

Oh lort, the VRAM leak. It's horrible!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuySigh. What I meant is for practical purposes forever by video game standards. Like, about three times as long as video games have existed--the very earliest possible video game would still have like 80 years or something to go. It was amazingly mild hyperbole.

I can no longer tell whether people are being serious or not online.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThe duration does make things interesting legally. I mean, hypothetically there would be two avenues for going after OpenTTD: Copyright and Trademark. Copyright lasts forever but it's pretty specific . . . infringement requires verbatim copying of extensive amounts of stuff; the mere fact that you called it Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, for instance, wouldn't be a copyright infringement, so it would depend how much specifically TTD stuff was still in the game. Trademark on the other hand is short duration and requires this sort of ongoing maintenance thing. OpenTTD would surely violate any trademarks involved, but the mere fact that it has existed all this time without being bothered could quite likely invalidate the trademark if I'm not mistaken. And it might have lapsed after all this time anyway. Not that the merits matter much when someone with money takes someone without money to court.

Probably better that everyone's playing nice.

What? Copyright doesn't last forever.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Geamandura

Quoting: tarmo888

Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: CharlieTheMadHatterAlso, don't forget that Atari has the legal power to shut down OpenTTD completely.

Do they? On what basis? I'm honestly curious, because this is a different game, and while the origin or the spiritual connection is obvious, there are so many games out there with clones that coexist. Just look at all the Minecraft-like games.

Because it's not different game, it's based on IP they own.

As long as OpenTTD doesn't redistribute or monetize TTD or include code output from reverse engineering TTD binaries they are untouchable.

Actually untouchable, or untouchable under the current US administration and court system?

Because they seem to side with corporations an awful lot these days...

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Of course they owe a lot to the original TTD.

They don't owe jackshit to Atari.

It should be criminal to be able to buy the "rights" to a game that's more than 30 years old and start charging people for it just because you're a corporation that can afford to buy so-called Intellectual Property.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Jarmerso ... exactly how is an "internet enabled device" such as a light bulb supposed to conduct age assurance. This is all so stupid it just gives me a headache to even think about.

For what it's worth, at least the California law (I haven't bothered to read all of them) specify "general computing devices" which rules out things like lightbulb OSes.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: CarollyThere's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either.

Perhaps "most" is technically true, but I see plenty of superfluous Prop 65 labels on things here in Hawaii. (I don't know if it's because those things come from California, or if it's just easier for a company to slap a label on something and sell one version throughout the US rather than make a separate version solely for California.)

Some of both, actually. I know about Prop 65 labeling because once in a blue moon something labeled for California will show up here in Canada and it's because the importer just slaps the same labels on everything coming into their North American distribution centre. And anything actually manufactured in California does presumably need to follow their legal labeling standards (not that I've seen a Product of California that wasn't a fruit or a vegetable in a dog's age.)

But in almost all cases there is no obligation to do so for any product made/sold outside of that particular jurisdiction, and distros can avoid any legal kerfuffle by IP blocking California from their official downloads (see: how every American distro handles US trade sanctions with, e.g., Russia or Syria.)

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: fenglengshun

Quoting: CarollyHonestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I mean. They could still sue you. Your Terms of Service and EULA is only as good as your legal team and how much money you have.

I feel like everyone is so optimistic that they can't be sued because the alternative is taking it seriously and it's scary, as well as involves compromises on things that traditionally we don't care for (but now have to because law is law).

A majority of distros aren't even based in the US, so good luck with that.

But I'd imagine it would just be thrown out of court regardless. California cannot impose their laws outside of their own jurisdiction. There's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either. If it were that simple the California AG would be suing people left, right, and centre for failing to comply with Prop 65 labeling legislation outside of state.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Honestly just slap a "not legal to use in California" label on the OS and be done with it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: Jarmeroh didn't know that! I always play every single arpg ssf because I dislike multiplayer, but ..... now that you've enlightened me to these "merits" I may or may not have to look up if there's a way to hack or mod these into new chars without ever getting them to begin with!

You don't even need multiplayer - SSF means "never trades items from your other single player characters" and that's presumably not you - you just need a character that's already reached that difficulty. Go buy a Merit with your Elite or Ultimate character, stick it in the shared stash, et voila. You do need the Forgotten Gods expansion for them.

That said (and I have over 1,000 hours in) I've never really found the GD story to be that much of a slog to work through in all honesty. You can complete the base game in a few hours when you know where you're going and have some decent equipment shared.

Of course there's also nothing wrong with just not playing Ultimate if you don't want to. The game has plenty of content without it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments