[An Update from The Homecoming Team]

24 minutes ago, Number Six said:

The code for in-game advertising is gone. It was licensed from a third party and could not be used or even bundled with the game anymore once their agreement with DoubleFusion ended. Paragon had already removed most of it, and the SCORE team ripped out what little was left

I wanna mention that this is wrong. The code just wasn't released for the sole reason of it being used for monetary gains. 

[Homecoming Server Update (May 29th): User Agreement & Policy Updates]

Seriously quit giving them a hard time and just sign the silly agreement. Just play have fun and dont worry about the legalese.

 

It's not a silly agreement? It's a legal document which looks like it was copied. Because of the "ACCEPT" button stuff in there.

 

From what I have been told, applying for non-profit status takes months, and as long as the LLC keeps track of all the money they got and where it went, this will be taken into account and not be an issue. I don't live in the US though so I have not researched this, but it's the reason why they are not taking more money that they can legitimately use to support the servers.

 

Re: money, if you seriously think anyone is making a profit out of this you have no idea what it takes to run servers at this scale. Stop believing people who claimed you could host a server for 1000 people on a Ryzen in your basement.

 

Disclaimer: I am not part of the Homecoming LLC, I am not a lawyer and I don't live in the US, this is just the facts as I've been told them.

 

I understand that these are the facts you are told but I think it would have been smarter to relay this to the thousands of users on your server. Didn't homecoming also take 1250 as extra contingency fund?

[Homecoming Server Update (May 29th): User Agreement & Policy Updates]

Not legal =! illegal. We're in more of a grey area.

 

I'm going to come out of lurking to say this.

 

Uh.. What? Please elaborate.

 

Think of it as like fanfiction.  There are no laws against fanfiction, only against violating copyrights.  Most publishers/movie studios/TV networks, etc. don't bother to go after fanfiction writers because they make no money from their work.  Homecoming is the same.  They are not running the game for profit, so they are not taking (non-existent, but still their legal right) income from NCSoft.

 

Yes but how do you know that. Their still running under an LLC which is for profit legally. Non-Profit are simple to make in delware. As far as I'm aware you can use an automate process to do so.

[Homecoming Server Update (May 29th): User Agreement & Policy Updates]

I say this because I'm not sure how you can have a legally binding document for something illegal.

Not legal =! illegal. We're in more of a grey area.

 

But, putting that to one side, just because we're in a legally grey area from a hosting standpoint, that doesn't mean we should be going around breaking other laws :)

 

I legally don't understand what you mean. How exactly is the server legally in a grey area, while running illegal code on the backend?

 

Also would we be getting any more information about you guys moving from the LLC to a Non-Profit LLC?

[The Future - An Open Letter from the Homecoming Team]

• For those of you interested in being GameMasters and/or moderators: We tend to recruit our GMs from those we see being helpful and friendly on our Discord server and in-game, so that’s the best place to start if this is something you’re interested in.
  
• For those of you interested in helping with the website: Please go ahead and post in this thread. We are now starting to look at options for expanding the website (and hopefully moving to new forum software), so we’d love to hear what you guys have in mind!
  
• For those of you interested in helping with future development of the game: This is where it gets a bit more tricky. As mentioned above, we aren’t able to conduct open source development until we feel we would not be putting the servers in jeopardy by doing so. We are eagerly awaiting the day where we can open up development to everyone who is interested, and in the meantime there’s two things you can do to get ready for this. Firstly, post in this thread if you’re a programmer or this thread if you’re an artist. Secondly, start becoming familiar with OuroDev’s SCoRE (i25) branch, it’s close enough to ours that anything you create should be compatible without too much additional work
  

 

I am pretty familiar with the current source code available and would like to help out in any way I can. Be it through the CoH Code or if you're going to be creating stuff for the forum. I have been helping out where I can in the discord.