Dominion 4 ? Make your dream

[Gandalf Parker]

I will probably sound like a grumpy old guy but my response would be "go ahead".

Ive admined alot of projects like that and there tends to be lots of people who say "if only you give me access" but then they dont. And its usually true that if you were really motivated, then you could probably go ahead and do it and THEN get the access they earned.

Shrapnels versions of open source games havent done much (Scallywag comes to mind).

And there are lots of open source games that are like Dom3 (check SourceForge.net)

I dont really see how Dom3 suddenly going open source would ACTUALLY accomplish much.

Gandalf Parker
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To some people, unlimited options seems to them to be zero options.

[S.R. Krol]

Actually with SEV I don't think SF really fronted them any money, Aaron was still footing everything from my understanding. The only real difference was SF was putting the game on store shelves, if you could find it.

I don't see how a bigger (read AAA) developer would really help make Dom4. All that would happen is (a) 80% of the game would be gutted because it would cost too much and take too much time to do all the content in a AAA environment and (b) it would just be another game that looks and plays like a hundred other so called AAA games. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if some bean counter would turn it into a RTS.