[looie]

hi, all

I've been looking around for a while but unable to the find the right information.

I am part of a committee organising a small local SciFi convention for charity. We would like to feature a 4 PCs on a multiplayer LAN running FS2 .

Does anyone know who would I have to contact to get permission to FS2? I am a complete novice about about the legal stuff here.


btw- I've been a long time lurker on these forums for many years. The work that this community has done since is incredible. Thanks for all the hard work, its appreciated. 

Thanks in advance..

-alex
 

[karajorma]

What are you asking about? If your committee own all 4 PCs I'd say just install 4 times. It's only if people were bringing PCs to the convention and you were installing it on those PCs that you'd have legal issues.

In fact retail FS2 used to have some rule about requiring one disk for each 4 copies of FS2 in multiplayer (while requiring a disk for everyone playing SP) so I think you're right on the number of PCs intended you to be able to use off of one legal copy of the game.

[QuantumDelta]

Some games require you to have LAN licenses and other such "gimme more cake slices" rubbish pulled by the publishers.
Sometimes, not only do you have to buy the game in question but you have to buy a license on top of that 
FS has no such stipulation though - I don't think any game from back then ever did.
If that's what you're getting at, it's still unchanged in situation.
For the rest, see Karajorma's post.

[Mongoose]

Wow...I've never heard of having to purchase LAN licenses for a particular game.  That's a special sort of bull**** right there.

[Woolie Wool]

IIRC Rise of the Triad required a special "Site License" for large LAN hosts that cost 90 bucks.

[looie]

thanks guys for the replies. I've still have my original disk and we are only using our own PCs. I sent an email to Volition but no reply yet. I have to wonder if they really care that much about a 10yr old game run on old PCs run on at obscure event. 

 

[Kie99]

The PR of them trying to sue you for a charity event would probably dissuade them from doing it even if they wanted to.