Pstemarie wrote...
I think many have avoided the Nexus because of its devotion to copyright. Considering that most submissions seem to be compilations of some sort, many users probably think they'll get banned for posting other people's work. I think its an erroneous concern, but a concern nonetheless.
Nothing's going to replace reading the ToS and all the other threads on plagiarism, giving credit and copyright, but
this thread has most of the questions we'd ask in this community, answered by a Nexus moderator. If one reads the whole thread (it's just two pages), they should have a reasonably clear idea how the Nexus rules would apply to NWN, including compilation packs and copyright on things like NWScript.
I'd probably call it fear of copyright rather than devotion to it. The whole copyright thing with Nexus does not appear based on any of the "authorship issues" stuff this community dealt with years ago. Their zero-tolerance copyright policies appear to have mainly sprung from trying to keep from getting in any legal trouble with Bethesda,
but the same rules are applied over all the Nexus sites and so people sometimes infer things about why Nexus has those rules. Bethesda's licensing situation for content in their games seems to be a lot more complicated than the situation Bioware was in when they made NWN. So the whole tone is necessarily a lot more locked down. For instance, nobody here would think twice about taking a placeable, say, from Hordes of the Underdark and releasing it in a way that regular NWN/SoU users could download and use.
But that would be a huge no-no for Bethesda.
Hence, rules as strict as you see in the link at the top of this post.
Robin, the guy who runs the Nexus sites, is actually a really reasonable guy. And much more reasonable and friendly to a modding community than the raw rules at Nexus (or some of the Nexus's self-styled "promoters") might imply.
Here are his messages in the NWN2 thread which led to the creation of the Neverwinter Nexus. As anyone can see, he's not about tribal division over where people store files or copyright crusades, he's just trying to keep his site out of legal trouble.
Tarot Redhand wrote...
Isn't there another alternative that isn't 'dead'?
I'm not sure how you're judging 'dead'. If 'dead' means very few files, then the NWVault is the only place that's really alive. But places like Nexus, ModDB have relatively thriving communities covering a lot of different games. There might not be much juice in the NWN section, but the sites themselves don't look like they're going away anytime soon. You could probably say that about a couple of the other places I linked to. Strong communities and websites, but not necessarily a well-stocked or thought-out NWN 1 section for them.
Pstemarie wrote...
We could always do the link list idea, but host it at the site AD made or maybe NWN Connections
I don't mean to be dense but a list of what, specifically?
