Make colonial marines code free for use

[Nickmun]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):Allow people to make non profit servers with donations leading to you guys, Now hold your horses, Hear me out

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):You can get a bigger community and such, Allow people the freedom to add to the community via they're own community servers with restictions that still allow people the freedom to create a new way to play CM.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):Just allow people the freedom to if they want make a server for they're friends or who ever for them to dick around or change shit like allow they're friends or specific access people to join and do stuff like play pred or create fights, battle royal whiskey outpost, Stuff that you guys dont normaly allow to be done, And if you don't like what the servers doing just backdoor in and make em stop what you dont like. This can be a big thing to show the community you support them if they want to create a server without restrictions to they're creativity, Allow them the ability to think of something you guys dont think about, Allow them the freedom to create a server for people who dont feel like playing normal CM and feel like trying a new experience, Basicly the intent i have with this suggestion is to have a CM server with restrictions to changing the entire feel of the game but giving the freedom to use the code and create something they cant experience with normal CM servers, Lets say they want to play pred and be free to have hardcore non rp battles with others, Of course you guys dont do that so releaseing a code with restrictions would give them the freedom to do that without having to find leaked code and risk law suits or other problems, Kinda like the server that was shut down for leaked code but not as much as a problem or created by as bad of people,Remember if you choose to do this you can please the community but you will need to controll everything just a tiny bit cause you dont know what people are gonna do on those servers, Controlled community servers. Quote me on this community over personal gain.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):Just give code with a backdoor to enter and stop anything you dont like about that server so you have controll over the server if people are abusing they're power, Or trying to take over CM with they're ideals and no good intention for the community.

Consider the fact at some point people will want more freedom in the community why not start now

[Warnipple]

Won't happen, sorry. :[

Its been requested many times.

[Jdobbin49]

-1

Pretty obvious why

[Sargeantmuffinman]

This, illegaly happend.

It occured after a code leak we had.

There was another server that was up with the stolen code.
Heard it was full of shitlers we permabanned.
Went to hell.

Like, we have our reasons why we don't want it open source and we will stick with those reasons.

I can't name them all off the top of my head but.
It's not worth it in the end.

[Nickmun]

I dont understand whats so bad about this idea, Have you ever thought what would happen if the community left do to lack of freedom?

[Butterrobber202]

No. You have 12 posts and have been since Jan. No. Its a bad idea. Stop it. You are too young to understand

[Nickmun]

This, illegaly happend.

It occured after a code leak we had.

There was another server that was up with the stolen code.
Heard it was full of shitlers we permabanned.
Went to hell.

Like, we have our reasons why we don't want it open source and we will stick with those reasons.

I can't name them all off the top of my head but.
It's not worth it in the end.

That place was shit but im talking about admin monitored servers where people can do some things that you cant do on the main server with at the same time enough restriction to keep if from becoming level 9 god's server

[Nickmun]

No. You have 12 posts and have been since Jan. No. Its a bad idea. Stop it. You are too young to understand

Are you guys even reading the post? also butterrobber its called a suggestion

[coroneljones]

[Nickmun]

rip this suggestion

[Jdobbin49]

Honestly I'm just a mod but just the idea of having another cm server really makes me annoyed, I mean yog hippie paradise they are all pretty much the same apart from the staff and leniency on bans.
CM is unique, no one else has a server like it apart from people who have stolen it, our coders and spriters do phenomenal work on constantly adding new features to enhance and improve our server and boost it ahead and continue to make it so unique to the other servers, but, if you make another server no matter the purpose of said server it takes away that individuality.

[Shyguychizzy]

-1, why the hell would yah think that. Theres a reason why it isn't open source, duhhh. Anyhow, seeing multiple CM server's basically would decrease the amount of peeps to come on, anyhow basically giving peeps the hard work the Devs spent on dis, it has taken years from what I seen. I quite like how this isn't an open source, it is its own. It should stay like that in my opinion, it is quite amazing how CM became, I remember when it was Pre-Alpha. Well this may be a suggestion, we highly disregard it, for that is our opinion, if we think its a bad idea so be it.

[Sargeantmuffinman]

We have our reasons man, we have our reasons.

[Feweh]

Locked for obvious reasons.

[forwardslashN]

The reason CM is closed source isn't because the devs are hoarding the code. It's actually far less of a headache for everyone to just open source it and allow people to do whatever. The problem is that the open source license that a majority of other codebases use does not allow for anything to be kept secret, at all. Everything would be viewable by the public, and there would be no sense of discovery at all. Violating licenses to get around that isn't really something that we want, since the game is derived from the Aliens franchise (along with Predator). There's also some concern for people using opensource to powergame. In the end CM is a competitive game, so enabling people to crunch numbers and pick out meta strategies is discouraged. Finally, CM has a lot of custom assets created specifically for the game, and it is something that makes the server unique. Making everything open source would mean everyone would have access to the assets, for better or worse.