Starting an Uni Subspace Club/Society

[sertse]

Hi everyone,

 

As the topic says, I'm looking at starting a Subspace Soc/Club at my university. (UNSW.. A Uni in Australia if anyone cares)

 

A little about me:

 

Total Usage: 297 hours 42 minutes

First played: 5-26-2001 3:51:18

 

I usually play, TW, DSB or one of the SVS zones. I'm strictly a casual player, usually playing in pub (Or at times in a sub arena if there an alternative styled game e.g. in TW elim or tourny), not a novice (depends how you define it really), but the point there is I'm not a committed compe!@#$%^&*ive league player. And neither is the sort of people I am expecting to join this sort of soc.

 

Anyways, a couple of questions.

 

- Am I correct that Subspace/Continuum is allowed to be freely distributed? Specifically, I am intending to burn copies and hand it out as a promotion to try the game and join our club.

 

- Am I allowed to charge money to join my society? I know I'm not allowed to "sell" the game, but I am allowed to give the game for free, while seperartely convincing to join my society for a nominal fee? (Which apart from offering a support group of fellow local SS players, would also do RL "stuff".. like any other RL Uni club does). This is mainly to re-coup some of my expenses of buying CD's + Printing/Promotion costs.

 

-Speaking of promotion, anyone got any good banners/material for promoting Subspace/Continuum? Or at least images of ships/space (To whip "something" up) Things that could be used for A4 (As a poster) and/or Leaflet and/or "Snippet" size (Handout/Leave around). The ones I have seen that could work are the ones in the SVS beginners guide. http://subspace.legendzones.com/advertising.php and the Chaos Zone ones http://www.subspacechaos.com/downloads.php

 

However most zone sites have a downloads section, and some have wallpapers, so I guess it can do. (If/Once I can add some words to it...)

 

Also for interest sake (Might also be useful at a later point) does anyone know of any good promo videos> If not that, any sort of recorded game kinda thing that shows for cool SS is? Just asking after seeing TW

and Extreme Games' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=algSNNceHoI youtube promo vids.

 

- MOST IMPORTANTLY: I am looking for an appropiate zone for sort of players/setup I have been describing.

 

Specifically:

1. They will be completely new to this game. So hopefully something that captures thier attention easily... and not too discouraging.

2. The way I'm setting this up, for our society events, our members set a specific time to meet up, and we play eachother. In this case, I want it away from "randoms" interfering as much as possible. At this point at least. Who knows! If this is actually sucessful, we could form a real squad and take part in leagues against "other people" lol. Though I doubt anyone would want to play against an all Aussie group

 

Any suggestions? My limited reasearch says doing it through the TWD system could work. Split our members into different squads, and we play eachother. And the TWD system doesn't excatly have a start and end date, unlike leagues, I believe. Also allows for less...commitment too I think? It allows you to decide when you want to play a match.

 

HOWEVER, I am open to anything at works really.

 

Thanks.

[Testtube]

You can distribute the game anyway you want. You can start a club charge a fee do anything you wish to do. I would refer them to the download links provided by the community instead of CDS. It will keep costs low and also expose them more to the community we have here.

[Smong]

Your uni may support societies, such as giving you an initial sum of money and then you can get further money by taking receipts to them. I don't know what the uni culture is like in Australia, but I don't think you should charge an entry fee for an SS society. Where I am I think the only societies that charge fees are for blanket access to on campus sports facilities, or going on extreme sports trips (travel expense, hiring gear). You can always get more money later in the year by selling society branded T-shirts/clothing to members (I don't know if that's common in Australia).

 

http://www.subspacechaos.com/downloads.php ew, bmp's in a webpage.

 

Here's an old thread about posters:

http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=11884

[»SOS]

Very nice idea! I'll gladly see your club in SSCI Devastation Haha. Seriously, though, that's where I play, so it's the only place I'd see them

 

Do know that if someone really hates you, they could dig up the fact that Continuum is in fact an illegal remake of the game, using copyrighted graphics from another company (although it is abandonware - freeware in practice - we do not expect any trouble from the copyright owner).

[Dav]

I thought about doing this, unfortunately i know noone else at my uni that plays this game.

[Samapico]

One time, I noticed someone installed Continuum on a computer at my university... I started it to check if there were any profiles loaded, but the name that was there did not even exist on the biller

[JDS]

just make sure you start them in a zone with classic subspace ships.. no one likes the new zones

[ThunderJam]

I believe that being freeware, your not allowed to make a profit that is a direct result of selling the game? I could be wrong

 

But if you say the charge is for joining the club, or say that it is an option but highly recomended donation or something like that... you should be able to work it out fine.

 

Also consider giving part of the money to the ss community to pay for stuff like servers and webspace?

[Russky]

I believe that being freeware, your not allowed to make a profit that is a direct result of selling the game? I could be wrong

 

But if you say the charge is for joining the club, or say that it is an option but highly recomended donation or something like that... you should be able to work it out fine.

 

Also consider giving part of the money to the ss community to pay for stuff like servers and webspace?

 

Definitely, even small donations can help pay for hosting and donations, and possibly support the community.

[Dav]

[MikeTheNose]

Very nice idea! I'll gladly see your club in SSCI Devastation Haha. Seriously, though, that's where I play, so it's the only place I'd see them

 

Do know that if someone really hates you, they could dig up the fact that Continuum is in fact an illegal remake of the game, using copyrighted graphics from another company (although it is abandonware - freeware in practice - we do not expect any trouble from the copyright owner).

 

There is no longer any copyrite. This game is no more illegal than any freeware game.

[»doc flabby]

Plus the trademark subspace has expired. So you can advertise this game as SubSpace should you want to.

[Hoch]

There is no longer any copyrite. This game is no more illegal than any freeware game.

Copyrighted material typically expires after 70 years. So uhm yeah, someone

clever enough with a proven legitimate interest in the game could in theory

assert their right. However, as with most things legal there is a difference be-

tween having a right to something and enforcing your right in that thing

 

An SS Society! Brilliant idea! I wish I had thought of that when I was at college.

Then again, I was too busy co-founding the Pro Bono Society

 

 

-Hoch

[NBVegita]

If you're looking for a good zone to start the newbs in, the 17thparallel would, if they haven't adjusted too much, be a great place for these guys/gals to start. The zone had good settings, something new players could play, and experienced players could master. Each ship is undeniable different from all the others which gives you great variety. As a bonus the zone has been averaging about 1 player for the last month, so you wouldn't have to worry about vets picking on the newbs or beating them into discouragment.

 

That is !@#$%^&*uming you can get enough players in your club to make the game fun without others involvement.

[sertse]

Edited September 1, 2007 by Sertse

[Hakaku]

Edited September 2, 2007 by Hakaku