So, you announce that you'll pay $500 to anyone who can develop an auto-balance solution for C2 but you want to use the program exclusively -- no problem.

But, in our conversation on Vent, you were very rude and angry about the fact that I was patenting the algorithm used in the code. You say you wanted *all* rights to my code and my algorithm or no deal which I find unacceptable.

You compared yourself to a company where the company and not the employee receives the patent which is fallacious since this is a personal business transaction in the form of a *service*.

I said I would give you an exclusive lifetime license to use the code however you see fit, but I will keep the copyright and patent rights. That is, it is still copyrighted by me, but I agree to not distribute it or give it away in any form -- it is for your use only.

I have trouble understanding your rage concerning the possibility of me "doing something on the side" with the code, since I agreed to let you use it exclusively. The only possibility of something happening "on the side" is if someone were to infringe upon one of the patents in which case they'd owe me royalties or they infringed upon the copyright in which case the same would apply.
But, what *would not* happen *ever* would be me dishonoring the agreement.

It seems you want to own all possible future revenue for someone's hard work for a one time fee -- it doesn't work that way.

Also, if you are as rude in the real world as your were on Vent then it's no matter people have a problem with you on-line.

If any server operators are interested in the auto-balance "patch" ( it works with ranked servers ) then please PM me. I will be selling it for a much reduced rate compared to Geronimo.

jdb2

This is the sequence of our messages via PM. Please read it carefully because I already know you're a snake.

DDD|Geronimo wrote:
I will pay $500 to whoever can develop an auto-balance working plug-in for Crysis2.
I have also posted this on the nexuiz forums to see if one of those Devs will do it. If you're interested, please send me a PM

http://forums.nexuiz.com/index.php?/top ... or-crysis2


BTW, I forgot to mention that my e-mail address is jonathanbusby@gmail.com ( or jdb2@pobox.com ).

I assume you would use PayPal?

Regards,

Jonathan


And I answered:

Paypal is fine.
Stipulations:
It must work and be stable.
This is a product that you must agree that you are making this for me, I am paying for it's exclusivity and you can not release, give away or in any way let it get to anyone without my consent.
If you can comply, please continue.

Good luck.
G

And now you want to tell me that I can't give it to anyone and that I can only use it for life but I can't let anyone else use it? You're a joke. I never said you couldn't try to patent it. I told you to take a hike when you said I could not give it to anyone else to use. You're full of sh!t.
I already have a developer of Nexuiz giving me what I need to make auto=balance work.
Please sell all you want. I wish you the best. but I will soon have it available for free to anyone who wants it. LOL

If by "auto-balance" you mean a formally provably mathematically optimal distribution of players across teams based on their rank and skill then I've already applied for a patent and your developer would be in violation if he uses my method.

Also, if the method the developer is using involves a mod, game dll or patch to the server ( via run-time memory patching or otherwise ) then it won't work on ranked servers or you'll be violating your provider's TOS.

My method does not touch any Crytek code at all, and there's basically only one way to do it if you're going to do it that way. If he's using that method then he's in violation of the patent.

jdb2