[SilentOne1988]

I was reading the era forums, and I came upon a post about adding a stock market to era. Players started whining that so and so had stolen their idea, and they had it first. I found it funny. Every one of those guys obviously stole that idea from real life. I mean cmon, do you really think people are going to peek inside your head and look through your ideas and "steal" them? I dunno about this whole stealing thing, but I believe I have been inspired by a few sources that were so excellent, I decided to implement something similar.... You would think that the developers of said content would be happy that their stuff is so great that others want to make something similar. Naw, they are stealing ideas. On GDNet we call it being inspired by others work, here you all call it stealing ideas.

I've also noticed that people don't post their ideas in fear of them being stolen. Why? Chances are your ideas will work best in the world that you've built them around. I say fear people who steal your content, because ideas must be developed, and are practically worthless unless placed into a design document (thick with information). Nobody wants to steal your entire server idea, it probably sucks according to many of the people who will read it, they all have their own idea of the best server.

So please, get over it, nobody will steal your ideas, but they may be inspired by them, and if they are, be flattered.

-Scott
(wow theres a whole part about unoriginality in here, i'll go for a swim and then type up what was on my mind)

Curt1zzle, if you havn't seen people whining about idea stealing on the graal forums, you are blind. Why do you make such worthless posts in my threads?