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I'm just saying it's good to bounce ideas off of someone who really knows what they're doing.

While I'm sensitive as you are, lionon, to the use of the word "official" to describe anything that doesn't originate from an Office of some kind...

I suspect that the use of the word "official" in a product name or publicity material could run afoul of trademark law if its use tended to create confusion in the marketplace as to the origin of the product. So an "Official Guide to Major League Baseball" published by someone other than Major League Baseball (without their approval) might get ruled as a trademark infringement. Whereas an "Unofficial Guide to Major League Baseball" would treat MLB as a nominative use and thus not infringing per se, with the "unofficial" serving to ensure that no confusion as to the product's origin could result, making the whole thing non-infringing. Where "Guide to Major League Baseball" would sit I'm not sure.

This would be true regardless of what you and I know to be the correct use of the word "official", simply because it's presence or absence would affect how the public perceives the product based on the common understanding of the term.

Undoubtedly this analysis is leaving out a lot of actual law that an experienced professional would be better situated to correctly explain.

We're now in the interesting situation where the mobile game is unauthorized and will remain unauthorized until such time as the developers label it as "unauthorized", at which point it will then be authorized.

Jason has said, clearly, that he likes the aesthetics of having to "say" words rather than being able to "say" numerals.

It can be annoying, but I agree with him.

It seems like you are inviting speculation, so I will speculate. As usual I recommend you consult with an experienced professional.

I suspect that you have granted the mobile team - and everyone else - an unconditional license to use your copyrighted works and any trademarks that might be associated with those works. While future works you might create (including further updates to OHOL) could be released under whatever terms you like, I don't think you can revoke the licenses that you've already granted. If the issue came to a court, I suspect you would lose.

You continually use the word "fraud", but I'm certain you're using it incorrectly, and I think arguments based around it would do nothing for you if the issue came to a court.

I don't know how Apple, Google, and Tap Tap handle disputes, but again I'll speculate. I expect they will allow both you and the mobile team to present your respective arguments. I suspect they will ground their decisions around the question of ownership and licensing of intellectual property. I suspect they will be reluctant to parse the details of whether you have granted a license to the trademark and will take your word for it that you have not; this would probably force the mobile team to change the name of their app to something that you could not plausibly claim a trademark over. Once they do that, the app stores would probably decide that they've satisfied your takedown request.

In short, as I mentioned eariler, I think the only levers you have are goodwill and moral suasion - towards the mobile team, that is. I doubt that goodwill and moral suasion will be of any use with the app stores.

Someone else might know of some other levers still available to you.

I think an apocalypse on server7 is exactly what's called for, and is the perfect reaction to a town that is excluding the general population.

Some players don't like having other players around and are using the game mechanics to get what they want. Other players don't like that those players are being exclusive... and so they should use the game mechanics to get what they want.

Good for the goose, good for the gander.

Can't decide whether Spoonwood or pein is more tiresome to read

Fullness doesn't matter, only temperature and yum.

ALL PRAISE VOG

I don't have any sympathy for people who are playing in small groups or solo and who worry desperately about "losing their Eve chain" or otherwise being unable to find their precious town that they've worked so hard on in life after life.

Because that's not the way the game is intended to be played.

I don't begrudge them for doing so, and I'm not going to try to stop them, because it doesn't really affect me. Creating a de facto private town on a public server is honestly rather obnoxious, but it's not that big of a deal... people who get born there can use /die to get location banned and then play in a different town (or if there aren't any other towns, play as an Eve and start one, or if they don't want to play as an Eve play on a different server).

But I won't shed a tear when Jason makes yet another change specifically intended to stop this kind of gameplay, as he has done on various occasions in the past.

If you are an Eve and die of old age, the location of your death is saved.

When you next spawn as an Eve (there could be any number of non-Eve lives intervening), if there are 3 or fewer fertile women on the server when you spawn, then you will spawn in the saved location where you previously died of old age as an Eve.

If you ever die as an Eve of some cause other than old age, your death location will not be saved, and any previously saved location is forgotten.

If you spawn as an Eve and have no saved location, or if you spawn as an Eve and there are more than three fertile women on your server at the time you spawn, then you will spawn in the next location along the Eve spawn spiral.

Jason, I agree with you - the law is not an impenetrable fog that only the experts can navigate or understand, and there are plenty of purported experts who are terrible at it. That said, I do think that an attorney with experience in this area could benefit you not just by their greater knowledge of the relevant law, but also from their experience in handling matters similar to yours in previous cases for other clients.

If I broke my leg and had the Internet handy I could learn how to set my own broken bone, but I'd rather have an ER doc do it because they've done it a hundred times before.