Copying/Modifying UP Powers

[Duggan]

Is there any way to disable the warning messages when copying a power from UP? I realize that you probably don't want people mass-copying the UP stuff and then exporting it for everyone to use, but it also means that it's difficult to refine an existing power or extra using the editor.

[Colen]

We could potentially disable the warning messages if you ticked a "Don't show me again" checkbox - is that the sort of thing you're after? You still wouldn't be able to save a power you copied from Ultimate Power.

[Duggan]

Ah, I'm afraid I was more hoping for an "allow someone to copy this" but as noted in the first post, I see what you're trying to avoid with this choice. *wrinkles nose* As much as anything, it's those little things like where a power doesn't quite work right and you think "Oh, but maybe if I tweak this one variable..."

[Grayson7]

Is that why we can't copy stuff from Ultimate Power? To prevent distribution?

[Colen]

Exactly. You can copy anything from the core rules, but if we allowed people to copy stuff from Ultimate Power, someone would probably just spend 2 hours copying everything and give it to their friends, and then it would get onto the internet and everyone would have it.

We don't like having to do anti-piracy stuff like this, but it's unfortunately too damaging for us not to. Before we upgraded the copy protection on Army Builder, we had 4 pirate users for every user who paid for the program.