关于开发联机端合法性的统一公告 Notice on legality of multiplayer server development

(Machine translated for now,@Echowill translate this later!)

（全文已翻译！）

Hello everyone,

大家好

Since I get this question asked often on the English communication platforms and recently here as well, I thought it would be useful to share my answer and reasoning here to avoid repeating myself.

由于我经常被问到这个问题，我觉得在这里统一回答会比较好

TL;DR: No, we will never make it and you shouldn't either.

简答：不，我们永远不会开发联机端，而你也不该

Read further for the reasoning behind it.

阅读全文来了解这背后的种种原因

Technical effort

技术方面

The technical effort of making a multiplayer pve / pvp server never has been the limiting factor, we got many talented programmers with too much free time on their hands.

技术从来就不是开发联机服务器的限制因素，我们有很多很有天赋的程序员，而且他们的闲散时间都很多

We do have a good understanding of the multiplayer component in EFT.

我们的确知道塔科夫的联机是个什么成分

However, this task would not only be a large undertaking, but it also means these programmers are not working on improving the singleplayer component.

但不论怎么说，这一任务不仅是个超级大饼，而且还意味着我们没法改进单机的内容。

Community

社区

A prototype multiplayer server has been created in private by multiple groups (but none finished it due to the large undertaking required).

多个团队私下搞了一个多人游戏服务器的雏形（但由于工作量太大了，没有一个团队能完成它）

From personal experience I can say that multiplayer pve / pvp server projects attracted a lot of shady people which I really don't want to deal with.

就我个人而言，多人联机引来了很多我不想打交道的可疑的人

It also attracts a lot of people who claim to be more than they really are (“A software engineer with X years of experience on Y field”, but never contributed to the project, showed projects they work on, write whole books and spout technical terms without any knowledge).

同时也吸引来了不少华而不实的人（“一个在某领域拥有多少年经验的软件工程师”，实际上从未对项目做出贡献，也没有展示过他们从事的项目，更多的是长篇大论地用毫无营养的话喷射出大量专业术语）

This is not the kind of person I want to have involved in development.

我不想跟这种人一起共事

Legality

合法性

The current project can exist as we are an add-on to EFT without competing with EFT's service, which is legal[1][2].

项目还活着，是因为我们是塔科夫的附加组件，而不是与塔科夫竞争，这是合法的[1][2]

Developing a multiplayer service is competition to BSG's service, which is illegal[3][4].

开发联机端是对尼基塔的一种竞争，这是违法的[3][4]

Closing notes

结束语

If someone could send me a (translated) copy of the Chinese copyright laws (specifically regarding reverse engineering of software), that would be really great!

如果有人可以给我一份中国版权法（特别是关于软件逆向工程）的（翻译过的）副本，那就太好了！

References

参考文献

[1]: Koninkrijk Der Nederlanden Auteurswet Artikel 45m 1c

[2]: European Union Directive 2009/24/EC Article 6 1c

[3]: Koninkrijk Der Nederlanden Auteurswet Artikel 45m 2c

[4]: European Union Directive 2009/24/EC Article 6 2c

Sources

来源

Koningkrijk Der Nederlanden Auteurswet Artikel 45m (https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0001886/2021-06-07/#HoofdstukVI_Artikel45m)

European Union Directive 2009/24/EC Article 6 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009L0024&from=EN#d1e358-16-1)