Steam legal stuff / monetizing

I had a question for the devs in a different thread, and decided to ask again for a more elaborate answer in this thread so we dont derail the other one.

So, what is the current ZK's legal status, what is its planned future legal status, and are there any plans for proper monetization?

Are you trying to set up ZK as a non-profit organisation, or a profit one? If it is a regular profit organisation, are there any potential problems with licensing for any of ZK's assets, which, i assume, have all kinds of licenses attached to them?

Are there plans to do more monetization options? I would love to see a cash shop with custom commander models, and maybe even custom unit models. This could be just reskins, or entirely new models. As i understand, the actual unit geometry doesnt matter for the game - all of the data, such as the hitbox size and shape, as well as weapon shots origin points are all stored in unitdefs and are not directly related to the model.

I could easily see ZK raising funds on scale from $10k to $100k over the 6-12 months after the steam release if there are cool-looking things for sale. That would certainly help maintain the server, as well as purchase high-qualty assets, possibly even hire some freelance assholes to make them.

The plan as far as i know it is to set up a non-for-profit or, better, a "low-profit limited liability" type of official organization. The difference is that latter provides limited liability so individual members of such an organization would not be subject to massive liability in the worst case.

As mentioned in other thread, this is currently stalled as info about setting up an L3C in AU is being gathered.

quote: As i understand, the actual unit geometry doesnt matter for the game - all of the data, such as the hitbox size and shape, as well as weapon shots origin points are all stored in unitdefs and are not directly related to the model.

Weapon origin points and hierarchies are stored in model, which makes models part of sync data. Textures are not, and neither are shaders. Current commander skins work as a shader that alters the texture.

That said, i don't see much technical issues changing models. After all, commanders already use different models while being functionally similar.

GoogleFrog would that simply be as easy as setting up a LLC under someone's name (literally anyone could be the owner) and presenting ZeroK as the product?

My sister knows a lawyer who likes our family and helps with family legal stuff.
If you can distill the question you need answered into "How do i satisfy these (XYZ) requisites to fulfill the (ABC) clauses in this part of (example) contract?"

LLC means by by music and 80% of our models afaik, because those are CC-NC

Wait, EVO:RTS is on steam, why can't you just ask @[EVO]ForbodingAngel how he did it?!?!?

Evo still has had contributions from other people. Maybe not permanent or long-term collaborators like ZK has, but still.

Probably just didn't care for the worst case in the slightest.

Also Evo doesn't have hats.

Who's got two thumbs and just became (sorta) friends with the composer for Star Citizen. Me. (Working with him on a project soon)

Set this up for proper monetization, and you can get rid of the stock music and have real scored music for ZK.

Check his work:
http://www.musicbypedro.com/

How is the current ZK music "stock music"?

Bah just create an association under Swiss law. Does not require money to create, registration in the registry of commerce not mandatory but may be done for a small fee (but with authentified signatures), liability limited to the assets of the association. I should be able to find a draft contract to set up an association in English.. The downsides are: all paperwork will have to be done in French, German or Italian and someone has to provide the seat. Did you know that FIFA and UEFA are Swiss associations?

I am a lawyer so I should be able to tell for sure lol but it's not really my field. However, by quickly skimming through the law, it seems there is no restriction on (1) nationality/residence of people setting up the association and (2) nationality/residence of people running the association, so it should work.