The Future... spin-off: Intellectual Property and resource sharing

[Myrddraal]

If the reason a separate hidden forum is wanted is that people want to be able to have research threads not being lost in newbie threads, then making a new forum seems an excellent idea.

But why oh why make it hidden?

If you don't want exceptionally inexperienced members posting irrelevant material in there (intentionally or not) then why not make it that junior members can't post there?

But again, why make it hidden.

Why hide information, whatever it is, from the greater modding community?

My 2 pence

[GiantMonkeyMan]

so then there won't be people saying 'where can i get this mod?' when anyone who has 2 peas for a brain knows that it is a research thread for modding/an update thread for a mod which hasn't come out yet... that is what bugs me with the newer members... but what i just wrote sounds quite harsh
basically a hidden/partially hidden sub-forum would be useful for experienced modders to confer without newer member coming up with ideas that may have already been tried but they haven't been around long enough to realise this

i like the ideas for sharing of material between mod teams; we of Zulu tw would probably saved a lot of time if we had gone to (or had the balls to got to ) the napoleonic tw team for anims/models... but there is a certain thing about making your own stuff instead of having to share things
if someone had the time to gather modding resources (like new skins/text files made by anyone) and then tried to get the creator's permission to put it in a modding resource thread (or whatever) but that would take a lot of time

[Lusted]

Mydraal, the whole point of the hidden forum is to help mods with problems with features they are not ready to make public yet. Any discoveries or new tutorials posted in the hidden forum would be made public, as it would be pointless to keep them hidden.