Oh yes, that looks much better!
On the logo side, we really shouldn't use any official Monopoly stuff. I don't think Hasbro can stop us making a Monopoly style game (as long as we don't try and *sell* it) but putting actual Hasbro art on it is begging for a lawsuit!
I'm happy that you liked it!
As for the Monopoly stuff, I did dig a little. From what I read we could use it with no problems if we just intended to do an image, and not a full game set, and, more important,
we did not sell or make any profit from it in any way. That would include sharing it, even as free, on a website that make profit on ads. Also, no company will, theoretically, be able to legally produce the items for us, because then
they would make profit over the copyrighted material. Of course if you do it all at home to yourself there's no problem.
My original intention was just to make a image, as fan art. But since then our collaborative work evolved to a full game set that some minnions could print and use. That considered I believe that's far more comfortable to us all to avoid using any monopoly items.
Our cards already have different names. The hotels and houses could, as Jitter said, be called "inns" and "cottages", and we already changed the rest, like "go to jail" to "go to quarantine". We also have to change the small rectangular coloured areas over the locations, because that seems to be a "distinctive element" for copyright matters. We can change for anything, so I was thinking on a circle or hexagon. Both could work as locations for placing the "fortifications" around the buildings.
So we can go forward with our SSSSopoly (yes, naming games with "opoly" is permitted. There are even companies selling them legaly on the web).
I'm happy to switch to Rana, I only picked Steinsundsöyna from the list of settlements by inhabitants. Rana has a power plant so it's important because of that, so a good choice!
I'm glad that you agree. :-)
Now, before moving further, two questions:
1 - About the fortifications: It doesn't make much sense to include fortifications in fully safe areas, don't you agree? I'd suggest that all Iceland and the other capital cities were considered already as fortified (which should be reflected on their acquisition value).
Of course if we think a little more every location that we could put on the board has, in-story, its fortifications, with the exceptions of Kastrup and Kastellet. So, does it makes sense to keep with that concept?
2 - Should I keep thinking on the rectangular board? The hexagonal one seems more interesting and unique...
Butter good!
