You can't silence the internet. The harder you try to hide something, the more sites will pop up disclosing and explaining it.
It's easier to just show it outright, for you in first place. Especially if you are trying to create an open world, persistent MMO, not a short-lived session game.
Said that, I prettly please ask you to distinguish between patents, that actually cover important knowledge, and patents, that only block basic gameplay.
Adding to all the discussion, it seems everybody missing the part, where more personal character progression is planned to add to the game.
Right now, there's literally zero character progression, it's all empire progression thing, which is only PART OF the planned game.
It's easier to just show it outright, for you in first place. Especially if you are trying to create an open world, persistent MMO, not a short-lived session game.
Said that, I prettly please ask you to distinguish between patents, that actually cover important knowledge, and patents, that only block basic gameplay.
Adding to all the discussion, it seems everybody missing the part, where more personal character progression is planned to add to the game.
Right now, there's literally zero character progression, it's all empire progression thing, which is only PART OF the planned game.