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In article <May.5.00.38.18.1994.4350@gandalf.rutgers.edu> srajan@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Srinivasa Rajan) writes:

>Your scores are impressive, but let's get one thing straight.  There
>is no TOP GUN imitator.  My friend write the TOP GUN TOD to get the
>game to go beyond its limits that were preset by the developers, not
>to imitate you.

That's what you say now, but in the original post the message was quite 
different.  Had it been just what you say now, I'd had no problem what so 
ever.  Like I said in my reply to it, I'm glad someone's been working on 
something like that and I think competition is just good for the business. 
However, I didn't like the fact he had to 1) use the name which had been 
associated to our competition for months (which he obviously knew),  2) use 
the name without understanding its meaning, and 3) make unjustified comments 
on the popularity of our competition.

>Don't worry, noone is out to "capture your title."  I don't think may
>people are interested in replaying the original tours in order to just
>kill everything.  I think people are interested in a new tour, with
>some newly designed challenging mission, and a new story line.  It is
>certainly more creative anyway.

Well, you've got a few things wrong here, although I agree with the basic 
idea.  First of all, quite a few people have been interested in the original 
TG competition -- even so that I've had a hard time answering my e-mail.  
Secondly, the real Navy TOP GUN school is about learning dogfighting and 
little else.  Our school used the name because my idea was to teach pilots 
the art of dogfighting and the original missions serve that purpose 
perfectly well.  Therefore, although your TOD may be more interesting and 
creative with new missions, it not only steals the name "TOP GUN" from us, 
but the name has also lost its true meaning.  However, you're right that 
many are interested in new missions and have asked us to implement a new 
competition with homemade missions in the future.  We were planning to do it 
after this one was over, but your friend came in just the right time to 
spoil it by using our trademark name.

>In addition, if you were an X-Wing die-hard, you would be willing to
>try out what other X-Wing fans and PC hackers have to offer.

Have I ever said anything else?  Have I made any bad comments on this new 
TOD, except for its name?  No, because I do appreciate others' efforts and 
if only I have time I'm very interested in trying out these new things.  
Just to remind you, it was you or your friend who made nasty comments on 
others' stuff.

Have a good one,
                                    
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