I threatened to sue anyone else trying to steal the fmc concept/code in any shape or form
The concept? I hope it wasn't the concept of that flying hammer vehicle around a landscape shooting at each other in multiplayer mode because I was the one who made the first working prototype of that anyway. Beside that you really can't just copyright/protect the concept.
Ant, man ... you just need to grow up. When's it going to happen already sheesh! I can't believe you wouldn't even take Ad's advice and get an agreement. We have one ... everyone working together should have one immediately and before anything is exchanged. That's what Ad and I did ... nothing was done until the contracts were at least in the mail and even then it was very minor stuff.
Everything that you seem to have trouble with stems from you not being bothered ... can't work because you can't be bothered, can't complete a game because you can't be bothered, can't just get a friggin' contract together because you can't be bothered.
The one thing you can be bothered to do all the time though is complain about the industry, other people's games, and then give other developers on these boards mostly useless advice, typically your advice is given just to slag on someone else's decisions (which are obviously poor ones since hindsight is always 20/20) so you can make yourself feel better.
Let's see if you can be bothered not to reply to any more useless posts like this one ... until you release Vivid.