Demangel
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Posted - 2006.02.07 01:52:00 -
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Problemn with doing EVE fiction depends a lot on when you place the novel in the timeline.
Place it in the current time, and there is a lot of stuff you would have to adhere too, and you would need to worry a lot about asking for permission to use character names, and people could sue maybe as it's based on real events (simulated though they may be?).
I dunno interesting question if you ask me... Well ok here is the question I'm beating around the bush about.
Say I wrote a novel about the stuff happening now in my alliance, dramatized the crap out of it with creative liscense, and so on, would I need permission from everyone I reference? Would CCP even pick it up?
I would suspect that novels thus would be about entirely fictional events in EVE, or about pre-current age in the time line. As According to CCP more or less, the current players are for all intents and purposes, "writing" the cannon backstory of the current age of eve as they play it.
Crap that happened in the first year after release is treated this way by CCP, and while not everything that happened is present in the history/timeline, they definately proclaim it as EVE timeline fact now.
Like if they made a new game set a couple hundred years from now, would they refference m0o? Heck even agents reference em in dialogues! Did CCP pay people in m0o to use em this way? did they even have to seeing as everything they did and created are probably property of CCP by way of the EULA?
I know that many games have such clauses, IE if you make a free mod that hits it big, The publisher often has the right to do things with it... Granted in many such situations they buy it from you, but in the case of M0o, was that even an issue? Does CCP consider all our play time as thier property?
If I started up an alliance and somehow managed to conquer EVE, who would have rights over the story that would create? me? or CCP? or would we share it? Would CCP even generously offer to pay me off for all the work I might have put into it?
Heheh, anyway I suppose I'd buy EVE novels, but I would want them to be as true to the game as possible, and if set in current eve timeline, I would expect to be able to fact check much of the events and see corelation if not exact adherance... I don't mean exactly strict rule/mechanic adherance ("Demangel activated a warp scrambler onthe enemy, adding two points of scrambler strength, and fired his blasters each doing upwards of 65 damage per hit every 2 seconds...")... But rather, if I get into a fight with a guy as the above line states, and win, Iwouldn't want to read about how I lost LOL.
Galaxion > If you drove a car shaped like a thorax women would call you Demangel > Dude... I would call.. Demangel > wait that sounded g@y I bet. Galaxion > Just a bit.
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