Hi everyone, I am working on a few story lines in the Foundry that I am really excited about releasing soon, but I have a big problem. Some of them are based on STO storyline missions that are about to be removed (Cardassian) or already have been (Romulan). And I can't rewright the story with the new storyline missions and have it work. For example, one of my Cardassian based stories depends on the current Badlands mission. After you run the true Way out of the secret base in Badlands, a band of pirates moves in and takes up residence and you are sent back in to remove them. But with the new mission that will replace it, (yes I've checked it on Tribble) the new base won't work right and so I need to find an alternative. So I decided to recreate the Badlands mission in a way that it will be more interesting and will fit in with the new storyline. But I want to know if this sort of thing is legal to do for Foundry mission. Or do I risk getting in trouble re-creating old Cryptic-made STO content?
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And if you want the "legal" backing, here's the parts of the EULA FAQ that directly pertain to this.
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I've already updated my own Ghosts of War series to reflect Legacy of Romulus and the revamped Romulan arc, and I expect to have to do so again for the revamped Cardassian arc.
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"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!
You may find that they have incorporated elements of the removed missions into the new ones so you can still use your missions (the revamped Romulan missions did this). If so, then only slight modifications to your Foundry missions would be needed on your part. Seems to me that is much easier that rewriting the Cryptic content.
However, being the author of the aforementioned 'Divide ut Regnes' I know what you are going through. The mission was so heavily dependent on the Cryptic story, that I removed it from the Spotlight list voluntarily as it no longer made any sense when the new arc was released. (Which is actually a good thing! 'Divide et Impera' no longer needed a 'fix' )
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you won't have to rewrite the Cryptic missions in order for your new missions to work.
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"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!
"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!
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We've got the weird one currently used in "Rapier" .. I was going to change it so instead it takes place somewhere in the GQ.
So, I asume, that there isn't any problem in praxis (like duncanidaho11 has showed about the theory).
Nice Idea btw... maybe I do this about some of the german versions, if I found the time