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I'm sure they read all and everything that is written here to get a better clue whats going on in thier own game but only care to reply to you when they see fit.
*Waves at Geko!*
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They won't (usually aren't allowed to) answer questions about un-announced features except in vague ways like "we've looked into that." So if your question was something like "when will feature X appear" they can't say.
I do know though that @ambassadorkael#6946 does read this forum and occasionally answers questions. Best advice is try to ask your question in a polite way, many questions don't get directly answered if they start off in a hostile fashion. You could also try sending one of the staff members a private message, but they probably get a lot of those so be patient.
Lastly, if it's for an account or technical issue, then you might want to open a ticket using the Arc Support Page.
Best of luck to you.
Ah, well then my guess is that this thread won't get much further either.
I am sure we can get more than 10 replies for this thread.
A 7 year infographic will be announced in the very blog it's included, there will probably be no information about it before.
How dare they?!
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Here's some advice you might have benefited from when first posting here: You are about to go insert yourself into that community, and if history here repeats itself, wonder aloud why you don't get the answer you want from the person you want it from. You owe it to that community, and to yourself, to familiarize yourself with them to not make a scene.
As to your question about renaming a character after one from a ST book: I suspect there are only two types of people who would care about such a thing: you, for headcanon reasons, and the book's author, for royalties reasons. So, unless they are going to go full in and use the book, I'm guessing the answer is "No, because Money."
There are no royalty issues. Cryptic doesn't have to pay any additional money to use character names from novels. Star Trek Online already uses some names from the novels such as Mackenzie Calhoun and Tiaru Jarok.
Yeah, this.
Edit: Re: Name Change
Um. . . why? STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books. If the Defiant Captain had a name spoken aloud, or written visibly in the show, we would certainly use that. Short of that, it's unlikely. Yes, we CAN use things from the books, and have here and there, but there's nothing dictating we must, and we have often come up with our own stuff, even where the books might have done something different.
The people who would be involved in changing it would be our writer and our content designers. But again, that's unlikely without good cause.
I understand more than you think. Every Star Trek novel character is completely owned by CBS and not by the authors, so Cryptic would not need to pay any additional royalties. Yes, CBS would need to approve, like they do with everything else. There hasn't been a single novel character who was removed from STO. Leonard James Akaar is not a novel character. He appeared as a baby in the episode Friday's Child. And I believe he can still be found at the Captain's Table (which is another thing that STO borrowed from the novels).
Just saw your reply. Thanks for the answer. I know STO has often gone in a different direction from the novels. I like STO's take on the Iconians and Tzenkethi better than the versions described in the novels.
I know he appeared in the novels. I meant that he didn't originate in the novels.
He served on the Excelsior with Tuvok in the Lost Era series. In the Typhon Pact series he was Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet.
That only applies to TV and film writers, not novel writers.
The Writers Guild of America only includes TV, film and radio writers. Novel writers are part of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, so they have entirely different contracts.