Can someone "steal" an unpublished arc name?
By
AncientSpirit_NA,
Posted on: 2009-05-05 08:51 in Mission Architect
No.
someone can name an arc identical to yours, but it is THEIR arc, not yours. and that is not stealing.
There is nothing preventing two arcs from having the same name.
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Oh, ok. I was afraid that if someone came up with the same name, the first person to publish got the name and the other person had to rename their arc.
So, you could have ten "Bobo's Big Adventure"? Man, that will get confusing.
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Oh, ok. I was afraid that if someone came up with the same name, the first person to publish got the name and the other person had to rename their arc.
So, you could have ten "Bobo's Big Adventure"? Man, that will get confusing.
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Here's some help (right!)
Bobo's Big Adventure
Bobo's BIG Adventure
Bobo's Bigger Adventure
Bobo's BIGGER Adventure
Bobo's Biggest Adventure
Bobo's BIGGEST Adventure
Bobo's BIGGEST Adventure yet!
(And let's not forget Bobo's GREATEST Adventure!!!!!)
Hey, I'm ready for a really BIG series! Don't you let me down now! 
Ha! You have fallen for my red herring! You don't think I'd have used my REAL arc name, do you?
(oh, damn. Another arc idea: "The Mystery of Red's Herring.")
I think a much bigger issue is people thinking their creative works are so profoundly desirable that other people would want to steal them. There's a lot of that type of thinking going around the MA world - people carefully guarding the secrets of their story arcs.
Newsflash - nobody cares! Nobody sits up at night and wishes with all their might that they're the ones who had thought up the Rikti War story. There are no MA arcs out there that every player has rushed out to play, other than possibly farm arcs, and 95% of the players don't bother to read the flavour text associated with the mission arcs in the game.
So chill out and just enjoy yourself. Nobody is trying to steal your magic bag.
I don't think the OP was worried about idea theft, but rather about having a favorite name taken by the time they were ready to use it.
And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines
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I don't think the OP was worried about idea theft, but rather about having a favorite name taken by the time they were ready to use it.
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winnah.
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I think a much bigger issue is people thinking their creative works are so profoundly desirable that other people would want to steal them ...
Newsflash - nobody cares! ... There are no MA arcs out there that every player has rushed out to play ... and 95% of the players don't bother to read the flavour text associated with the mission arcs in the game.
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You TOTALLY STOLE THIS POST FROM ME, word for word, as shown in this link right here*
I stayed up 3 nights wordsmithing this reply - and you just TOOK IT from me. This is EXACTLY what everyone is complaining about. And its not just MA arcs. It's farms! It's toons! It's toons that look just like copyrighted toons, all of which were MY IDEAS first.
How foolish one of us must feel right now? And I know in advance what you will say, because you've ALREADY STOLEN the WORDS even as I think them!
*Link not working? You STOLE my link, too!
Thank goodness they didn't make the names unique. Last thing we need is 20 threads about how all the good arc names are taken and inactive players should have theirs purged.
But all the best arc NUMBERS are taken. 
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You can't please everyone, so lets concentrate on me.
Now there's a question I keep meaning to ask, and forgetting to:
If you unsub, do your arcs get unpublished?
I am trying to learn the AE system, and find the maps/items that will allow me to build the story I have in mind, so am going pretty slow. My question is, can someone "hijack" the name my arc is saved under if it's unpublished?
If so, I will have to refrain from talking about it in public and just bug the living crap out of my SG mates (waves at Night-Girl)