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Node based Newspapers

SunMatrixSunMatrix Member
in General Discussion
I think an autogenerated newspaper should be given to citizens of a node pertaining to what's happened that day in or around the node. This would be given daily maybe an hour before prime time, seen when you login or notification if you're already online when it updates.

Things like bounties/enemies of the state that were created, currently running, or taken care of. Status of the node, how much did it grow day to day? Is the node currently at war? expect to PvP today if it is. Market value changes to help speculate. Did a smaller node under your nodes control grow?

There'd also be a national paper. Similar but more about national news and global happenings. Any server firsts happen? What's going on with the other nodes under the influence of the top level node? Black woods node grew 20% this week! wow!!!
This one could be daily or weekly.

The main point of these papers is to keep the population informed and combat players feeling out of the loop in their own node. Also helps make a decision on what you want to do that day. Help with the war effort, or take on a dungeon? or go craft something nice, ye.

Comments

  • SummpwnerSummpwner Member, Alpha Two
    Maybe hard to have autogenerated.... be the change you want to see in the world, and RP as a journalist and interview people and shit for the local paper! You can publish it on the server discord
  • LordBlankLordBlank Member
    SunMatrix wrote: »
    I think an autogenerated newspaper should be given to citizens of a node pertaining to what's happened that day in or around the node. This would be given daily maybe an hour before prime time, seen when you login or notification if you're already online when it updates.

    Things like bounties/enemies of the state that were created, currently running, or taken care of. Status of the node, how much did it grow day to day? Is the node currently at war? expect to PvP today if it is. Market value changes to help speculate. Did a smaller node under your nodes control grow?

    There'd also be a national paper. Similar but more about national news and global happenings. Any server firsts happen? What's going on with the other nodes under the influence of the top level node? Black woods node grew 20% this week! wow!!!
    This one could be daily or weekly.

    The main point of these papers is to keep the population informed and combat players feeling out of the loop in their own node. Also helps make a decision on what you want to do that day. Help with the war effort, or take on a dungeon? or go craft something nice, ye.

    Lamo
  • tautautautau Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Excellent Idea!

    Back in L2 on my server, someone posted a 'newspaper' to the server bulletin board, the 'Erica Enquirer'. It was more of a gossip column than a newspaper, but it included news. It also has spurious columns; I remember one that claimed if you did nine emotes in the right order then the female dark elf's boobs would fall out.
  • VeeshanVeeshan Member, Alpha Two
    mayors should have a bullinteen board they can type in for everyone of the node can see in down and on freeholds, should trickle down to vassels too, So metrolpolise mayors or what not can keep the people informed of whats happening politic wise and things too in their nation
  • Arya_YesheArya_Yeshe Member
    edited October 2022
    I think that's up to the mayor... let's not ask for such burdensome thing to do from Intrepid Studios like an auto-generated newspaper or something too advanced.

    What the Mayor could have is a bulletin board and maybe the mayor could point a few trusted peope with the role for updating it.

    That's all, do the simplest possible system without anything auto-generated.
    PvE means: A handful of coins and a bag of boredom.
  • StreviStrevi Member
    I would go to get the news in the tavern :)
    Some might be rumors though.
    Sadly the best info is on Discord.
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  • Balrog21Balrog21 Member, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    I do believe someone is already planning to do just that. I want to say I heard it in a stream somewhere not top long ago, daily updates you get via your inbox about the major events of the servers, etc.
  • SunMatrixSunMatrix Member
    Just wanted to clarify here, the things on the papers would already be tracked by the game. If it wasn't I would question Intrepid's competence.

    This isn't a hard task and is as difficult as creating an internal API for node statistics, and then building a website that calls on said internal API once a day to update the static page for each node. There are infinitely harder challenges in making a mmo.

    What it is NOT is a gossip paper. It won't get internal node politics between the mayor and his secretaries, or what Becky did last night.

    It'll get things that are basically too important to depend on if the mayor can be assed with updating it (war status, enemies of the state), or too difficult to effectively keep track of (market changes, bounties, etc...) for a mayor/reporter to keep up with every day.

    Again, these are tools for keeping the citizens of the node in the loop with the basics of what's going on around them.
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