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NEWS upgrade
From some previous posts about it, and recent Deneb Score Board topic, comes this improvement idea:
Improve the ingame NEWS system with more usefull and alive news, and separate it in collapsible sections.
Also, some player-produced content should be incoporated. Guilds recruiting, jobs offers, rare items for sell.
Produce automatic updates from CtC, Race and Deneb battles. Make a topic for each. Also, detect the 2 largest convoys that failled to complete its run, and randomize 2 other that were attacked by a player to report as piracy activity. Also, good news is clearing the Levi, or last report on the estimated hive size.
Updates should run as a periodic job, to avoid exposing players location, every 2 or 3h. Probably reading the logs, or querying the webserver for race/ctc/duel content.
(+|-) denotes a clickable expand/collapse button
As default, each topic shows 3 entries when enpanded, and a button for all content. Depending on screen size, list is displayed collapsed, or with up to 3 lines of headlines
As result, the new NEWS would look as:
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NEWS
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(+) Trade News (includes piracy reports)
(+) Bounties
(-) WAR post (+all) (CtC, Deneb and Hive activity)
.... Itani won last week and is producing N3s
.... Ace pilot "Gear Head" achieves weekly kill record and decides F-4 for Serco
.... Safer journeys: Group led by "Player Name" killed all 3 Levis today
(+) Sports Section: Races and Duels
(-) Private Ads (+all)
.... Guild XXX is recruiting
.... THC declared KoS by XXX after various unprovoked attacks
.... Need a rare item? Call Sir Tradealot. on /100.
[EDITED] Added hive, guild war, sports(duel,race)
Improve the ingame NEWS system with more usefull and alive news, and separate it in collapsible sections.
Also, some player-produced content should be incoporated. Guilds recruiting, jobs offers, rare items for sell.
Produce automatic updates from CtC, Race and Deneb battles. Make a topic for each. Also, detect the 2 largest convoys that failled to complete its run, and randomize 2 other that were attacked by a player to report as piracy activity. Also, good news is clearing the Levi, or last report on the estimated hive size.
Updates should run as a periodic job, to avoid exposing players location, every 2 or 3h. Probably reading the logs, or querying the webserver for race/ctc/duel content.
(+|-) denotes a clickable expand/collapse button
As default, each topic shows 3 entries when enpanded, and a button for all content. Depending on screen size, list is displayed collapsed, or with up to 3 lines of headlines
As result, the new NEWS would look as:
---------------------------------------
NEWS
---------------------------------------
(+) Trade News (includes piracy reports)
(+) Bounties
(-) WAR post (+all) (CtC, Deneb and Hive activity)
.... Itani won last week and is producing N3s
.... Ace pilot "Gear Head" achieves weekly kill record and decides F-4 for Serco
.... Safer journeys: Group led by "Player Name" killed all 3 Levis today
(+) Sports Section: Races and Duels
(-) Private Ads (+all)
.... Guild XXX is recruiting
.... THC declared KoS by XXX after various unprovoked attacks
.... Need a rare item? Call Sir Tradealot. on /100.
[EDITED] Added hive, guild war, sports(duel,race)
+1 for sure
You could also include articles such as those that refer to conflicts between guilds and the status of ongoing treaty negotiations, should such information be available. In effect, you could establish the CKU News Service (Currently Known Universe).
+1
You can post recruiting and ads already by posting in the stickied thread under Role Playing. The other stuff obviously would require some coding.
You can post recruiting and ads already by posting in the stickied thread under Role Playing. The other stuff obviously would require some coding.
@ Whisthler: This content really should go to in-game. Immersion. Fame!
@mikeaintx: Private Ads. This is the only section that requires manual intervention and "adult supervision". But guild wars and alliances fits perfectly. Something as a dev go tho that post Whistler refered to and select what goes online, weekly.
It would make the news ALIVE and vibrant, echoing what goes on in universe.
@mikeaintx: Private Ads. This is the only section that requires manual intervention and "adult supervision". But guild wars and alliances fits perfectly. Something as a dev go tho that post Whistler refered to and select what goes online, weekly.
It would make the news ALIVE and vibrant, echoing what goes on in universe.
+1
Would be a welcome improvement.
Would be a welcome improvement.
+1.
-1
The best part about the news is that it's just there, and I can read it without a bunch of unnecessary clicking/scrolling collapsing and expanding different sections. Although I do like the addition of new news topics.
What would be nice is having different sections of the news broken out on different tabs, where the default tab would show everything in reverse chronological order (the way it is now basically). All the recent entries would still be there, viewable at a glance, and should you want to look at only certain sections you can change tabs with a single click.
The best part about the news is that it's just there, and I can read it without a bunch of unnecessary clicking/scrolling collapsing and expanding different sections. Although I do like the addition of new news topics.
What would be nice is having different sections of the news broken out on different tabs, where the default tab would show everything in reverse chronological order (the way it is now basically). All the recent entries would still be there, viewable at a glance, and should you want to look at only certain sections you can change tabs with a single click.
Alloh, he means that by posting in the thread, the ads show up in the in-game news. For example, there was an entry not long ago in the news from THC about trident hunting.
Though being able to make the submissions from within the game would also be nice.
I agree with the need to organize it. I also think meridian's tab idea would be nicer. I find that expanding and collapsing things is annoying.
Though being able to make the submissions from within the game would also be nice.
I agree with the need to organize it. I also think meridian's tab idea would be nicer. I find that expanding and collapsing things is annoying.
Not even remotely new as VO ideas go but still a good idea.
+1
+1
Pizza is right. You might want to have a look at the in-game news Alloh.
Last time I checked, there were 2 "trade news" and remainig was endless bounty notices... messy
Collapsable sections, Tabs, expanding sub-windows, wap/html display or whatever organize the News tab, and add lots of newsfeeds from in-game events (deneb, ctc, race, piracy, hive, trade, players, etc).
Those same news could be displayed outside the game, in the website, replacing CtC/Race/Duel pages. After it is implemented in-game, even IRC/RSS/atom feeds would be trivial to offer, and keep VO in contact with players after they logged out...
Collapsable sections, Tabs, expanding sub-windows, wap/html display or whatever organize the News tab, and add lots of newsfeeds from in-game events (deneb, ctc, race, piracy, hive, trade, players, etc).
Those same news could be displayed outside the game, in the website, replacing CtC/Race/Duel pages. After it is implemented in-game, even IRC/RSS/atom feeds would be trivial to offer, and keep VO in contact with players after they logged out...
"Collapsible sections, Tabs, expanding sub-windows" +1