News.


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I was reading the Heroes Halt Havoc in the newspaper again, when it struck me.. wouldn't it be interesting if there was real news?

This lead to a huge train of thought which went something like this:

Newspaper is always the same= there isn't any new news.
If the game had mechanics for news, how would it work?
Players would do stuff in reaction to certain events, or they would not. THe consequence of either action or inaction should have an effect on something else which affects players, akin to when players visit Yin's after doing the mission arc, but are told that it's closed when they haven't done it.

players could get the status of these events from either the city terminal or by doing a /e newspaper (the newspaper would be different depending on the status of the event, perhaps, or some text could come up in the chatbox).

Just a thought.


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Let it be news from current events.
Such as the Rikti attack. Let it say on the newspaper front page that heroes stopped the Rikti from destroying the world.
Halloween event something along the lines of "The dead are walking again".
That would be a nice addition.
So yeah /signed.


 

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Good idea. No clue if it is easily done though but still.

/signed.


 

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can't you just look at wiki?....


 

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I like the idea of interactive newspapers, it's somthing I've been thinking about for a long time! /singed


 

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Are we talking about an additional window that would pretty much serve a similar purpose to the passing peds that shout your name after doing certain missions, only on a greater scale (In other words, it would announce players' acts regardless of whether said player was in the immediate area at the time)?


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as i understood it. It should be the newspaper you can read as an emote.