Procne wrote:Newspapers would consists mostly of spam, people would quickly stop reading it and it would become a useless feature.
Dallane wrote:it would be cool but you should know better darn. that thing would be covered a LOL PENIS at all times.
MrGemini wrote:We have a Newspaper. The Forum. And the Guys who doesnt read Forums arent interested in Newspapers.
I am afraid you all right...
yet I think it may work if it would be done this way:
in capital city some NPC (boy for example) yelling something to get attention:
"EXTRA! EXTRA! {{ thread-title-from-forum }} ..." whole message could be link that would open web browser or window in-game.
Message expamples:
EXTRA! EXTRA! MM Tribe Treaty...
EXTRA! EXTRA! Offical Gallows Hill is dead thread...
EXTRA! EXTRA! Merry Christmas!
As for thread-title-from-forum I see titles from sections:
- Announcements
- House of Burgesses
- The Trade-Wind
- Planters & Pilgrims
NPC should loop through forums threads, but new messages to game should be gathered once per day, so it would look like real newspaper that can be bought daily.