The Newsroom

[Croft]

That's the plan.

Currently we have articles planned for weekly release up until August, most of which will be highlighting story or faction shifts introduced in the previous patch and a few more hinting at possible future developments. Beyond that the schedule may change to a bi-weekly format depending on how much news and free time is available, though we are kicking around the idea of having community submitted news appear in the CNS but the details are still up in the air at the moment.


There are three broad headlines that the news falls under, G/CNS, Editorial and Business News.

G/CNS or Gallic / Colony News Service articles are intended to be objective in their reports, offering no opinion or bias and focusing on the facts as they are known. These tend to cover "big picture" moments around the sector that effect areas or entire colonies often mentioned in infocards but lack details that the community can use in their characters or factions, such as the Maine supernova.

Editorials on the otherhand are opinion pieces, with these I try to skew the tone depending on the intended source. There are nuggets of truth buried in these stories that shed light on what a particular faction or group is up to, though it's up to the reader to decide what is fact and what is fiction. I try to be careful not to give away too much in these pieces as its quite easy to be caught up in the writing and include things that shouldn't be widely known.

Business News or ΤΩΣO is typically the realm of the admins and (was) used to announce ingame trade events before the event system came into being. Now, under my tyrannical subservience (Hail to the Mighty Editors) the Business News will be used to report, well business news. These may range from stockholders opinions to editorials from business focused news outlets and market analyists. If it's about money you'll read about it here.

That's all for now, next time I'll go into a bit of detail on how the news is made and what makes the news.

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