The Newsroom

[Croft]

Well folks its time for another session of the occasionally informative, possibly provocative and rarely evocative, Newsroom.

Rather than the previously advertised piece on how important tone and language can be I'll be talking about something vastly more interesting.

Player Faction News
As you may know we've been planning to report on player faction news for quite some time and up until now we simply couldn't find a way of making it work. Having an open submission system, like the one used to register interest for Infocarding would be prone to abuse and utterly lacking any form of verification on who the creator could be. Not an ideal way of ensuring the news is accurate as you can well imagine.

The current idea (which is still very much under discussion) is to make the player faction news into an Official Faction Perk, available only via faction accounts and submitted by using a "hidden" forum like the one currently used for player requests. This would hopefully bypass things like leader changes or absences while also cutting down on confusion caused by shared faction leadership.
In theory all submitted articles would be edited for grammar, spelling and potentially content (we may cut away things that contradict current lore or make absurd claims) to ensure quality and then post said articles under a locked thread in either weekly or bi-monthly intervals, depending on how much news is available.

In order to test the waters of this idea I've created a form called the Rumour Mill which as the name suggests is for the community to create rumours about factions, bases or areas. These rumours will be the "padding" of this news project, allowing us to keep a consistant schedule during droughts of factional news while being good fun to read, hopefully.
This project, if given the greenlight. will be headed up by my assistant-in-training @The Sovereign who has already begun contacting faction leads and will of course be overseen by yours truly.

Not to dampen spirits but this all still depends on a lot of factors, most of all the interest of the factions themselves, the go ahead from the SLIS group and permissions of the admin team. So if this is something you'd like to see happen, let me know your thoughts below and as always suggestions and feedback are welcome.

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