Lore Forum Feedback thread.

[Jayenbee]

So effectively you're just getting other people to do infocard/rumor development, without actually giving them the role of developer, complete with no say in the development of things, more or less taking ownership of it when it is "good."

Excuse me if that's a little bit offensive to me on principle, because this is reading to me like a "You players, present us with your offerings, and if it is good? It is ours."

Apply to be a Story Dev then, try to put aside the spare time to work on this Mod at the rate the community demands, be my guest. Alternatively, you could just not worry about all that stress and instead throw a story out for funsies and y'never know, it could be immortalised in game. Otherwise, it's immortalised in-canon and can serve as a resource for anything the Story Team may decide to implement in the future. I can see it, me in Story Chat going; "Hey guys, remember that short story X-Person put up that time?" - "Yeah?" -"That'd be awesome to use for this!"

You have to understand that the Story Team is supposed to have a certain degree of duty of care to the Discovery Narrative, it's our job to keep out of the rubbish and let's not kid ourselves... there has been some absolute rubbish in Disco's time. The whole point of the Story Team taking control of something, is to attempt to ensure quality control.

Like Hemlocke, I appreciate the intent, giving people an in to contribute to a gap in fluff. This isn't the way I see it should be done, though.

Like all new things, there's bound to be bumps in the road, nothing tends to be perfect the first time.

Is this to shift players away from short stories about their characters? This used to be the point. By canonization in this case, do you mean only story added as content in game?

That sort of makes it seem like its considered bad now to write stories that involve your created character, as if its 100% of the time to steal undeserved attention. If you aren't already trying to add content to the game via the process, how can writing a story on the forum mentioning your characters be considered circumventing an RCR?

It reads like any story you make of your own character is bad because its cheap canonization to avoid an RCR.

Not quite. This is Story's attempt at simply giving players the ability to try to write a bit of canon for Discovery. I don't know about you guys, but I can often get writer's block and much of the effort of creating a story simply isn't the ideas... it's writing it. Going through something that has already been written is far quicker to fix than rewrite the vast majority of the time.

By allowing players the ability to write short stories and attempt to get them submitted, we could have cool things such as Stories about the conflict upon worlds themselves, the stuff the soldiers are going through. You could tell a story of an entire ship crew, perhaps the story of a Liberty Siege Cruiser going through the events of Insurgency.

Yeah, it's supposed to be separate from everyone's in-game characters, but you can totally make some up that don't exist in game purely for your story.

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