Deleting systems poll UPDATE

[Shimamori]

This news is less important, regardless, than the content itself: systems, coherent story narrative, PVP balance, sensible trade, etc.

[align=justify]You're making a fundamental error in writing off a piece of what is supposed to be a package. A story is only as good as the material backing it up, and without world building there would be zero sense of fulfillment regardless of what specific avenue of gameplay you want to talk about. I'm not sure we need to get into throwing jargon around and trying to define what the difference between discovery and browsing is. I might as well rule out posting things on the forums if browsing is anathema to the consensus being made herein.

Your hermeneutics is wrong here. Comparing something and concluding it is less important is not equivalent to writing something off which presumes one dismisses it completely. As a lawyer, you've got to know that the devil is in the details before you make an assumption. The point was that without the actual content in-game, which you can play around (as the word "game" implies) no descriptive storybuilding represented in the news will attract a player. News as a tool of storybuilding remains relevant, just less significant than the actual game content. Ask people around here what would they rather see: new news items or new systems, ships, or trade routes. Having good news is cool too, but it is secondary. There are tons of good text-based quest games out there but not as many players flock to enjoy them for some reason. It would be cool to see high-quality news in game for sure but when there are so many concerns about tons of content being cut without a good reason, and the direction of the story in general, the news is not the priority.

Moreover, the crux of what I was discussing was that the news should be easily accessible to let people know of the patch changes. That is what every game I know out there does: balancing, fixes, new content, you name it - everything is listed in the extensive patch notes. You mentioned persuasive story building, so parts of the patch can be simultaneously covered in "inRP" language through news, CNS or otherwise, in addition to the dry ooRP list of changes. But hiding changes on a few obscure stations in game? This would be an example of media studies 101: a message missing its target audience because of wrong communication means.

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