It’s easy. Galnet just needs to draw a clear distinction between in game events and pure flavor material.
This is how you do it:
FDev makes two categories of articles.
So a typical playlist might look like this...
Welcome to Galnet. Here are today’s TOP STORIES:
- War has broken out in the Blah Blah system. Something something independent pilots needed.
- Professor Palin’s student, Chloe Whatever, has made her own engineering shop.
- Federal Congress is entering elections (even if there is no immediate impact for players, putting the election in Top News tells us to pay attention... there may be an election Interstellar Initiative coming.)
In OTHER NEWS...
- The immortal cyborg Kanye West has been convicted of something bonkers. (No game tie-in here and none expected)
And that’s it, really.
Minor stories should be reduced in number significantly and should be worded carefully so that there’s no ill feelings from players. That recent hostage situation on a space station was a good example of the wrong way to do things. The articles made it sound like there should be in-game evidence of the event, and there was nothing.
I’m one of those people who liked reading Galnet. I liked the lore and it helped break monotony on long flights and such. But there was just too much of it and I totally understand why others were put off, especially for stories like the hostage one.
I think if Galnet made it clear what was in-game and what wasn’t, and there was less of it, we’d have a happy medium.
*Edited for clarity
This is how you do it:
FDev makes two categories of articles.
- TOP STORIES
- OTHER NEWS
So a typical playlist might look like this...
Welcome to Galnet. Here are today’s TOP STORIES:
- War has broken out in the Blah Blah system. Something something independent pilots needed.
- Professor Palin’s student, Chloe Whatever, has made her own engineering shop.
- Federal Congress is entering elections (even if there is no immediate impact for players, putting the election in Top News tells us to pay attention... there may be an election Interstellar Initiative coming.)
In OTHER NEWS...
- The immortal cyborg Kanye West has been convicted of something bonkers. (No game tie-in here and none expected)
And that’s it, really.
Minor stories should be reduced in number significantly and should be worded carefully so that there’s no ill feelings from players. That recent hostage situation on a space station was a good example of the wrong way to do things. The articles made it sound like there should be in-game evidence of the event, and there was nothing.
I’m one of those people who liked reading Galnet. I liked the lore and it helped break monotony on long flights and such. But there was just too much of it and I totally understand why others were put off, especially for stories like the hostage one.
I think if Galnet made it clear what was in-game and what wasn’t, and there was less of it, we’d have a happy medium.
*Edited for clarity
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