I recently noticed that i had found a lack of story in elite dangerous, but upon further investigation i found that i simply wasn't reading any of the Galnet articles. I had nearly forgotten it's existence, mostly due to the fact that it seems almost hidden behind the powerplay button. Before 1.3, simply docking to any station would show some of the most recent Galnet articles on the right column, and you see if there was something new at a glance. But now, you have to actually want to check if there is a new Galnet article every day by first clicking the powerplay button, and then clicking the Galnet button. it doesn't seem like much of a difference, but i caught myself completely forgetting about the story in this game because of it. I don't see any community goals, i thought for the longest time that there WEREN'T any community goals going on.
Now logging in myself, i can see that there is a big Galnet news button above where the local news is. but that still doesn't have any catchy one liners to get me or other people to read more, it has nothing of the sort. i actually have to go into the Galnet UI to read them. it seems like i am the most lazy person ever, and nobody could possibly get more lazy than not wanting to press a button, but what i am saying is true. With news media IRL, they usually put their big headlines out there first so people wanting to know what the heck went down in City A, or why Celebrity B said that, so they stay tuned to find out what is going on. They are caught by some provocative title, and want to find out the truth. And we have this, don't get me wrong. "Federation Secession Crisis" "Cerberus plague shuts down station services" those are things that catch peoples eye and they want to find out what the heck is going on, But it isn't on the front page where it should be.
However i actually think adding in a button so everyone can check Galnet regardless of how far they are from docking in a station was a great idea, but removing the Galnet articles from being visible when you dock was a terrible idea.
Anyone else understand what i am trying to say? i usually have trouble writing down my thoughts unless i do it immediately, and it took me a little while to post this.
----TLDR----
Make Galnet more in your face, and people will realize community goals exist and start doing them again.
I have made a mock up of what the changes i had in vision might look like:
Now logging in myself, i can see that there is a big Galnet news button above where the local news is. but that still doesn't have any catchy one liners to get me or other people to read more, it has nothing of the sort. i actually have to go into the Galnet UI to read them. it seems like i am the most lazy person ever, and nobody could possibly get more lazy than not wanting to press a button, but what i am saying is true. With news media IRL, they usually put their big headlines out there first so people wanting to know what the heck went down in City A, or why Celebrity B said that, so they stay tuned to find out what is going on. They are caught by some provocative title, and want to find out the truth. And we have this, don't get me wrong. "Federation Secession Crisis" "Cerberus plague shuts down station services" those are things that catch peoples eye and they want to find out what the heck is going on, But it isn't on the front page where it should be.
However i actually think adding in a button so everyone can check Galnet regardless of how far they are from docking in a station was a great idea, but removing the Galnet articles from being visible when you dock was a terrible idea.
Anyone else understand what i am trying to say? i usually have trouble writing down my thoughts unless i do it immediately, and it took me a little while to post this.
----TLDR----
Make Galnet more in your face, and people will realize community goals exist and start doing them again.
I have made a mock up of what the changes i had in vision might look like:
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