Will there be any kind of news service

[spankahontis]

Obviously not in that fashion, but i'd like to see a Bulletin Board done out like a Newspaper.
2 Factions go to war should be headline news and side options like 'Jobs List' where you have the details and whether the job is a "Build, Fight, Think, Trade" Contract.
You'd have Xenon warnings appear on the News Page, telling you where the danger was detected, with jobs to deal with it in the Jobs section of the Newspaper.
It could replace the Logs for reporting things that happen, with a filter so only what has effected your Faction appear.

But I'd love to access the board and find the price of Soya Beans has gone up by 50% and think to myself.. "I can exploit this and make a killing in the market?".
Be the Rich businessman reading the Financial Times and seeing signs of what looks good in the market.

Or for the Mercenary? a Warzone somewhere that they can profit from with defence contracts.

Maybe Assassination Missions are not on the Bulletin Board and can only be handled by the Argon Military/Ruling Faction or by some NPC privately with no cops sniffing around.

This. Rather than just random babble that has no connection to the game, or a steady stream of events as they happen, making it more like an actual news service with prioritized news and de-prioritized notices and ads would be far more realistic and engaging.....and you don't have to constantly watch to see what's going on and worry about missing major news, you can just call it up and read the recent events at your leisure.

You gotta think, what would News Media, Jobs etc. look like in a futuristic environment.

We have the Internet and you find pretty much anything you want on the Web in terms of news media, jobs, for sales Etc..

So there must be a similar information/bulletin board that every space citizen can freely get access to?

Maybe even implement hacking to access their version of the dark web on the bulletin boards to find secret assassination missions, illegal wares on sale etc.

But having a War between 2 Factions and seeing under the war the things going on under it being recorded live for the player to read, battles that have happened, ships destroyed, stations destroyed and eventually a peace treaty would make an awesome read when you want to be kept updated on how a war is going.. One that you are possibly profiting on?
Maybe even see a war concluding that you find a way to keep the war going because you are profiting on selling both sides weapons/ Ships Etc.
Sabotaging a particular Market and reading about it in the financial section.

[DaMuncha]

would be cool with a layout like this

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/imag ... lrCoUL6y2A

Actualy This is what Im thinking of

https://imgur.com/a/KNC6OD5

I'm imagining now how the interface could work. With ways to navigate old and new articles. It would require a new UI to be build for the news articles. Its definately something can can be done, and I have seen it in other games. But to mod it in to the game would be next to impossible unless Egosoft allow us to program new UI elements. Unless Egosoft them selves want to take a crack at it.

Have tablets/pads lying around stations or the player home and when you activate it / pick it up, the news paper appears on your screen. Like a news paper lying on some ones desk, you pick it up and read it. Flip to the commerce section or research section and read those articles. Or features about Little Suzy's adventures around the galaxy.

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in the forum downtime I did this

Edit: Color Change
https://imgur.com/a/mXJOuS5

[DaMuncha]

Now I realy want to see my concept in the game.

[Locksley]

I used a mod for X3 to add such info as economic happenings and space battles, well I can't really remember what the mod could comment on but economics for sure.

In Elite Dangerous there is a basic framework that gives some info about happenings in the near zone in a tabloid type, I wish they would expand on that and make it more of everything as this is part of making the universe feel Human.

And so I think it has its place in X4 to make the universe come alive, or at least feel alive - if it is dynamic enough and well written. But you could start out with a place-holder like ED.

[spankahontis]

would be cool with a layout like this

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/imag ... lrCoUL6y2A

Actualy This is what Im thinking of

https://imgur.com/a/KNC6OD5

I'm imagining now how the interface could work. With ways to navigate old and new articles. It would require a new UI to be build for the news articles. Its definately something can can be done, and I have seen it in other games. But to mod it in to the game would be next to impossible unless Egosoft allow us to program new UI elements. Unless Egosoft them selves want to take a crack at it.

Have tablets/pads lying around stations or the player home and when you activate it / pick it up, the news paper appears on your screen. Like a news paper lying on some ones desk, you pick it up and read it. Flip to the commerce section or research section and read those articles. Or features about Little Suzy's adventures around the galaxy.

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in the forum downtime I did this

Edit: Color Change
https://imgur.com/a/mXJOuS5

Or just a simple Information Station, you see Widescreens in stations and computer terminals, all they contain is animated Patterns etc.
Be awesome if they had News articles on the screen and you pointed your mouse when you get close enough to access the UI for it.
Be good to actually be able to access the Terminal as a free information station for space citizens.. Or maybe even greater access depends on reputation with that Station Faction?

[nemesis1982]

I never really like those news system. They always feel repetitive and empty.