PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: SaintNuclear on July 14, 2004, 01:47:41 am
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There are many threads in the Wish List asking for a newspaper in many diffrent ways. Some want it in-game, some out of it. Some want it controlled by the devs, and some by the community.
But it doesn\'t look like anyone did much about it.
So I decided to make a newspaper for PS.
The newspaper will run as a site, and will cover ooc and ic activity in PS.
There may not be that many stories to cover right now, but one every few days is still good.
I\'ll be glad if a few people will join in to help me with it, PM me or something. (a designer for the site will be very welcomed, I\'m terrible at it)
Right now it\'s pretty much a sketch, but atleast I got a sketch-article too.
You can check the site Here (http://www.aloofhosting.com/yliakumnow/).
Btw, the next version of the site will come Soon? ;)
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Hmm, I can\'t be a permanent employee so to say but I can always hand in an article or two...help pass the time. Is this cool by you and if so where would I send the articles?
Great idea oh and can I be a very anti-CV, IT, Axsyrus, Tepsu, Draklar and Aendar reporter? :P
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Sure you can submit articles to me when you got the time. Just make sure you ask me before you write about it to see if I think it\'s a good idea or to know if it\'s already being worked on so you won\'t waste your time.
And yes, you can be such a reporter, as long as you don\'t write in such a way. I prefer the newspaper to be as least biased as possible.
Edit: And to contact me: It\'ll be best via PM or email. Just don\'t use the email from my profile, it\'s highly outdated and I can\'t update it. I got a link to my email on the site.
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Originally posted by Waylander
Hmm, I can\'t be a permanent employee so to say but I can always hand in an article or two...help pass the time. Is this cool by you and if so where would I send the articles?
Great idea oh and can I be a very anti-CV, IT, Axsyrus, Tepsu, Draklar and Aendar reporter? :P
you would most likely get punished/banned for offending other members or saying bad things about a guild so I wouldnt advise it. unless you were joking how ever and in that case no one cares
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lol, I know I was just joking around....I wonder why people still take me seriously at all...anyways if I do see something I will talk to you Saint but as it is now, not much is going on besides mostly empty threats and treaties that change from day to day.
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Horrid logo, try this one out...
(http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload8/yn-logo.jpg)
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It would be interesting to see a Newspaper based on the world of Planeshift (As soon as the story gets underway). Just look at final fantasy XI\'s \"Vana Diel Tribune\" it\'s very interesting. If you don\'t know what I\'m talking about check out http://www.playonline.com and navigate to finalfatasy 11 and then the Vana Diel Tribune. If there was sometihng like this for P;ane Shift it would be very cool.
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Wow, this is great, makes me want to write some ic stuff...or get better at drawing to make some \"artists renderings\" for the paper :D
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hey Nuke, I\'ll help you out, if you require it.
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Well I sometimes write for the heck of it...I would be glad to be part of a newspaper team.
-PenguinX
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Actually I could set up one of my portal systems if you wanted, it would allow multiple people to intereacte and have different levels of news reporters. My planeshift guild site is set up on it, i\'ll set one up for you if people can give me a good reson to do it.
http://wotas.freetohost.com/index.php
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do that and get a .tk handle
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Eh, I have made a simple logo using the Scurlock font used by PS.
http://www.glacious.net/ice/yliakum-now.png
(stupid forum doesn\'t like embedding PNGs!)
Also I PM\'d SaintNuclear about designing the site. I have lots of experience in HTML and CSS and hope to design a nice-looking, standards-compliant website for the newspaper.
People should post suggestions on how they want the site to look, as well as what features they want.
So let\'s put together a good-looking newspaper for our beloved game. :)
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Newspapers rock! Yess the ff11 one is good but not great! This could be great with the right staff *looks to someone else*
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I\'m pretty sure a portal system is alot more efficient than html for an online newspaper...
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gogg: yes, I agree. Maybe we could find a good free one? If not, we could use yours, or I could code one just for the site (great to have free time :P).
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Hey if it\'s a newspaper will you allow ic advertising?
-Zorium
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I can give you my puzzles. Every newspaper has one. :)
Sa(i)d thread: http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=6918&boardid=22&
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Great Idea Saint !
Think this will grow and you can start a tabloid :D ( J/k)
Any way think what it can do ! stuff like wedding invites and Adds
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Ok, the amount of comments in such a short time was unexpected... Didn\'t think it\'ll have that kind of support either.
Anyways, I\'ll try to answer to everyone:
Waylander: Threats and treaties are exactly the kind of materials that will go well with the newspaper. Whether they\'re empty or not, it doesn\'t matter.
gogg: Thanks for the new logo, I\'ll upload it when I\'m back from work.
Harwen: Small pics for major articles will be great, if you can do that. And if you got something specific you want to write about, please, PM me!
Kuiper7986: Tell me what you\'re good at, or if you can contribute in any \'behind the scenes\' way, and I\'ll come up with something.
PenguinX: As I said to Harwen, if you got anything you want to write about, PM.
gogg: Thanks for the suggestion, but I don\'t think I\'ll use a portal. Did you build the portal in the link? A PHP site with a database for the articles will be really good.
druke: Yes, .tk, once the site is more than just a sketch I\'ll get a .tk. Hey, maybe I\'ll even get a .com or something 8)
icebr4kr: I got your PM. CSS will be good, yes, but I\'m not sure about HTML. A dynamic site will be better, I won\'t have to switch a few tens of pages every update if it\'s dynamic.
Zorium: Of course! How can a newspaper website be complete without ads? :D Once CB is out, people will be able to make ads for themselves to be put on the site. Only ic, of course.
lynx_lupo: Puzzles will be really nice. Maybe a comics strip too. But these things are only once the newspaper is up on it\'s feet.
I\'m going to presume that anyone that posted above saying he\'s interested in writing for the newspaper will agree to get a PM from me in case I find something to cover that I can\'t do myself. You\'re in the team.
Those that were interested in designing, the forces can be combined. The person that is good at PHP will build the site itself, the person that is good at CSS will make the all those thingies that are done in CSS, and the person that is good at building databases will do that.
I\'ll make drawings of how I want the site to be in the three diffrent prespectives (PHP, CSS, database) so you can work on it.
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You still have to know HTML to make web pages with PHP :). PHP generates HTML. Anyway, turns out I am quite knowledgable in PHP and MySQL as well :D. So I would be happy to take any job from PHP, database, HTML, or CSS that is needed.
If you can\'t find any other PHPers I would make the dynamic part, HTMLers the HTML, CSSers (how can you know HTML without CSS or vice-versa?), etc. Anything is fine with me. Just want to help in some part. :)
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This idea isnt new
CLICK (http://www.geocities.com/archangel66512/temporarypreviewfile.htm)
Good luck with the newspaper ;)
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Originally posted by icebr4kr
Anyway, turns out I am quite knowledgable in PHP and MySQL as well :D
In that case, I\'ll send it all to you, and if there\'s someone else that can do it as well, I\'ll send him too so there will be two choices.
Crj, I didn\'t expect it to be a new idea. Many MMOGs got newspapers. After reading two pages from the Kixie Journal, I can tell you that this newspaper is going to be very diffrent. Nothing about Draklar\'s sexual preference.
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I figured there was already a newspaper in existance... you could always combine them though.
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Since, I\'m not really needed for php, or whatever I could be art director or something. Anything photoshop should be easy for me to do.
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Great gogg, I don\'t have photoshop installed, so it would be great for you to help with the art.
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You can get the GIMP, its free and just as powerfull as Photoshop with many of the same tools and much more
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Well Saint, I can\'t really find much to write about until CB begins, or even perhaps when PS is in its full form. However until I find something to write about, you can just ask me to write about something as long as it isn\'t completely boring.
Thanks,
-PenguinX
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Can I be the obituarys writer for the newspaper (if you have msn mine is peterjenkinsatntlworld.com and my AIM name is realmwars fan)
PS here is a sample
Name: Doctor Kran
Age: 45
Cause of death: Large hammer to the head
About him:
Old doctor kran was a merry old soul
As the song goes so does he, always helping pepole and never shurking away from a cause noble and true in life and now bloody useless in death.
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You mean writing about someone every time he dies in-game? That\'s alot, and I doubt it\'ll be possible to write about all the deaths.
Besides, after leaving the death realm, the character will be alive again. So there\'s no point to it.
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Then make it for the baned :D
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Hopefully there won\'t be enough banned people to make it worth it.
And even if there will be enough, why give them more attention than they deserve?
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I was talking about famous people dieing pepole that dont usualy die like leaders of clans. Also it would be a good way for assasins (if they are possible) to prove that the person was killed.
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Editorial page(s)!
Make one and allow anyone to submit to it. You should get plenty of opinions for that.
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I don\'t know, Monk... That could turn into a flamewar very easily. :P
I wouldn\'t mind writing a few articles for a PS newspaper, though. :D
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Put a joke-of-the-day =P (im not really sirius)
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Joke of the day would actualy be good, maybe a couple weekly comics too.
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comic eh? lol i was thinking during our ao meeting..weak of heart beware.. afterwards i thought about making a comic from the log lol, ax vs. illy is really quite funny
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*cough* Jadd *cough*
His comic is awesome! :)
I think it would also be pretty cool to have a decent layout for the newspaper. Wasn\'t there an old one that someone tried that had a good layout? I think I remember a sample edition from a while back... 8)
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I\'m not sure about an Editorial page. Atleast not at such an early stage. And as Half Pint said, it\'ll probebly start flame wars.
I do plan a comic.
And the layout, yes, as the current newspaper page says, it\'s pre-pre-alpha. Icebreaker is working on a really really nice layout, so don\'t worry.
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Heh I come up with all the good ideas :)
And I have never seen Jadd\'s comic...never...yep
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http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=9570&boardid=22&styleid=3
(Just in case that wasn\'t sarcasm.) :D
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I believe Whemy tried making a newspaper with a nice layout. I doubt the site\'s still there, though.
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Found the thread.
http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=8040&boardid=19
Crj already posted the link actually (though it was a bad link so you may have missed it).
And yes, I am working on the site (lol pre-pre-alpha :P) in between having a life and messing with the serverconsole :).
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Two issues is not exactly a long run! ;)
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Sweet! Hows distrubution gonna be done... dont wanna get left out!!!
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Question: Is this paper still around?
I\'d like to maybe write an article or two, but I\'d like to know wether I should bother before I get started.
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Glad you asked Monketh. I have the site mostly ready. There are a few things missing. SaintNuclear needs to find some articles... Maybe you should ask him, though. He is being a bit lazy about it.
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he has serious comp problems, so everything is on temporary hold for him.