Suggestion | NEWSPAPERS/NEWS REPORTS

[xBonnie]

IGN: yBonnu (My idea was expanded upon by a group of people: @GemiLightning @zegevlier @Customable )
DATE: 22nd of December, 2021
WHAT YOU WANT TO SUGGEST OR MENTION: A newspaper model which can actually be used to read the news reports on forums. The model would be connected to a custom book which would have a link, taking the reader to the list of news reports when opened. It would go to the list as it makes sense, a newspaper has multiple articles and stories in it! Another way this could be implemented is through a command (/news). This would link the news reports and also give a short summary on them. These news reports could be added on weekly or 2 week basis, as to not be too overwhelming for staff. Once a news report comes older/irrelevant to the server they could be removed as new ones are added in.
HOW WILL THIS BENEFIT THE SERVER/COMMUNITY?: I believe the news reports on the forums are under appreciated in all honesty. I was recently reading upon one written for the library and thought it would be very cool if more people had read up on it, as I had no idea about the library up until it was reported. So making the news REAL in the game would allow more people to be aware of it, instead of just linking the news reports on a discord server or people going into the forums themselves. I feel more people would be up for reading the amazing news reports if there was easier access and adaption in the roleplay scene. I think reading the news reports could be taken into the roleplay a lot better, and give the people something to discuss about Karakura! Of course this idea could use some feedback and adjustment to make it easy for it to be put in place however I do believe the main idea of getting a newspaper model with has the news reports linked somehow would be beneficial for the roleplay and the people who write them, as they are more noticed and their efforts are properly displayed on the server.

 

[si10k]

-1 Personally for me as a Journalist this would make me slightly more annoyed for the club. I get it News Reporters need more credit but the Journalist club has lost their spot on the website to post them. Which means in general roleplay documents people will have to scroll down. There is two genres of news reports. It makes me not want to write cause hardly any people know where to go and no more intercom for the school to tell people to check it out. It would be cool I agree though it would cause problems if it breaks and there is always itemRP for it. They already get paid for publishing their work and people would have to buy them... Which also includes for each issue. It makes no sense to just have one model for it where there is at least 50 or more news reports published. ItemRP is there for a reason why not use it?

 

[HATOLA]

-1

 

[HighlightedTwin]

-1 Personally for me as a Journalist this would make me slightly more annoyed for the club. I get it News Reporters need more credit but the Journalist club has lost their spot on the website to post them. Which means in general roleplay documents people will have to scroll down. There is two genres of news reports. It makes me not want to write cause hardly any people know where to go and no more intercom for the school to tell people to check it out. It would be cool I agree though it would cause problems if it breaks and there is always itemRP for it. They already get paid for publishing their work and people would have to buy them... Which also includes for each issue. It makes no sense to just have one model for it where there is at least 50 or more news reports published. ItemRP is there for a reason why not use it?

Yeah question about this. How do journalists still function while news reporters exist? I thought the news faction was taken down to be replaced by journalists

 

[si10k]

Yeah question about this. How do journalists still function while news reporters exist? I thought the news faction was taken down to be replaced by journalists

It's still a club. We're just not as active and if you scroll down in roleplay documents you can find out reports! We mostly do school stuff... It's rather difficult some things we can not do reports over such as interviewing a governor.

 

[HighlightedTwin]

It's still a club. We're just not as active and if you scroll down in roleplay documents you can find out reports! We mostly do school stuff... It's rather difficult some things we can not do reports over such as interviewing a governor.

Ah so now you guys are restricted to school related affairs. It oki I like the school reports. I’ll be waiting for my character’s professor interview ;)

 

[Naishoten]

-1
Sorry, good idea though.

 

[Lizalopod]

+1

Also, journalists could develop their own school paper with this idea, and only focus on events on school grounds, (by posting their own news threads on the forums and having them link to a school paper)

 

[si10k]

Ah so now you guys are restricted to school related affairs. It oki I like the school reports. I’ll be waiting for my character’s professor interview ;)

We can also do out of school stuff... Also it depends and you would have to talk to the others.

 

[xBonnie]

-1 Personally for me as a Journalist this would make me slightly more annoyed for the club. I get it News Reporters need more credit but the Journalist club has lost their spot on the website to post them. Which means in general roleplay documents people will have to scroll down. There is two genres of news reports. It makes me not want to write cause hardly any people know where to go and no more intercom for the school to tell people to check it out. It would be cool I agree though it would cause problems if it breaks and there is always itemRP for it. They already get paid for publishing their work and people would have to buy them... Which also includes for each issue. It makes no sense to just have one model for it where there is at least 50 or more news reports published. ItemRP is there for a reason why not use it?

News reporters typically focus on outside of school events, such as the opening of the library right? So like @GemiLightning said, there could be two types. A school newspaper and a Karakura newspaper. If Journalists aren't getting enough attention in your opinion I don't think it means we should take away from News Reporters. Instead they could both go into the newspaper, I simply wasn't thinking about Journalists when writing my suggestion. It doesn't have to be Journalists VS. News Reporters!

 

[OhNoNate]

+1
I think this idea could help the reports as you said get more recognition and personally don't see many downsides at all to having something like this implemented.

 

[xBonnie]

-1

Any particular reasoning? Curious to know your thoughts.

 

[HATOLA]

Any particular reasoning? Curious to know your thoughts.

I see it as a bit useless thing, like Luna said there's no bad thing in itemRP and of course, in the family store u will find something like "news" that will go to the forums. . .In general I just agree with Luna

 

[Luca]

+1
Despite the limitation in some fields regarding the School I do think this still has a chance to become relatively proper. The reasoning behind this is because it would just be easier access. Having the option to just view it in-game or through a link which is generated in-game is easier than trying to find it through a browser, or alternative connections, etc.

I understand that the News Report Club is for the most part strictly school orientated and may or may not be as exciting though it is still information that can be automated. Furthermore the added amount of 'Duty' that a person has to rely on or even produce can be written and then added into a simple command.

 

[zegevlier]

+1
I like the idea, even if it's not perfect I think this won't be that much work to implement and I think it would be a nice touch.

-1
Sorry, good idea though.

Why? If you like the idea, why -1 it?

I see it as a bit useless thing, like Luna said there's no bad thing in itemRP and of course, in the family store u will find something like "news" that will go to the forums. . .In general I just agree with Luna

I agree that it's useless, but so many things on schoolrp are useless. Most items are just cosmetic, so why not give some of them a real use? It'd be a good way to bring more exposure to the people writing the news on the forums. Like I said, I doubt it'd be much work to implement.

 

[Mxxkie]

Before News Reporter was re-introduced, I had toyed around with the idea of a paper seen here The Karakura Chronicle. The council and journalism club also had joined forces at a point to try to create a school magazine, unfortunately it winded up being more trouble than it was worth. When Sun led the Reporters, her and I had a discussion on where each group stands and what we can cover. Unfortunately, lately my attention's been called other places along with a passion for the club dying. Which is why, I will be resigning from journalist lead shortly; I merely have a few more tasks to complete before I do.

 

[HATOLA]

so why not give some of them a real use?

I feels like it won't be fair for the club. . .As it's already hard and Mookie is going to leave the lead as well ):

 

[xBonnie]

I see it as a bit useless thing, like Luna said there's no bad thing in itemRP and of course, in the family store u will find something like "news" that will go to the forums. . .In general I just agree with Luna

ItemRP can be useful, yes. In this case however we have no problem against people using ItemRP, but having a real physical model to work with which actually takes you directly to the list of news reports from the server would be handy to get more reports out there and read. That's sort've the point of the suggestion. Also as I've mentioned before this suggestion can be improved upon, and the argument of journalists and news reporters getting attention could be solved with this I believe.

 

[KimiNoUso]

Accepted
Thank you for your feedback, after discussing this with the staff team we have decided to add this to our update & expansion plans.

- Once added, players will be able to right-click an item (news paper) and read full reports in chat managed by the News Faction Lead & The Journalist Club.​

- OAs both News & Journalist club run separately, both will be given their own individual items in which players can obtain to read the local/school news.​