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News Ticker
What if, along the bottom of everyone's screens, there was a news ticker like in SimCity?
This could be turned on or off (defaults to ON), and instead of having to navigate through a station menu to see the news, you could read the headlines for bounties, requests (deficits) for ores or trade goods at certain stations, sales (surpluses) for ores or trade goods at other certain stations, notifications of pirating, bounties collected, guide messsages, capship spawning messages, etc.
Plus some of the stuff could be humorous, like "LeberMac finds ancient hoard of old earth tequila, opens bar in Odia..." Or something like that.
It would be even more important that when stations require upkeep (when we have player-controllable stations), they could send out "distress" calls for advanced targeting systems or whatever they need to keep functioning. If not delivered, some component of the station fails.
Annoying? Useful? You decide.
This could be turned on or off (defaults to ON), and instead of having to navigate through a station menu to see the news, you could read the headlines for bounties, requests (deficits) for ores or trade goods at certain stations, sales (surpluses) for ores or trade goods at other certain stations, notifications of pirating, bounties collected, guide messsages, capship spawning messages, etc.
Plus some of the stuff could be humorous, like "LeberMac finds ancient hoard of old earth tequila, opens bar in Odia..." Or something like that.
It would be even more important that when stations require upkeep (when we have player-controllable stations), they could send out "distress" calls for advanced targeting systems or whatever they need to keep functioning. If not delivered, some component of the station fails.
Annoying? Useful? You decide.
YES, IT COULD BE LIKE A (sorr about that)little neon flashey thing, that just scrolled past in a little box.
It would give all the bored people hours of fun...