Avonmora Herald

[SSR]

Mostly because we got tired of receiving contacts, asking us about it.

Should have made it a ghost fleet which your crew randomly stumbles upon and get's plundered by it ^_^

[Francois le Clerc]

with this new feature im sure a new guild of reporter will be formed. Or maybe a new building in hideout.

I was thinking of that

[Captain Jack]

Till we get some player-journalists, I am acting as one. So, if you are among the ones that receive my messages, feel free to roleplay as you would like, disregarding the fact that I am also an administrator. For example, you might not be in the mood of irritating people asking questions, it is perfectly fine to react as you would feel your character would.

[Cdv]

I think we should have an archive somewhere where we can see all old issues of the Avonmora Herald.

[Roberts]

I think we should have an archive somewhere where we can see all old issues of the Avonmora Herald.

Like a slide show kind of thing where you zoom out and the pages are little but you click on them to see? Do you get what i mean?

[Captain Jack]

I think we should have an archive somewhere where we can see all old issues of the Avonmora Herald.

You can already. Just click on the << at the top left.

[Cdv]

I think we should have an archive somewhere where we can see all old issues of the Avonmora Herald.

You can already. Just click on the << at the top left.

+1
I didn't notice that. That should do for now.

[Captain Jack]

Sooner or later, Avonmora Herald publication should pass to the players. Here is a structure as we have thought it.

Avonomora Herald Staff Index
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Publisher - Avonmora Herald Head Person
He will have the final word on publication. What will be published,how etc.

Vice-Publisher
In case Publisher is absent, he will take his position. There can be up to 3 Vice-Publishers.

Journalists (up to 10)
Journalists will contribute articles. While all players will be able to contribute articles, these players will be required to submit articles in order to remain as journalists. Their requirement will be at least 1 article per 3 days. If a journalists fails to meet the 1 article per days requirement, the publisher or vice-publisher will be able to boot him. If a journalist does not submit an article for 30 straight days, he will be automatically removed.


General Traits
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All Avonmora Herald staff will get access to some extra controls that will be related to the issue creation. Nothing special.
They will also get access to some extra statistics to help with the article creation (ie, an index of how many days left till Cuba King has an anniversary)
They will also get a special icon in their profile and an achievements entry.
They all will be mentioned in a credits page, linked from the newspaper itself.
They will get nothing else, no administration power at all.

Administration will ocassionally provide extra stats to them for the creation of special articles.
Administration will choose Publisher and Vice-Publisher and they will choose the journalists.
If a Publisher or Vice-Publisher becomes long inactive without notice, he will be removed without notice.


Objectives
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We will start with the assignment of a few journalists. Once we get a few, we will see if there is anyone suitable to be a publisher or at least a vice publisher.
If everything goes well, in about 2 weeks we will have the Publisher and Vice Publisher, directly through the players pool.
If we fail to find the suitable players,we will instead create automation scripts for the Herald. This will result in lower quality articles and this is why we want to avoid it.

We believe that 4 players in Issue Head will always guarantee the daily release of the issue. 10 journalists should be enough to provide at least 2 articles per day. The rest will be created automatically if need be.

Live publication will start working too and comments section will be added (Like buttons too)
Once we have the publication working fine, we will make the Herald the launching page of the game. Quartermaster page will remain, but only as an option to click, in headquarters.

[Captain Jack]

We already have 3 journalists and one more pending. We want to recruit a few more this week so we can make final decisions on who will be promoted to Publisher and vice Publisher positions soon.

So, if you have not yet expressed your interest, there is still time.

Today's release has been delayed as we were busy building up new tools for the Herald. Random timing will continue but we will always release at one issue per day, even if this issue is sometimes (like today) small. Remember, it is still very early on the feature.

[Captain dungeness]

I propose the Head Person be called the Editor-in-Chief like real publication companies. The 3 people below the Editor-in-Chief are simple called Editors and the Journalist can propose stories to the Editors. I suggest Captain Jack set up a Password protected page (or Google Doc) for the editors to store their collaborated work. Then the Editor-in-Chief can give it the final proof-read and publish. If the Editor-in-Chief is more than 12 hours late in publishing The Herald then one of the Editors should have the permission to publish for that day in his/her place.
-Dungeness