Replace the "Happy X day" messages with lore trivia facts

[Frances]

What it says on the tin.

There's some sort of function that checks for the date and will give everyone a message on roundstart if, say, it's Christmas. I noticed that these little messages, while mostly inconsequential, get discussed in OOC, especially when the holiday is weird and unknown.

Perhaps this could be a good occasion to get people more familiar with the lore, especially those that don't read the wiki or browse the lore subforums? Just replace the function by one that randomly picks from a list of interesting, non-useless facts written by our wonderful lore devs. That way we can all learn about the second great Tajaran revolution which ended in 2436.

[Skull132]

Find me lore devs to write up enough facts for it not to get repetitive, and sure.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I like this idea. I'll ask, persuade, and threaten the loredevs into creating facts for it.

[EvilBrage]

Ahh, I can see it now.

Did You Know That: Oh god please help they're forcing me to do this THEY HAVE MY FAMILY

[Carver]

As long as we keep Christmas and Easter messages on their appropriate dates, s'all good.

[Skull132]

Why not keep both? A random fact and a day of the whatever greeting.

[Lady_of_Ravens]

As long as we keep Christmas and Easter messages on their appropriate dates, s'all good.

 

Who even cares about these, though? I mean we all know it's x-mas or easter or whatever, why do we need a game to tell us?

[canon35]

Can we suggest little lore trivia to add in?

[Frances]

Can we suggest little lore trivia to add in?

You should PM your facts to Jackboot - it'll be more fun if the facts remain secret so people can be a little excited about them.

[rrrrrr]

Why not both?

[Killerhurtz]

I love this and will actively spam Jackboot with a thousand fact ideas try to find ideas to submit.

[LordFowl]

Even better, if some important lore event happened on this day, announce it as such. That way people could even commemorate it ingame, if its appropriately important enough.

[EvilBrage]

If we don't have enough lore, we could always throw in Brage's Robusting Tips™ or something.

[Lady_of_Ravens]

Or just general game tips, bits of SOP, station directives, rules... there are lots of things people could use little reminders on.

[Demonofthefall]

Or you could add random character facts from the character facts board

[Guest]

Or you could add random character facts from the character facts board

People might mistake them for common knowledge, but it's a good idea nonetheless.

[LordFowl]

That would glorify the character over the server, and we must reinforce especially now in these times the fact that our characters are meaningless worms compared to the glorious LORE. Dangerous thoughts such as yours Demon will only accelerate us towards the dark days, the Lesbays.

[Guest]

Characters are bread and butter of every server, they are what makes the round tick. Lore exists to help us develop the characters and to bring some order to the unlimited chaos and horror the human mind might spawn. I don't see anything specifically wrong with taking some old character info for laughs other than some people unavoidably feeling left out.

[Frances]

Is it necessary, though? Our lore has always been about making the Aurora station a small part of a much bigger universe - it'd feel kinda weird to have tidbits about honestly inconsequential characters, lore-wise, mixed in with important lore events.

This is the same reason why you don't really see canon characters mixed-in with the lore. I mean, if we had good canon antagonists, or great scientists that made new discoveries, then it would actually be fun to add them to the lore, but I don't think we should add messages such as "on 7.oct.2457 offer blah did a funny".

[SierraKomodo]

I mean no offense, but shouldn't our loredevs currently be focused on things like fleshing out some of the species more, improving human/sol lore, and completing what's there to be done before taking on another project? (I havent found a single reference to Little Adhomai in the wiki, and there's a lot of stuff that's been 'approved' in the lore applications section that hasn't been put up on the wiki.)

[LordFowl]

This is more important than lore, which nobody ever reads anyways.

[Frances]

I mean no offense, but shouldn't our loredevs currently be focused on things like fleshing out some of the species more, improving human/sol lore, and completing what's there to be done before taking on another project? (I havent found a single reference to Little Adhomai in the wiki, and there's a lot of stuff that's been 'approved' in the lore applications section that hasn't been put up on the wiki.)

This isn't some huge project; it'd mostly take interested devs (and pretty much any contributor) to take 30 minutes out of their day to think of some random interesting facts and bring them to Jackboot.

I think there might be some work to be done in deciding which facts would be the most crucial to introduce people to, but again that's mostly a day's work, pretty far from overhauling all of the species and factions' fluff.

And I actually think this is more important than fleshing out lore (which should be done, but all in its time). You gotta get the lore to the people, if you want them to start caring about it. Currently, there's not really any easy way to stay in touch with the lore or be introduced to it, short of going on the wiki or reading newscasters. (Both of which involve essentially opening a book and reading for a while, which isn't necessarily the best form of pacing for some people.)