An Idea to add flavor

[King]

Sort of like

"Aberdeenshire Man Drowned At Sea"

from the Aberdeen Press and Journal on the 15th of April 1912?

 

[Trin Tragula]

Loved the newspapers in Imperialism 1. Still this seems harder to do in a non turn based game...

 

[King]

I think it is funny that when the King posts something like this basically confirming that something like this is already in the game and everyone just keeps posting without even noticing that it was said.... :rofl:

No it's not, that is actually a real newspaper headline.

 

[podcat]

A dynamic newspaper wouldn't be too difficult to implement... we already have such a system in EU3, when you click end game and get a summarizes of each ruler:

"King Fred III was only remembered for his drunkenness..."

it would be a fun feature for sure, the problem is making it locally flavored and not appear to be a template that you will just click away every time it pops up because you "know how it goes", also you'd need to be able to add scripted pure flavor stuff to it (titanic etc and pictures) and the whole thing would require quite a bit of development effort.

I fondly remember the newspaper system in Frontier: First encounters, although it was very heavily scripted.