A "reporter" class would be interesting, but difficult to automate. In otherwords, we could add a "reporter" certfication, and give you access to a special area to post in if you had that cert...but we couldn't make you write any articles...much less police the quality of those articles. So it's not likely to be an "official" part of the game.
On the otherhand, I would seriously love to see some great shoutcasting of this game. The shoutcasts for Tribes were excellent and I'd like to see that sort of coverage happen in this game.
Of course, the traditional shoutcasting just plain old won't work. The games don't ever end.
However, if the "shoutcasters" followed an Outfit and sort of created a CNN-like diary of what that Outfit did for a week or month, distilling all the cool stuff together to give a better overview of what happened during that time, it would probably be an excellent download.
I'm thinking more of the "Wolf Blitzer"-style report from Desert Storm. I don't see much else working...but my mind is open.
Thoughts?
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Dave Georgeson
Sr. Designer, Planetside
Sony Online Entertainment
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2002-12-30, 03:34 PM
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