The recent update of 2020-11-18 has removed the fuction of creating an anonymous message within the newspaper and anonymously message people. The reasoning for removing the function was to reduce problematic content being shared and to improve the overall game experience for players by not exposing them to people that do bad with the anonymous function. For example placing harmfull messages or pictures.
While I do agree with the reasoning why Bytro has removed the function, and think that people must be stopped abusing the anonymous fuction to place that kind of stuff, I also think that alot of good has been removed by doing so.
In my last 3 games that I have played, the newspaper was amazing. Myself and a bunch of other people used it to write articles about their own countries in roleplay style, which is always amazing to read. But people also started to make actual newspaper articles within the newspaper, for example: "Welcome to North America News, where we cover everything happening within the continent of North America!". This happened a lot and I have taken it over as well since, writing huge articles about the whole ingame world under the name of that particular newspaper. While this can still be done by just writing an article, when I wrote those articles there were numerous people that wanted to know who the writer was so they would not attack me/the writer of that particular roleplay newspaper, which would obviously influence the games experience by not being attacked by certain people or perhaps to instead be targeted by some people for writing any article about a their particular nation, even while in roleplay. So I think since you will always be known as the writer of anything you place from now on, that it can severely influence the amount of roleplay, diplomacy and just purely giving your opinion or chatting happening in the newspaper. For example while writing an roleplay newspaper, and posting it, you would not be attacked by some people or be called out for choosing a side while you are trying to neutraly report about how the ingame world is advancing.
Like I said, I do agree with their reasoning why they removed the function, but I hope something can be done to re implement a similar function so we could continue doing these kinds of things. I'd also like to hear from people if they agree to what I wrote here and feel the same way, or maybe disagree with what I wrote.
While I do agree with the reasoning why Bytro has removed the function, and think that people must be stopped abusing the anonymous fuction to place that kind of stuff, I also think that alot of good has been removed by doing so.
In my last 3 games that I have played, the newspaper was amazing. Myself and a bunch of other people used it to write articles about their own countries in roleplay style, which is always amazing to read. But people also started to make actual newspaper articles within the newspaper, for example: "Welcome to North America News, where we cover everything happening within the continent of North America!". This happened a lot and I have taken it over as well since, writing huge articles about the whole ingame world under the name of that particular newspaper. While this can still be done by just writing an article, when I wrote those articles there were numerous people that wanted to know who the writer was so they would not attack me/the writer of that particular roleplay newspaper, which would obviously influence the games experience by not being attacked by certain people or perhaps to instead be targeted by some people for writing any article about a their particular nation, even while in roleplay. So I think since you will always be known as the writer of anything you place from now on, that it can severely influence the amount of roleplay, diplomacy and just purely giving your opinion or chatting happening in the newspaper. For example while writing an roleplay newspaper, and posting it, you would not be attacked by some people or be called out for choosing a side while you are trying to neutraly report about how the ingame world is advancing.
Like I said, I do agree with their reasoning why they removed the function, but I hope something can be done to re implement a similar function so we could continue doing these kinds of things. I'd also like to hear from people if they agree to what I wrote here and feel the same way, or maybe disagree with what I wrote.
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