Facts About Discovery Thread

[Lucky.Luke]

I strongly support the idea of making such fact sheets so people can know about Freelancer and Discovery lore better.

For one there a lot of unknowns in the history of the houses, and on the other hand a lot of people have wrong ideas about things that are hidden at some remote point of the game.

But I would definately like these fact sheets to be inside the game aswell, and not only the forum, for several reasons:

-If you had something to read in the game while you fly (like those items that explain the rules when you start on a starflier), trade runs would be a lot less boring. People wouldnt alt tab out to do other stuff.
-Its always more atmospheric to get information in the game then to have to look it up in an out of roleplay forum
-A lot of people dont read the forums, or see it as tiresome to have to look it up in the forum

I'm think about either

a /encyclopedia *subject* command which pops up and infocard about the subject (in roleplay it could be a sort of interstelar wikipedia)

or

items which are in-RP "books". You can buy the books on highly populated planets, and the avalbility of the book at certain places will be linked to the subject of the book. For example you can get a history book about Rheinland on planet New Berlin, a sort of scientific book about cardamine on a cryer pharmaceuticals base and planet Malta, and almost any kind of book on planet Cambridge. You could also have characters on the base which give you lectures about things, but I think the book items are much better because you can take them along and read them when you are bored.

People could read them while trading or while flying long distances, swap them, or trade them.

The same books could be availabe on hte forum as well, for the people who prefer to read them there.

I guess the problem would be writing all that down, and disagreement with what is true and history and what not. But it could be a community effort with discussions on the forums while writing them.