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Well I bet as soon as we start getting competition there will be an elitist paper in Old Realm.
 
I wonder how long it will take the Sidereal to notice our changes to fate and send an agent to investigate?

I predict it as (travel time of news) +(speed of bureaucracy) * (how much troubles they are currently dealing with)

Any factors I missed?
 
So Old Realm will always require a fair bit of education to learn. No mortal can have Old Realm as their native language. That is troublesome.
 
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I don't think it is wise or desirable to include hard to read sections in our newspaper once we start that. Exclusiveness is not a desirable feature to have in a newspaper. The far more interesting reason to learn Old Realm is so that we can use it to learn news and then translate it to the masses.

Remember, printing the newspaper is only half the battle or less. We need to be able to consistently find and write down interesting news. We can't fill a newspaper with only gibberish and propaganda and expect it to become hugely popular... At least not at our skill level. We should ensure it has useful information.
 
[X] Pick a name for your publishing house
-[X] Perspective's publishing: First in the business.
[X] Grow the publishing business
 
fictionfan said:
We are going to need to hire some people to gather news for us.
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While it is true that we can and should outsource some of the work we don't want to do so exclusively. We need to know what is going on ourselves too so we don't get bullshitted and to ensure we can actually use the newspaper to pursue our goals. If nothing else we should keep in mind that we are going to be infinitely more capable of getting the scoop on international news due to our speed. Hiring people to do a job you can't do is rarely a good situation if said job is an essential part of your core business.
 
FullNothingness said:
While it is true that we can and should outsource some of the work we don't want to do so exclusively. We need to know what is going on ourselves too so we don't get bullshitted and to ensure we can actually use the newspaper to pursue our goals. If nothing else we should keep in mind that we are going to be infinitely more capable of getting the scoop on international news due to our speed. Hiring people to do a job you can't do is rarely a good situation if said job is an essential part of your core business.
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Investigation is a skill that we don't have much of. We should be able to keep on top of economic information however.

Also given that we have no competition yet we should be alright with only public news.
 
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fictionfan said:
Investigation is a skill that we don't have much of. We should be able to keep on top of an economic information however.

Also given that we have no competition yet we should be alright with only public news.
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Yeah, investigation is another ability we should consider raising... But while we should be able to deal with only public news at first well never be able to function as a newspaper without being able to write down said news properly.
 
FullNothingness said:
Yeah, investigation is another ability we should consider raising... But while we should be able to deal with only public news at first well never be able to function as a newspaper without being able to write down said news properly.
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That is Linguistics that we are voting to raise right now.
 
FullNothingness said:
I don't think it is wise or desirable to include hard to read sections in our newspaper once we start that. Exclusiveness is not a desirable feature to have in a newspaper. The far more interesting reason to learn Old Realm is so that we can use it to learn news and then translate it to the masses.

Remember, printing the newspaper is only half the battle or less. We need to be able to consistently find and write down interesting news. We can't fill a newspaper with only gibberish and propaganda and expect it to become hugely popular... At least not at our skill level. We should ensure it has useful information.
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Early newspapers were a lot less about actual accurate news so much as the local gossip.
 
fictionfan said:
That is Linguistics that we are voting to raise right now.
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Yup.

veekie said:
Early newspapers were a lot less about actual accurate news so much as the local gossip.
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fictionfan said:
This basically. We currently have no competition. We set the standard.
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While that may be we do have an agenda here. We aren't simply in this to sell news papers. We want to change society. And to do that we need to be seen as more than a convenient source of gossip. We need to provide some real information too.
 
It might be best to stick to publishing until we can get some people hired on with good Investigation and/or get a couple more points into it ourself as well.

Also the best news to sell would probably be the stuff from the nearby areas that would normall take a couple days to a couple weeks to make it's way around the area.
 
I am not sure about the rules does gaining a dot of Linguistics automatically give a language? I read that somewhere.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
It might be best to stick to publishing until we can get some people hired on with good Investigation and/or get a couple more points into it ourself as well.

Also the best news to sell would probably be the stuff from the nearby areas that would normall take a couple days to a couple weeks to make it's way around the area.
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Hmm, well investigation 2 is cheap anyways if understand the costs involved correctly.

[X] Pick a name for your publishing house
-[X] Perspective's publishing: First in the business.
[X] Grow the publishing business
[X] Spend xp?
-[X] Merit: Language - Old Realm
-[X] Linguistics to lvl 3
-[X] Investigation to lvl 2

Delay our newspaper a bit until we have the skills to really get the most out of it.
 
fictionfan said:
I am not sure about the rules does gaining a dot of Linguistics automatically give a language? I read that somewhere.
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I know it did in 2nd edition, but that didn't have any other way to get languages. It's very likely that 3rd, with it's focus on merits, doesn't hand them out like that, and you're remembering reading discussion about 2E.
 
[X] Pick a name for your publishing house
-[X] Perspective's publishing: First in the business.
[X] Grow the publishing business
[X] Spend xp?
-[X] Merit: Language - Old Realm
-[X] Linguistics to lvl 3
-[X] Investigation to lvl 2
 
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