User submitted/ non relevant rumors.

[chronic]

This post here inspired me to create this thread because I though of a relatively simple way to contribute/ add to the games immersion. I'm not going to elaborate very much because it's pretty simple but basically either have a way for users to submit lore friendly rumors, or for the trese bros to add a wide variety of rumors to the games. The thing I think would be fun is to have none of these rumors be relevant. Basically it just adds to the plot background of the game and adds an incentive to just read through the rumors in the spice hall.

Thoughts?

[fallen]

chronic - we add new flavor rumors to the game about once a month or so. Are there specific flavor rumors you'd like to see?

[neddapirate]

An unusually dilapidated ship making the spice run in record time.
You get a fast cargo ship if you don't destroy it

[Deleted]

ANOTHER Han Solo reference? Maybe some quotes or references from other pop culture references- something that will make the reader snicker a bit like adding "The Spice Must Flow" to a message about a spice shortage, or maybe even references to running gags from the forum.

[fallen]

To mirror the statements on the other thread, we are not going to start porting other sci-fi worlds into Star Traders. Thanks.

[Officer Genious]

"I'm glad my officer got his moustache trimmed, but now I need a new name for him."

[neddapirate]

Ok that was the last one sorry I kept it going.

[chronic]

fallen yeah, honestly longer stories possibly about individuals more about planet life. Intrafaction dirt, we have some talented writers on the forums I think a submission system would rock.

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[fallen]

Yep! As the thread is titled, waiting on user submissions

[chronic]

Nov 14, 2013 20:36:26 GMT -5 fallen said:

Yep! As the thread is titled, waiting on user submissions

Perhaps a sub forum? . Edit not just for rumors but for game related user submissions as well.

[chronic]

But if you're farming for examples here's one I just thought up:

the years have not been kind to me spacer. My ship, my crew, even my own first mate have forsaken me in place of that De Valtos trickery, and coin. Don't ever trust those imperial chummers, for any one would sell his soul for some coin. All I have left is my trade permit, and these days even that is as good as lost to me. Take my advice spacer, and go the cadar way and put a stop to this madness.

[Officer Genious]

The Syndicate and their Cadarian dogs will soon taste our steel, and when that day comes I will be the arrow at their heart.

I'll put a stop to Steel Song piracy if I have to kill every single one of them myself!

What's a captain gotta do to get some spice around here??

[neddapirate]

I know I haven't been the most useful poster.
But I could be if you could throw down a board about the lore of ST so I knew what I was working with.

[fallen]

chronic - the subform for user created Star Traders fan fiction, posts, etc is called "Captain's Log"

We'd love more user suggestions, keep them coming.

[Deleted]

"Let me tell ya somethin' spacer. Your heap can be all kinds of chromed pretty and tough. But if you don't pay attention to your crew, you ain't gettin' nowhere but stuffed out an airlock. This ain't the old days when our rides were mostly automated. We WORK for a living these days..."