Lately we've seen some interaction between the fiction and the community in the form of the Citizen Opinion Poll. Personally I felt that really helped bring the lore of the PU alive and made it feel like real, current events that we can actually be involved in and maybe even impact in some way. What are some other ways that the lore we're reading now will be integrated into the gameplay and be relevant to players in the persistent universe?asked by Eschatos
TL;DRLore posts are meant as in-universe current events that hint at gameplay and storylines, and the team hopes player actions will influence the world, though nothing is promised, such as the civil war's state at launch.
That was a fun little thing that we had a good time doing, writing the poll and then being able to tie in some of the responses that people wrote in-character in the poll to the latest show-down dispatch that went out. It's really important to kind of let you guys know that we are responding and we are looking at what you're feeling and how you're thinking about the stuff we're doing, and yeah, the stuff we are writing, the lore posts, they're intended to, as Will said, they're in-Universe, they're supposed to be taken as this is what exactly is happening right now, and these are kinds of the things that are going on, so hopefully by you guys reading those, you're getting hints to either the functionality of things in gameplay, or potential storylines in gameplay, so we try very hard to make sure those are going to be seeded into the Universe you guys are going to be experiencing.
Yeah, cause it's always been a goal of the game when it goes live is that you playing will be able to influence the world and make differences whether as an individual, or as a collective whole. So we've tried to start thinking about that now, through the lorebuilder posts, or we read your comments when we go on there, and seeing what you guys are feeling, and we love it when you roleplay in the comments, so much fun for us. And letting that influence it as kind of a precursor to how it's going to be in the game, where one of you is going to be the Murray Cup champion, or one will be the notorious pirate who assassinated the IMperator (Don't do that, that's bad), but that kind of stuff, and starting to build it now and, like Adam was saying, these stories we try to capture the feeling of what we hope the missions will be like, whether the civil war will still be raging when the game comes out, that remains to be seen, but stuff like that and seeing how, seeing which side you guys are going to take is very interesting from a lore perspective.