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Could there be a possibility of a weekly or even daily news show about current events in the 'verse that include interactions between players (for instance pirate raids or organizations declaring war on each other) and NPCs (Operation Pitchfork, the UEE's most wanted, or alien race interactions?) What about the possibility of player run broadcasts, like Between 2 Space Ferns with Wingman, or The Dread Pirate Roberts' (literal) pirate radio?

Well we're definitely planning on having a in-fiction news show that you would see in bars and stuff, and we would let players watch it from the RSI website. And that's actually part of the post launch content plan in terms of, we would actually have people whose job would be to watch the game and see what events were happening, make sure that we capture in-game footage of some of the events, and make news reports from around the world.So if two big organizations get into a battle over an asteroid base, that potentially could make front line news. And that's part of the idea of trying to put in news that we're constructing for the universe, you know, there's a famine in this sector, or whatever as well as player actions and blend it all into one, into our world, so it feels like the players are just as much part of the world as all our designed NPCs, and they feel like their actions have consequence.Personally, that's what I want in a game, I think that would greatly increase the immersion into this world. We're planning on that, and it will be really great I think when it happens.So I'm excited by that, and then the possibility of player run broadcasts, I wasn't thinking about this, but I think it's actually a really good idea, and it's probably pretty easy for us to provide channels, just like you can on internet radio. We probably could have our channels, just like you can in GTA, you can listen to different channels as you wander around, and then maybe we have some player channels that people can have their own streams on, and then you can tell people, and you could tune into it.That could be pretty cool. I like that idea, so I will see what we can do about that. I'm not promising, again, that it's gonna be in right away, but I think that's a very, very cool idea.

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