Storyline Updates
I wanted to talk a little today about a question we often get asked in community feedback and that’s how the storyline gets updated in Anarchy Online. The storyline for Rubi-Ka is constantly being updated through our ARK events teams and the updates released through our Editors News forum in the form of in-character press releases from the factional press agencies.
The articles in that forum vary from small reports on the many events run by the events team, through articles written by contributing members of the roleplaying community to official articles written and released by us here at Funcom to tie in with important changes or content additions (like the current mysteries related to alien transmissions and the outzone!).
Using the device of the ‘Editors’ allows us to give our roleplaying community more ‘in character’ updates to the story on a consistent basis, be it major developments or just fun background pieces. We feel that this approach allows us to both involve the roleplaying community more and have more interaction with the community in terms of the storyline, with any given piece just as likely to have come from a player initiative as from the pens of the storyline developers.
The most recent updates now appear in the game launcher as well as our main Story page on the official site. We hope to maintain a more visible progression of the storyline and background of Rubi-Ka through this process.
Rubi-Ka has a wonderful heritage and it is thanks to our dedicated roleplaying community that we continue to develop that heritage for those that like to get totally immersed in the world around Anarchy Online!
I've noticed a drop in the rate of random player/NPC RP as well as the scheduled RP events over time. Although, I must applaud FC for making the emotes simpler to execute. 