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Title: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Goober5000 on August 31, 2011, 09:32:03 pm: See the poll. This applies to any campaign with a fiction viewer, such as WCSaga or Blue Planet: WiH.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Black Wolf on August 31, 2011, 11:03:25 pm: I read it. I also love it for the potential for doing stuff other than fiction with it. I've used it to issue transfer orders and stuff like that.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Aurora Paradox on August 31, 2011, 11:18:49 pm: In WIH, I found that the fiction viewer text added a great deal of depth to the characters.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 31, 2011, 11:20:41 pm: People don't read it?
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Rodo on August 31, 2011, 11:41:32 pm: Quote from: NGTM-1R on August 31, 2011, 11:20:41 pm
People don't read

this.

still...I love to spend some time reading those, so I voted snuffy.. err I mean I loved them.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Nyctaeus on September 01, 2011, 04:20:19 am: I like that idea, but please, don't use any diarys or journals in Fiction Viewer. This is boring as hell.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Goober5000 on September 01, 2011, 07:54:26 am: No diaries or journals (at this time anyway). We're using snippets of other kinds of fiction text.

This is an encouraging poll. :) Somebody on our team was worried that people would watch cutscenes but skip right through the viewer.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Iss Mneur on September 06, 2011, 09:46:22 pm: What no Scroll of Atankharzim: Books on Tape?
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Mobius on September 14, 2011, 05:03:40 pm: Viva les fictions, but please nothing too character-focused in them. Fictions have a lot of potential: as Black Wolf suggested, there are many posssible uses. :)
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: MatthTheGeek on September 14, 2011, 07:59:12 pm: Quote from: Mobius on September 14, 2011, 05:03:40 pm
Viva les fictions, but please nothing too character-focused in them.
Why that ? Their campaign, their way to write their story and exploit the tools they have at their disposal.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Goober5000 on September 15, 2011, 01:02:05 am: Quote from: Mobius on September 14, 2011, 05:03:40 pm
Viva les fictions, but please nothing too character-focused in them. Fictions have a lot of potential: as Black Wolf suggested, there are many posssible uses. :)
Actually, now that you mention it, I have been itching to write an episode of Khavet Viish Ni'an for quite some time. The fiction viewer would be the perfect place to put it.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Droid803 on September 17, 2011, 01:07:38 am: Some is always nice.
Just try not to walls of tl;dr too much.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Mobius on September 17, 2011, 07:25:10 am: Quote from: MatthTheGeek on September 14, 2011, 07:59:12 pm
Quote from: Mobius on September 14, 2011, 05:03:40 pm
Viva les fictions, but please nothing too character-focused in them.
Why that ? Their campaign, their way to write their story and exploit the tools they have at their disposal.

Their campaign, their way to write their story, and our way to suggest things since this is a poll. :p

Seriously, the FW has a lot of potential, it'd be a pity to see its use limited only to character drama and the like. I for one would love to read of surface battles and other things involving a multitude of people instead of the classic 1-3 characters. Sure, it's up to the campaign creators to decide, but nothing should prevent community members from voicing their opinions. ;)
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: The E on September 17, 2011, 07:49:01 am: Well, nothing's stopping you from writing just that. But always remember that other campaign creators may disagree with you on how to tell their story.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Mobius on September 17, 2011, 08:00:39 am: For the sake of variety, sure.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Sesquipedalian on September 19, 2011, 11:09:31 pm: We'll be using it for none of the above.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on October 26, 2011, 04:18:18 pm: War in Heaven had a fiction viewer? Is this like the Command Briefs? Or what?
I remember reading a bunch of story stuff but don't recall how it was presented.
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: Iss Mneur on October 26, 2011, 04:41:46 pm: Quote from: Akalabeth Angel on October 26, 2011, 04:18:18 pm
War in Heaven had a fiction viewer? Is this like the Command Briefs? Or what?
I remember reading a bunch of story stuff but don't recall how it was presented.
The fiction viewer is a fullscreen text viewer, which gets placed before the Command Briefings (which are the ones with the little video in the bottom left).
Spoiler:
If I recall correctly one of the fiction viewer sections is while LaPorte, Simms, and others are on Mars doing their R&R. The fiction viewer is also used for the letters from Elder Martin Mandho
Title: Re: Fiction Viewer poll
Post by: LordPomposity on October 28, 2011, 12:36:00 am: I think every mission (or very close to it) in WiH had a fiction viewer entry. Yes, I read them. :p