Zone of Homeless has the aim to bring total freeplay in the zone. Several new levels, artifacts, weapons, quests and other stuff. Do what you want and enjoy the life in the zone.
The dynamic news script we got running in ZOTH was ok but I had some ideas in mind which finally made into the game. Faction news will have different colors, most of the time a random amount of icons, any faction in the zone is posting news in the general stalker network, which has a different sound on incoming messages, than player related news. So for example warning messages for hunger or thirst will sound different to the sound from the messages out of the stalker network, what will make it a little bit easier to recognize important news or messages.
Only the weather news will be harder to implement, because the weather in SWTC is so dynamic so I need to figure out how I can grab the right weather types, or trigger the right news for the fitting weather.
The news script features several types of news like daytime(morning, evening, night), random(totally random chat), unique(small selection of npc's) and community news(any faction, or group in the zone, which includes also the famous hunters).
Really nice additions!
honestly, I never liked dynamic news. They get predictable and boring very quickly, not to mention unrealistic. At least they could be visible only by accessing PDA instead of on-screen, maybe that would make a difference.
A lot will be optional, so don't worry about this anymore ;)
Das finde ich einfach genial, mehr auf das PDA-System einzugehen.
Keep it up!