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Unintrusive new feature will share events, market info, bomb strikes and more! Ticker can also be used by Faction leaders to send urgent bulletins to members.
The good people of Torn will never miss out on a major news announcement ever again thanks to the implementation of our brand new News Ticker feature. The News Ticker appears in the striped bar just below the search box and will provide you with live updates on a number of key areas, including events, trading information, and official announcements from both Torn and your faction leaders.
Pictured: Important news about chocolate.
The original purpose of the News Ticker was to make some of our more casual citizens aware of current events. Not everyone can stomach the forums, and few possess the attention span necessary to consume a full newspaper article, so the News Ticker was created to highlight what's going on in Torn in an easily digestible manner. This city is alive 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and if you don't know where to look, there's plenty you might miss out on.
The News Ticker will produce a stream of automated headlines advertising popular forum threads, dirty bomb strikes, published newspaper articles, community events, official communications, and notable movements in the stock, item, and points markets. Furthermore, all forthcoming and ongoing events will be highlighted in the News Ticker and will be accompanied by a timer which indicates just how long you have left to enjoy certain bonuses or competitions.
Many of these automated headlines are clickable, with stock news taking you to the stock page, forum headlines taking you to the highlighted post, and newspaper alerts linking you to that particular article. We also have the ability to post custom headlines too, although these will be used sparingly. This is something that Faction leaders can also do, with the News Ticker able to be used to share important notifications to all faction members in times of urgent need.
Pictured: You can use these alerts to tell the whole faction that you're broke because some dumbass gave a 100-day old player vault access.
Faction leaders can push custom headlines to members via the faction control panel under 'Change Announcement'. This headline will instantly appear in your members' News Ticker feed unless they have disabled the feature. The news ticker is automatically enabled on desktop but disabled on mobile devices by default. Players can remove or enable the News Ticker by simply clicking their profile icon and selecting the News Ticker check box.
Pictured: Bye-bye news, hello solitude.
Given the usefulness of the News Ticker to both factions and the wider community, we would encourage all citizens to try out this new feature for a short while at least. We have designed it to be as unintrusive as possible, with most headlines appearing in light grey, and only the most urgent faction and official announcements pushed in coloured text in an area where we already display announcements on downtime.
Further additions and adjustments to the News Ticker may be made in future based on how the community responds. But for now, we feel we've achieved a good initial balance with a feature that keeps you informed without making you distracted.
Pictured: Important news about chocolate.
The original purpose of the News Ticker was to make some of our more casual citizens aware of current events. Not everyone can stomach the forums, and few possess the attention span necessary to consume a full newspaper article, so the News Ticker was created to highlight what's going on in Torn in an easily digestible manner. This city is alive 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, and if you don't know where to look, there's plenty you might miss out on.
The News Ticker will produce a stream of automated headlines advertising popular forum threads, dirty bomb strikes, published newspaper articles, community events, official communications, and notable movements in the stock, item, and points markets. Furthermore, all forthcoming and ongoing events will be highlighted in the News Ticker and will be accompanied by a timer which indicates just how long you have left to enjoy certain bonuses or competitions.
Many of these automated headlines are clickable, with stock news taking you to the stock page, forum headlines taking you to the highlighted post, and newspaper alerts linking you to that particular article. We also have the ability to post custom headlines too, although these will be used sparingly. This is something that Faction leaders can also do, with the News Ticker able to be used to share important notifications to all faction members in times of urgent need.
Pictured: You can use these alerts to tell the whole faction that you're broke because some dumbass gave a 100-day old player vault access.
Faction leaders can push custom headlines to members via the faction control panel under 'Change Announcement'. This headline will instantly appear in your members' News Ticker feed unless they have disabled the feature. The news ticker is automatically enabled on desktop but disabled on mobile devices by default. Players can remove or enable the News Ticker by simply clicking their profile icon and selecting the News Ticker check box.
Pictured: Bye-bye news, hello solitude.
Given the usefulness of the News Ticker to both factions and the wider community, we would encourage all citizens to try out this new feature for a short while at least. We have designed it to be as unintrusive as possible, with most headlines appearing in light grey, and only the most urgent faction and official announcements pushed in coloured text in an area where we already display announcements on downtime.
Further additions and adjustments to the News Ticker may be made in future based on how the community responds. But for now, we feel we've achieved a good initial balance with a feature that keeps you informed without making you distracted.
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