Overhaul of Feed Channel

But there is just one two three a lot of fucking problems with the feed channel and newscast system in this game. I don't know if this is because Bay doesn't really care about the news feed, the Journalist, or just because they are too lazy to actually do anything about it. And so I thought, such a simple and basic game mechanic shouldn't be hindered so significantly like it does in our current revision of Bay.

Here's a list of the problems:

• The text formatting with the news feed doesn't accept BBCode; this is a serious problem as otherwise, long articles just become a long clusterfuck of text that no one really cares to read about thoroughly, or just avoids it entirely.
  
• It has a LIMIT on how many characters you can even type in to the actual article or whatnot. This is completely ridiculous. I don't even know why there is a limit. If we cannot remove the limit, we might as well make it longer.
  
• Did I hear about a limit? Oh, yeah, there's ANOTHER ONE. The newscaster feed thingamajiggy doesn't allow you to create more than one feed channel. This is a serious hindrance for multiple reasons: 1) Officer McMoron didn't really like your article about _____________ and decides to D-Notice your feed channel. Oh, I guess that's fine; I'll just make a new fee---SORRY, LOSER. ONE FEED CHANNEL PER PERSON, HUEHEHUEHEU. Once again, if we cannot physically remove the limit, can we at least increase the number of feed channels per person? Or if not that, at least the increase of feed channels for the freaking Journalist so he or she doesn't just lose their job in a blink of an eye.
  
•  There isn't a saved memory system where you enter the message for the article. After typing a ridiculously long article, and you decide it needs just one last sentence to make it count, guess what? It wipes the ENTIRE FUCKING thing. This is a serious hindrance to the newscaster feed system. As a suggestion, maybe it should be revisable like a pen and paper is. When you add more information, it adds that text to the REST of the text already entered. Not wiping it entirely.
• The wonderful photo system. It only allows you to upload a single photo per each article. This is another failure of the system. It basically forces you to seperate that one completely interconnected article into a few small ones, just so the pictures match up to what you are saying in the text.
• The newscaster forces you to accept the information into a window that pops up like with a-helps and stuff like that. We should be able to grab a paper that has been formatted, come right out of a transcript, or some other paper source, and UPLOAD THAT directly into the message of the article. We shouldn't be forced to stuff all of that, within the little window that it provides us with.
  

And if you feel that these changes aren't really significant and that they should be put at the end of the list? You can go fuck yourself. realize that these changes are actually quite beneficial to a heavy-roleplay server such as ourselves. The idea of the press and newscasting is a wonderful piece of Bay, that can significantly change the course of the round depending on the skills of the article writer. In other servers, I have seen Heads of Staff dethroned, people executed, mass panic, OOC drama, and much, much more.

We shouldn't neglect these changes because "no one gives a shit about that" or "I don't know how to read". These changes allow for us to enhance our role-playing in a completely new and wonderful way.

Let us know what you think, Aurora. This is Ace Reporter, Tiffany Roberts, bringing you a Captured Moment!