Every kingdom has a press: the newspapers standing in it, and what they print. Players read it under Press in the top row, and anyone on the web can read it at the press, signed in or not.
A newspaper is a company like any other: it costs 100 gold to found, stands in the region you stand in, and is owned, passed on and dissolved like any company. It makes no good and offers no work. What it makes is articles.
Its owner writes from the newspaper's card under Account, in the Companies tab, or from the Press page, where the reader's own newspapers are listed with a Write button.
| paper per article | 100, from your store |
| how often | at most one article a world day per newspaper |
| title | 1 to 80 characters, one line |
| article | 1 to 5000 characters |
Paper comes from a paperworks, yours or anyone's, through the goods market. A refusal for printing too soon says how many hours are left. An owner of two newspapers may print in each on the same day.
Preview before you print. The Preview button shows the article exactly as it will print, and tells you if something in it would be refused, before any paper is taken.
An article has a small formatting language. Everything else you type is shown exactly as typed, including anything that looks like a link, an image or a web page's markup: there are no links and no images.
| you type | you get |
|---|---|
| a blank line | a new paragraph |
**bold** |
bold |
*italics* |
italics |
## A heading on a line of its own |
a heading |
### A smaller heading on a line of its own |
a smaller heading |
> quoted words, on every line of the quote |
a quote |
- an item, on every line of the list |
a list |
1. an item, on every line of the list |
a numbered list |
Bold and italics pair on one line, and may sit inside each other once.
Players read an article as soon as it is printed. For its first world day it is only theirs: during that day its owner may edit it, at no cost, as often as needed. After it, it can never be changed.
A world day after printing it is published on the open web, under the author's character name and never the player's. Anyone can read it then, and an article of at least 150 words may be listed by search engines.
An article belongs to the kingdom that held its newspaper's region when it was printed, and stays there if the region is later conquered. The newspaper's next article belongs to whoever holds the ground then.
Each kingdom's front page lists the articles printed in it in the last 7 days, most liked first, and among equal likes the newest first. Below them are the kingdom's newspapers, and below those your own, with when each may next print.
An article leaves the front page after seven days and never leaves the site: it keeps its own page, and its newspaper's page lists everything it printed, newest first, twenty to a page.
The Press entry in the top row shows how many articles your kingdom printed since you last opened its front page, not counting your own.
A player may like an article once, from any of their characters, and take the like back. A newspaper's owner cannot like its articles. The count is shown; who liked is not.
A player may give an article 50, 250 or 500, once per article, in the currency of the country holding the region they stand in. Where that country has no currency, there is nothing to give in. The gift leaves your purse and goes to the author's purse, or, if the author has died, to the character that player plays now. No tax is taken.
An article shows only the totals given, one per currency. Who gave is shown to nobody but moderators. Gifts do not change the front page's order. You cannot give to your own newspaper's articles.
A character who has printed 10 articles of at least 150 words that are not hidden becomes a wordsmith, a deed. Each character counts their own articles.
A signed-in player may report any name, message or article another player wrote, once per text, with a note of up to 200 characters if they like. A report changes nothing by itself: a moderator reads it and decides. A moderator may hide an article, which takes it off every page at once and keeps it for the record. Every such act is logged.