Lore direction?

[Malfian]

Hi, I want to comment on how lore operates in game, in particular, the relationship between lore and spoilers. I have briefly talked to two admins to get a more wholistic view of the subject. 

So right now, I think the lore on the wiki is limited and abstracted. New player's introduction to lore would likely be the Basic lore page, which is included in the Getting Started guide and the Game FAQ. This page is very brief and more a primer for how players should act. It also doesn't link to or is linked by the Lore Hub, which isn't present unless searched for with the search bar. Delving into the Lore Hub, it has great stuff; the lore for the Corporations and Locations are great. However, a glaring fact is, aside from the lore hub not being accessible except from the search bar, there is no accessible storyline to follow. In the storyline page, it itself says it's been supplanted by adventure zone stuff, and that's the other thing I want to cover.

Now, General rules 9 and Discord rules on Secret content describe adventure zone stuff as secret and restricted in discussions. In fact, the lore channel on Discord is only accessible via the imspoilered role. So in concept, it seems that most of the lore is treated as secrets and restricted from discussion. Now in practice, in my brief discussion with admins, one of the responses said that it wasn't a big deal and to just use discretion based on the nature of the lore. The other response I got described how secrets can only be shared with other characters who are discovering the azones together. Now I don't think the responses I got were mutually exclusive, my interpretation right now is that there likely is lore that's perfectly fine to bring up casually, and the more secretive content can be discussed with people your discovering secrets with. However, I do think how everything is presented has made lore a minefield, which has discouraged discussion of lore. In every round I've played, players don't bring up locations or history or factions, which I think could be really cool for roleplay.

To be clear, I'm not bashing how lore is set up altogether, I think this is a unique way of doing things. I do know that GoonRP is more lax and more LRP than other servers. But an RP server without any visible lore or worldbuilding ingame would be strange no? I just think it could be better for the lore enthusiasts. On the radio show host page, one of the gimmicks it suggests is a history themed show that discusses lore around solarium. I think that's a great gimmick but working that with the rules on secrets could be tricky and discouraging. One of my favorite examples is the Lunar Museum, stuff from there is literally history and presumably common knowledge, I think it would be great if people brought it up more. To be honest, I think I just want more family guy style references to lore, like, "Damn Cap, this is worse than the time Nanotrasen destroyed Asia in a meteor shower." Just like some way to encourage and allow that sort of discussion. I'm sure I'm out of my depth on this topic, I'm just offering my experience like an outsider looking in. I do want to hear what you all think as well. 

Disclaimer: Please don't reference spoilers and get this taken down.

[laugoose]

my favourite thing to do ever in this game is improvise.

when you have a textrp that has a big lore document that you can fully read through, this allows for more nuanced jokes that reference the lore, which is great! it rewards people for looking at it and becomes an inside joke of sorts. i really enjoy it.

when you have something like this, though, the fun to me is making shit up and seeing how everyone deals with it. when paperwork has been broken for a month and the HoP hands me a document to get my ID upgraded, saying to them "Don't you remember Research and that Paperwork killing artifact? It's been unusable for ages now." is a funny in-lore joke and one that people can add on to. you're basically CREATING inside jokes on demand, which is awesome

"Damn Cap, this is worse than the time Nanotrasen destroyed Asia in a meteor shower." is a hilarious thing to say depending on the context, and one that i truly believe nobody would have an issue with you saying. characters that are a little geograpically blind could ask "Asia? That the country with all the sushi?" whilst a character from asia could either remember it or break down as they had somehow never been told it happened. the joke builds with the people, often to absolutely amazing lengths. i had a joke with a hall monitor once that they needed to get their grades up to keep their role (they were particularly oversteppign their boundaries in character) and it led to him being fired, and then me recieving a massive piece of paper with tons of questions and answers. it was amazing, and the best part was how neither of us needed a lore document to read from to do it. we built upon a joke and had so much fun with it.

what i'm trying to say is that i think the sky is the limit and that is the best part about it. nobody is gonna correct you unless it's something super simple like Nanotrasen, people with engage with the joke in all sorts of amazing ways and it means you can litereally do whatever you want. the easiest way to get a slow round running is referencing some bullshit lore and seeing how people react to it.

the only reason i'd like to see more lore is just how interesting it is. all of the planets and stuff are super cool to look at in game, and then learnign about them is awesome. i wanna know what plasma is, why it works, what the secrets of the inner core of the brown giant are. more lore would be great, but don't be afraid to just spout out some gobbledegook because it would make a joke funnier