I agree. I spoke about this with KT today and she redirected me to the forum. As there is already a post about it I will just give my opinion here.
The reason for the live news bar is to prevent shady actions. To me, the live news feed makes shady deals even more easy. Yes you can see that fams made a nap with each other and that you need to raise the danger level from green to orange. BUT... is that a part of the game? Do we want this transparency?
I think it is more value that you use your opps to find out that someone made a nap with a certain fam. If fam 1 makes a nap with fam 2, fam 3 should not be aware of this. It is part of the game. Fam 3 can use opps to figure out that fam 1 and fam 2 made a NAP. The whole thing of making a nap is to make your life easier and prepare to war someone. Giving this info for free makes it quite easy for fam 3 to prepare their defenses.
Further, player 1 and player 2 are fighting over some planets. Player 3 just watches the screen and sees what is happening with player 1 and player 2. He waits for his moment and with the info he gets from the news feed he prepares his fleets. Boom, where two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third dogs runs away with it.
People should not know this information. We are barely allowed to report stuff like this in #mod and #general (at least in the older days). Doing so gave a ban and shizzle like that.
The news feed opens the door for shady deals, it does not close it. It makes more clear what is going on in the universe. That is the job of the wizards and the agents. Not the game itself.
The news feed should give information on who logs on. What kind of event is going on like market strikes. Not who is fighting who, who made an alliance with who and who made a nap with someone. It is wrong imo.
Do not make the game easier then it is.
Just my 50 cents on the news feed.
You have claimed all this time that you would die for me. Why then are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?