What it is
Weazel News is the city's news outlet, and its website at weazel.roleplayproject.net is where its reporters publish. Everything on it is in character: the stories, the live coverage, the leaks and the opinion pieces are written by the Weazel News faction about things that happened in the city. Your character can read it, react to it, argue about it in the comments, send the newsroom a tip, apply for a job, or pay for an advert for their company.
The same stories reach you in other places too. TV channel 1, Weazel News 24, runs the stories and a breaking news ticker (see TV and Games Night), and new stories are posted to the Weazel News page on Lifeinvader.
Reading
The front page leads with whatever is breaking. Stories are sorted into sections such as Breaking, Los Santos, Paleto Bay, Politics, Government, Investigations and Science, and big events get a live coverage page that the newsroom updates as things happen. You will also find:
Page | What it is |
|---|---|
Search | Every story, by word |
Archive | Older stories by date |
Watch | Broadcasts and footage from the Weazel News cameras |
Classifieds | The businesses open in the city right now |
Saved stories | Stories you have saved to read later, kept in your browser |
RSS feed | The latest stories for a feed reader, at weazel.roleplayproject.net/feed.xml |
Polls | Some stories carry a Weazel News poll you can vote in |
There is a light and dark theme and a text size setting in the menu.
Comments and reactions
To take part, press Sign in and log in with your Roleplay Project account. The first time, you pick the character you are reading as and choose a nickname of 3 to 24 characters. Other readers only ever see the nickname; your character's name stays private.
React to a story, and to other people's comments.
Comments can be up to 1,000 characters, with a 20 second wait between comments.
Comments are in character, and the server rules apply to what you write. You can delete your own comments, and staff can remove any comment.
The tip line
Seen something the city should know about? Press Send a tip. Say what happened, and optionally where and when, and attach up to three photos. Tips are anonymous by default: the newsroom sees "Anonymous reader" unless you choose to put your nickname on it. You can send one tip a minute, and your own tips page shows what happened to each one.
If the newsroom uses your tip, an editor can award a reward of $250 to $10,000. It is paid in game from the Weazel News faction bank straight into your character's bank account, whether or not you are online at the time. If the faction bank is short, the payment waits and is tried again every minute until it goes through.
Careers
The Careers page lists six roles: Reporter, Camera Operator, Anchor or Presenter, Editor, Helicopter Pilot (you need a helicopter rating from the flight school) and Weather Presenter. Apply from the page with the character who wants the job. You can send one application every six hours, and the newsroom moves it through interview, hired or declined.
Advertising
Companies can buy an advert that runs in the advert spaces across the Weazel News website. You book on the site, the newsroom checks it, and the money moves in game from the company bank to the Weazel News faction bank.
This section is about adverts on the website. For the adverts that pop up for everyone in the city, placed with /ads, see In-game adverts.
Package | Price |
|---|---|
1 day | $1,500 |
3 days | $4,000 |
7 days | $8,000 |
- Check you can spend for the company
Your character must own the company or hold a rank with bank withdraw rights. See Companies.
- Book the advert
Open Advertise, pick the company and the package, and write a headline (up to 60 characters), the text (up to 200 characters) and, if you like, a contact line and a picture. You get a code that looks like WZ-3F9A1C. You can have up to three adverts waiting at once.
- Wait for the newsroom
An editor approves or rejects the advert. You can cancel it from the site any time before you pay.
- Pay in game
Once it is approved, type
/weazelad WZ-3F9A1C(with your own code) on the English server. The price comes out of the company bank, and the advert goes live at once and runs for the days you booked.
Related commands
/weazeladEveryonePay for a Weazel News ad you booked on weazel.roleplayproject.net
Worked example
Rosa Delgado owns Paleto Crust, a small bakery company in Paleto Bay, and wants the town to know about her new opening hours.
On weazel.roleplayproject.net she signs in, picks Rosa as her character and chooses the nickname "Early Riser".
On Advertise she picks her company, the 3 day package at $4,000, the headline "Fresh bread from 6am" and a line of text about the new hours. The site gives her the code WZ-7C21D4.
That evening the newsroom approves it. In game she types /weazelad WZ-7C21D4 and gets the notice "Paid $4,000 from Paleto Crust. Your ad is now live on Weazel News for 3 day(s)."
The next week she sees smoke over the Paleto Bay docks, sends an anonymous tip with two photos, and the newsroom runs the story. An editor awards $500 for the tip.
What you see: the advert in the advert spaces on the site for three days, the company bank $4,000 lighter, and a $500 tip reward in Rosa's own bank a minute or so after the editor awards it.
See also
Lifeinvader for the city's social network, where Weazel News has its own page
TV and Games Night for Weazel News 24 on channel 1
Companies for company banks and who can spend from them