The fake announcements are just to keep people from leaving. And it's working.... a little.... Don't see them happening any time soon, though.
The fake announcements are not even updated anymore, as I am now doing most of the coding anyway, so don't say that you won't see them happening anytime soon when you don't know shit, k? I can just as well use the news box for other stuff, nobody would probably notice. EDIT: Better?
I didn't do it yet, because your stupid SQIs keep occupying some of the item IDs that are used by the slotted versions of items (see the book of the blazing sun problem). I wanted to change all SQI IDs to an unused ID range before I add the socket enchant NPC, so there are no more conflicts. I just didn't get to it yet, so stop whining.