Messagebox

Kenzu wrote:Sounds like a good idea. Shouldn't be a problem to code.

however, how to prevent a player to spam too much?
Someone could just register, join an alliance and spam the mailbox.

My suggestion was not actually related to the Message Box but to improving the current PM System. I assumed that your Message Box was going to be open to all players so your Spam concern is valid and from your description of the message box anyone would actually be able to Spam the Global Message box, Their Alliances Message box and any other one that are invited into.

My suggestion is to update the current PM System and allow all alliance members to PM the whole alliance.
In addition to this I would like to be able to PM more than 1 other player at a time and by Name not ID.
i.e. Developing it into an ingame mail system

eg Send To: Fred; Bob; Tom or a checkbox for Alliance

To do this currently you have to locate the player then open the PM box type the PM and send it, then go through the whole process again to send the same message to another player. (Of Course most players would use copy & paste for the message body but it is still a time consuming process)

I would also expect to see limits on Inbox, Outbox & Save box sizes to keep the database size in check


Of course someone who spams to much can be simply expelled from the alliance.

The PM system could be expanded to be able to send messages across an empire for example, but for that empires as real entities must be coded first.

I also agree with this however I would restrict Empire messaging to the Alliance Leadership only and exclude any option for Empire Leadership to message the whole empire membership. Alliance leaders should be able to forward Empire messages on to their own alliance members

Special Agent 47 wrote:Your thinking so small again Kenzu. You don't see very far down the road do you?


I think it will be months, and more rounds before Empires need be addressed, but Manleva has a good point. If the game ever takes off you can literally see 5, 10, even 15 or more alliances in an Empire. I think at one time SGW has 26 alliances all under one banner. So think big, and look 2 or 3 years into the future Kenzu.

Kenzu wrote:

Special Agent 47 wrote:Your thinking so small again Kenzu. You don't see very far down the road do you?


I think it will be months, and more rounds before Empires need be addressed, but Manleva has a good point. If the game ever takes off you can literally see 5, 10, even 15 or more alliances in an Empire. I think at one time SGW has 26 alliances all under one banner. So think big, and look 2 or 3 years into the future Kenzu.

You should learn how to write posts that aren't offensive to the reader, otherwise you are wasting your time if you are waiting for a reply.

seaborgium wrote:if you think thats offensive, then I think you should go back over and read other post.

You are truly amazing.

Kenzu wrote:

seaborgium wrote:if you think thats offensive, then I think you should go back over and read other post.

You are truly amazing.

Try walking to 10 random guys and ask each of them: "You are not very bright, are you?"
Pretty sure a couple will punch you for that. I wonder if you will be asking yourself why they did it.
Because it seems you don't consider that offensive at all.

You can call someone an idiot by making it sound like a question. It will still be offensive. Did you not know that?

Kenzu wrote:I understood and welcome your PM improvement suggestion

Regarding Empire messaging.
I dont see a reason in Empire messaging if it sends messages to alliance leaders only. Then I might as well send it to the 1 or 2 leaders personally.

Manleva wrote:

Kenzu wrote:I understood and welcome your PM improvement suggestion

Regarding Empire messaging.
I dont see a reason in Empire messaging if it sends messages to alliance leaders only. Then I might as well send it to the 1 or 2 leaders personally.

I won't be as blunt as SA47 but I have to agree with him that you are not looking far enough out into the future.

When suggesting Empire Messaging I said keep it to the Alliance Leadership not the Leaders. By this I was meaning the Alliance Leader, 2IC & all Advisers and possibly Squad Leaders which depending on the Alliances makeup could be quite a few people. Then when necessary those people can pass messages on to ordinary Alliance members.

I have to ask the question that If you want to allow messaging to the entire Empire then what is the difference between an Empire and an Alliance.

Of course we are as you have said talking about something that does not yet exist and how Empires are coded and implemented will have bearing on how Empire messaging is configured.

Manleva wrote:I think we are getting away from the point of this thread a bit discussing Empire Messaging. I do not consider it vital but if I use your example of 5 Alliances of 50 members each then the total membership is 250.

My concern is more around server load. If you have an alliance leadership of 4 players then your empire messaging is broken down with the firs message being sent to 20 players. the message would then be sent to Alliance members in blocks of 49. Allowing full empire wide messaging would see 249 messages placed on the server in one go.

Also if we are to consider RL empires (not that there were or are that many) then how often did the empire leadership talk to the entire population. Normal communication from the leadership goes down the chain of command.

Kenzu wrote:If the president of United States can make a speach that is broadcasted on television in each single US state, then and Empire can do the same thing.
I am not in favour of making things more complicated than they have to be. If the server can take it without problems, then it can be done. Once we get Empires that have hundreds of members we can think of restrictions.