Popular Post The Titan Posted October 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2022 Hello, I've never actually done one of these suggestion forums before. But i'm going to now because I believe there is a major problem with alliance recruiting messages. Many new players are absolutely bombarded with recruitment messages, this gives the impression of the game being a spammy mess of people looking to milk funds and score out of your nation. I think many players are overwhelmed by this. Here is my suggestion: Require all automated messages be sent via the send-messages api All messages sent via the api are flagged as automated messages/bot in-game, clearly for players to see Additionally, automated messages sent for the purpose of recruiting are flagged as recruiting messages Players can enable/disable recruitment messages on the account management page Recruitment messages are limited in how often they can be sent Each alliance can only send one recruitment message per new player Ie, I just joined the game, I can only get a message from the same alliance once Let me know what you think ig. I don't think this would be exceptionally hard on administration/development to implement. Just a couple fields in the send-message api to mark whether it's recruitment or not. And they should already be able to check if it's sent with the API or in-game. 1 19 Quote Peace in our time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velekk Hemlock Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 Sounds like a good idea but tbh I have no clue how feasible it actually is for the team to manage this lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 I quite like the idea but as the commenter above stated I don't know if it could be feasible implemented or would be the best use of time. Quote Why are you reading this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigbigadorlou Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 1 hour ago, The Titan said: send-messages api Can we get it in the alliance control panel instead? It took me months to acquire a means to use the api for this that works, and even then it required me to put my login information which is really sus. And even then I was told I could not share it publicly. Quote Hey Krampus, the signature edit is under account settings. Actually, here's the link. https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/settings/signature/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuuhaku Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 As much as I like the idea, I don't see how this prevents new players getting bombarded/spammed with recruitment messages because even if each alliance only sends one out there will at least be a dozen of those within the turn someone creates their account. Putting a hard block preventing the new player to receive any message (besides maybe hard-coded specific accounts like Mountania) until the ingame objectives or a new player guideline informs the player about alliances and recruitment messages might be a solution to this, allowing the user to un/toggle this block on their settings or something. This toggle option can further be integrated with your idea of having flagged messages where someone can block recruitment messages instead of all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penpiko Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 3 hours ago, zigbigadorlou said: Can we get it in the alliance control panel instead? It took me months to acquire a means to use the api for this that works, and even then it required me to put my login information which is really sus. And even then I was told I could not share it publicly. Send message API should not need your login. Though yeah I agree definitely that maybe having something like that in the ACP as long as it doesn't break could be interesting. 5 hours ago, The Titan said: Each alliance can only send one recruitment message per new player Yeah, some alliances seem to be sending one for the main alliance and one for the training alliance which imo should not be allowed, I guess it becomes difficult to regulate whether something is only one entity but there could definitely be some more enforcement done there. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Titan Posted October 2, 2022 Author Share Posted October 2, 2022 4 hours ago, zigbigadorlou said: Can we get it in the alliance control panel instead? It took me months to acquire a means to use the api for this that works, and even then it required me to put my login information which is really sus. And even then I was told I could not share it publicly. The send message API does not require your login information. Additionally, a really great open source tool for sending messages is https://bar3.bsnk.dev With a basic understanding of POST requests, using the send message API is very simple 4 hours ago, Kuuhaku said: ~snip~ Perhaps the option to receive recruitment message can be disabled by default, and in the new tutorial it can show you how to enable them? 2 Quote Peace in our time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nonna Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) We would add a option for the player to select the rankings they may need interested in and they get messages from them. Like: The top 50 for example then messages come from them only. Not sure how this will work out tho so any suggestion is a welcome one. We got to make the game more welcoming to those that don't want to feel overwhelmed but just want to the play the game , make friends and have fun, Edited October 3, 2022 by Nonna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Titan Posted October 3, 2022 Author Share Posted October 3, 2022 12 hours ago, Nonna said: We would add a option for the player to select the rankings they may need interested in and they get messages from them. Like: The top 50 for example then messages come from them only. Not sure how this will work out tho so any suggestion is a welcome one. We got to make the game more welcoming to those that don't want to feel overwhelmed but just want to the play the game , make friends and have fun, As much as I like this, it would also definitely require a lot more work on the development side. Gotta keep things simple for em or we're gonna be waiting a while 😅 (<3 You Alex) 1 Quote Peace in our time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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