Notifications

22 Mar 2017, 05:50

More times than I care to admit, I have wandered off to take care of real world tasks only to discover that 5 minutes after I walked away from the screen, my enemy has initiated a massive attack.

Yes, that is part of the current strategy. There is a fine art to predicting the wake/sleep/work patterns of your opponent and exploiting them.

It is not clear to me that is _really_ a fun part of the game since the defense is hyper vigilance combined with not advertising your presence. Not exactly conducive to any social aspect of the game.

I propose that a notification system be implemented.

The existing platform already has my e-mail address since I receive notifications of messages in my inbox. This works fine since I can easily establish e-mail rules and even alarms for particular e-mails.

What would be nice is the ability to have events in a game sent to my e-mail.

Now we could easily overwhelm servers with this so let's keep it simple.

How about the option to have events in the category of "Myself" be sent as an e-mail when they occur?

It would also be nice if I could get the World Herald as an e-mail in my in-box instead of having it hide the game screen every time I look at it.

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22 Mar 2017, 11:58

F. Marion wrote:
I propose that a notification system be implemented.

If you want to get Bytro to take this idea seriously, propose it as a gold-powered option.

22 Mar 2017, 12:01

F. Marion wrote:
It would also be nice if I could get the World Herald as an e-mail in my in-box instead of having it hide the game screen every time I look at it.

One problem: the in-game newspaper updates every time a unit is destroyed, a building is completed, and certain types of units are completed. In active games, played on larger maps, you could easily receive 100+ emails per day.

22 Mar 2017, 12:22

Well of course it should be only for HC folks. Give the regular supporters their money's worth.

I would be happy with a "day change" copy of the WH.

Right now, if I am really interested in tracking what is happening, I grab (copy/paste) back issues into a text file and unleash grep on it. A daily copy in my inbox would greatly simplify that process.

22 Mar 2017, 16:24

F. Marion wrote:
grep

Qu'est-ce que c'est "grep," F.?

22 Mar 2017, 17:26

"grep" is a command in Unix/Linux and similar systems.

Given a file name and pattern it will return all instances of the pattern occuring.

For example one could take the WH text file and search for the pattern "sabotage" and get back every line of text where the pattern occurs.

Being a command line tool, it has options that make it a little more powerful than the similar function in a word processing program.

For example, one can specify an entire directory of files as the input, tell it to return a specified number of lines of text before and/or after the pattern and a few other cool things.

You probably sense that getting the WH in a text file, stored in a directory for a given map, would allow for rapid searching of events, locations and units.

A little deeper work would be to take as many different games on a given map and then review most commonly used build patterns and lines of attack.

Yeah, I do that stuff for fun. Either that or wander down to the nearest bar and drink until I fall asleep.

22 Mar 2017, 18:26

F. Marion wrote:
"grep" is a command in Unix/Linux and similar systems.

I was a government and economics double major. The things of which you speak are the dark arts.

23 Mar 2017, 04:45

I think this would make a great High-Command Feature!

23 Mar 2017, 05:14

MontanaBB wrote:
F. Marion wrote:
"grep" is a command in Unix/Linux and similar systems.
I was a government and economics double major. The things of which you speak are the dark arts.

I am an "up from the bilges" engineering major. Started in submarines and nuclear power. When the Russians quit, I wandered off into civilian emergency power generation. Then things started to get hot again and I was dragged off to a project applying stealth tech to warships. That finally firmed up and I headed back to civilian land and programming satellites. Again with the bad guys with guns and I found myself in Iraq fixing robots for the bomb squads. I escaped from that to play with underwater robots in the science community. Still learning new things every day and having a blast.

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