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Email notifications.

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:13 pm
by korexus
Players used to get email verifications of orders sent. This feature was removed when we moved to the SAOF. Perhaps it should be brought back.

In most cases this feature wouldn't affect the run of turn as it would merely confirm what a player had done wrong, but even then it would be helpful and it is possible that a database glitch would cause orders to go missing which could then be verified by the GM and run.

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:35 pm
by trewqh
I think it's worth it if it doesn't increase the amount of e-mails the engine has to send out too much.

It's not very annoying to get one more e-mail that provides a good back-up at the same time.

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:47 pm
by Hryllantre
trewqh wrote:I think it's worth it if it doesn't increase the amount of e-mails the engine has to send out too much.
sure as long as the engine workload isn't stretched it can only be a good idea...
trewqh wrote:It's not very annoying to get one more e-mail that provides a good back-up at the same time.
An extra email to delete is no hardship :wink: however losing hours of preparation IS now were off the main forums I can at least say that...

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:09 pm
by korexus
Hryllantre wrote:
trewqh wrote:I think it's worth it if it doesn't increase the amount of e-mails the engine has to send out too much.
sure as long as the engine workload isn't stretched it can only be a good idea...
Engine workload isn't an issue here. We did have an issue a year back about being identified as spam, so we'll need to keep an eye on that. The opt-in/out suggestion would help there I guess.


Chris.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 12:20 pm
by Lardmaster
This gets my vote definitely.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:58 pm
by korexus
Ok, I've given it a go for standard WoK. LM, can you confirm that as GM you also got a notification of some blank orders sent by me in your game. (You should have them twice as the first time I didn't set the subject properly.)

Currently this only works for Standard WoK orders (and Standard Duels). If the emails seem about right to people then I'll add the same functionality to the Advanced SAOF too.

Chris.

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:11 pm
by Lardmaster
Yup, got two emails and the format seems fine to me.

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:27 pm
by trewqh
I got three copies of the notification. It was the first time it acted this way.

Standard WoK Orders for player 1 on turn 8 of game 428