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A GW provided tool? Highly doubtful and probably unnecessary.
However there are many other third party tools.
Wiggio is one I have used in the past. You make an account and give Wiggio, your phone number or email, and the site will send a text message or an email when a clan/guild wide message is sent. (you can also send messages to individuals I think as well, though I have not done this.)
Most often used in a call to arms.
Examples for Current PFO meta:
"UNC is burning our POI! need all members ASAP!"
"PAX Golgotha has violated the holy sanctity of our 6 towers! HOW dare they, Get em!
"Someone said something mean on the forums, everyone go post passive aggressive things about meanness"
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Goblin Squad Member
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I'm a bit on the fence with setting up some kind of an APB style alert to our members. We cater to people who have lives outside of gaming. We cater to players who may only play an hour a day. We cater to people in the military that may be deployed, or are off for weekend or FTX training. We cater to casuals.
If we lose an outpost or even a poi over night, that is just part of the game. No set back is ever the end of the world, and no attack will go without payback. That payback will always exceed expectations.
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Goblin Squad Member
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Heh, if you figure that one out Caldeathe, let me know! We've got some folks that voted for us, created an account, and have never said another word. I assume at some point they'll play, since they paid money. But after trying our Facebook group, a GuildLaunch PM blast, and generally talking it up I'm out of options
Quantum Field Theory?
I'm a bit on the fence with setting up some kind of an APB style alert to our members. We cater to people who have lives outside of gaming. We cater to players who may only play an hour a day. We cater to people in the military that may be deployed, or are off for weekend or FTX training. We cater to casuals.
If we lose an outpost or even a poi over night, that is just part of the game. No set back is ever the end of the world, and no attack will go without payback. That payback will always exceed expectations.
I second this. But different strokes for different folks.
A GW provided tool? Highly doubtful and probably unnecessary.However there are many other third party tools.
Wiggio is one I have used in the past. You make an account and give Wiggio, your phone number or email, and the site will send a text message or an email when a clan/guild wide message is sent. (you can also send messages to individuals I think as well, though I have not done this.)
Most often used in a call to arms.
Examples for Current PFO meta:
"UNC is burning our POI! need all members ASAP!"
"PAX Golgotha has violated the holy sanctity of our 6 towers! HOW dare they, Get em!
"Someone said something mean on the forums, everyone go post passive aggressive things about meanness"
haha, dudes at your job wonder why you suddenly got pissed off.
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Goblin Squad Member
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That was a quote from FirstofOne, in this thread.Oops! Thanks, Bluddwolf.
Forgive my ignorance and inexperience, but are groups with this sort of notification-capability actually activated with such seemingly-flimsy motivation?
I'm sorry that example was just a smart-ass, tongue in cheek, social commentary on how I see many in this community's actions and posts. That being, the hyper-positive nature comes off (to me at least) as Idelistic, overly sensitive, or hypocritical. Especially when opposed by those whom do not follow that methodology. Hence the "passive aggressive things about meanness" comment.
Edit: I fully recognize that I am rather jaded and hold a low opinion of humans in general and those humans on the internet specifically. I just wanted to explain the comment because some were taking it literally.
On topic, I just looked on Wiggio, and I do not see anything to allow you to set times in which to receive messages.
As far as communication with those who joined you but now are AWOL, I would recommend in the future requiring a valid email with the application to join so that you may reach out to them if necessary. The company leader or personnel officer would keep a database of members and reach out to those needed.
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This does stray slightly from the topic at hand, but I absolutely intend in the mid to long term to set up an opt-in Jabber server for sending announcements to Sunholm membership. In my experience in EVE, a jabber ping goes a long way to getting numbers together if you want to do some PvP.
Used badly, such systems can be a nuisance, but having a system that allows push notifications of activities that are happening in game is very useful, and informs my decision about if I want to login or not (ie 'oh, that sounds more fun than what I'm currently doing').
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Goblin Squad Member
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As far as communication with those who joined you but now are AWOL, I would recommend in the future requiring a valid email with the application to join so that you may reach out to them if necessary. The company leader or personnel officer would keep a database of members and reach out to those needed.
That would have been a really good thing if it had been practical, but the free-wheeling nature of the landrush pretty much precluded it from day one.
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Again, my inexperience may be setting me up for something everyone else knows, but if I don't ask....
Is there a concrete plan for how we will contact members of our settlements who are not active? I way to forward messages via email or pm to users?
Back to the original post, this is something I would also like to get an official reply to. We are a few days away from EE, and we have little to no information on:
1- How can the settlement leader contact everyone who signed up during the Land Rush and that have been then been non-participant and silent (PMs, emails, forums, TS meetings, or settlements webpage)?
2- How does a settlement leader see his settlements player roster, and how can they add, modify or delete it (both in game in out of it)? Can he/she give admin access to a settlements officer/trusted person to do any of this when he/she is offline?
3- How does a settlement leader recruit in game a player during EE and add them to the settlement rooster?
4- How do players display their own settlement affiliation?
5- How can player recognize another players settlement affiliation?
And so forth... :)
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We are not really comfortable with sharing the email addresses of people from the Leaderboard with the public. Those people did not agree to have us distribute those addresses and it would be a violation of our Privacy Policy to do so.
What we may do is generate (if we can) a list of all the emails of people who participated and send a mass email to those people from us telling them that now would be a good time to get attached to the Settlements they supported during the promotion.
I'll make a note of that as something we can look into doing next week.
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We are not really comfortable with sharing the email addresses of people from the Leaderboard with the public. Those people did not agree to have us distribute those addresses and it would be a violation of our Privacy Policy to do so.
What we may do is generate (if we can) a list of all the emails of people who participated and send a mass email to those people from us telling them that now would be a good time to get attached to the Settlements they supported during the promotion.
I'll make a note of that as something we can look into doing next week.
You giving out those emails would be a not so great thing, you guys sending out your own mass email would be amazing!