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Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Base alerts
Make the base alerts appear on your ship log.
When someone shares a planet, it appears on your log.
When someone alerts a player, it also appears on your log.
When a member scans a base, and decides to alert it, you must go into
your Battle Tab, and then click on Enemy Bases to see if one is on alert.
I'm sure many times over it has been over looked by a lot of members, and they click
on it, and realize they are too late to join in.

A simple hyper link on your log that takes you to an alerted base would help out greatly.

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Author:  playret0195x [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
+1

Simple and easy.
Author:  varunjitsingh146 [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
I like it +1
Author:  kirkeastment [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:19 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Can i ask how this will be helpful?

I mean it won't alert you to the base any sooner, as base alerts are tied to the energy and shield timers, much in the same way NPC's are.

So its not really useful for those quick bases which come and go in under a minute. :D
Author:  playret0195x [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
kirkeastment wrote:
Can i ask how this will be helpful?

I mean it won't alert you to the base any sooner, as base alerts are tied to the energy and shield timers, much in the same way NPC's are.

It's for those who log on GL to find a base locked. It simplifies the number of clicks required to target and attack a base. Not mention that sometimes base locks don't appear and people miss out of bases by minutes. It happened to me a few times.
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
kirkeastment wrote:
Can i ask how this will be helpful?

I mean it won't alert you to the base any sooner, as base alerts are tied to the energy and shield timers, much in the same way NPC's are.


?

It alerts you that there is a base on your tab, "click here" to go to the base battle
screen as opposed to checking your BT, or just forgetting to check your BT
if you're just logging in to clear your resources.
Author:  kirkeastment [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
DariousTheDark wrote:
kirkeastment wrote:
Can i ask how this will be helpful?

I mean it won't alert you to the base any sooner, as base alerts are tied to the energy and shield timers, much in the same way NPC's are.


?

It alerts you that there is a base on your tab, "click here" to go to the base battle
screen as opposed to checking your BT, or just forgetting to check your BT
if you're just logging in to clear your resources.


Ok fair enough.

As a compromise for the time being, perhaps a legion announcement set to say "hit the base" when there's a base up, would help too. As it appears on the News Page, right next to your ships log, and it won't get buried should the base still be up an hour later, but various alerts have occurred since then. :)
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 4:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
kirkeastment wrote:

Ok fair enough.

As a compromise for the time being, perhaps a legion announcement set to say "hit the base" when there's a base up, would help too. As it appears on the News Page, right next to your ships log, and it won't get buried should the base still be up an hour later, but various alerts have occurred since then. :)


Legion announcements are great ... if your leader or officer is on to make it.
If a "member" tags a base, no one will see that message, and ... back to the beginning of this thread we go ;)
Author:  Tree7304 [ Sat May 04, 2013 8:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
You already do get a red pop up box saying so and so accepted a lock or established a lock.

Having something go into your actual log won't help you make it on a base, if you log on 6 hours after the lock, you still won't see the alert for it and how would checking your news log be any easier than clicking the enemy base button?

Maybe have the Enemy Bases button change color.
Red - There is a base that needs killing
Yellow - The base is dead and needs raided
Green - You have a pending invite
Blue - It is scan time
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 9:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Tree7304 wrote:
... and how would checking your news log be any easier than clicking the enemy base button?


Because when you log in, you don't log in via the Battle Tab.
The first screen you see is your News screen, displaying your Ship's Log.
You know,the one with the Important Alert Icon, which can also be clicked on
if you think it may have gotten buried somehow with all of the other messages.
Author:  Tree7304 [ Sat May 04, 2013 9:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
DariousTheDark wrote:
Tree7304 wrote:
... and how would checking your news log be any easier than clicking the enemy base button?


Because when you log in, you don't log in via the Battle Tab.
The first screen you see is your News screen, displaying your Ship's Log.
You know,the one with the Important Alert Icon, which can also be clicked on
if you think it may have gotten buried somehow with all of the other messages.

The Important Alert Icon won't help most players with this. Any elite that died ends up there, any planet alerted ends up there, any PvP towards your ship ends up there.
It would take me a lot longer to scroll through my news log under the Important Icon than it would for me to click 2 buttons on my screen to see when the next base is.
Author:  ODragon [ Sat May 04, 2013 10:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
kirkeastment wrote:
Can i ask how this will be helpful?


Well, it would be a lot faster than clicking "Enemy Base", then closing it, then clicking it again until the base shows up.

Clicking the news button until the direct link shows up sure seems faster to me.
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 10:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Tree7304 wrote:
The Important Alert Icon won't help most players with this. Any elite that died ends up there, any planet alerted ends up there, any PvP towards your ship ends up there.
It would take me a lot longer to scroll through my news log under the Important Icon than it would for me to click 2 buttons on my screen to see when the next base is.


When you first log in, don't you get pop up windows as an alert?
I get a list on the left of the screen that I can click on.
Be it a planet or player alert, even a "tripped your trap" alert is in that message list.
Hell, even a message or two on my comm shows up on that pop up list.

You can't have that many on your log that you can't see an alert unless you're logging in once a week ... which I doubt.
I also doubt that your log is "on fire" that if you refreshed your page, that all of the other messages would be
back logged and lost.

If you're saying you don't check your log when you log in, your're lying.
How else can you stay in touch, and up to date with your Legion without checking your log?

Even if you're on your Legion chat (keeping up to date with your mates), someone will alert, and post up on the chat.
Now when you log into your game page ... you log into the News as soon as you do, it's right there waiting for you to click on it.
Author:  Tree7304 [ Sat May 04, 2013 11:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
When I log on I get an alert that says a base was locked if a base was recently locked.
It is there with NPC alerts and any other recent trades, comms, whatever.

It takes minutes to go through my news log.
It takes seconds to click the battle tab then click Base Battle.
You should be clicking it anyways to look at your own NPC/PvP list.

Base alerts are fine, you are just being lazy.
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sat May 04, 2013 11:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Well, since you love to shoot down everyone's ideas, maybe this one doesn't apply to you
since your news / comms are so busy.

If you are that high in rank that you feel this doesn't apply to you, maybe it applies to the newer Legions,
or are you that high in rank that you forget that this game gets new players daily ... weekly ... monthly
that are not as fluent in the game such as yourself and other members that have been here since the beginning.

I've noticed every suggestion that members make here is automatically shot down by you because you feel or
deem it does not apply to you or your needs.

There are other players here, outside of that are you care about, who post up ideas or "suggestions" such as this
part of the forum is, that are willing to post an idea that makes the game a bit more "round" and not "one sided".

Instead of shooting down every idea that is posted in this section, either make a suggestion on how to tweek
the suggestion or see what other input to it before shooting it down.

Lazy, no, I'm suggesting a base alert just like a Planet, Player, or Boss alert that we all get and can make.
Author:  Tree7304 [ Sun May 05, 2013 12:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
DariousTheDark wrote:
Well, since you love to shoot down everyone's ideas, maybe this one doesn't apply to you
since your news / comms are so busy.
This one does apply to me, I hit bases every day

If you are that high in rank that you feel this doesn't apply to you, maybe it applies to the newer Legions,
or are you that high in rank that you forget that this game gets new players daily ... weekly ... monthly
that are not as fluent in the game such as yourself and other members that have been here since the beginning.
I don't see where my rank has anything to do with what I have said or suggested

I've noticed every suggestion that members make here is automatically shot down by you because you feel or
deem it does not apply to you or your needs.
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You don't follow me very well then

Instead of shooting down every idea that is posted in this section, either make a suggestion on how to tweek
the suggestion or see what other input to it before shooting it down.
Are you even remotely serious here? I stated why this wouldn't work so well and then offered an alternative.

Lazy, no, I'm suggesting a base alert just like a Planet, Player, or Boss alert that we all get and can make.
Apparently I haven't said it often enough
YOU DO GET A POP UP ALERT WHEN A BASE IS LOCKED


You seem to just flat out dislike me so I bid you adieu
Author:  ODragon [ Sun May 05, 2013 12:05 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
DariousTheDark wrote:
I've noticed every suggestion that members make here is automatically shot down by you because you feel or deem it does not apply to you or your needs.


Are you the pot or the kettle?
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Sun May 05, 2013 12:15 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Tree7304 wrote:

YOU DO GET A POP UP ALERT WHEN A BASE IS LOCKED



You mean when you're online ... that's not what I'm asking.

ODragon wrote:
DariousTheDark wrote:
I've noticed every suggestion that members make here is automatically shot down by you because you feel or deem it does not apply to you or your needs.


Are you the pot or the kettle?


OMG I shot down one idea in the 2 1/2 years I've been here ...

What he's asking for is just absurd. If you can't colonize, you don't have an open slot.
If you have 500 unoccupied planets, I'm sure you can fill your needs without a spread sheet.

Once again, topic getting derailed ...
Author:  Devastation [ Sun May 05, 2013 6:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Tree7304 wrote:
You seem to just flat out dislike me so I bid you adieu

It's not very hard to dislike you when you're an idiot to everyone you meet.
Author:  DariousTheDark [ Thu Jul 04, 2013 2:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Base alerts
Tree7304 wrote:

YOU DO GET A POP UP ALERT WHEN A BASE IS LOCKED


Hey Tree, what happens when you are AFK and your legion locks a base?

What happens when you get clear your screen saver, go to your BT, and realize you now have 1 second
to help disable a base because there was no message in your news feed?

That pop up doesn't stick around and wait for you to clear it.

IMHO it needs to go on your news feed like a boss alert.
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