dahaic
commented
4 years ago Managing email server is a pain - AFAIK, personal mail servers are commonly mistaken for spam source, and in ideal case it's not something you want to handle on the OuterSpace side.
I have counteridea(s):
- Update booker system to remove bookings of players that won't log in for some significant period of time (2 weeks? 4 weeks?)
- Resign players that won't log in before time starts ticking. This will make sure that empire stays competitive (rebel AI has good enough results first week or so). Latecomer can take over the rebel.
- Create simple Android app, that will work as a notifier for all things important (no way to recreate full blown client for android in foreseeable future)
temuchin-
When a game with multiple players starts up their is a 48 hour window before it starts, which is good.
And if a player signed up 1 month ago to play, they probably aren't checking every day to see if the game has started.
So having the game send an email, or a text message (for now the user can set up the email field with the appropriate smtp gateway address to receive text w/o having to modify the client)
The final step is that the game will send a 24 hour heads up the game will start, followed by another email sent out when the game starts up.
This will require 2 things, code to send an email using canned (most likely the canned messages already in the code) messages including the code to access an email account. And the game will need a registered email account with an email service (much easier than setting up an smtp server and getting an upstream stmp service).