Post by Tim on Mar 11, 2014 12:19:54 GMT -6
(Sorry this is so late. Fighting a cold and losing. Called in sick to work this morning and went back to bed. Forgot to put this up til now. )
Message System Overhaul, part 3:
I don't know about you guys, but on a few of my characters 90% of their messages end up being "You have completed an Achievement!" While I'm glad that I'm completing achievements, it gets to kinda be a clutter. Plus I don't know how many times I've been waiting for a reply from someone and see my message icon light up only to be disappointed with a Achievement notice. But the good news is that with the new message database, it's really easy to filter out different messages. So achievement messages will no longer go to your Inbox.
But where to put them. First, I just gave them there own tab. Problem is, with the Inbox, Outbox, Compose, Trade, Defense Logs, plus 1-2 other tabs that need a place to live (more on those later), the Messages page was getting a little crowded...
So instead of just a new tab, I'm giving Achievements their own new page! The Achievements tab from the Profile page will be moved to the new page, with its own link in the game's header. This new page will also have a new tab that tracks your achievements as you earn them. The 10 most recent achievements you've completed will be displayed there. And when you get an achievement, the new link for the Achievements page will light up instead of the Messages link.
But if I'm giving all this attention to achievements, maybe I should update them for a lot of the code changes that have been made since they were added and tweak some of the award values to be more balanced... I'll save that for a future post.
Message System Overhaul, part 3:
I don't know about you guys, but on a few of my characters 90% of their messages end up being "You have completed an Achievement!" While I'm glad that I'm completing achievements, it gets to kinda be a clutter. Plus I don't know how many times I've been waiting for a reply from someone and see my message icon light up only to be disappointed with a Achievement notice. But the good news is that with the new message database, it's really easy to filter out different messages. So achievement messages will no longer go to your Inbox.
But where to put them. First, I just gave them there own tab. Problem is, with the Inbox, Outbox, Compose, Trade, Defense Logs, plus 1-2 other tabs that need a place to live (more on those later), the Messages page was getting a little crowded...
So instead of just a new tab, I'm giving Achievements their own new page! The Achievements tab from the Profile page will be moved to the new page, with its own link in the game's header. This new page will also have a new tab that tracks your achievements as you earn them. The 10 most recent achievements you've completed will be displayed there. And when you get an achievement, the new link for the Achievements page will light up instead of the Messages link.
But if I'm giving all this attention to achievements, maybe I should update them for a lot of the code changes that have been made since they were added and tweak some of the award values to be more balanced... I'll save that for a future post.