New Message Feature

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:57 am

Since the managers of SP are starting up competitions like the Champion's League and the UEFA Cup I thought that a good feature to add would be the ability to send the same message to all of the managers in a country.

This would make organising such events much easier.

mysticalguard · Post by **mysticalguard** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:49 am

pro for it but only for example for moderators of that country.. not for every member

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 1:57 pm

It would also be helpful if someone just wanted to organise a friendly cup for UK, Belgian or whatever nationality they are.

mysticalguard · Post by **mysticalguard** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:14 pm

then in that case i would say that they have to ask a moderator to send that message... but if i come up and say wow, now i am going to create a european fun cup... whop i send a message to everyone in the game... then a second guy comes up with european aggresion cup...

and hup new spam is born + it sends to everyone is mass sending = broadcasting = delay of the server, so it should be restricted in my eyes

krcgenk · Post by **krcgenk** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:37 pm

I like this idea. Maybe not to all managers of a country, but at least to several managers at the same time.

And I prefer it to be only for moderators of a country. This way it would be easy to warn 40 managers that the CL-qualification will begin.

silverblast · Post by **silverblast** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:14 pm

krcgenk wrote:I like this idea. Maybe not to all managers of a country, but at least to several managers at the same time.

And I prefer it to be only for moderators of a country. This way it would be easy to warn 40 managers that the CL-qualification will begin.

Yes, I like this idea as well.

Perhaps you should ask permission to Sjarel if you want to send mass-messages.
If you have a good reason, he could give you that ability for one day...

It would certainly be great.

But a question : how would you do it then?
Being able to select several teams in your contact list and then click "send a message" or something else?

krcgenk · Post by **krcgenk** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:17 pm

silverblast wrote: But a question : how would you do it then?
Being able to select several teams in your contact list and then click "send a message" or something else?

I should also do it like that. Select more managers in your contact list to send them the same message.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:50 am

mysticalguard wrote:then in that case i would say that they have to ask a moderator to send that message... but if i come up and say wow, now i am going to create a european fun cup... whop i send a message to everyone in the game... then a second guy comes up with european aggresion cup...

and hup new spam is born + it sends to everyone is mass sending = broadcasting = delay of the server, so it should be restricted in my eyes

Can I just point out that Europe is a Continent, not a Country, so Europe wouldn't be an option. I meant if i wanted to invite all of my fellow UK managers without having to add them all to my contact list. With this feature I could send them all a message.

mysticalguard · Post by **mysticalguard** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:31 am

Blue wrote:
mysticalguard wrote:then in that case i would say that they have to ask a moderator to send that message... but if i come up and say wow, now i am going to create a european fun cup... whop i send a message to everyone in the game... then a second guy comes up with european aggresion cup...

and hup new spam is born + it sends to everyone is mass sending = broadcasting = delay of the server, so it should be restricted in my eyes
Can I just point out that Europe is a Continent, not a Country, so Europe wouldn't be an option. I meant if i wanted to invite all of my fellow UK managers without having to add them all to my contact list. With this feature I could send them all a message.

That europe is just an example of a cup name... if i would say the Lithuanian cup it don't sound so impressive

But if you make it country... I send a message to all belgians: +4000 message all at once... not a good idea....

Other solution could be.... Country based game messages. (the http://www.soccerproject.com/start.php page) If you could make this two types of messages... one language based for game news... and one country based (so that country moderators) can post a newsflash (after eventually permission of the admin or uber-moderators) This way it use less server capacity

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:59 pm

mysticalguard wrote:
Blue wrote:
mysticalguard wrote:then in that case i would say that they have to ask a moderator to send that message... but if i come up and say wow, now i am going to create a european fun cup... whop i send a message to everyone in the game... then a second guy comes up with european aggresion cup...

and hup new spam is born + it sends to everyone is mass sending = broadcasting = delay of the server, so it should be restricted in my eyes
Can I just point out that Europe is a Continent, not a Country, so Europe wouldn't be an option. I meant if i wanted to invite all of my fellow UK managers without having to add them all to my contact list. With this feature I could send them all a message.

That europe is just an example of a cup name... if i would say the Lithuanian cup it don't sound so impressive But if you make it country... I send a message to all belgians: +4000 message all at once... not a good idea....

Belgium is a bad example simply because there are so many users. But what about (the majority of) countries that have a number of managers a fraction of that size? It's a highly plausable feature for them.

krcgenk · Post by **krcgenk** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 1:14 pm

mysticalguard wrote:
Other solution could be.... Country based game messages. (the http://www.soccerproject.com/start.php page) If you could make this two types of messages... one language based for game news... and one country based (so that country moderators) can post a newsflash (after eventually permission of the admin or uber-moderators) This way it use less server capacity

Good idea. This should be possible I think.

Post by **Sjarel** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:00 pm

krcgenk wrote:I should also do it like that. Select more managers in your contact list to send them the same message.

We're not going to make this possible to prevent cheating.

I kinda like the idea of having language-specific gameMessages but that would not solve this problem assuming a lot of managers play this game in English anyway allthough their mother tongue might be any other language.

mysticalguard · Post by **mysticalguard** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:39 pm

Sjarel wrote:
krcgenk wrote:I should also do it like that. Select more managers in your contact list to send them the same message.
We're not going to make this possible to prevent cheating.

I kinda like the idea of having language-specific gameMessages but that would not solve this problem assuming a lot of managers play this game in English anyway allthough their mother tongue might be any other language.

Well i should work with two types...

the language specific for official news like for example that guestbook news. So you have contacted everyone

And country specific news (let says a moderator for each country that has 250 members) this can be in mother tongue or in english, depending on the moderator. So for example a country with 250 members could have their own specific messages done by the moderator like organisating stuff and such...

Country's below 250 members (250 is a fictive number, only so high to minimize the needed amount of moderators) could be grouped into regio's like Azian regio, Oceanian regio, african regio, middle-east regio, and north and south american regio. And maybe an European regio. And when a country in here gets enough members they get their own qualified moderator. So for citystates like vatican, monaco and such will never have their official own moderator/league... so this way regional messages can be done... easy done cause everyone has a nationality in SP... so these variables are already in the game.

Greetz MG