Spam News

[grafxfx]

Presently the news tab is useless because of the spam being sent from BB.

For example "your general is moving/attacking". Yes I know he is, I just sent him 1 second ago.
For example "your geologist is searching for stone/copper/iron/etc". Yes I know he is, I just sent him 1 second ago.
For example "your explore is searching for treasure/aventure". Yes I know he is, I just sent him 1 second ago.

The news tab could be a very valuable part of the game but notification need to be limited to time lapsed events.
For example, trades elapsing, buffs elapsing, deposits depleting.

What do you think are usefull/useless notifications?
Which notifications would you like to see currently unsupported?

Add to the thread to let BB know how you would like the news tab used.

[supermind]

Totally agree, especially when buffing or sending more exp/gens at once. Those notifications take so much space along with the pop ups that last a long time on the screen.
Don't depleting mines already have notifications? I don't totally agree on the notification about buffs elapsing, trades elapsing because it will be exactly same situation but some people may find it very useful, so option to turn it ON or OFF along with added notification would be probably best of both worlds

[Crazy-Beard]

agree +1

[Artemissile]

specialists returning i still want to see but yes, i agree there are lots of useless notifications.

[Mister_Blister]

If it were up to me, I would do away with all notifications of the type "you just did that". No need to tell me I sent out a geo or explorer, or sent a general to another zone. No need to tell me I just placed a buff. I initiated the action, so no need to repeat it back to me. And no need for any of the notifications that occur at an adventure. Either you are there watching and know exactly what is going on, or you are away and they don't register at all anyway.

As I think about it, I realize that the news tab is really going to continue to be useless and unreliable as long as it only delivers news of things that occurred where you are. Deposit depletion notifications might be nice, but nobody could rely upon them because if the deposit depletes while you are on an adventure you get no notification. Same for a lot of possible things that news could notify you about. If you were viewing a different location, you get no notification. And being that they are unreliable, you get into the habit of not relying on news tab to find them.

Making the news tab useful will take both fixes. You need to provide the desired notifications no matter what location you are at, and you need to not bury them in a pile of useless notifications. Until restructured to do both, I don't see how it could be made useful.

[Alliw]

Yes! You are in the middle of sending blocking/attacks and up pops a box right where you were going to send your gen to telling you your gen got back. Thanks. Retreat and wait. It would be nice to be able to turn those boxes off.

[Ceruhe]

I'd rather have a notification that says "Your connection is too shaky and the command has timed out, you did all those clicks for nothing, son."