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Jane DarkMagic
Postmaster
Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Location: Tennessee Status: Offline Points: 554 |
Topic: Sending Caravans Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 00:18 |
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Wish there was a period to recall caravans like diplos and military. I keep sending wrong stuff to people and getting stuck.
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 00:22 |
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+100
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dunnoob
Postmaster
Joined: 10 Dec 2011 Location: Elijal Status: Offline Points: 800 |
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 at 22:48 |
Jane DarkMagic wrote:
Wish there was a period to recall caravans like diplos and military. |
+1, and while at it the
delete mail function (as it is, not as it should be) needs an
undo, bumping my own vans and deleting the wrong mails are my
favourite errors.
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Aurordan
Postmaster
Player Council - Ambassador
Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 982 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 04:38 |
dunnoob wrote:
+1, and while at it the
delete mail function (as it is, not as it should be) needs an
undo, bumping my own vans and deleting the wrong mails are my
favourite errors.
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Um, at some point the message has to get, well, deleted. If there was an undo, the system would still just be holding them, which would defeat the purpose.
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Tordenkaffen
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Joined: 16 Oct 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 821 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 09:19 |
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Not going to happen as it would wreck the trade system completely. Sorry.
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G0DsDestroyer
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Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Location: Ásgarð/Vanaheim Status: Offline Points: 975 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 15:13 |
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Well if there was a recall button, it would have to be made so that it is only for direct orders, not orders in the marketplace. You'd just have to trust the other guy if you are trading directly.
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Nokigon
Postmaster General
Player Council - Historian
Joined: 07 Nov 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1452 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 19:10 |
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It could be exploited; for example you have a load of thieves heading for your city- tiny bit before they hit, send away all of your res, let the thieves steal some gold (or basic res if you left basic res), then recall your vans. Apart from that though, it's a pretty good idea.
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Rill
Postmaster General
Player Council - Geographer
Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Location: California Status: Offline Points: 6903 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 20:19 |
Nokigon wrote:
It could be exploited; for example you have a load of thieves heading for your city- tiny bit before they hit, send away all of your res, let the thieves steal some gold (or basic res if you left basic res), then recall your vans. Apart from that though, it's a pretty good idea. |
This seems like a relatively minor exploit, since one now has the option of sending away vans; the only difference is the amount of trouble getting your stuff back.
If they could fix the trade thing by making caravans involved in trade offers un-recallable, I think the theft thing is not such a big deal; savvy thieves would respond by sending two packs three minutes apart.
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dunnoob
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Joined: 10 Dec 2011 Location: Elijal Status: Offline Points: 800 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 22:11 |
Tordenkaffen wrote:
Not going to happen as it would wreck the trade system completely. Sorry. |
The trade accept button is a different story. If recall isn't okay for ordinary harvesting issues another solution would be to provide more info in the "send" form: How long will it take to get to the target, and are there already other vans on the way to or harvesting at the target? At the moment the "send" form only allows to pick one or more vans, but offers no detailed info.
For the mail delete undo it's similar: If I could delete a system mail while reading it I wouldn't need an undo. But as it is I have to quit the mail, then find it in the list, select it, scroll down, and click delete. Problem is, I sometimes select the wrong mail, the subjects are similar or sometimes identical, e.g., "spy mission to new settlement successful".
After figuring out that this old "new settlement" is now an even newer settlement with a rainbow the message can be deleted. But there are several of these messages in the list, which is the one I want to delete?
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Bonaparta
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Joined: 03 Nov 2011 Location: Milky Way Status: Offline Points: 541 |
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 at 23:05 |
Rill wrote:
Nokigon wrote:
It could be exploited; for example you have a load of thieves heading for your city- tiny bit before they hit, send away all of your res, let the thieves steal some gold (or basic res if you left basic res), then recall your vans. Apart from that though, it's a pretty good idea. |
This seems like a relatively minor exploit, since one now has the option of sending away vans; the only difference is the amount of trouble getting your stuff back.
If they could fix the trade thing by making caravans involved in trade offers un-recallable, I think the theft thing is not such a big deal; savvy thieves would respond by sending two packs three minutes apart.
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A big issue. Effective thieving against active player would become impossible.
I'm against recall button, but I do support more information when you send your vans out.
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