Email Alerts

[Slade]

Hello,

Could we please have an option to send us an email when there are actually enough players in the air (not just in the tower etc.) to have a hope at experiencing ACM?

This might be useful during low number times.  If it was user configured that would be ideal.  For instance, when the number of Bish planes in the air > 10 send an email.

EDIT: Another cool alert might be: Send an email when player name "UserInputName" is in the game and in the air.


Thanks,

Slade 

[lunaticfringe]

  do you want somebody to fly your plane for you as well

[Shuffler]

do you want somebody to fly your plane for you as well

My thoughts exactly.

They could offer this as a service for 10 bucks a month. Must pay your secretary you know.

[Oldman731]

do you want somebody to fly your plane for you as well

I suspect this was not a serious request.  Someone is sad that there are not enough planes flying around.

- oldman

[bustr]

I think Discord can facilitate this if everyone in a subscriber group is playing across the Internet in different games at the same time and notifications to your smartphone. If one is in AH3 he can push an alert for everyone to drop what they are doing and get in on a feeding frenzy. Hitech has resisted game functions that allow you remotely to check a URL to see how many are playing in the arenas without having to open the game to the arena choice screen. With all the third party gaming comms online and smart phones, players probably have it 80% covered at this point.

Slade make more friends who will text you when things in game get hot.

[CptTrips]

Hmmm. This could be useful.

Hitech could spam out emails, "Hey there are tons of people in the arena!  Get on now!", and then tons of people would get the email and decide to log on, and then, technically he wouldn't be lying.

Clever.   

[Slade]

do you want somebody to fly your plane for you as well

I really dont know how you could deduce this from what I said.

Perhaps the hours I can play the game have de-evolved to not having enough players to find a fight.  Should I play the game just as one would Microsoft flight simulator, i.e. for its scenic beauty alone and forget about this ACM stuff?

I dont think getting an email that the numbers are functionally high enough to warrant making time to jump in is a bad thing.

[Shuffler]

I really dont know how you could deduce this from what I said.

Perhaps the hours I can play the game have de-evolved to not having enough players to find a fight.  Should I play the game just as one would Microsoft flight simulator, i.e. for its scenic beauty alone and forget about this ACM stuff?

I dont think getting an email that the numbers are functionally high enough to warrant making time to jump in is a bad thing.

At what point does anyone consider it "functionally high enough".

I have been on with low numbers and had a great time fighting. I have been on when high numbers and can't find a fight, log for boredom.

I think the suggestion you make some friends and text eachother is a good idea.

[DmonSlyr]

I honestly think a monthly news letter would go a lot further. Talk about upcoming events. Squads that did well in previous events, perhaps new maps coming/or have come. They could talk about WOP coming up. It would at least spark interest in old players who are on the fence about subscribing again. Plus it would make the game seem more exciting.

[CptTrips]

I don't think it is a terrible idea, but I know HTC has had problems in the past sending out mass emailings and getting tagged as a spammer by the internet providers.

I played a game one time that had a web page that listed all the players online.  But I could see some privacy issues there.

Perhaps a Aces High social networking mobile app? 
  * It could display current numbers in each arena.
  * You could follow certain players and would show what arena/country they were in.  (They would have received a follow request at sometime they would have had to accept.)
  *  More importantly, rather than just current numbers, players could post a projected time online to their followers like "Planning to play 7-8pm CST Bishops.  That allows players in a network to arrange their affairs to be online a the same time at some point in the future.

$0.02.

[asterix]

This might be useful during low number times.  If it was user configured that would be ideal.  For instance, when the number of Bish planes in the air > 10 send an email.

If there were 9 bish in the air and 30 waiting for an emal then how would that be useful during low numbered times? 

[bustr]

Isn't this a Catch 22 for Hitech where numbers are concerned and how people perceive numbers in advertising. Posting an active current numbers in the game, might not show AH3 in a good light for potential new customers while being a 3 minute time saver for current players who don't want to bother with logging in to look at the arena numbers? Getting something at work or school to update you on the current numbers is not a forecast for numbers hours later. Numbers matter on the Internet like the numbers of negative reviews on Steam or, large numbers of followers in social media. And we know Hitech won't purchase numbers bots like many personalities have been found to do all these years.

[CptTrips]

Isn't this a Catch 22 for Hitech where numbers are concerned and how people perceive numbers in advertising. Posting an active current numbers in the game, might not show AH3 in a good light for potential new customers

Not necessarily. 

If you were using something like a mobile app,  you could have a login tied to your account.  So only paying customers would be seeing the numbers and player tracking.

At the point where you have to start trying to hide the number of players logged in from your paying customers, then you're probably at the point where you want to update your resume. 

I guess you could even take of the player count on the clipboard arena tab and remove the roster so no one can tell how many people aren't online.   

[guncrasher]

we have squad alert on our private Facebook.


semp

[bustr]

An account tied login to check a numbers feed is innocuous, dosen't follow Hitech's style for almost 20 years. Telling Hitech to update his resume is a bit presumptuous, perception on the Internet is as damaging as the utopian illusion of transparency which always ends up biting you in the kester courtesy of agenda driven unhappy trolls. Doing nothing, which requires the subscriber to invest 3 minutes to check the numbers. In the long run is a neutral answer to the real dangers of real people who troll the Internet to damage businesses becasue they can. We get them passing through constantly posting a shopping list of negativity based on their personal historic beefs with Hitech. Under any pretext they can leverage to publicly harm Hitech with their negative opinions about Hitech's management and his business decisions.

Everyone knows what our numbers are by just being a regular customer and the trolls know the numbers by being friends with active players or just lurking in the forums. At some point one of those unhappy trolls would leverage those real time numbers in one of their screeds against Hitech. Back to my comment about innocuous and logins. Official to the minute numbers are the danger of perception and how transparency when it's not necessary kicks you in the teeth. Trolls talking to friends who still play the game are spreading second hand info perceptually.

When there was 400 players a night there was no real time feed and some people would then argue it would have been a good thing becasue those kinds of numbers would be incredible advertising. But, on the home page you never saw a real time counter feed way back then.