Something gone bad … sorry
Posted by samel
June 14th, 2010 2:10 pm
Hi all, i’ve to apologize but tonight i’ve seen that some player sent some email to get a game help, a report and create a new account. The game run a turn each day at 4:00, so i’ve to start another program to replay to HELP and REPORT command every 5 minutes. The problem is that … i’ve lost your registration email so you have to resend it. Sorry, my bad! [you should receive HELP and REPORT if your command was that one]
Now the game replay each HELP and REPORT mail in 5 minutes and make a game turn each night at 4:00.
Hope someone will subscribe this game cause that’s not so fun to play alone 8p
c-ya
Haha…that was probably me.
No one else wanted to play? Really? Huh…Well, I’ll resend my “new” email. (I did get the “report” one.)
Good to hear that some message arrived. Thanks. Good luck for the game!
Some suggestions: 1) You should have a link to the game rules or game home page on the bottom of each email. 2) You should have the ability to send more than one command in an email. (Unless you can do that already? It’s not clear from the game page.)
Thanks for the comments
1) You can just use the help command once and keep that email 8p
2) Yes, you can send more command in one email … i think, that’s a feature not tested, but it should work.
I’ve to update the rules page.
Is the new command processed at the 24h interval as well? I sent an e-mail, but it’s a bit hard to know if it worked.
Jolle, only “help” and “report” are processed “realtime” [every 5 min]
Anyway, your command will fail, and i think you already know that
i can make all command realtime, but i’ll do that if someone will start play the game.
Also i can improve it quite a lot and add a lot of new feature, the questions are “is there someone that will play the game?” “Is someone interested in my game?”
If at last one answers will be “yes” i’ll improve the game, i promise
> Anyway, your command will fail, and i think you already know that
No, I didn’t know that or I wouldn’t have sent it, and in addition I’ve got a mail now saying it was a success, so I’m afraid you’re just confusing things.
Regarding interest and if anyone will play it, I intend to try it for a few days, probably this week out, but in the long run most likely I won’t, because I already have enough things to do each day.
You are right, i confued thigs sorry.
This is a long run game, where you can just watch the result and send a command or two in a week. I’d like to have an easy game where you can just watch and see wath is appening, that’s why i made this game.
I’ve also a bouce of things to do every day, but it’s just a pleasure check an email and send some command to my factory
Sorry to bother you again, but I sent a “hire 40″ command, but it seems it didn’t register. No response on the command, and from the report I can tell nothing happened. Just checking to see what I did wrong. I replied to the report mail and replaced the body with the command. The subject wasn’t cleared though, does it have to be?
I’ve no email with “hire 40″, just one with ‘hire 20′ but that isn’t your. Anyway, all command except HELP and REPORT are executed at 4.00 am.
I guess there was just a hiccup in the tubes then.
Hi again, I’ve sent three “del Bug Company” commands but nothing have happened. Could you remove me manually?
It’s an interesting idea, but I think the game is too simplistic…It could also use some more documentation, perhaps a tutorial. Just an example of what basic things the player should do…then leading into what choices the player should make.
You get a lot of respect for trying a play-by-email game, though.
Also, I’ve noticed that all the game reports appear in HTML…even though my mail reader should be able to handle the HTML, it doesn’t actually display it AS HTML…it has all the tags showing up.