Weed wrote:Also, to be clear, the welcome messages that feeders and sinkers send out to welcome a nation to their region would not count as recruitment would it?
No. A recruitment TG is a message that encourages the recipient to move regions. It's not recruitment to welcome someone to your region, or encourage them to stay.
If it doesn't it wouldn't be in queue behind all the bought messages as well as the autoscripted ones, which means it won't be shown days later when "Welcome to The South Pacific, you find yourself in a region..." is no longer accurate or relevant if they move.
No TG will sit in a queue for days. Recruitment messages are spaced out a little, if necessary, and other TGs by so little that it won't usually be noticeable. I wouldn't expect any TG to be delayed more than 10 minutes or so*, and that's if you're last in the queue to send a recruitment TG to a nation that a dozen other people are simultaneously targeting.
(*Edit: Lest this be interpreted as evidence of impending Spamaggedon, please allow me to clarify that this situation is when the TG is cleared for delivery to the recipient--i.e. not blocked for spam reasons--but the system wants to space it out because there are multiple recruitment TGs incoming at once. I am not saying that every recruitment TG ever sent will arrive at every addressee within 10 minutes.)