New TG system: Q&A Thread

[Nicer potlimitomaha]

you have questions, please ask them here.

Is it possible to block someone because the new system says I can.
And if yes, can I send a telegram to said blocked person.

[Tramiar]

you have questions, please ask them here.

Is it possible to block someone because the new system says I can.
And if yes, can I send a telegram to said blocked person.

You were able to block TGs from people before. If it's like it was before, I don't think you can send someone a TG while you have them banned... but it's been a while since I tried that.

[Jamie Anumia]

Is it possible to block someone because the new system says I can.
And if yes, can I send a telegram to said blocked person.

You were able to block TGs from people before. If it's like it was before, I don't think you can send someone a TG while you have them banned... but it's been a while since I tried that.

Nope. You can still telegram them. I just tested it with a puppet.

[San Leggera]

If it's like it was before, I don't think you can send someone a TG while you have them banned... but it's been a while since I tried that.

Tested it just now, it still works.

[Klaus Devestatorie]

Just to make absolutely sure;



If a recruitment or other telegram is "blocked by category", does that telegram still cost a stamp to send? If it does, that would be rather annoying- I wouldn't want to be paying for a system to automatically waste stamps for me.

[Unibot III]

Will there be a system to delete old sent telegrams?

[Solm]

EDIT: Woops, clicked the wrong topic

[San Leggera]

Eek, stumbled across a bug.

When I view a TG I sent to multiple recipients, and then click on "View Conversation," an error pops up saying that I do not have permission to view this TG: http://www.nationstates.net/page=tg/tgi ... ersation=1

There's a bug report thread specifically for things like these

[Unibot III]

Recruit: encourage nations to move regions or join an alliance

So we're supposed to use this interface to recruit for non-regional entities? But the interface assumes that I'm recruiting for the region I'm in. :/

[Sovjetia]

please darken the text for it i dont know if its my theme but i can blearily read telegrams im getting

[Cerberion]

To paraphrase: The UDL should get a special pass because they don't need you to come to their region. Why not say this rather than dance around like you are championing some grand idea?

....

Alright, let's hold that thought for a second. The UDL isn't a region. You don't need to leave 10ki to join the UDL. You can still be a member of 10ki (you can't take on a government position in 10ki.. but that's because of said region's rules, not mine). Joining us doesn't imply you need to move your nation anywhere. Moreover, joining us doesn't even mean that you're going to play the R/D game -- we've got people working as diplomats who haven't ever touched foot on the R/D Battlefield.

MOREOVER, you would looooove to see the UDL stick to GCR recruitment like "everyone else" where we're at a distinct disadvantage. Namely, you have gigantic links that say "JOIN MY REGION" and buttons and marvelous other stuff to make lives really easy for people joining your region. Of course you wouldn't want to make it easier for the UDL to get its invitational messages out there; especially when you're too busy laughing about the idea of someone bothering to copy and paste our forum link, when all of the other telegrams have fancy links for recruits.

Then form a traditional region if it's so terrible to get people to join your organization. It's still recruiting.

[Jamie Anumia]

please darken the text for it i dont know if its my theme but i can blearily read telegrams im getting

Try an alternative theme?

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

Why can I not send mass TG Recruitspam?!?1

[Jamie Anumia]

Why can I not send mass TG Recruitspam?!?1

The mass TG feature has not yet been released.

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

Why can I not send mass TG Recruitspam?!?1

The mass TG feature has not yet been released.

I know. And I don't intend on annoying people with it.

[Northrop-Grumman]

please darken the text for it i dont know if its my theme but i can blearily read telegrams im getting

If you're using the dark theme, that's something I have to work on in the next few days.

[Abatael]

Is their an estimation for when the Postmaster-General etc. stuff will be available?

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

Is their an estimation for when the Postmaster-General etc. stuff will be available?

Postmaster-General is 10,000. I remember becoming one.

[Abatael]

Is their an estimation for when the Postmaster-General etc. stuff will be available?

Postmaster-General is 10,000. I remember becoming one.

What?

[Sanctaria]

Is their an estimation for when the Postmaster-General etc. stuff will be available?

Postmaster-General is 10,000. I remember becoming one.

He means the Telegrams upgrade obviously.

[[violet]]

Will the purchasable content come up today?

Probably not. It might be tomorrow. We don't want anyone spending money until we're sure everything works.

[[violet]]

please darken the text for it i dont know if its my theme but i can blearily read telegrams im getting

If you're using the dark theme, that's something I have to work on in the next few days.

Yes, apologies to N-G. He didn't have a preview available and can only now start to fix all the things I broke.

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

Postmaster-General is 10,000. I remember becoming one.

He means the Telegrams upgrade obviously.

Oh yes, I did not remember that you could buy that. I thought he meant posts.

[Abatael]

On Antiquity, when I received a new telegram, and I clicked on the "Telegram" tab and read the telegram, it does not disappear as "New." It continues to say "New" even though I exit the tab after reading it and replying to it.

[[violet]]

Recruit: encourage nations to move regions or join an alliance

So we're supposed to use this interface to recruit for non-regional entities? But the interface assumes that I'm recruiting for the region I'm in. :/

Yep, and we'll need to fix that.

As I see it, we have two options:

• Let recruiters disable that "Move to @@REGION@@" button when they're recruiting for an organization but don't want the recipient to change regions; or
• Create a new category for non-region based recruitment, which doesn't include the button, and which people can choose to block or not.

The first option is simpler, since players can check one box to block all forms of recruitment. The second option is more flexible, which would suit people who are open to region-based recruitment but not something like the UDL, or vice versa.

Right now I'm thinking the first one makes more sense, but this is something we'll observe and refine as we go, with input from the people affected.