Bassiliya wrote:Yuts Knenxland wrote:To put out a suggestion - what if the stamped telegram queue were cut off after the [first hour] of a nation's founding?
That way, some stamps get through, but are severely limited by the [1h] limit that stamps can get through, which places more emphasis on API and Manual.
But wouldn't that negate the whole non-recruitment campaign stamps thing? If you cut off the stamp queue at some point for the nation, then you arbitrarily have to pick a day when they can again receive them. That seems like a messy solution, at best. It would be easier (and far more effective) to increase the price of stamps overall. I don't see how increasing said price could prohibit people from using them, it would just make them think twice about how they use them. Perhaps it would help with the rampant poaching going on in the world.
I think you may be overcomplicating it a teeny bit. I don't exactly know how the stamp queue works, but I would imagine that all those with stamps are immediately placed in that queue the moment a new nation is founded. API slowly lines up after waiting for their 3m cooldown, and manual does a quick surge with all those who are hanging out on the founds page.
After a period of initial competition, I would imagine that manual clears out, because no one really wants to send to a nation founded several hours ago. That leaves the competition between API and Stamp queues. If API is as slow as what everyone is saying, API would clear sooner than being replenished, leaving the stamp queue to send out uncontested over the next few hours - up to a day.
For those that clear their inbox regularly, hoping to find a new region, they'll just be met with floods of (mostly) stamped ones towards the end.
By placing a time limit on when the stamp queue is in operation, it would nerf stamps severely, so as to speak.
As for picking a day that they can receive them, I don't think that's needed. The stopped queue would mean that the telegram didn't go through, equivalent to it not being sent at all. It would be a complete wiping out of the queue at that point of time, no continuations at a later date. If someone decides to send to "All in the east pacific" after not making it within that [1 hour], the telegram will still go through.
Regarding how increasing the price of stamps prohibiting people from using them, it definitely wouldn't prohibit them, but it would definitely make it more costly to even think about using stamps for anything. In my opinion, higher cost isn't a good thing. But if it has to be done, then perhaps instead of increasing the price of stamps across the board, make recruitment cost 2 stamps per nation.
That way, WA proposals, joke "all" telegrams can still pass through without having to worry about the increase in cost.
Finally, regarding poaching - I'm not sure about you, but the only poaching I see going on is ol declansburg manually sending to everyone. Very impressed by their stamina. Don't see folks wasting stamps to go around poaching. Oh maybe if you want to telegram an entire region you don't like perhaps.
My only stance on poaching is that if you have your recruitment preferences on, you're open to recruitment
Hope this clears up some stuff on what I'm thinking about.