From the Dev Blog: UIv3 Preview

Kumomoto wrote: Keeping the senders name in a forwarded email would also be quite useful...

White Beard wrote: a second line of the items that are available on the market would be great for traders. Right now we have to scroll all the way back up if we want to change the item, one in between the sellers and the buyers or even the bottom would be nice

It seems you are getting a gist from the other players on the fixes that need to be made but I will still place my concerns on here:

Forwarding:  It cuts off the name of the original sender.  (Luna you advised this has already been address in the new up date.)

The inability to send mail to a certain group of players choosen by you.  I find that the inability to send to only alliance leaders and my VC's regarding issues is annoying.  You have to send the mail to one person at a time rather than for example: Gm Luna; Sinatra; Indomitable; Starry; ScottFitz; Mannanan; GM Stormcrow; GM Thundercat

Those are players not all in the same alliance but you can pick and choose who you want the mail to go to.  The mail alliance is a wonderful feature and we use it often, but being unable to connect just with my staff and officers is frustrating.  Sending a mail to each of them is way too time consuming.

The notifications System mails: These things are overwhelming!  Everything you do go on your notification board AND you get an email plus a blue ticker above your Mail Icon.  Seriously how many places do we need to be able to view this stuff?  Let me tell you what I would like to see done with Notifications.  Since you are coming up with a whole new interface can you include a way that if you send out an army/diplos it shows a ticker on the Battle Axe/Rose or above the mail icon that you have a battle report?  Show it in another color?  Then in the notifications, you can click on it and see the report if you choose to.  Caravans and harvesting that stuff should only show up in Notifications.  We should not have to endure that kind of notification in our mail boxes.  These are just reports and Notifications.  Let them stay in the Notification area and stop spamming out mail.  The mail is overwhelming when sieging.  Every hour you get a report.  When it is time to capture or raze have it flash or something that you have important things that need your attention.

As an alliance leader I get enough mail.  The system mail could be filtered if the flashing notification isn't possible.  The headings in the mail area could actually be used for storing those mails instead of putting them in the main inbox.  If there are new system notifications then you can Bold those filter headings so we can see there is a report that needs to be tended to.  Then those that wanted to keep tabs that way still could.  Most of the mail should be done away with tho.  I don't need a mail every time I send out caravans. I can see in notifications that it has landed. 

These are just ideas for rectifying the over system mail.  Yes this has been discussed before.  I don't mind stating it again.  I just want this fixed.  We have endured it long enough.  I am sure once it is fixed something else will be frustrating as with all things of this nature.  This is my biggest complaint about this game at this time.  Everything else is bearable and I stand behind you all 100% in everything!  I do love the new additions but I do feel this is a fix we can't ignore any longer.  I don't want to see a new UI go in place until this has been addressed and fixes put in place to cut down on the notification emails even if it is just filtering them in our mail so we don't see it in the main inbox.  If you are going to put work into making this functional then make it all functional.  The mail should not be an issue with the new UI.  There should be something in place so we are not overwhelmed with mail from the system.  I should only see important mail from alliance leaders and staff in my main inbox.

Also as an Alliance Leader I would like to know when one of my players is hit by Diplos or Armies.  That should be an option in the Roles to choose to get those notifications and who gets them.  To me those are important notifications.  It should be like a link to their report so I or my VC's could view it.  This will be especially helpful when factions go live.


Edited by LadyLuvs - 12 Jun 2012 at 13:42

Although in some ways it would be nice to know if an alliance member is hit by diplos or armies, I think it's probably better for the game if such information is not automatically reported.  LadyLuvs has a special concern because her players are newbs, and extracting reliable information about what happened from newbs can be a time-consuming and frustrating process: 

How about a way to save drafts?  It's cumbersoe to start emails then realize you have to look up the name of a player/city or some stat so have to copy the mail, paste someplace else, switch to other screen, get information, switch back, copy and paste back, etc...