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Something gone bad … sorry

[raw] LD17MiniLD 14. Jun 2010 · 19:10 UTC · 52 days after compo start by samel · 0

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

Comments

14. Jun 2010 · 19:46 UTC
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.)
samel
14. Jun 2010 · 20:43 UTC
Good to hear that some message arrived. Thanks. Good luck for the game!
15. Jun 2010 · 18:16 UTC
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.)
samel
15. Jun 2010 · 18:24 UTC
Thanks for the comments
jolle
15. Jun 2010 · 18:32 UTC
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.
samel
15. Jun 2010 · 18:49 UTC
Jolle, only “help” and “report” are processed “realtime” [every 5 min]

Anyway, your command will fail, and i think you already know that 8)
jolle
17. Jun 2010 · 17:43 UTC
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?
samel
17. Jun 2010 · 18:28 UTC
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.
jolle
29. Jun 2010 · 15:08 UTC
Hi again, I’ve sent three “del Bug Company” commands but nothing have happened. Could you remove me manually?
02. Jul 2010 · 16:41 UTC
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.
02. Jul 2010 · 16:50 UTC
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.