Alliances (mostly chat-related) refinements

Unknown

Hello, I do like all the Alliances stuff but I think it should be refined a little bit (on Android at least, that's what I'm using). This is what I think:

• Alliance chat should support UNICODE chars, I can't enter any accented (à, è, é, ...) letter: Italian language's full of these, for example;
• Alliance chat messages should trigger notifications of some kind, both inside the game and even in the OS (maybe make it optional, as for the other notifications): many people don't even know there are unread messages at all;
• Alliance chat should properly support input methods of choice: I use Swype and I can't see the suggestion pop up (and I'm forced to type letter by letter) and words aren't getting automatic spacing;
• Rewards should be given to the actual allies, not to Facebook friends only (come on, it even says rewards go to your "allies" in the send reward screen but all I see is my MPQ-playing FB buddies).

I really hope you can implement these suggestions, Alliances still feel like a half-baked implementation.

reckless442

When you leave an event, there is a little "!" to indicate if there are new chat posts. (At least, that is what I have on IOS.) I think adding notifications during events would be a terrible idea. Timing is key in a lot of events and having constant notifications would be a huge distractions. If you're in an alliance that has an active chat, like I am, you would be getting notifications every few seconds. That would interfere with game-play.

Right now, the notification strikes a pretty good balance between letting you know if there are new chat posts and not being too intrusive.

Unknown

In Android I never saw any little exclamation mark anywhere... maybe I'm just blind, but I don't think so.
About notifications in events, well... you can always ignore them when you're busy grinding, personally I'd like to see them at least in the event and event stage selection screens. And I'd like to get notification outside of the app as well: of course you should be able to edit messages notification preferences just like you can do now for other notifications in the options screen.

Unknown

teorouge wrote:

In Android I never saw any little exclamation mark anywhere... maybe I'm just blind, but I don't think so.

If You joined game and by the time You were absent someone was chatting, You won't see exclamation mark.
If You're in-game and someone writes something, the exclamation mark appears.

Works on Android too.

Unknown

Ok, today I saw the exclamation mark for the very first time (twice, actually!). I still can't understand why I'm not getting that all the times though and the logic behind that, can you explain it better?