Pauly7
Well-Known Member
As we all know there are many problems with the Elvenar messaging system. Not least of them is the problem with messages getting lost amongst other messages, and important notices not being read by many people. Even within a single message thread important information is often buried beneath other replies.
The best solution would be a completely revamped and more modern messaging system, of course, but failing that my idea for the interim... or request of Inno, if you will... is for Arch Mages to be granted the ability to post important notices in the Elvenar News section, so a highlight would appear next to the trumpet icon. Members of that fellowship would then need to click it to make the highlight disappear and it wouldn't get lost amongst anything else.
I know that Inno probably wants to keep that notification area for themselves, but the reason that they would want to do that would surely be that they are aware of the issue of people not reading important messages. After all, Inno only puts a notification there once every week or two, on average, so I think it shouldn't clutter it too much if AMs are allowed to do the same - maybe a max of 2 or 3 a week, if they're worried about it being overcrowded, or server space.
The best solution would be a completely revamped and more modern messaging system, of course, but failing that my idea for the interim... or request of Inno, if you will... is for Arch Mages to be granted the ability to post important notices in the Elvenar News section, so a highlight would appear next to the trumpet icon. Members of that fellowship would then need to click it to make the highlight disappear and it wouldn't get lost amongst anything else.
I know that Inno probably wants to keep that notification area for themselves, but the reason that they would want to do that would surely be that they are aware of the issue of people not reading important messages. After all, Inno only puts a notification there once every week or two, on average, so I think it shouldn't clutter it too much if AMs are allowed to do the same - maybe a max of 2 or 3 a week, if they're worried about it being overcrowded, or server space.