Poll: Alert System

[Alley]

follow up of this: http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=141601

The proposal is to implement Warframe style alerts for Discovery. Considering the amount of time it will take me for the "other thing" to reach beta, I'm willing to spend some time developing this if there's some real interest for this alert system as it may benefit the game in the long run.

As we don't have access to the engine and we're still quite limited in what we can do, this will be limited (we can look into possible expansions later) to the current implementations of Combat and Trade events we already generate with the event system.

So what does it do you ask???
There's already been a little bit of discussion about it with a few and at the moment the question is less what they should be, but rather when they should be. For Warframe it works fine because you don't really need anyone to play.

At the moment the idea to have a random alert selected from a pool of predefined alerts (think 20 to begin with) that will be activated before peak time for a select duration (something like 3 hours?). There's a serious uncertainty at making the system truly random as we might have a pvp event show up at 3 in the morning with nobody being able to attend or find opponents. Trade events will be a breeze just like it currently is with early morning trade event powerfarmers so well, that's that.

I'm also looking into the ability of making the market updates easier to send live so we can trigger on sell points in general (and unlawful sell points for cargo piracy) at whim.

Examples of events
- GRN vs LN in Magellan. 7.5 million per kill.
- RM lawfuls vs RHA in Dresden, 7.5 million per kill.
- BD vs KNF vs IKN in Kyushu, 7.5 million per kill.
- DROP from Gran Canaria to Freeport 11, 9600c/u
- Corsairs vs Outcasts, Omicron something, 7.5 million per kill.
- IMG, Tau-23 ore to New Berlin, big monies
- Order vs Core, Omicron Delta
- Your imagination is the limit

Give your thoughts, etc.

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Alley was right.