Nice idea. I think with the advent of the Super Leader this type of system is probably possible. I think it would help out a lot of casual players who run very "not there, then back again" types of SGs like you mentioned. I am sure that other productive uses could come from this as well.
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Also, I think that the /SGTell command is the best bet there.
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Good idea
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I like it!
This came up from a comment in another thread.
Now that we have a "superleader," supegroups now have one, dedicated person who's supposed to be the "top dog," who CS interacts with, etc.
Customer service isn't the only group that needs to do so, though. I recently (well, within the past few months) went through trying to find out who the leaders of two "inactive" coalitions were with an SG whose leadership I inherited long ago.
It was more of a case of "You know, I don't think I've ever seen those two NOT red in the past few years." However, since I wasn't the person who set up the coalitions, I had no idea who was in them. Checking with the registrar had no contact information (and they had very little prestige.)
I tried, and waited for a while to see if I could find anyone - and couldn't. I have no problem keeping a "red" coalition (where I can't enter the base - I have two friends' SGs - one where it's just a family group that plays over summer and inter vacations, one who's not on the specific server much) who have nothing in the base, or no base at all, so they use my teleporters and such. I was trying to find out if these other two were in the same boat, since I'd hate to cut someone off from that if they're not doing any harm to me.
In any case, I couldn't find them, and ended up breaking the coalition.
So, suggestion:
Via email and/or global tell, give us a "generic address" that goes directly to the superleader.
For instance, say we have a SG called IncredibleDudes. I need to get in touch with them, but we haven't talked much and I haven't seen much on coalition.
Option one:
Email @SG (or some other "global" designator) IncredibleDudes, and send them the message. The message gets shunted to whoever has the superleader position at that time.
Option two:
/SGT Incredibledudes - this sends a /tell, global-style, to the SG leader. They'll get it even if they're offline.
If it needs to be restricted to just superleader-to-superleader messages, I'm fine with that given the spamming situation. But being able to get ahold of an SG leader, even if you're not sure who it is, would be useful.