It's time to discuss Clockwork Ads

Hi,
So i'm here to encourage discussion about the in-game Clockwork ads.

My views is that;
They're immersion-breaking, obnoxious, ugly, spammed, inconvenient, they push useful/relevant stuff out of the chat/text box and are the only thing left after the recent Clockwork update that i feel needs fixing to make the gamemode near-on perfect in my eyes..

They trigger every 5 minutes.


I have in-game help ads/notices that aren't even triggered every 5 minutes.

Can we please get a vote or something to remove this? At the very least change them from every 5 minutes to like once an hour or something mildly tolerable?
Please atleast let us toggle them off? Give us an option? Have it on by default and you'll still have a majority of servers using it, but please let us toggle it off or something. anything.

I know it's to promote the game-mode and community and sales and whatnot, but i really feel it's detracting from the experience.

Please.
Someone.
kuro.
Please remove this..
I'm literally begging. It's got to go...

@kurozael @alexanderk @NightAngel @duck

 

Technically, what you posted is only sent to admins afaik, but I agree there are better methods to advertise and convey news to admins that need to know it.

 

i voted remove completely but honestly
it would be acceptable to have a menu tab for it or something, or maybe in a startup screen or something idfk just not the tooltips at the top right or in text, its annoying as hell and honestly like something that you would see in a 'try for free with advertisements and reduced features, buy later for full product and all advertisements removed'!!! type product
like server branding fees

 

We have no control over CAX. [HASHTAG]#kuroplz[/HASHTAG] @kurozael

 

I'm going to repeat this again. This is not something you discuss with us developers - take it with kurozael in a private conversation.

 

Unlocked

 

I think good enough advertisement is the little Cloud Sixteen rank that for some reason is gone now.

People were always bound to ask about it.

 

If anything, remove how obnoxious they are, and make it so that they are more of an "Advertisement".

A different form of introducing them to players that's not completely in your face every 5 minutes.

 

A nice little news menu in the tab menu for admins that pops up a +1 if there's a new news update. Then make more icons as rewards for things on the forums, sorta like achievement rewards or rank rewards, then when people ask how you got that icon, you say 'cloudsixteen.com'. Problem solved.

 

I still think my suggestion would be at least better than what it is now @kurozael

 

Not to fire too many shots but I don't understand why (by default) the main menu credit, the credit in the directory, the community tab, and the fact that I cant change the name of the gamemode (without spending more money) isn't enough credit. Just my opinion though...

 

It still provides some credit to C16 and you. I'm not saying that it's overkill, I'm simply stating that all these various features that provide you and C16 with credibility are also providing server owners and users with invasive, in-your-face style messages.

 

Thanks @alexanderk for unlocking.

Yeah so, i was sitting in a server for 30 mins, and i looked at the chat log and it shows multiple times, triggering every 5 mins.

I'll try again today and monitor to see if it stops, just yeah, i would be cool with it once or twice and then never again ever, if that's possible, it's just the recurrence and short time it all happens that's a bit irk-y.

thanks @kurozael for addressing this. Looking forward to seeing what comes of it.

 

Disable the community tab works. Use the plugin in plugin center for that...?

 

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