It would be really great if we had the ability to setup notifications/alerts for messages. I can see the needs for the following message notifications/alerts in order of importance: New Private Message New Social Messages (be able to choose what conversation you want to get notifications/alerts from) New Guild Messages (be able to choose what conversation you want to get notifications/alerts from) This would be helpful for quite a few conversations, but I think the most important would be Private, 1.9 conversations, trade conversation, other GB swap threads, and any leadership threads. Additionally, this would be helpful if you are doing something else on your PC because it would give the Windows 10 Notification/Alert and make a sound to notify you. Thanks for your consideration.

New Message Notification/Alert

Redline1969

It would be really great if we had the ability to setup notifications/alerts for messages. I can see the needs for the following message notifications/alerts in order of importance:

New Private Message
New Social Messages (be able to choose what conversation you want to get notifications/alerts from)
New Guild Messages (be able to choose what conversation you want to get notifications/alerts from)

This would be helpful for quite a few conversations, but I think the most important would be Private, 1.9 conversations, trade conversation, other GB swap threads, and any leadership threads.

Additionally, this would be helpful if you are doing something else on your PC because it would give the Windows 10 Notification/Alert and make a sound to notify you.

Thanks for your consideration.

andrgin

The Alerts module was designed based on timers so that it works even if the game is not open in the background (only browser needs to be open).

For new messages the game would need to be open in the background, so it should better be solved with other tools:

1.) The Forge of Empires mobile app
The offical Forge app by Inno has a notification feature for private messages or guild/group messages. This works very well for direct messages (even when not sitting in front of the PC). For group messages the problem is that you can only choose between “new messages” and “new threads”, but it is not possible to include/exclude certain threads.

2.) The InfoBox of the extension also has a notification sound if the game is open in another tab. Here you can set a filter for messages and can include a text filter if you are interested in a certain thread.