How messages work
- Every player's game looks for new messages once a day and puts them in the mailbox in the storage closet. A new player gets the last 30 days.
- Each device downloads a message once. Editing it afterwards doesn't change it for players who already have it, and deleting it doesn't take it back out of their mailbox. To correct something that's out, send a new message.
- Publish can't be in the past: devices only ask for messages newer than the newest one they have, so a back-dated one would be missed. Leave it on now, or pick a future time to schedule it.
- Expires stops it being handed out (and takes an alert out of the alert spot). Players who already have a normal message keep it.
- Notify at raises a notification on the device at that time, for players who open the game between Publish and then and have that kind switched on. To announce something on Friday, publish early in the week with Notify at set to Friday.
- Notification switches: daily, tips → Daily Board · special, events → Events · features → New features · promotions → Offers (off unless the player turns it on) · service, alert → always.
- alert messages also show in the round alert spot on the home screen's top bar until the player taps Got it.
- Icon is an SF Symbol name (find them in Apple's SF Symbols app). Left empty, or a name iOS doesn't have, uses the category's icon.
- Title and body can be written in every language the game has. Players get theirs, or English if it's missing, so English is required.
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