A weekly e-mail about the sky over your city
Since yesterday the bell tells you what flew over your home city the day before. That works while you keep coming back to the site. If you don't open Skydex for a week, the bell has nobody to ring for.
So there is now an e-mail as well. It comes once a week, on Saturday morning by your city's clock, and it says three things:
- How many aircraft our receivers heard within 60 km of your home city in the past seven days.
- How many ships, if your city is on the water and our receivers can hear it.
- The rarest type among those aircraft, when it really is rare: a type the whole network heard ten or fewer of in the last 30 days. If there is none that week, the line is left out.
There's a button to fly over the city, and a link to change the city or stop the e-mail. Nothing else.
How to turn it on
It is off for everyone, including people who already picked a home city. To get it:
- On the Welcome card after you sign up, under the home city field, tick Weekly e-mail about the sky over my city.
- Or open your missions, scroll to Home city, and tick the same box there.
- Receiver owners will also find it on the feeder page, next to the setting for station e-mails.
Ticking the box doesn't switch anything on yet. We send you a short e-mail with a confirmation link, and nothing weekly arrives until you click it. The link works for seven days. If you never click it, that's the end of it and we won't ask again by mail.
This is the stricter way of doing it, and we chose it on purpose. An e-mail that invites you back to a game is advertising in the eyes of German law, and the rule there is plain: only to people who asked for it and confirmed. We use the same rule for every country rather than guessing where you are.
What we keep
When you ask, we store when you asked, when you confirmed, which wording of the checkbox you saw, and which city it was for. If you turn it off, we store that too. The privacy policy in the game's About window has a new section that says the same.
Turning it off
Every weekly e-mail has an unsubscribe link at the bottom that works in one click, with no login. The checkbox on the missions page and the feeder page turns it off as well. Stopping the weekly e-mail doesn't touch the e-mails about your receivers going quiet; those have their own switch.
When nothing happened
If our receivers heard nothing near your city all week, you get no e-mail that Saturday. A mail that says "0 aircraft" teaches you to stop opening them, and we'd rather send nothing.
If your city is outside our coverage, the honest fix is a receiver. The ADS-B network page explains how to put one on a roof, and a station near your city makes this e-mail useful for everyone who lives there.
The e-mails are in English for now. The bell line inside the game stays in your language.