Thank you for the considerate response, Darkstar. While I am not aware of which software you use for programming the app, I have been a software developer for a few decades (gosh, does that make me sound experienced, or just
old?) and can imagine some of the challenges. I am surprised by the implication that an event requires a software update, as I had just assumed (there's that dangerous word in software development) that a new event was data-only.
As for a prior message/introduction, I am not fully sure what you're referring to but if you're thinking about the questline's info screen then you have clearly already seen that on browser and therefore it would not appear elsewhere.
I have been suspecting for some time that there is a general belief in Inno that the app is an adjunct to game-play on the browser.
Bear with me while I explain how I came to Forge of Empires:
I was playing a WW2 strategy game on my iPad. (An IPad, containing a processor more powerful than in most PCs 12 years ago and with a screen resolution beating most laptops, is easily enough to handle my own game movements while simultaneously computing the movements of a couple of dozen other nations' troops, ships and planes.) The game was free to play but showed adverts all the time, most of which I happily ignored. After a time, one advert kept catching my eye; it was about another app strategy game I could play that sounded vaguely like another game I used to play, starting from stone age and building an empire while improving technological levels.
After a while, I decided to see what this app was about and had a look on the App Store. I don't even remember reading about 'bring it to your iPad' - all I was aware of is that it is a game I can play on my iPad, which is what it is still advertised as.
Hey, that sounds fun, I'll load it up and see what it's like.
For very personal reasons, my PCs are not available to me at the moment (I have a couple of my development screens from a setup like
this but that's of no use to me at all .. I digress). What i have is an iPad Pro, which I am surprised to find is quite able to do most of my personal computing needs. It also plays Forge of Empires, well .. as you know, it doesn't really, it just plays a limited version of it (though there are a few areas where the interface is superior).
I play Forge of Empires a lot, I take part in the forums and the fan wiki. All on my iPad, without ever touching a PC.
I would like it if the game was as advertised but I have got used to playing a cut-down version of the game and that many top guilds will disbar me from joining, since I can't play the full game.
I am not alone in ONLY or PRIMARILY playing Forge of Empires on the app. I have had conversations with a lot of app players, some of whom only play in the PC now and then because they want to do something the app does not allow them to do. One player only plays while commuting on the train, never at work or home.
So, I hope you now see that "you have clearly already seen that on browser and therefore it would not appear elsewhere" is in error. Like many people, I don't play the game on browser (though I have had some occasional access). If an event is to commence then it needs to be announced to app players, just like it needs to be announced to browser players. Maybe it could be noted that a player has seen it on one device, so does not need to see it on the other, but without that, it is better to show it on both so that people who don't play on browser, or experience the Event on app first, get an introduction to it.
