Claim Your Gold Introduces Overtake Notifications and Stampede Alerts, Turning Competitive Events Into Instant Action
Claim Your Gold today introduced Overtake Notifications and Stampede Alerts, a real-time notification system that delivers a Telegram message to a hunter the moment their competitive standing changes in a meaningful way.
Not at the end of the week. At the moment it happens.
Three Triggers
The system monitors three competitive surfaces and fires a notification on each change of lead.
Rival Duel overtakes. When a hunter's duel rival claims enough gold in a single session to take the lead, both the rival and the overtaken hunter receive an immediate notification. The message names the new leader, shows the current gap, and states the number of days remaining in the week.
Bounty leaderboard shifts. When a crew member's recruiting activity moves them into or out of a prize-paying position on the active bounty leaderboard, the affected hunters are notified right away. A hunter who falls from second to third sees it in real time, not at Monday's close. A hunter who climbs from fourth into prize territory sees it the moment it happens.
Stampede alerts. When an active Gold Rush is detonated by either crew in an ongoing war, every member of both crews receives a Stampede alert: the crew that detonated, the 45-minute window, and a link to the claim surface. The alert is the same for both crews. The urgency is mutual.
Why Timing Matters
The most important property of the Overtake Notification is not what it tells a hunter. It is when it tells them.
A hunter who receives a mid-week notification that they have been passed in their rival duel has a different relationship to the remaining days of the week than one who discovers the same fact on Friday. The mid-week notification arrives while there is still time to act. The gap is a specific number. The days remaining are stated. The action implied, claiming gold today and tomorrow, goes unspoken because it does not need to be said.
The result is a re-engagement mechanic that does not feel like one. It feels like a competitive event, because it is one.
Stampede Alerts and the Gold Rush Loop
The Stampede alert has a distinct design intent from other Overtake Notifications. A Gold Rush is a 45-minute window in which every gold claim earns at 2x rate. Both crews in the active war benefit, and both are notified at the same moment. The alert arrives with time-bounded urgency that requires no explanation: there is a window, it is open, it closes in 45 minutes.
The alert is built to be forwarded. A crew member who receives a Stampede alert and forwards it to a group chat where some members have not yet opened the platform activates crew coordination without any instruction, role definition, or separate infrastructure. The alert carries its own urgency. Forwarding it costs nothing. Not forwarding it costs the crew members who might have claimed during the window but did not know to.
Notification Architecture
Overtake detection runs as an event-driven process triggered at claim resolution rather than on a polling schedule. Each resolved claim is evaluated against the current competitive standings for the claiming hunter: in their active duel, their bounty leaderboard position, and their war total. A notification enqueues if any standing has changed.
The queue uses at-most-once delivery semantics per competitive event: a single overtake produces a single notification pair, one to each hunter affected, regardless of how quickly subsequent claims arrive. This prevents notification flooding during high-activity windows while ensuring every meaningful competitive change is communicated.
Stampede alerts use a separate fan-out queue with priority delivery. They have a harder time constraint than standard overtake notifications and process ahead of the standard queue at the time of detonation.
Closing the Loop
Overtake Notifications connect events that already existed in the platform to the hunters they affect, in real time.
Weekly Leagues give every hunter a competitive context. Rival Duels give every hunter a named opponent. Crew Wars give every crew a weekly opponent and a detonatable advantage. The Viral Bounty Board makes the stakes visible to the outside world. The Weekly Dynasty Recap tells hunters where they ended up at close of each week. Overtake Notifications tell them what is happening right now, while there is still something they can do about it.
Related Updates
- Rival Duels — The 1v1 competition system whose lead changes now trigger immediate Overtake Notifications
- Crew Wars and Gold Rush Events — The team war system whose Gold Rush detonations trigger Stampede Alerts
- Viral Bounty Board — Bounty leaderboard position changes are a third trigger for Overtake Notifications
- Weekly Dynasty Recap — The Monday summary that contextualises a week's worth of competitive events after they close