The tower would like a word: the sortie poll 0b53c94
Every sortie now ends with one quick question. Mission complete or mission failed, the debrief card carries a poll — and if you go into the bay, the tower asks on the way out:
- The poll rides the debrief. RATE THIS SORTIE: one to five amber stars, an optional note for the tower, SUBMIT. No extra screens — it’s part of the card you’re already reading, once per sortie.
- Crashes get their own card. The 1988 original dumps you straight back at the menu — no paperwork, no debrief. That stays. But once the wreck or the chute ride has settled, an AIRCRAFT DOWN card asks the same quick question, with SKIP right there if you’d rather not.
- It speaks up exactly once. The crash gate used to re-fire every frame — fine when it just quit to the menu, fatal for a form. The gate now closes as the card opens, so your stars and your note are never stomped mid-sentence.
- Wiring is a two-minute job, deliberately. Ratings post to a form-service endpoint (Formspree or Web3Forms free tier): paste one URL into
FEEDBACK_ENDPOINTand every submission lands in that dashboard and emails maverick@hornetbay.com. Until then the poll stays hidden, and?fbtestflies it in test mode with the payload logged to the console — no backend, no database, no monthly bill for a site this size. - Each report carries the sortie with it — stars, note, mission id, result, score, kills, timestamp and browser — enough to spot a rough mission or a rough build without a server of our own.