I play on Kongregate and my TV hasn't worked for weeks. So the idea of another goofy thing (the remote) that doesn't work isn't very appealing to me. But constantly having players spam my mailbox with their battery requests is very annoying and pretty dumb.
So, how about you put a check mark box in the request tab of the mail to allow alerts for battery requests to notify you or NOT. When I check my mail - BECAUSE I HAVE MAIL - then I can decide what to do with these things that don't help me at all.
Better yet, just remove the remote altogether. Or give people a 'block/deny all requests' button or something.
How is this a good idea? You are not encouraging people to chat - if anything you are making the mailbox something that is now constantly full of stuff that you don't want to read...and teammates are pasting their link to whatever (I can't login there) all the time in the chat. How does that encourage us to communicate with each other?
How is that fun?
Games are supposed to be fun...I get spam in the real world. Thanks, but no thanks.