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Bullwinkle58 -> RE: possible new updated manual in PDF? (5/9/2012 6:33:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: littleike
The dream of an ancient dusty big final manual where found answers to all game questions like the tome that wizards consult at the flickering flame of a candle up there in the manor tower is something of subliminal that every game player ( me too) has always had.
I also asked many times for a revised copy of the manual thinking that this final release would be able to resolve all my questioning about the game rules and strategies. But as soon as time was passing i have been thinking that the wait for a final manual perhaps was only an alibi to don't study as deep as this game require to be managed.
That said is indubitable that Witp AE has had so many upgrades and tweakings that the need of something more revised documentation has become more than a necessity.
If the release of a revised manual is not planned ( i also will be happy to pay for it ) we have only the actual manual and the forum.
The actual manual is still invaluable because it describe all of the game stuff and It is a good operating manual ( to learn how and where to do things ) but outdated or incomplete in strategies description.
So if we suppose to upgrade and use the manual only for his operating part (leaving the strategies) we need only to update the mask descriptions adding the buttons that have been deleted,modified or added during the patch process. This could be done very easy looking at the manual mask description and having the game opened on the same mask.
Creating this addendum where to describe the use of the new buttons with all the mask variations integrated by a description of the colors and symbols used in the masks and reports could finish the work on the manual.
For the strategies and a deeper description of techniques we could use the forum and create a document to be added for topics:
Many things are just in there:
The air coordination guide
The repair ship 101 guide
could be the first two topics
This sort of "strategic guide" could be put in an adobe acrobat document form for consulting purposes and expanded for topics ( a sort of the avalon hill The general publication dedicated only to this game) Obviously this guide should be managed from someone very expert to whom forum members could submit their topics created from their experience or extracted from the forum threads for subsequent approval revision and publication.
All good ideas, but I've been hanging around here and in the WITP forum for over six years and it's never quite happened. Why? Time. Money. Time. Interest. Expertise. Time.
There have been aborted attmepts at Wikis. That might be a way to go if you're interested.
But what it seems to come down to is players want to play, not write. I write, sometimes. It's hard, lonely work. It's even harder when it's for free.
And expertise? A bare handful of players come close to having enough to do the project, and most of them (all?) already put in years designing and coding the thing. Many of them are at work on the Da Babes project, which seems to me, a non-designer, as probably a heck of a lot more fun than writing a manual.
If michaelm ever gets caught up in real life and wants to do a one-pager on buttons and ASCII symbols in the TOE screens, and colored text, etc. I would be the first to thank him. But I don't expect him to. He's done more than enough already.
And Matrix? Oh, look! A pig, up in the AIR!!!! [:'(]
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