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BBfanboy -> RE: PDF Manual (6/1/2020 6:14:16 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Malevolence
Is it worth the effort for an 11 year old game? I'd really like to buy and play WitP, but I already have major hassles running the newer War in the West on Windows 10 (e.g. dpi-awareness and screen scaling).
If you do, however, I suggest opening a github repository. Write the manual as text using Markdown and using the player community as the contributors. Contributors submit PR's for specific additions and changes. Others offer issues, etc. Markdown is easily converted to HTML, PDF, etc.
If the community really wants an updated manual, let them build it together instead of burning one person out.
Very few people have the wherewithal to build a "Jarulf's Guide" alone.
This game is not just 11 years old - it is timeless once you get to know it. It also has the ability to add switches to the start shortcut that link the old game engine to the new technology in computers and Win10. Some players are getting resolutions in the 2500 range on their 4K monitors.
The problem with user suggested inputs is that this game keeps a lot of its process "under the hood" and many times the players think they know what is happening (giving advice accordingly) when in fact something else accounts for it. As one of the few people in the world who can look at the code, Alfred is able to put straight a lot of those misconceptions. But per the designer's intentions, he doesn't reveal too many specifics of the way the calculations are done. So user input to a manual would be useful, but we really need Alfred to verify accuracy.
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