TRTR : Day 21

[Marc Duffy]

Help! I need somebody

In 2006, there were a lot of concerns from the community about the interface and the difficult learning curve of the game.

http://www.ootpbaseball.net/clubhous...gid=26&id=1299

[Curtis]

Pointedly not claiming first. I'm looking forward to the tutorial on setting up an historical lague, and probably the interface and management ones. This just impresses me awesomely. Even if you can't pull it off (Paradox/VP's tutorials are broken), the mere fact that you've tried puts you light years ahead of everyone else.

[Doughnuts?]

I've never been 2nd.

[Muppetus Galacticus]

I swear to never post 3rd in order get +1!

Video tutes should be nice.

[Raidergoo]

OOTP 6 had a grossly incomplete manual that really didn't even scratch the surface of that game. OOTP 2006 had a very large and detailed Game Guide, plus an abbreviated manual that shipped with the game.

Ever wonder what would have happened if battists had wrote The Divine Comedy instead of Alighieri? We'd have 42 circles of hell, that is for sure.

Good job on this, guys!

[kagnew35]

Looks like you've covered ALL the bases, steve. well done

[eriqjaffe]

Originally Posted by Marc Duffy

Help! I need somebody

Ironically, that's the song that has come up randomly on my jukebox - a 1 in 14,481 chance!

[CardinalsFan]

what brings up the in game help menu on a mac (f1 on a windows based machine)?

[johnph77]

IMHO

And therein lies the rub. I'm one of those persons who has always believed that most of the online help is next to useless. I'd never buy anything by download if there was a written manual available in a boxed version, and I feel the same way about OOTP2007. Please refer to my previous references to the availability of paper manuals in this forum.

I'd like to see SI offer a complete written manual with everything currently available in the onscreen help section piecemeal in the download version. It certainly would be better organized. But, at an estimated 600 pages, I certainly wouldn't expect to get it at no cost. Perhaps an option to purchase that sort of manual at a reasonable price would be in order. That would certainly be more organized than 600 loose pages.

/IMHO

[kagnew35]

Shoiuldn't we be starting our 2 a day TRTR's today? Its turrible to get it and then have nothing to do for a whole day.

C'mon Marc give us a break

[Tony M]

Originally Posted by Raidergoo

Ever wonder what would have happened if battists had wrote The Divine Comedy instead of Alighieri? We'd have 42 circles of hell, that is for sure.

Do you call Dante by his surname in America then. I was about to comment that I thought the Divine Comedy was written by Dante but I googled and found his full name.

I love on-line help when it's in something I use. I can't stand coding on-line help and all that context sensitive stuff. Well done Battists on what you've done.

I claim nth because I can't be bothered to work it out.

[Kaitiaki]

It's Dante to me, and I'm in Canada, at least.

- Kai

[battists]

It's only Alighieri if you know him.

[Kemp]

I'm in New Jersey, locked inside during an ice/slush storm, and when I saw that the TRTR was written by battists I thought, "Oh boy, maybe they'll release the manual!!"

But I got all excited for nothing.

In all seriousness, last year's game guide was SUPER. Well written, easy to follow, just great. I look forward to this year's version. Thanks to Steve for all his effort.

[Siv]

I am gonna like this option as I have Stardock and it was very nice.

[battists]

FWIW, since it's slushy and icky here, and I'm feeling like a wet blanket, don't expect a huge volume of tutorials on release day. There will likely only be a few (+/- 3?) tutorials at first, aimed largely at Total n00bs!11! (tm).

We'll do the best we can to get more out quickly, but many of the same resources are focused right now on the manual and the in-game help, which take precedence.

Thanks!

Steve

[coolpeter72]

"We are also considering making the entire in-game help available outside of the game on SI's web site."

I would love to see this somewhere on the site.

I know there are more pressing matters at the moment but eventually.

And try to break it down into logical sections such as off the top of my head league creation, facegen, expansion, etc.

[battists]

Originally Posted by coolpeter72

"We are also considering making the entire in-game help available outside of the game on SI's web site."

I would love to see this somewhere on the site.

I know there are more pressing matters at the moment but eventually.

And try to break it down into logical sections such as off the top of my head league creation, facegen, expansion, etc.

You're dead on here. It's still likely to happen, but not on launch day. Too many other fish to fry. Besides, who looks at the help in the first few days anyway?

(I mean, aside from me.)

[Kemp]

Originally Posted by battists

You're dead on here. It's still likely to happen, but not on launch day. Too many other fish to fry. Besides, who looks at the help in the first few days anyway?

(I mean, aside from me.)

Last year I pretty much read through the entire game guide before starting up the game. Any chance parts of it will be released before 3/22?

[coolpeter72]

Originally Posted by battists

You're dead on here. It's still likely to happen, but not on launch day. Too many other fish to fry. Besides, who looks at the help in the first few days anyway?

(I mean, aside from me.)

Don't take to long I wouldn't want to have to do it myself.

There might be a slight delay until mid April for some reason before I would even attempt to start though.

I was thinkin by June 1 or so not this week just to ease your mind Steve.

I am going to record every time I use f1 in the first few days.

Do posts have a character limit?

Please note I will not really attempt this by myself except for certain small sections that I need to remember where something is mostly. Is it easy to c/p a screenshot from a pdf to another type of document?