***** Monthly LibrAARy updates for September... *****
Hi folks. Your LibrAARian respectfully requests that you continue to make his life easier by posting any new AAR starts in this thread with a link to the AAR. Also, if you finish an AAR please post a message to that effect here.
August updates will be entered into the LibrAARy sometime in the next week or so, so you might want to check a little later to make sure I haven't missed anything you've written (either started or completed). If I have, let me know about it in this thread.
Thanks, in advance, for doing your part in making this an easier job for me to do.
MrT
BTW...I've been in touch with Patric and the current glitch in the way the LibrAARy displays (larger text font and black text colour for author names) is unintentional and will be fixed at some point in the not-too-distant future - as Patric says, "as soon as he figures out how to". Until then, please excuse the questionable formatting and difficulty in reading the authors' names. Hopefully this will be resolved fairly soon.
EDIT: Decided to paste the notes I included in the "Attention Please" thread...
Notes for newbies and veterans alike:
First off, if you haven't the faintest idea what the LibrAARy is, then you probably haven't checked out the
AARland, AARtiFAQs, OscAARs and the LibrAARy thread recently.
Newbies and veterans should both have a look at this thread every so often because Lord Durham adds some very handy information there on a pretty regular basis. You often won't know it's been updated since each post in the thread has a specific "area" that it addresses, so the updates are usually editted into the appropriate existing post instead of added as a new one. This means that the thread doesn't get bumped to the top of the stickied ones, even though there's something new there for you to see.
The LibrAARy is posted in a series of "instalments" in the thread, too, beginning with the fourth post. It has AAR listings sorted by region, and then at the end there's a second listing sorted alphabetically by author. The LibrAARy is updated monthly, adding the new AAR starts into the listings, and making whatever corrections or added notations are required. You'll see some that are marked as "completed". That doesn't mean that the author has decided to finish writing it. It means that the AAR covers a
complete 400-year Grand Campaign or, in the case of other scenarios or AARs where a more limited time period has been specified, means that the AAR does actually cover the game period it started out to cover.
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In case you aren't sure what I need when you post a reply in the monthly update thread to tell me you've started an AAR, or you don't know how to do it, here's and example of what I would consider
ideal:
Just starting a new AAR called
Cyprus - The Last Crusade.
Country is Cyprus, and it's a GC game starting in 1419.
The beauty with the above post (a randomly selected AAR of Bismarck's) is that I don't have to go searching for any information. It tells me the country name and type of game (which isn't always obvious in some people's AARs without reading a few posts in depth...that's not a criticism, by the way, but it does slow me down when I'm doing the LibrAARy update). It also makes my life easier if you're doing something with an odd starting date...
The other perk is that it gives me a direct link to the AAR so I can just click on it and I'll be on page one so I can do a few rapid copy & pastes into my database and I'm done. If you're not sure how to create a link, here's how:
Go to the AAR Forum main page and click on the title of your AAR (don't click on "last page"...just click the title) to go to the begining of it. In the address line of your browser you'll now have the AAR's address. In the example above, it's:
Code:
[color=yellow]http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40007[/color]
Copy the address (highlight it and press <ctrl>+c) to your clipboard.
Now go to this month's update thread...for September you'll find it
here but of course this will change every month. Thanks to LD, you'll always find it conveniently stickied at the top of the forum.
Now post your "reply" and start typing in the information I need. When you come to type the AAR's title, you need to paste in the link. To do this, you need to use the "url tags" and <ctrl>+v for the paste. I can't type it exactly to show you or it'll be hidden, so here's roughly what it should look like...
Just starting a new AAR called {url=http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=40007}Cyprus - The Last Crusade{/url}.
Country is Cyprus, and it's a GC game starting in 1419.
...except that you need to substitute square brackets ( [ ] ) for the wavy brackets ( { } ) that you see in the above example.
Of course the threadid will be different for your AAR than it is for the example I've used.
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If you already have the AAR linked in your sig (as many people will), then you don't have to re-link it in your "reply" in the update thread. You can just post;
Just starting a new AAR called "Cyprus - The Last Crusade" (see link in sig).
Country is Cyprus, and it's a GC game starting in 1419.
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Now I know that it's pretty obvious that the country is Cyprus in the example I've used, but even so it doesn't hurt to give it to me again. In many titles, though, it isn't at all apparent. Also that starting date is a major bonus for me since then I won't have to go and do some reading to pick it out.
Anyway, if you folks wouldn't mind following that format as much as possible, it'd sure be a major time-saver for me.
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Of course there are some exceptions to the above for people who are doing unusual projects like playing multiple countries, doing MP games or collaborative projects, etc. In that case, just give me a rough outline/idea as to what you're doing and I'll figure out how best to list it in the LibrAARy. I don't at all mind spending a little extra time trying to work out the "exceptions"...it's farting around trying to figure out the "normal" ones that I could use the help with.
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By the way...for those of you who have already posted a link in the September updates thread, don't re-post it with the new format. Either go back and edit, or leave it as is and I'll figure it out. Otherwise I may accidentally end up with a double listing...
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If you've completed an AAR (see definition of "completed" above) then let me know in the update thread too. For that, all I need is for you to tell me the title of the AAR...I don't need the link or anything.
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If you start an AAR and the decide (for whatever reason...crash, bug, disinterest...) to abandon it after only a handful of instalments then it should probably not be listed in the LibrAARy. If you would be so good as to post something to that effect in the update thread that would be really appreciated (as Warspite did, for instance, when he abandoned a Spain AAR that he'd started last month since it wasn't working out the way he wanted).
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Having now exhausted the possiblities for additional verbosity at the moment... *clicks "submit"*
