Hello everybody,
here and there I came across people who were asking if there was or will be a Manual for the game. Most people either said no or just pointed to the Dev Diaries on the Forum.
So I thought I'd put together a whole Manual with the Information of all the Dev Diaries from this page:
https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/Developer_diaries
Having two Coffees and King of Queens to keep me entertained I started piecing together all the Diaries in one .pdf file.
What I did:
I mainly copied all of the Dev Diaries and edited them a little bit here and there to increase readability and format the stuff a little bit. Sometimes some pages seem to end in the middle; I did that so the continuation of some topics is better than just being cut off.
Every time a Dev put a link into a Diary linking to an older Dev Diary I replaced that link with a link in the Manual itself so you can "jump around" in the .pdf itself and don't have to open a Browser.
The Manual has a 'table of contents'. You can either directly search, as you would, the .pdf with Ctrl + F or take a look at the table of contents to find your topic.
Sometimes there were some code lines in the Diaries for Modding/Scripting purposes - if the Code itself was too long I just put a direct link to the dev diary. There are only 2 parts where you would've to open the browser because the Code was too long.
All the pictures are the original ones from the Forums/Dev Diaries and I didn't compress them so they are readable (99% of them), that's also why the .pdf is 40.2Mb big.
I also "designed" a little cover for the Manual in Photoshop. Really basic.
How long did it take me to put this all together?
almost 9 hours, way longer than I anticipated. But I went through the text a lot and sometimes "reorganized" and formatted the text a bit differently.
For example, I mostly deleted the "Hi Everyone, welcome back to another Dev Diary" text. If it was necessary to keep them in I kept them.
Notes:
I also always put a screenshot (of the Avatar and Username) of the Author of the Dev Diary itself on the left side at the start of every Topic/Chapter so you know directly who wrote it. If multiple Devs were writing one article or also contributed to it I also put their screenshot on the left side.
Screenshots of the Manual:
Cover, Table of Contents, First Page
Overview of 4 pages of the Manual
Example of code that wasn't too long to include in the Manual
Example of how I included the Authors of each Topic/Chapter with a screenshot of their Avatar & Profile
Link to the .pdf on docdroid.net (where you can view it online in your browser):
https://docdro.id/OqXpw5x - NEW (V.2.1.3)
https://docdro.id/emJhiUY - NEW (V.2.1.2)
https://docdro.id/Xd4m6pc - NEW (V.2.1.1)
https://docdro.id/bJF736C - NEW (V.2.1)
https://docdro.id/jl8ZaqA - NEW (V.2.0.1)
https://docdro.id/Cg8WrYF - NEW (V.2)
https://docdro.id/UtEJqX0 - OLD
Or you can just download it directly from here. I attached it to this post.
VirusTotal Scan Information (for the more cautious ones of you):
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/1...ca1840d30cfc0871f66c8833085b962c88d/detection
SHA-256: 17bfb01a9e3d5b473e76a60aaf100ca1840d30cfc0871f66c8833085b962c88d
File name: Imperator Rome Manual.pdf
File size: 40.23 MB
Last analysis: 2019-04-21 03:32:58 UTC
Info about the .pdf:
File Type: .pdf
Size: 146 Mb (latest Version)
Pages: 294 (latest Version)
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Some kind comments of Users that came across my Manual which motivate me to keep the "Manual" as up-to-date as possible. I know though that I alone can't really probably keep up-to-date with everything once the Game releases since I don't have unlimited time and will play myself etc and private stuff. But I'll do what I can do
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I really hope the Manual will be of help to anyone of you who might want to have it open on their second monitor or even iPad and be able to search it when they want to read up on something! Or even you just wanna read all the Diaries while being on the train or whatever.
I obviously don't hold any right to any of the information, pictures or text and codes. They were all generously provided by Paradox and belong to them.
I only used one brush (Photoshop) for the cover of the Manual which doesn't belong to Paradox. (used the brush for the stitches)
I appreciate any kind of feedback and critique!
I can also provide the original word file if needed for whatever reason.
Thank you & Kind Regards,
M. / SirPenetrator
here and there I came across people who were asking if there was or will be a Manual for the game. Most people either said no or just pointed to the Dev Diaries on the Forum.
So I thought I'd put together a whole Manual with the Information of all the Dev Diaries from this page:
https://imperator.paradoxwikis.com/Developer_diaries
Having two Coffees and King of Queens to keep me entertained I started piecing together all the Diaries in one .pdf file.
What I did:
I mainly copied all of the Dev Diaries and edited them a little bit here and there to increase readability and format the stuff a little bit. Sometimes some pages seem to end in the middle; I did that so the continuation of some topics is better than just being cut off.
Every time a Dev put a link into a Diary linking to an older Dev Diary I replaced that link with a link in the Manual itself so you can "jump around" in the .pdf itself and don't have to open a Browser.
The Manual has a 'table of contents'. You can either directly search, as you would, the .pdf with Ctrl + F or take a look at the table of contents to find your topic.
Sometimes there were some code lines in the Diaries for Modding/Scripting purposes - if the Code itself was too long I just put a direct link to the dev diary. There are only 2 parts where you would've to open the browser because the Code was too long.
All the pictures are the original ones from the Forums/Dev Diaries and I didn't compress them so they are readable (99% of them), that's also why the .pdf is 40.2Mb big.
I also "designed" a little cover for the Manual in Photoshop. Really basic.
How long did it take me to put this all together?
almost 9 hours, way longer than I anticipated. But I went through the text a lot and sometimes "reorganized" and formatted the text a bit differently.
For example, I mostly deleted the "Hi Everyone, welcome back to another Dev Diary" text. If it was necessary to keep them in I kept them.
Notes:
I also always put a screenshot (of the Avatar and Username) of the Author of the Dev Diary itself on the left side at the start of every Topic/Chapter so you know directly who wrote it. If multiple Devs were writing one article or also contributed to it I also put their screenshot on the left side.
Screenshots of the Manual:
Cover, Table of Contents, First Page
Overview of 4 pages of the Manual
Example of code that wasn't too long to include in the Manual
Example of how I included the Authors of each Topic/Chapter with a screenshot of their Avatar & Profile
Link to the .pdf on docdroid.net (where you can view it online in your browser):
https://docdro.id/OqXpw5x - NEW (V.2.1.3)
- Made minor changes to Chapter 'Trade System' as provided and pointed out by User /u/Agamidae [Reddit]:"Hey, I noticed another change. The Trade System dev diary said you get +1 trade good for every 30 population, but now it's for every 15 slaves. (page 14 in your manual)" - Thank you for pointing this out
https://docdro.id/emJhiUY - NEW (V.2.1.2)
- Made some updates to the Table of Contents. I applied some headers to some subtopics of some Chapters so it's easier to see what's in the Chapters. I didn't apply any headers for the country and political situation stuff though, that would take up too much space. (Low-Quality Picture)
- GitHub sadly doesn't come into question, therefore I'm looking for another solution to let us work together on this document. I'm currently eying Word Online.
- Included the Tweet of Mr. Andersson in the 'Read First: Changes Of Mechanics etc.' Chapter and linked to the Chapter it affects. Included the link to his Tweet as well as the Screenshot he posted on Twitter.
- Fixed some pages where the text was overlapping over the footer. I now went over every single page and double checked if there is any text overlapping the footer. Not anymore it seems. If you spot any mistakes, please let me know in the comments or DM.
https://docdro.id/Xd4m6pc - NEW (V.2.1.1)
- Rework of the Cover
- added and made a Ribbon with the quote "Veni, Vidi, Vici", I think it fits perfectly to the game (even though the time period isn't right)
https://docdro.id/bJF736C - NEW (V.2.1)
- Made a graphic to visually show an explanation to make it more clear
- Applied the papyrus-texture to the papyrus shape
- Made a new footer graphics to make the document a little bit more "authentic".
- You can use/download it and use it as a forum signature or whatever. (Inspired by Paradox's Epirus Flavour Pack Graphic). Should I do a higher res version or is that one nice enough?
- Fixed grammatical errors I could find
- Reorganized the text so it fits on all the pages right and doesn't go over the footer graphics (Document is now 287 pages)
- Cropped some images so they don't go over the new footer graphic
- Converted the word file with acrobat so I have less image compression: file size increased to 144MB. Just for information; the word file itself is 637 Mb lol
https://docdro.id/jl8ZaqA - NEW (V.2.0.1)
- [Read the changes first, it's probably not necessary for you to download it. I only added 2 more Authors and improved some readability in the 'Script & Modding' Section]
https://docdro.id/Cg8WrYF - NEW (V.2)
https://docdro.id/UtEJqX0 - OLD
Or you can just download it directly from here. I attached it to this post.
VirusTotal Scan Information (for the more cautious ones of you):
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/1...ca1840d30cfc0871f66c8833085b962c88d/detection
SHA-256: 17bfb01a9e3d5b473e76a60aaf100ca1840d30cfc0871f66c8833085b962c88d
File name: Imperator Rome Manual.pdf
File size: 40.23 MB
Last analysis: 2019-04-21 03:32:58 UTC
Info about the .pdf:
File Type: .pdf
Size: 146 Mb (latest Version)
Pages: 294 (latest Version)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some kind comments of Users that came across my Manual which motivate me to keep the "Manual" as up-to-date as possible. I know though that I alone can't really probably keep up-to-date with everything once the Game releases since I don't have unlimited time and will play myself etc and private stuff. But I'll do what I can do
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I really hope the Manual will be of help to anyone of you who might want to have it open on their second monitor or even iPad and be able to search it when they want to read up on something! Or even you just wanna read all the Diaries while being on the train or whatever.
I obviously don't hold any right to any of the information, pictures or text and codes. They were all generously provided by Paradox and belong to them.
I only used one brush (Photoshop) for the cover of the Manual which doesn't belong to Paradox. (used the brush for the stitches)
I appreciate any kind of feedback and critique!
I can also provide the original word file if needed for whatever reason.
Thank you & Kind Regards,
M. / SirPenetrator
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