The lack of a tutorial

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This makes me wonder if there is some guy like Sam out there who does not have internet access and is still playing EU2 1.0 or HOI 1.0.


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EnPeaSea

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Originally posted by EnPeaSea
This makes me wonder if there is some guy like Sam out there who does not have internet access and is still playing EU2 1.0 or HOI 1.0.

Poor Sam; if he's still playing HOI 1.00, he's on a straight course for the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane....

Rafiki

 

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Originally posted by rafiki
Poor Sam; if he's still playing HOI 1.00, he's on a straight course for the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane....

Rafiki

Or on a straight course for the Hitechbuilding in Stockholm, carrying an assault rifle...

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Originally posted by Suvorov
Or on a straight course for the Hitechbuilding in Stockholm, carrying an assault rifle...

Which in turn is a path that ultimately heads for the aforementioned asylum

Rafiki

 

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Originally posted by Steele
I think that having real letters making up the in game text makes it too easy for pirates to understand. It should have been taken out.

I guess the game should have been provided with an Enigma Engine from WW2 to decode the in-game mechanics and Bond' sunglasses to make invisible words appear clearly in the manual, and so on, until the magical "no piracy - no costumer though" final step

 

[Tormodius]

Tutorial

I tried to make one here. (a swedish gc tutorial) It has not become very long though.

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114053


Check it out!

 

[Paradox Interactive]

The lack of tutorial is due to a lot of technical problems with the previous games and the problem of keeping it up to date with the changes we make in updates.

P

 

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Lots of excuses but no solutions

Ok so you couldnt make the manual bigger, ok so an in game tutorial was a no-go .... so how about a detailed tutorial.txt or in depth explanation doc included on the CD? Or publised to your website?

Love the game but the lack of documentation combined with the very abstratced game concepts/dynamics smells very stongly of MOO3 (cringe). It turned a whole lot of people off with that game too. Personaly I'll stick with it as IMO the game is worth it but it does make me wonder if a little more foresight would have resulted in more sales or fewer returns *shrug*


Myros

 

[Sernaton]

Originally posted by Myros
Lots of excuses but no solutions

Ok so you couldnt make the manual bigger, ok so an in game tutorial was a no-go .... so how about a detailed tutorial.txt or in depth explanation doc included on the CD? Or publised to your website?

Love the game but the lack of documentation combined with the very abstratced game concepts/dynamics smells very stongly of MOO3 (cringe). It turned a whole lot of people off with that game too. Personaly I'll stick with it as IMO the game is worth it but it does make me wonder if a little more foresight would have resulted in more sales or fewer returns *shrug*


Myros

I agree with Myros.

Ok, and now back to the game

 

[Tormodius]

That's true. The learning curve in this game seemed a bit high for many people, so better documentation would have been preferable. And a tutorial of course. What we got to relay on now, is this forum. And this is a nice place.
I will credit the developers for an awesome game anyhow!

In a recent software development course I took, our lecturer told us documentation was being a must for a software project, but only the system documentation and code comments was emphasized. User-manual work was only mentioned in a short sentence. Anyway we made a nice one with screenshots and stuff, but this too was a bit short. We too had a lot of other work to do.