There is a manual for VV, found in FAQ (was: we need a manual for VV)

[Darkrenown]

Furthermore:

no manual = patch = shouldn't have to pay

manual = expansion = payment is OK.

I paid for this, I should be at least informed on how everything works.

Wow, paradox could make a fortune off you by releasing a tiny manual with every patch patch = bugfixes = shouldn't pay, expansion = new features = have to pay. Of course, sometimes expansions have bugfixes or patches have new features, but that's not their main purpose.

Having said that, there really should be at least a readme with a description of all the new stuff and how it works because not everyone with Rome has IN.

 

[Johan]

Well, we kinda made a stupid decision late in the development cycle.

I went.. well, we've explained the game in the development diaries, use the final budget on improving the AI instead..

Sorry guys. Next time we'll make manuals for download titles.

 

[Johan]

"I'm sorry about putting developing an AI, which all you folks know is so important, ahead of putting my whole team on producing a several hundred page manual for VV--because, it takes 50 people or more to produce a manual over several months. Yeah, right, and I'm real sorry. Oh, and I'm not going to give you the VV content you wanted, either."

huh?

The manuals we've written for NA & In Nomine took about 4-5 days each to make.

 

[Johan]

And since you phrased it on the other page as a choice between AI work and a manual: did you put your AI team to work solely on the NA and In Nomine manuals, Johan, losing time when they could have improved NA and IN's AI? How many people each put in 40 hours (5 days' work, as you state) a piece on those manuals? If you're implying that your whole team did this, I would question it.

Considering the VV team consists of 1 person for 90% of the time, then yes, it was the whole team.

 

[Johan]

So I'll see your "Huh?" and raise you a "Why not?" You had surely discussed each of these new or altered features for VV in group meetings. You had something extensive written down, legibly and easily parsed; that's the way good development teams work. People on your team were aware of what these changes were. It would have taken very little time, a few hours, to cobble together a readme file listing each one out with a couple of paragraphs of detail at the most.

Yeah.. We did that though, and posted it at the forums at release in..
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=382596

 

[Johan]

And yeah.. the VV team has now spent a few days in writing a short manual for you, accessible from the FAQ section. Please be aware that its written by developers, not writers.

 

[ForzaA]

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