The only pivotal thing I see missing from manual..
 

...is a single page listing all shortcut keys. While you've got shortcuts listed all over the rest of the manual in the pertinent sections, there's no one page that compiles them. Perhaps we could just make it a download from here. Overall, though, fantastic job. You have every reason to be proud of this manual. One of the best I've ever read. Possibly THE best.

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manual..
 

This was page_300 which was never added.

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Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Sounds like a good PDF for the Downloads section to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Good point. Since you can just get all the hotkeys by pressing ?, I figured a hotkey summary would be redundant. I remember having second thoughts towards the end, but I didn't change my mind fast enough. Putting it up as a PDF download is a good idea.

I'm glad you like the rest of the manual.

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

I'm glad to hear that's the only thing you can think of, because if there was one thing I had to leave out, it would be that. Charts and rules and hordes of spells can be hard to memorize, requiring constant referral, but eventually we'll memorize the hotkeys and not need the PDF any more!

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Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Great job on the manual, Bruce. It was all I hoped it would be. I like how you gave all the formulas and explained the mechanics. One question, though. Gem costs for magic items are listed for magic levels above 6, but I did not see any magic items requiring a skill level higher than 6 to cast. Why is that?

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

There are many things I plan to offer as downloadable files.
Two that I need to put up fairly soon are...

the command-switches that can be used with the dom3.exe

A nations list that is numbered (for the modders and mappers) And which I have to have in order to run server game that mix players with AIs

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Maybe I can answer that. We have not created any items that are that difficult to forge, but with modding you can change the required levels for magic items and then it is good to know all the costs.

edit: I want the manual too.

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Nice. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Re: The only pivotal thing I see missing from manu
 

Several hotkeys are missing from the list that comes up when you hit ?. For example, the y key to setup armies attacking a province, w to select units with affliction or e for experienced units, f for fast forward a battle, etc.