Newbies and Confused People - Look Here!
 

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[ November 08, 2003, 02:18: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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By the way, getting this stickyed would be helpful.

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I think i will take this to Dom X if you don't mind...

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Feel free, it's not copyrighted http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ October 27, 2003, 20:35: Message edited by: Nerfix ]

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Well, I've a problem with the keyboard : looks like the still game "hardcodes" some keys, on my French keyboard I can't "find" the ? key for a shortcut list (even using the one that is normally mapped as "?" on a US keyboard...).
Tried all the keys to no avail .. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

[ October 27, 2003, 22:13: Message edited by: PDF ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Are you 'shifting' PDF? Maybe a silly question, but '?' is not a key, but a shift function of '/' in the USA

If you can't get it to work I'm sure we can post a list or something.

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I think it would really help new players and not hurt things at all if the demo (and probably the game) included default gods and a started game.

I think people want to dive into the game and look at it first, then twist their minds around what kind of settings would work well in a pretender.

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Ok, I posted additional information about how to actually start a game. I guess I've been contaminated by Dom I, so I no longer have a "newby's perpective", because after I typed out all the stuff you have to do, it seems pretty complex.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's a good idea. Making a default god for each race and including the god file in the package would be a very quick and easy thing to do, and would probably save a lot of new Users headaches... as long as it was clear that there already was a default god. But I think multiple god profiles per race should be supported, as with your suggestion, when a new user designs a new god, he permanently destroys some of the game's original data using the current 1-god-per-race system.

[ October 28, 2003, 06:23: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Make sure CAPS LOCK key is not turned on. ? works fine for me even though I don't use US keyboard layout and ? is on different spot.