October 28th, 2003, 08:16 PM
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Re: Demo is out
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Originally posted by Jasper:
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Originally posted by Tim Brooks:
Hi Guys. There will not be a release of the manual. We sell the manual as part of the product. If we release it electronically it just makes the pirates lives easier.
Sorry.
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I can understand why you're not giving it away, but I hope you consider some sort of streamlined "quick start" rules, so that people aren't simply overwhelmed by what this complex game. This is even turning off some of the normally hardcore gamers on usenet...
All you'd need would be some brief blurbs walking new players through getting a game started, and their initial first moves. A stock tutorial would do the trick.
There is that quick start PDF in the doc directory of the demo but its awfully bare-bones. Plus Im not a big fan of having such a small file be a PDF.
I think that alot of complaints could be cut off if there were default gods made and provided, plus a game in progress. That way if they start on the wrong button (not the Create God button) they still have a choice there and can get in to look.
The default game might be an Ulm player on simple settings. Slight learning curve on that one.
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