How to prevent a unit from assaulting?

Imp · #1 June 7th, 2019, 05:26 PM

Be thankful this game has an extensive game manual which covers how everything works. I have had enough of modern games which come with a supposed manual, it’s normally full of pictures and a backstory with a couple of pages dedicated to how things actually work. Game industry is pants now all graphics and sequels dumb down the gameplay rather than improve it WTF we must be getting thicker. Buck the trend by games made by small independent I have noticed I now have more games by them than the big houses.

chris h · #2 June 8th, 2019, 02:51 AM

What it needs is a second person to write the manual. I've just done this for War in the East and it suffered from exactly the same problem. When I say 'just done it', it's not finished yet and I've been working on since Sept last year but what's left is minor stuff like a decent index. It did require more than me, I just wrote the stuff but as it progressed and was made available on the forum other's chipped in with correction and stuff I did not know.

If you take the whole thing where I've been at it on average 4 hours a day for 5-6 days a week you can see how big the job is. I can see why DRG is more than reluctant to take it on but there again it is only that big because the changes were never intergrated properly in the first place. That is not DRG fault but the original companies.

Decent manuals and updating them is a common failing on the part of the industry in general. No point having a good product if you don't know how it works.

anlubue · #3 June 8th, 2019, 05:12 AM

A fantastic idea Chris!

Perhaps you could collect all of these additional connections, which the player does not immediately reveal, and get it closer to us new players? Maybe through one or more self-created scenarios? Or maybe an extensive and illustrated after action report?

A whole series of youtube videos would be wonderful. If the account in question had enough followers, it would also have the advantage of increasing the level of awareness of the game.

sigeena · #4 June 8th, 2019, 05:21 AM

I did consider doing more illustrated AARs. But the forum can only accept a very small size of jpg uploads. So it makes it very difficult to show up the scale. I'm interested in the Bn level of operations so my playing map is usually 80~100(H) x 120~160(L).

anlubue · #5 June 8th, 2019, 05:54 AM

You could realize it as a PDF file then? An uploaded PDF is allowed to be bigger. That would also have the advantage, that your viewers could consider it independent of this forum or without having to be online. It would not distract them so much from what you provide?

DRG · #6 June 8th, 2019, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by chris h

........I can see why DRG is more than reluctant to take it on

I am "reluctant" because *I* don't see the need because no matter how you re-organize it SOMEONE will still think it should be organized differently. There is no book or manual on the planet that someone doesn't think could have been done a better way.

Think about what you need to know and use Ctrl+F and do a search. That is EXACTLY how we get those quotes from the manual that we post here when someone complains they can't find the info they are looking for. Do you honestly think we've committed every detail to memory?