Updated Manual?

[SciencePro]

So this thread discussion petered out a couple months ago but i was flipping through old forum posts and saw something that caught my eye:

Originally Posted by Edi

Illwinter is currently involved with a new project, with Dominions 3 support more of a sideshow, since it works "well enough" by now. That and everything I said above establishes the baseline circumstances surrounding this issue. If anyone has a problem with that, well, it'll stay as their problem until they do something about it on their own.

Has any information been released about this new project?

And I did want to weigh in my 2 cents on the question of whether illwinter should spend time updating the manual. My answer is "no." The community should do that with a wiki and if people have questions they can always use this forum. The devs time, I think, is better spent on a new project for us to enjoy.

Ich's wiki at http://dom3.servegame.com/wiki/ is coming along quite nicely. But it is having technical problems at the moment.

[Edi]

Hmm, it came to me that there is one very important thing regarding the manual that should be kept in mind.

It is NOT meant for ANY kind of digital distribution. So in case anyone does have the inclination and the stamina to rewrite the manual to be accurate, CONTACT SHRAPNEL GAMES STAFF FIRST AND ASK PERMISSION. Annette would be the best choice.

Errata documents such as the ones we already have are a different beast, because they simply correct erroneous information in the manual and at most quote the erroneous excerpt. An errata document does not reproduce the manual in its entirety, like a complete rewrite would.

The modding and mapmaking manuals did not suffer from this problem when I did them because they were already distributed in electronic form with the game and that information was simply rearranged in the new modding document. By the time we had the new mapmaking manual, those rewritten documents had become the official ones.

The issues in this post cannot be stressed enough, since they involve intellectual property rights related to Shrapnel Games and Illwinter Game Design as companies and only those entities can have final say on the matter. I don't want anyone to get in hot water because of my previous post on overall Dominions 3 documentation.

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I wonder why that came to you.

[Squirrelloid]

The melee defense roll also includes shield parrying. I assumed ranged combat tracked shield hits like melee in order to make damage work the same way, based on the manual text. Shield parries totally negating arrows makes damage calculations rather different.

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The manual definitely gave a lot of people the wrong impression about missile parry. Given that it currently works in a completely counter intuitive way I'd say it's a failing of the manual to not explicitly state the way it does work.

Hide shield vs boulder anyone?