The Newbie/Game Guide

[Devari]

As I stated in the topic "Spreading the Word", our game guide sucks. Utterly sucks. The QMT game guide wasn't very good at explaining how to play, and ours is even worse. Most of our features aren't in there; the military units listing is awful; the missions page is all wrong; the list goes on.

Therefore, we will have a project to rectify these injustices.

What I want people to do is pick a topic that they will write about. Please write it either for our game guide or, more importantly, for our "Getting Started" guide.

I am setting out the following guidelines:

• Post your guide article in General Discussion</li>
• Your topic should read "Guide: (your topic here)"</li>
• You MAY use BBCode formatting, as long as it works in the in-game messaging</li>
• Articles for the newbie guide should not be overly complex</li>

Once posted, your guide article should go through a peer review process. Other forum members will read through your article and suggest changes to wording, information, or readability. I can supply information as to the game's mechanics, as well as spell checking and initial editing.

Start writing, my children of darkness! :*laughs*:


edit: hijacking Devari's post, the list up top for easy finding,

The Map
[done]Hawks (new missions and new interface)
Clan Forum
[claimed]Clans (general clan information, Open Clans)
Attacking (new attacks, rename, declare war, declare peace, Experience, Food/Cash, etc.)
Clan Manage
Stock Market
Profiles (also the fact they are linked everywhere in the game)
Bounties
Messaging System
Turn Use (Scout, Trade, Forage, Train, Write, Heal) -- one page
Must also include general things like
the output of one turn, turn cond., etc.
Clan Treasury
Main Page (new stuff, stats, colors)
Status Page
Clan Criers
Market (rename, commission, checkboxes, condensation in turns)
Build & Demolish
Manage Screen (include Leave Protection)
Scores page (rename, and new features)
Status Bar Colors, Protection Counter
Game Chat (include private messages)
Heroes
News System (condensation, online star)
Raffle
Bazaar (mostly rename + checkboxes)
Bank (mostly just rename)
Aid (mostly rename + checkboxes)
Locations

edit as needed
~windhound

[windhound]

yeeah..
NVU hates me.. I took the source of the hawks page of the gameguide (php) and saved it as an html.. it actually looks alright in firefox (not sure about IE.. but IE doesnt matter (right now anyways, for my purposes))

I messed with it for a bit, now it works.. (permission problems on the State server and stubborness on the side of NVU and gFTP..)

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tspfeiff/faf/gameguidev1.html

changed the formatting just a bit..
now if I remember to go back and hit it with a stick it might get done.. leaving this as a note here so I dont forget... like last time I said I'd fix this page....

[ohmyjapan16]

Someone give me a subject to write on... I can't think of one myself.

[The Beatles]

[s]Gimme a second.[/s]

Do Clans. There are many-many new features there, so clans overall are in urgent need of updates.



p.s. http://frostnflame.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=861&hl=bounties

[windhound]

ee.. hawks are done..
well, they're better
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tspfeiff/faf/gameguidev1.html

ratios need to be double checked and added where needed
NVU has a spell check, so everything should be alright there.. grammer wise is another issue...

[Devari]

Good job! Some of the ratios are horribly wrong, but I can fix that.

[The Beatles]

Preferably not hard-coded.

BTW, great initiative Devari, thanks!

[windhound]

(whatever horrible things NVU may have done to the code I donno)
should be alright though, it generally doesnt do anything unspeakable.. Frontpage does that.. grah..

(yay.. I said I'd fix the hawks' page forever ago.. and while its not great, methinks its an improvment.. and its done to the point I can get it.. )

I'll grab another page ina bit..

[The Beatles]

Thanks a lot, windy!

[ohmyjapan16]

I claim rights to the clan project. I can not guarantee anything that great considering that I haven't been here too long, but I know the basics and you guys can edit and such.

[Urran Voh]

Gimme a topic Beatles, and I'll do me bally best to improve the Game Guide.

[The Beatles]

The Map.

[windhound]

The Map
[done]Hawks (new missions and new interface)
Clan Forum
[claimed]Clans (general clan information, Open Clans)
Attacking (new attacks, rename, declare war, declare peace, Experience, Food/Cash, etc.)
Clan Manage
Stock Market
Profiles (also the fact they are linked everywhere in the game)
Bounties
Messaging System
Turn Use (Scout, Trade, Forage, Train, Write, Heal) -- one page
Must also include general things like
the output of one turn, turn cond., etc.
Clan Treasury
Main Page (new stuff, stats, colors)
Status Page
Clan Criers
Market (rename, commission, checkboxes, condensation in turns)
Build & Demolish
Manage Screen (include Leave Protection)
Scores page (rename, and new features)
Status Bar Colors, Protection Counter
Game Chat (include private messages)
Heroes
News System (condensation, online star)
Raffle
Bazaar (mostly rename + checkboxes)
Bank (mostly just rename)
Aid (mostly rename + checkboxes)
Locations

and eh, speaking of the map.. would it be worth it to redo the images? noone else probably cares, but knowing I made the dang things its harder to look at how easily they distort.. (I didnt know at the time you'd streach them 500% =-D)

[Ruddertail]

I'll take locations. It should be pretty simple, just about the different bonuses, and the concept of prepared hawks, correct?

[ohmyjapan16]

Good idea for someone too keep track of whats being completed so nobody does a completed game guide section for no reason.