A Bedtime Story

Resisti · Post by **Resisti** » Sat Jan 20, 2001 6:16 pm

Don,
as already explained to you on icq,here it isthe full text of the email i've not been able to send you:

Subject: spwaw tutorials
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:28:38 +0100
Hi Don.

"I have a tutorial ready to be tested. It's on flanking - so if you're a newbie and would like to test this, email me. I'd like your feedback."

Yes,I'm definetively a newbie (ask SgtAmmo for references...) at least in Human vs. Human game.

I'll be very glad to be a beta tester for you.
Pls send me the file,with a short description of what it is about,and what
you'd like to have from me as feedback,and i'll test it asap.
I'm ready to translate yr tutorials' file texts in Italian,whenever you think it will be necessary.
Feel free to message me whenever you want.
I've icq,too,you can see the number in my profile.

Waiting to hear from you.
Fred "resisti" Duties

Let me know

Don · Post by **Don** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 11:15 am

Way back in June, when I started with this fine game, I had alot of questions. I started emailing Wild Bill about every 2 hours, asking "How do I do this?" and "How do I do that?" and "Why does the sun rise" - all kinds of stuff.

You could almost hear WB cry out "AAARRRGGG!"

Soon he "handed me off" to Redleg, pleading shortage of time (and sanity I'm sure), and Redleg took over the duties of mentor, patiently teaching me the finer points of waypoints, victory hexes, etc. "Son," he would say, "you GOT to have balance". Well, he didn't say that but it sounds good.

Ever since then I've wanted to help the "new guy", and soon our new recruits will have a place to download tutorials on various aspects of SPWAW, one subject at a time. Each will have it's own separate text file to follow along with, and you can print it out. A bunch of our vets have volunteered their time to get this done, and hopefully we will see 6 to 10 scenarios in the first "batch".

Get ready, 'cause it's comin'!

Don

Bonzo · Post by **Bonzo** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 12:56 pm

Way to go Don!! Thanks to all of you that will be contributing to this project.

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ursus · Post by **ursus** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 1:09 pm

Sounds Great, I keep having small technical questions that are not covered very well for my tastes in the manuel and hate bothering people with these questions.

kao16 · Post by **kao16** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 1:52 pm

ursus,

The only silly question is the one that doesn't get asked.

People have posted what they think of as silly questions to this forum and I have discovered new features I never knew existed.

If you feel sufficiently concerned to worry about a question, post it.

The chances are someone else has the same problem but isn't willing to "make a fool of themself", or they don't know enough about the game to recognise that a problem exists.

Don · Post by **Don** » Mon Jan 22, 2001 3:37 pm

ursus,

kao 16 is right, ask away. Hopefully, you'll get an answer and I'll get another topic for a tutorial!

Don

jonhooper · Post by **jonhooper** » Tue Jan 23, 2001 2:49 am

Very cool Don. I'm one newbie who could use alot of help.

Charles22 · Post by **Charles22** » Tue Jan 23, 2001 3:15 am

The only silly question is the one that doesn't get asked.

My response: It's not a question if it hasn't been asked; silly or otherwise. Could we also say that the only silly answer is the one that doesn't get answered? What does this do to the old adage "Ask a silly question and get a silly answer"? The mind boggles.

Sorry, just had to be cute.

Resisti · Post by **Resisti** » Tue Jan 23, 2001 7:27 pm

Don,
The idea of some additional tutorial scenarios worths definetively the time people have surely spent to build them up.
i think that a "must" additional feature to these scenarios,as they aretutorial,is to have the text/explanations attached to them translated in other languages.
As for one,i'd be happy to do my part of job to translate them in my native language:
are you the one who developped them and i've to be in touch with for this purpose?
Or could you tell who is in charge of this project abt my humble help offer?

Txs

Don · Post by **Don** » Wed Jan 24, 2001 4:19 am

Thanks for the offer Resisti, I'm sure I'll need it. I'll see about having a section just for translated text files - that's a good idea.

I have a tutorial ready to be tested. It's on flanking - so if you're a newbie and would like to test this, email me. I'd like your feedback.

Don