Topic: More in-game help info

Yesterday I had a look in there for the first time. It’s good for the first draft.

I encountered a minor issue: When I first had a look at the worker tab and clicked on any worker, the text displayed was only an error message. I can’t remember, what was written there exactly, but he seemed to have troubles parsing the config files or something. Then I clicked on the buildings tab, saw everything working fine and got back to the workers, there was no problem there anymore. As I can’t reproduce it anymore, I guess that was an initiation problem.

Anway, I wanted to point to something else: The workers don’t have too much entries. Only a small description and what tool they use. The description seems to be titled "lore" and I wonder whether this is appropriate. Expecially since the same word is used in the building’s help when it’s normally a not a description but a more or less funny citation out of the tribe’s history. So either we change that to "description" or we have to think about more lore texts. The only one who already has one is the scout.

BTW, when the tribal encyclopedia shows the building help as well, shouldn’t we just let it open on the associated page when the player clicks on the help button of a building instead of opening a new window with only the building’s help?

Two is the oddest prime.

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GunChleoc wrote:

Venatrix wrote:

Yesterday I had a look in there for the first time. It’s good for the first draft.

I encountered a minor issue: When I first had a look at the worker tab and clicked on any worker, the text displayed was only an error message. I can’t remember, what was written there exactly, but he seemed to have troubles parsing the config files or something. Then I clicked on the buildings tab, saw everything working fine and got back to the workers, there was no problem there anymore. As I can’t reproduce it anymore, I guess that was an initiation problem.

Please make a screenshot or write down the error message if this happens again.

I guess, I should have done that, but I wasn’t expecting the message to disappear that fast…

Anway, I wanted to point to something else: The workers don’t have too much entries. Only a small description and what tool they use.

This is because I only used content that was already there.

That wasn’t a complaint. I didn’t expect much to be there anyway. Though I guess, a hint about where they are working (at least I think, that’s missing), would be nice.

The description seems to be titled "lore" and I wonder whether this is appropriate. Expecially since the same word is used in the building’s help when it’s normally a not a description but a more or less funny citation out of the tribe’s history. So either we change that to "description" or we have to think about more lore texts. The only one who already has one is the scout.

How about "Purpose"?

That’s acceptable, I think.

BTW, when the tribal encyclopedia shows the building help as well, shouldn’t we just let it open on the associated page when the player clicks on the help button of a building instead of opening a new window with only the building’s help?

I also thought about this. I know that SirVer has something in mind for the help system when we finally finish the new font renderer, so I'd rather wait for that than programming something now that will be scrapped before build19 anyway.

Sure thing.

So the renderer will be in 19? It’s quite a list of major changes since the last build. Nice.

Two is the oddest prime.

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