Hello everyone, It's me Belgium (not that all of you will know me, but oh well :p), and I'm here to talk with y'all about the new tutorial.
After a lot of work (which didn't always go as smoothly as we wanted it to, I must admit). I finally feel comfortable publicly releasing a first "draft" for community feedback.
I urge you all to read this little wall of text before jumping into the draft and leaving your (much wanted) opinions in the comments.
- First off, I want to highlight that this is indeed a draft. If everything here turns out to be bad (which I indeed very much doubt), the tutorial will be re written completely if needed.
- We are looking for feedback on small things (typos) to big things (re structuring of chapters, adding more parts etc..) I am sure you are all creative enough to give generous amounts of feedback, please do not leave a stone unturned.
- I also have a few very specific questions to which I would like an answer:
- Do we need to add new player raiding to this guide.
- Do we need to guide players a bit longer? Maybe less intensive, but still a little siderail to city ten for example?
- I want as many people to leave feedback as possible, I (and others) will read every piece of constructive feedback, I will also try to respond as much as I can here. However if your feedback is pure flaming, or completely unconstructive criticism it might very well get ignored.
- The way the tutorial is presented will change. Currently new players access the tutorial by going to "objectives". But in the future (when this gets implemented) it will be done by going to "tutorial". If you want to figure out how that will look in broad terms, I encourage you to check it out on the test server. The system there isn't final yet (bugs need fixing + the actual text isn't in there yet). It isn't too different to what objectives is right now though, in practice it will be a pop up instead of a whole different page and people will be able to switch freely between headers (everything with ##'s will be it's own header).
- Rewards are not yet in this version of the tutorial, once the text is (nearly) finalized we will get back to adding in the rewards.
- I'm aware the outline / chapter overview in the document is broken, I'm not sure why, google docs is borking itself.
Thank you for reading my small wall of text, here is the tutorial itself, if there are any questions (or suggestions, critique etc..) please do let me know:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h7X6WFxVFwDymEjBB75AVBgf2zh0564-C5xcakFmqzw/edit?usp=sharing
You can leave feedback on the forum post at: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/33731-game-developement-new-player-tutorial/
ps: Although quite a few more people helped with this initial draft, special thanks goes out to these players in particular:
- zevfer
- Epimetheus
- LachlanPnW
- Ultraodan
- Key
- Ryks
- Magier
- Piglet
ps 2: I want to apologize to the wider community for the amount time this took; I hope the time needed to finalize this text is considerably shorter than it was to get to this point.
Much love, and thanks for your time.
Yours Truly, Belgium.
