Hypertext manual?


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Post Thursday, 9th November 2017, 01:21

Hypertext manual?

I was wondering if it would be possible to have the manual in game have some links connecting a paragraph to the others. Like, you read "trolls are large" and you select large and enter the size paragraph, with a chronology button to get back to the previous view.

Or maybe it would be good to have in addition an encyclopedia of interlinked short articles with hard data. A bit like learndb, but in game. Maybe even just with automatically generated stats and oddities. Like piety cost, nutrition value, monster stats...
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Post Thursday, 9th November 2017, 04:10

Re: Hypertext manual?

yes that would be possible
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Post Thursday, 9th November 2017, 08:18

Re: Hypertext manual?

I guess it's like indexing a book. It looks great when it is done, but nobody wants to do it.
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Post Thursday, 9th November 2017, 17:12

Re: Hypertext manual?

Majang wrote:I guess it's like indexing a book. It looks great when it is done, but nobody wants to do it.

Writing a script to do a fair amount of the linking automatically would be fairly easy (if not 100% accurate), of course the in game manual displayer doesn't know how to render or follow links....
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Post Friday, 10th November 2017, 19:32

Re: Hypertext manual?

I'd rather just have the wiki pages be actually kept up to date.

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Post Friday, 10th November 2017, 19:39

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Blobbo wrote:I'd rather just have the wiki pages be actually kept up to date.

Are you volunteering? :)
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Post Friday, 10th November 2017, 19:42

Re: Hypertext manual?

I agree with the overall assessment that this would probably be great to have and also that someone would need to volunteer to work on it, but want to point out:

Blobbo wrote:I'd rather just have the wiki pages be actually kept up to date.


The wiki is not, has never been, and (I would guess) will never be official or maintained by the dev team. The manual, in contrast, is. So these requests are completely different in kind.

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