Spring RTS Engine

A lot of newbies seem to have trouble figuring out Spring, so I decided to throw together a simple quickstart guide to help people get into the game.

Spring Quickstart Guide, first revision

It's strictly a work in progress. I need criticism on things that can be improved. Does it hold the user's hand too much? Does it fail to cover important aspects? Too many pretty pictures? Not enough pretty pictures? Should I give more airtime to non-TA mods? Would it be better if I just scrapped it altogether? etc. etc.

So, how about it?

Would be nice if you could explain shortly how to play with just few sentences per thing...
Looks okay to me, but too much text for noobs, noobs just want to play. Well ive never found such guides usefull, ive learnt playing by trying the game and pressing buttons...

remove this man : "You may be tempted to download SpeedMetal and Green_Fields as well, but I'd stay off them if I were you." (chapter 3)

SpeedMetal is like your guide : a good practice so let the noobs play it !!!
Greeen field is another style of map and we are lot of star players to like it !!!

explain where put all when u have finish to download (maps floder, mods folder ...)

Remove the marker explaination cause it block all the azerty keyboard ... in azerty you have to change the key or when u draw anything u cant play after ... or maybe u can explain where is the text file where we can change the key ???

That's all i think but your guide is fine :D

I have an azerty keyboard. I have no idea what you talk about with this supposed "marker key blocking the keyboard". Markers works the same, just the default key is some key between the ├é┬¿^├é┬ñ├é┬ú$*├é┬Á├â┬╣% keys which makes is hard to remember. But it doesn't block or prevent doing anything after.

Maybe its only for Frensh ? All frensh have this problem and i was thinking it was the azerty problem ...

I am French. I play with French Azerty keyboard. With windows set on language FR. And there is no problem, except the default marker key is ù instead of `.

I have Finnish keyboard and my marker key is at the left from number 1 key. Which is "§/›" key.

zwzsg wrote:I am French. I play with French Azerty keyboard. With windows set on language FR. And there is no problem, except the default marker key is ù instead of `.

your too good man cause i know 10 frensh ppl and we all have had this problem when we have begun maybe u dont have windows XP or u are not in the same FR langage ?^^

I'm under Win2000. I speak the French French. (as opposed to Belgian French, Quebec French, Congolese French, ....)

drolito wrote:SpeedMetal is like your guide : a good practice so let the noobs play it !!!
Greeen field is another style of map and we are lot of star players to like it !!!

The Elitist Map-Bigot (in a good way) in me says: Fail.

I find it weird the french players always seem so different from the other euro players

drolito wrote:remove this man : "You may be tempted to download SpeedMetal and Green_Fields as well, but I'd stay off them if I were you." (chapter 3)

SpeedMetal is like your guide : a good practice so let the noobs play it !!!
Greeen field is another style of map and we are lot of star players to like it !!!

SpeedMetal is more like crack: easy to use, highly addictive, and ultimately destructive.

i agree with felix and drolito...

merely by mentioning those maps you'll get people curious enought to dl them... so why not push their first encouter with them back to aleast their inital lobby use...

also i would put the online part before the gameplay part first seeing as you can/could host a game from the lobby and test that way...

which reminds me.. Please put a dislcaimer somewhere early on that talks about how Spring is MP oriented and that SP is still in developmental stages with only basic skirmishing available... People need to know what they are getting into before they go thru this whole guide.

zwzsg wrote:I'm under Win2000. I speak the French French. (as opposed to Belgian French, Quebec French, Congolese French, ....)

ok, i think its for XP ... cause we all have this problem with it ...

jackalope wrote:I find it weird the french players always seem so different from the other euro players

true ... french are different ... and i know its not a compliment ...

http://quickstart.unknown-files.net/

more ideas for nub guide ppl

(sorry for the bump :))

onoz I brokez0red the HTML

EDIT: Ok partly fixed, but why do some single quotes and hyphens show up as question marks?

jackalope wrote:I find it weird the french players always seem so different from the other euro players

They pulled their military commitment from NATO, what can you say?

i've made this joke before, but

french people naturally will not be good at wargames. they always quit before the end.