No kidding, a well laid out help text file would be very nice. I couldnt find one when it first game out and assumed it would be forth coming later. Lets hope that does happen. Some day I'll manage to Stormfornt for more then thirty minutes at a time. :::mental shudder:: If a good text file of what/where everything does is and how to do it was put out that might get me to use it more.

Jim


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>>Like how do turn on auto sneak ?

Set it up in a macro.

Brabs

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It's fascinating, though, how much like an oral culture this can be when it's carried out entirely in text.--GM Natala

most of the things you can do in stormfront either have buttons or rely on the right-click feature (much like learning windows for those who are computer illiterate) rightclick on something and it will give you a whole list of things you can do


Souv

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(much like learning windows for those who are computer illiterate) rightclick on something and it will give you a whole list of things you can do

Souv <--

Stormfront for those of us who have learned and memory mapped the Wizard, is like comparing those who knew the old DOS language or used dos based programs like Wordstar, Word Perfect for dos etc. When the Windows versions of these software packages and operating systems came out it was confusing for many of us.

The developers of Stormfront are like Windows based developers that make statements like "Its intuitive and easy to learn to use". Its not for those of us who have gotten used to a certain way of doing things, things that have become second nature to us.

A good text based help document indeed would help greatly for those of us who attempt to look over Stormfront every few months. Sadly most developers have forgotten this rule that people grow comfortable with what works and think that we "want to" learn a new software package. Sorry I'm fourty years old, I don't want to figure out yet again a supposedly intuitive software program. Give us a bloody helpful text based help document that spells out everything the damn sofware can do and how. Is that so hard?

I don't want to spend hours figuring this or that out, I am not of the Doom video game generation. I just want to use the tool, not have to figure out how it works. What made the Wizard so nice was its ease of use. When Keith Ledbetter aka NW Strider first started passing this bit of software out to us years ago for Gemstone, it was a godsend. It was easy to use and elegant in its simplicity. I compare this to the old GEnie wizard FE that we used over when Gemstone was only on GEnie and not on AOL or the web. That peice of sofware was a pain in the arse to use and very difficult to set up.

So when the deICEing came along and AOL got access to the game and Keith Ledbetter(NW Strider) who had done code work for Never Winter Nights on AOL among other things came along and wrote his own FE for Gemstone we leaped at it. I was very happy when SIMU later embraced this FE. It had a good text based help file that told you of changes and things you could do ect.

Now you have this Stormfront FE, it looks nice and has alot going on in it. Personally I think its far to busy looking and I do not like it. That said SIMU's made it clear that they will nolonger update the Wizard. That's fine I'll work on understanding Stormfront since that's the future of SIMU's text based games, but please give us a useful text based document that spells out the how's and whats of what your damn sofware does! That way I can clean it up and remove all the busy body clutter and make it into something I can use.

Jim

p.s: Souv, this post actually is directed at SIMU Myke, sorry that it came off looking like it was directed at you. Its not. Your remark above just made me have to post. I am not computer illiterate, matterfact I used to work with Network software etc years ago. I out grew the need to master and learn each and every new thing to come down the pike though years ago. Part of what I totally hate about the computer industry is that they change things to just change them, instead of improving upon software. It gets old that you can never really master it, software and the computer industry takes over your life instead of you running your life when you work in said industry. I was very happy when I left the industry in 1998.






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