Internal manual vs strategy guide massive redundancies (should be integrated)

Internal manual vs strategy guide massive redundancies (should be integrated)

smileyfish 05 Aug 2008 16:34

There is no reason to replicate the official manual. It is huge. To wikify it would take too much time. Also the official manual may be subject to change. Who will maintain it?

I vote that to eliminate redundancy, we remove the replicated internal manual.

More useful is a summarized manual integrated into the strategy guide. E.g. Currently we have Gods: benefits per level. Races: pros and cons at a glance.

This is much more useful as a reference.

Re: Internal manual vs strategy guide massive redundancies (should be integrated)

colonp 20 Sep 2008 12:54

The idea was to make the manual more userfriendly via internal wiki linking, for instance from the domains listed under a god on the Gods page to the specific domain on the Domains page, or from a feat under a race/class to the specific feat on the feats list. The strategy guide is doing this though, at least somewhat, so yeah, it's pretty much redundant now. At least considering my vision when I started on it.

I think it's already somewhat outdated, and Julian changed the way the manual is html-ified at some point, so even when using a dif application, it's very hard to update it. A complete redoing would probably be in order, if we were to keep it.

Even though it's a bit annoying that my work on it won't be useful, removing it, or at least ignoring it, is probably the right thing to do.