[Religion and Revolution]: Creating Documentation

[raystuttgart]

This is an internal thread for organizing work.
If you are no team member, please do not post here.

@team:

Robert had reminded me of Documentation.

I think the best way for that would be to use Colopedia articles in Game Hints.
If some team members could help creating these.

If anybody asks about a feature, we could simply tell him to look there.
(No special thread or pdf would be needed then.)

I suggest the following:

1. Text is written and then presented here.
Thus it can be reviewed / corrected / improved by the team.

2. After that, it is directly integrated as Colopedia article in Game Hints.

3. Having complete translation into German and French is only low priority.
(This could also be improved / done in later releases.)

4. We do not document self explaining things (Events, DLL-Diplo-Events, fixes, every Screen ...)
However we should document new game concepts and complex features.

 

[raystuttgart]

Here a list of open topics considering documentation:
(The things which I believe that they should be explained. see Overview)

Spoiler :

Rebuild of Missioning Natives
Abandoning Cities
Changes at Entering Peaks
Bargaining with Natives
Native Raids
Changes to Custom House
Cannons in Citadel bombarding Enemies outside City
Musketmen firing from Stockades
Stirring Up of Natives by Missionaries
Treasures cannot reveal Map or enter Plots with Goody-Huts anymore
New Calculation for City Storage Capacity using Sum of all Goods stored
Rebuild of Breeding Horses
Winds and Storms
Domestic Market

If anybody is interested in documenting one of these, please post in this thread.

 

[raystuttgart]

Hi guys,

I have created basic Colopedia entries for most of our new (complex) features.
It is uploaded to SVN.

For now, I have only created the English texts.
(Translations into German and French still need to be done.)

Also currently the texts are rather simple and short.
If anybody wants to improve the texts, they can be found in this XML:

CIV4GameText_RaR_New_Concepts.xml