King Karolus
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Joined: 01 May 2006, 22:00
Website: http://www.knightsandmerchants.net
Location: Finland
The tutorial has been perfected!
Old stuff
I never really liked the way the tutorial was set up in The Peasants Rebellion. It fell kind of short to the one in the demo of The Shattered Kingdom, so I tried my hand at fixing it in the last beta.
The changes there however, were just merely removing a message and rewording another one which caused some problems. In order to win you had to construct a swine farm, a butcher's and a tannery, but this was never mentioned in messages potentially making the player think the mission would be winnable.
Well, I spent many good hours today trying to crack down where all this information about the tutorial actually was stored. To my surprise I found it after only a few minutes search and the way the data was stored was extremely easy to understand. So how does this help the patch?
What I did was to merge two of the messages that are sent at the start of the tutorial into the tutorial code. As for the third message, it is now displayed after you construct the school house exactly like it did back in The Shattered Kingdom . Finally, I also removed the requirements to construct a swine farm, a butcher's and a tannery in order to complete the tutorial.
Now it's pretty close to perfection!