E-Manual?

kgsan · #1 November 6th, 2007, 05:37 PM

Well, I ordered the game last week after receiving the Stardock sales offer. Apparently quite a few other folks must have done so as well, as the game is now on backorder. It looks like it will be a couple of weeks or more before it ships. I gather that the game has a rather detailed and lengthy manual and was wondering if it is possible to get a ".pdf" or other electronic copy of the manual to peruse while I'm waiting on delivery?

NTJedi · #2 November 6th, 2007, 05:47 PM

Nope... no legit way.

Zylithan · #3 November 6th, 2007, 06:05 PM

If you havent played the demo, and used the walkthrough pdf, I would recommend that. And honestly, I just read posts in these forums for a while. At first none of it makes sense, but gradually things come together.

Edi · #4 November 6th, 2007, 07:27 PM

The manual is not available for download anywhere. Won't be made available that way either. Sorry to hear that you need to wait for the game, but hopefully you will get it soon.

Aezeal · #5 November 7th, 2007, 03:30 AM

IMHO it's kinda strange either.. I ordered a few days after that order (and a day to late apperantly, frowns at Edi) and I'm in Holland and I have the game here for OVER a WEEK already.

I'm stunned the thread hasn't been locked btw.

Edi · #6 November 7th, 2007, 03:58 AM

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Aezeal said:
IMHO it's kinda strange either.. I ordered a few days after that order (and a day to late apperantly, frowns at Edi) and I'm in Holland and I have the game here for OVER a WEEK already.

What's the problem with me, Aezeal? What happened surrounding your circumstances a couple of weeks back had little enough to do with me, since it was handled by the administrators. It was out of my jurisdiction, so I bumped it upward and the decisions from that point forward were not in my hands anymore.

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Aezeal said:
I'm stunned the thread hasn't been locked btw.

Why? The opening post is a user who states that he has ordered the game and is waiting for it and asks if the manual is available download in the meanwhile. Manual download issues are covered by the FAQ, but asking the question itself is not against the rules. Depending on the way it is asked, it could skirt dangerously close to Section 6 of the Board Rules, but in this case it clearly does not.

Just so you know, that line comes across as you trying to tell the moderators how to do their jobs. While you may not have meant it as such, that's how it sounds and I at least don't appreciate it. The proper way to ask about this would be via PM.

kgsan · #7 November 7th, 2007, 11:04 AM

Thanks for the responses. I had not red the FAQ until I saw Edi�s message, so I did not realize that Illwinter/Shrapnel only puts out their manual in hardcopy.

To the one responder who implied that there was something sinister about my asking, I can only say that it seems like a perfectly valid question to me. Today many PC game companies provide a copy of their manual in electronic format and are willing to post and/or allow dissemination of their manuals (e.g. AGEOD for its strategy war games on the American Revolutionary and Civil wars and Matrixgames for at least some of their games), so I don't think there was anything inherently suspicious in asking about an e-copy of the manual. However, Illwinter/Shrapnel prefer to take another course, fair enough. As for it seeming strange that I haven't received my copy of the game yet, I agree, perhaps someone at Illwinter will quickly get that set to right.

Sensori · #8 November 7th, 2007, 05:22 PM

I fink it's Shrapnel that wanted the manual to be only in book-form. If you download the demo for Dominions 1, you will find that it has a manual in PDF form (or at least had). If you really wanna read a manual of some kind, you could read that... Although the grimoire and most of the information there just don't apply to D3. ;p

Tichy · #9 November 7th, 2007, 06:13 PM

If there isn't going to be a retail release of an updated version of Dom3, it might make sense to rethink the no-.pdf policy and have one that incorporates changes due to bug fixes/balance and the new nations.

Less costly than producing a new booklet, but accurate to the game as it now exists, or as it will exist after the next stunningly sweet patch or two...

Wokeye · #10 November 7th, 2007, 06:52 PM

I think its a fair question. Think of the trees! lol.

As Tichy said, makes it much easier to update. And if my daughter gets to it (as she has done to some other, far less important game manuals) then I'll be stuck.