Beginners Guide to LOM and MMU

[SkulkrinBait]

I'm starting to write a guide to this game for beginners.

If we attract new blood into this site, we need to make sure they stay and aren't putoff by not understanding what's going on. So I am to write a fairly brief players guide to hopefully give them enough info to hook them for life - like we are ;D

Any tips, comments and advice from you guys?

[Ringthane]

We can split work

[SkulkrinBait]

How? I wrote an introduction already, would you like to proof read it and edit?

[sparrowhawk]

Could you send it? I'd like to see it too

[SkulkrinBait]

OK, I will do tonight when I get back home.

[Ringthane]

Same here

[sparrowhawk]

It's great. I got all excited, as though I was about to play for the first time!!!

I really like the style of the intro in particular.

The how-to-play is also at about the right level I'd say - a good overview without getting bogged down in detail.

A single edit at this stage () - Could you include the forward slash in Midnight/MU and M/MU, just for consistency throughout the site.

It's good to have someone who can write do this rather than myself!

Just had a thought - do we need some kind of background to the MU story (eg - In this version the moonring is shattered into four pieces and the land of Midnight falls into anarchy, with former friends suspicious of one another. Out of this chaos rises the threat of bloody war, as four pretenders to the crown of Midnight ride forth to proclaim their right)? Maybe, maybe not.

An idea that I have had for the guide for some time is to include screenshots, and turn it into a set of html pages. But all in good time. A good first step is a text file, and I can format it later.

[Natmus]

Ringthane said:

Same here

Right, Santos. You might learn something. About time you llearn to play this game ;D

[Ringthane]

Man, just because I am always the 1st runner-up in the score tables, doesn't mean you get the right to display your ego in front of newbies... ;D

David, that remark I sent you last night was just to avoid nicking more susceptible minds...

JY, can you turn the Mus into a muskrat? Please? But forever?

[Natmus]

Ringthane said:

JY, can you turn the Mus into a muskrat? Please? But forever?

If you do I'll just sing "Muskrat Love" over and over again until you turn me back, so be warned, Jean-Yves

[Ringthane]

[Ringthane]

Just had a thought - do we need some kind of background to the MU story (eg - In this version the moonring is shattered into four pieces and the land of Midnight falls into anarchy, with former friends suspicious of one another. Out of this chaos rises the threat of bloody war, as four pretenders to the crown of Midnight ride forth to proclaim their right)? Maybe, maybe not.

Or maybe zillions of pieces, one for each available lord, which is why we now see so many commanders around. Leading all of them or killing the ones who oppose you is the only way to bring back peace to Midnight

[SkulkrinBait]

Thanks for the comments guys.

To be honest the draft I sent you was only a very rough first draft, I will be tidying it up a lot before I even consider it near good enough.

I just wanted to create something so when this goes live the newbies (I mean real newbies who never even heard of LOM) don't get overwhelmed and can't play the game through lack of knowledge and so get bored.

I realised JY is very busy with other stuff and I can write reasonably OK (better than I can program anyway!) so it was an easyish way to help out.

I will probably do one guide like this one with a reasonable level of detail and another "quick-play" guide like JY already has on the site for those people like me who can't be bothered reading stuff. A one page tutorial if you like.

I've got a lot on at the moment though -

1. M/MU guide.
2. Map for M/MU Scenario, with storyline to go with it.
3. Learning PHP
4. Designing my web-based motor-racing game.
5. Updating my own site.
6. Competing in the NRL.
7. Doing a site for my new team in the NRL. (I'd like to do that in CSS so need to learn that too!)

So this guide may take a while before it's ready.

I'm pretty confident it will be ready before M/MU goes live though! ;D

[merlin]

SkulkrinBait said:

I've got a lot on at the moment though -

1. M/MU guide.
2. Map for M/MU Scenario, with storyline to go with it.
3. Learning PHP
4. Designing my web-based motor-racing game.
5. Updating my own site.
6. Competing in the NRL.
7. Doing a site for my new team in the NRL. (I'd like to do that in CSS so need to learn that too!)

So this guide may take a while before it's ready.

Welcome to the secret world of "people with too many projects on the go..."

[SkulkrinBait]

Well it's better than watching Coronation Street! ;D