Add game and editor tips to in-game help

Bug #1625502 reported by GunChleoc
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Bug Description

The editor loads too fast now to display the tips. Add them to the first tab of the in-game help.

Ww should convert the tips format to Lua while we're at it.

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GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
Changed in widelands:
assignee: nobody → GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
status: New → In Progress
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kaputtnik (franku) wrote :

Some suggestions:

In Game tips:
- Please put 'General' above the others
- The entries in 'General' could be sorted, e.g. by "Buildings", "Economy" and "Military". Don't know if this is really needed though
- The tip for Barbarian fishers applies also to Empire, AFAIK. Maybe replace header 'Barbarians' with 'Fishers' and change the text to something like: 'When playing Barbarian or Empire tribe, keep an eye...' ?
- Replace 'Single Player' with 'Computer Players' ?

Editor Tips:
- No suggestions :-)

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GunChleoc (gunchleoc) wrote : Re: [Bug 1625502] Re: Add game and editor tips to in-game help

> In Game tips:
> - Please put 'General' above the others

Good idea.

> - The entries in 'General' could be sorted, e.g. by "Buildings", "Economy" and "Military". Don't know if this is really needed though

That would require some bigger coding changes if we want headers for
those, so let's leave it for now. We can think about resorting though -
I just left them in the same oder as they came in, and order didn't
matter before.

> - The tip for Barbarian fishers applies also to Empire, AFAIK. Maybe replace header 'Barbarians' with 'Fishers' and change the text to something like: 'When playing Barbarian or Empire tribe, keep an eye...' ?

The tip differs for Atlanteans, so a general "Fishers" tip would end up
with the Atlanteans too.

> - Replace 'Single Player' with 'Computer Players' ?

What yould we have instead of "Multiplayer" then?

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kaputtnik (franku) wrote :

When thinking about the fishers entry: Do we need this at all, since there are a 'Statistic' overlay and the messages?

I never waited and watched the fishers (or lumberjacks) if they are working or not. Just looked always at the statistic or in the messages menu. I guess this tip is quiet old and isn't needed anymore.

> What yould we have instead of "Multiplayer" then?

I am not sure what you mean here. There is no entry 'Multiplayer'? A Multiplayer game can also be run with some AI. Currently the Entry is:

(header) Single Player
* Our computer players are too boring? Visit our website at ....

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GunChleoc (gunchleoc) wrote :

How about we do a general overhaul if the tips? I'd like to get the current branch in first tough, since it's a programming change.

If you start a multiplayer game, you will see multiplayer tips rather than single player tips ;)

GunChleoc (gunchleoc)
Changed in widelands:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
assignee: GunChleoc (gunchleoc) → nobody
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GunChleoc (gunchleoc) wrote :

Fixed in build20-rc1

Changed in widelands:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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