Comment 12 for bug 536467

I was thinking, as proposed earlier, of a separate document, a PDF or wiki manual that contained the help window details, perhaps in more depth, the same with wares.

A getting started guide covering installing and setup before moving into the tutorial. The tutorial scenario's stand well on their own once the player gets there, even with some missing they are a great help.

I was thinking the manual would then move onto advanced topics, why you might want to upgrade or not a building, how to ensure your troops train etc. possibly some examples of styles of play, the different win options and of course multiplayer.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the ingame help does require coders to update it, if the manual was a wiki then none programmers could update it with perhaps one person as overseer to ensure consistent style and new features, like seafaring would be simple to slot in. For a release a snapshot of the manual could be included in the install. A lot of the information is already on the wiki, the forum or here but currently it is all rather messy to find. Searching for help on seafaring yesterday I ended up on a discussion about healing soldiers.