THIS IS THE DISCUSSION THREAD FOR THE FAQ. FOR THE FAQ ITSELF GO HERE:
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32786


Edit by thomasp:

No it's not - change of plan. Discuss in the thread linked above, but keep it spam-free please :)

Sticky this, quite handy.

don;t --> don't (last line)
thats about it :P

List of "Useful websites" at the end would be good.

I've also highlighted your pirate warning and bolded the headings just to make it a bit clearer - hope you don't mind :)


Great post by the way!

And you might want to correct the rrkit link in the last line.

And link to wormolympics.com for tons of schemes to download. And to clansfx.co.uk for thousands of .BIT maps.

And you should mention that you need to press Shift+Delete only once, after that the team health bars will be shown by default.

I didn't read the whole thing, so this is all I have to add. Apart from some redundancies to other sources (like wahelp or WKB) and a few typoes/spelling errors, really sweet job, the newbies will like it. ;)

Edit: As for a link to wormy websites, here goes. http://www.laene.nl/fb/forum/viewtopic.php?t=528

"If you have an illegal or copied version of WA, most of these will not help you. Go and get a legal CD version you pirate scum from https://secure.team17.com ."
Maybe there should be a comma or something but it sounds like the people from secure.team17.com are scum pirates.

You've got a point, that could be read wrong. A little comma after "scum" should fix that right up. :)

I'm yet to meet someone who uses the internet and never downloaded anything illegal from it.

I believe you should take out the word scum.

One way to make it clearer without changing the content (which you may or may not want to do) would be to move the phrases around like so: "If you have an illegal or copied version of WA, most of these will not help you. Go and get a legal CD version from https://secure.team17.com, you pirate scum."

Probably better to remove "you pirate scum" completely though. I know we don't support piracy but that doesn't mean we want to make the pirates angry at us.

Probably better to remove "you pirate scum" completely though. I know we don't support piracy but that doesn't mean we want to make the pirates angry at us.

Ya...they might make us walk the plank.
MadEwokHerd, nice avitar.

1.3: I'd add the info about disabling intro screens, since this has already solved some game-starting issues.

Aw crap, guess what? I ran out of room in my post! I'm gonna host it on an external site. Don't worry, I do have one to host it on, although it will be a bit bland. How's about telling me the hex colours of the post-background-purple colour so I can replicate it and make it look a bit less bland?
Oh, and I've gotta convert it into HTML (*sigh*)

Aw crap, guess what? I ran out of room in my post! I'm gonna host it on an external site. Don't worry, I do have one to host it on, although it will be a bit bland. How's about telling me the hex colours of the post-background-purple colour so I can replicate it and make it look a bit less bland?
Oh, and I've gotta convert it into HTML (*sigh*)
Create a new thread and I'll lock & sticky it, and we can use this one as the "discussion" thread, if you want. One of the user mods (ok, me :p) can then add stuff to the other one where necessary.

And no, I won't give you infraction points for double posting ;) This is a one-off

Go, thomasp! Work your magic!

Actually, better idea, I'll just lock this one and leave t'other one open.

Do you want to add a third post for "Filler" just in case it expands more later?


Please move all discussion over to the new thread: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=32786