Hidden Cost

[BOSTON]

I was surprized :unsure: while printing the manual how it just about emptied the printers ink supply :S to end up with a roughly two pound document , not including an OOB :huh: . The cost of which I have not figured out yet :silly: . Thus would be my argument for a covered printed manual from the publisher that would not be as ungainly as the printout one and perhaps updated by the time of (if) release. :ohmy: I have this vision that with the upcoming patches that the manual is going to be rewrittin, then What ?, Print out another corrected manual? I'm sure it could be simplier than that. I like studying a manual B) , but hate being glued to a computer screen trying to cross reference all the nuisances of the game, especially while in play, it does'nt make for smooth sailing IMO. I'm a little pissy about this, but I'll get over it and enjoy the game

BOSTON

[norb]

It is our hope to provide a printed manual at some point. They did too nice a job to not do one. It's just something on our radar that we have not had the time to address.

[Mayonaise]

you could not print it... i didn't even realize there was a manual

[BOSTON]

Mayonaise wrote:

you could not print it... i didn't even realize there was a manual

Look in your computer program files for 'Scrourge of War- Gettysburg", click it, in the list that pops up will be the manual, the rest is up to you.

BOSTON

[BOSTON]

norb wrote:

It is our hope to provide a printed manual at some point. They did too nice a job to not do one. It's just something on our radar that we have not had the time to address.

The white background with the dark print is easier to read than having the gray or colored background. If you go with a colored background try to have a larger sized letters (fonts) go with it, otherwize, it would look muddy to me IMO.

[GShock]

I very often print game manuals and yes, ink is a problem. I generally revert to low quality printing and fitting up to 4 pages into a single sheet, then work with scissors and staple to assemble it. The only real problem is with pictures but at least it's as cheap as it can get.

I am totally against paper manuals, it is immoral.

But I think it would be great to have a HUGE Gettysburg map, yes the game map and I would tack it on the wall after heavily damaging, ripping, writing it with pencil and puncturing it. The older it looks, the better!

[BOSTON]

GShock wrote:

I very often print game manuals and yes, ink is a problem. I generally revert to low quality printing and fitting up to 4 pages into a single sheet, then work with scissors and staple to assemble it. The only real problem is with pictures but at least it's as cheap as it can get.

I am totally against paper manuals, it is immoral.

But I think it would be great to have a HUGE Gettysburg map, yes the game map and I would tack it on the wall after heavily damaging, ripping, writing it with pencil and puncturing it. The older it looks, the better!

What I was thinking, is to go to Staples, or like store, perhaps a copy store, see if they could download SOW maps, and have them print up on large good quality paper those same maps. Hopefully they would'nt look washed out.

The economic printing you are talking about might produce a small print, that to me would be a PITA to read. Maybe two pages on one sheet of the copy machine paper could have worked, but alas, it's too late for I've done all the printing I care to do, except for the master OOB with all the unit game stats. That would be of huge interest to me.

BOSTON