Honk if you think documenting sucks!

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Kangus

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WoRM 1.90.... the release put off because I HATE writing documentation on how to use a mod. I wish people were smarter and could just figure these things out for themselves... idiots.... Postal says I should just be evil & release without any documentation.... but then my inbox gets filled with e-mail saying "how do you <insert idiot's problem here>".... then again, even if I do document, I get that sort of stuff... but then I can respond with "RTFM!" But then I come across as a big ass....
Damn I hate documenting such a complex product....
 
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*Oink!* er *Honk!*
You should wrist dis:
"I like peaches, now go away!"
I think that'd be adequate enough, don't you?
 
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HOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I was going to document the shove rifle before I posted it up here, but couldn't be bothered, with Quake mods, I took another document and replaced details so as to relate to my mod, perhaps a standard layout for documentation would be a good idea, that way the document could be clearer and easier to type up.
OH MY GOD!! I HAD A GOOD IDEA!!
That's weird, that's very weird.
Can you release the latest version undocumented, you could just bung in the old readme but state not all features are documented and so not to send pointless e-mails as they will be in due time.
 
Kangus

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Re: HOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Psycho_Leech
perhaps a standard layout for documentation would be a good idea, that way the document could be clearer and easier to type up.
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that wouldn't work for WoRM.... but for single weapons it wouldn't be a bad idea.
 
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Then he'd get a bunch of e-mails like:
"You stooped fool! You forgetted to put da readme.doc in yur stooped zIp phile! Go fix it NOw!"
 
Psycho_Leech

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Yeah...

How many new features are there? Could you easily add the new ones in the old document?
Release it now, and put up on the section before download, in big letters:
THIS VERSION IS UNDOCUMENTED, IT IS RELEASED FOR TESTING AND PEOPLE WHO THINK FOR THEMSELVES EASILY, THEREFORE, IF YOU HAVE QUESTION, WAIT UNTIL THE DOCUMENT IS RELEASED AND THEN CHECK THE DOCUMENTATION, IF IT IS NOT MENTIONED, BOG OFF ANYWAY.
 
Kangus

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the sprint1 layout can be found in the docs for WAR.

and actually, WoRM's docs haver been ready for a while now... wll, thats rather obvious sinceI posted the download link in general discussion
 
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ALREADY!!! GAH!!!!

From the ModSquad "I need help" board:
Originally posted by Ozzie
Supposedly this mutator allows you to mix weapons from other mods\mutators along with the defaults. However, I can only mix weapons from my Legacy mod. I also have Weapons Factory, Insurrection, and ChaosUT; there is no option to mix those weapons.
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Someone didn't read the manual.... why do I bother?
 
Psycho_Leech

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And a bit more...

You also have to eliminate bugs as well, and fatal errors.
Some weapons:
RTFM Cannon
Primary: Fires a manual in order to get lamers to do things right.
Alt fire: Fires a ton of manuals to solve problems the easy way i.e. to crush the lamers.
Bug buster rifle
Primary fires a beam which kills bugs.
Alt fire generates a temporary glitch in the physics engine, allowing you to fly until someone shoots you with the primary mode, or the glitch is corrected after 10 seconds.
Bazooka
Primary mode blows the hell out of computers that don't boot up properly.(Ever felt like that?)
Alt fire is a scope.
Cursors
Primary fire shoots a arrow out that can terminate popup adverts by hitting the X button.
Altfire shoots out a user-guided arrow, you can also hit people on the head to temporarily stun them.
 
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