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Why doesn't Stern publish full, clear rule set info?

By UNCgump

7 years ago


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    #51 7 years ago

    Some video console games have books to explain every nuance. Some of those guidebooks were a hundred pages of screenshots, items and dependencies, saved checkpoints.

    There are plenty of free online rulesheets and videos. PAPA with Bowen, has hundreds of how-to & strategy for most tables found in tournaments. How would you document strategies, certain goals, some with no particular order, the risk/return tradeoffs and would you need a simple, advanced, and wizard sections based on skill level.... that creates dozens paths to follow, depending on how well you could play. I don't think a single manual would do it given player skill ranges, you want the rules for casual or tourney risk/reward , points or story progression?

    I loved JJp's map of goal paths seen in-game via status report- for WoZ, there are mini-mode qualifiers needed to melt the witch, the entire set of 8 diamonds to reach the grand wizard mode SOTR. Best of all, its highlighted of where/what you've completed in-game. Does it tell you in what order or what to stack? No.

    So given the variety of audiences, and taste for detail or summary, etc. we have forums. discussions change with new code, strategies, videos etc.

    I think Stern leaves it vague on purpose for many reasons. Perhaps #1, you can't please everybody - let them find their own way to play.

    #52 7 years ago
    Quoted from UNCgump:

    I get the fun of figuring things out. But that's probably appealing to a minority of total players. I think a little clarity might be good to attract less devoted players. Those who like to explore don't have to read the rules.
    And how are they "too busy." It's a limited set of info that must already be clearly outlined somewhere for the sake of making the game.

    I don't think that's true. Newbies couldn't care less and "players" will figure out the rules.

    No manufactuers have published rule sets since the end of the EM era.

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