Quick Reference Cards for PC?

[ivanmoe]

I prefer to let the game run itself, and most of the PDT is information used to run it behind the scenes, not something useful to a player - I am talking about the movement costs. I couldn't, and wouldn't, use those to calculate a move, I just like to see how far I can move, sometimes keeping movement left to fire once, and the in game tools allow me to do that.

I'm surprised to hear that you wouldn't carefully examine movement rates/costs to plot a move in a game that uses this system. For example, how would you know how to budget your Travel-movement in such a way that a unit is able to exit the mode as close to the enemy as possible (assuming that's your aim)?

Items I do like to check in the PDT are: stacking limits, especially for road movement, loss recovery rates, and day/night/dawn/dusk turn settings. The other 1500 numbers, or whatever, are just numbers to me.

Unless I come across a behavior that appears to be fouled-up, I'm not really interested in the more arcane working of these games, either. However, it strikes me that it would be really useful for the developer to highlight items like those you cite above. My gosh, they've been patching these games for years (for which everyone I'm sure is grateful). In the wake of all that work, I just can't help but think that they'd want to tidy up their documentation in a culmination of effort.

But back to making it accessible, and per your original question - yes someone created some kind of sheet, that person didn't maintain the sheets for each game. What do you think would be a usable summary of these numbers? What I see as best, due to things changing, would be a summary list of important numbers and where to find them in the in game PDT display - what do you think of that idea?

Honestly, I think that it'd be a huge help if the developer (and that appears to entail the efforts of dozens of guys) would include a PDF with each patch that includes the following:
a) simple data that players will find useful in playing the games. In its absence, anyone who wants to play these games is going to have to look the items up and write it all down or put it in a text file for easy access.
b) an outline of rules that are unique to the game in question-of how its different from other games in the "Panzer Campaigns" series.
c) The change log that now appears in the patch README file.

Thoughts?

Well, I see folks heaping mass volumes of BS&T into these games. The work manifests itself all manner of product, art, scenarios, et cetera, moving small mountains to improve that which can be improved. And I'd note that it was the inclusion of the new 2-D view that has gotten me interested in Panzer Campaigns again. With that in mind, I'd suggest that fleshing out the documentation with some kind of "Quick Reference Card" PDF for the individual titles wouldn't clash with the hard-coding!;)