Maxis Documentation - Comments
@SimGuruEugi – since you said here that you’d look into updating the docmentation PDF, here’s some more suggestions I thought I should post – perhaps you can take a look at that too while you’re at it...
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No problem =) -- these were just meant to be comments, not requests or anything!
The thing about education, though .. not sure I can agree here -- the reason I wrote this was that instances and naming conventions are a topic that comes up quite often in mts Create and elsewhere, and my impression is that it helps people a lot when someone explains it in terms they can follow and understand. I cannot look into other people's brains of course, it is just an impression, but the “hey, i'm able to understand this stuff” moment seems to be a big motivation =).
That doesn’t mean one shouldn’t use e.g. ModdingToolkit to actually calculate the instance in question – I was about to add the link to that above, as well ;) –, just that providing information that helps people understand the procedure behind the buttons would help make sure they will do it correctly. “Making modding easier" and "trying to educate about the internals of the game" are not a contradiction, in my eyes, quite the opposite =).
The thing about education, though .. not sure I can agree here -- the reason I wrote this was that instances and naming conventions are a topic that comes up quite often in mts Create and elsewhere, and my impression is that it helps people a lot when someone explains it in terms they can follow and understand. I cannot look into other people's brains of course, it is just an impression, but the “hey, i'm able to understand this stuff” moment seems to be a big motivation =).
That doesn’t mean one shouldn’t use e.g. ModdingToolkit to actually calculate the instance in question – I was about to add the link to that above, as well ;) –, just that providing information that helps people understand the procedure behind the buttons would help make sure they will do it correctly. “Making modding easier" and "trying to educate about the internals of the game" are not a contradiction, in my eyes, quite the opposite =).
