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DeckerMMIV / FS13_SoilManagement

A mod for Farming Simulator 2013 that adds additional abilities of field and soil management
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Instructions for 'map' difficult to understand #21

Closed DeckerMMIV closed 9 years ago

DeckerMMIV commented 10 years ago

User 'Katze5' wrote the following on FS-UK:

I can see (from PM's I've got) that there are some people who has some trouble, understanding the instructions on how to install the Soil-Mod ..

The main problem seems to be this system with the numbers (highest number + 10 - 1, or something like that)

I've had never used this system, as I bypassed this part quickly, and used my own ...

Here I use numbers in the thousand group, starting with 3000 for fileID's (3000 for the first fileID, 4000 for the second fileID, 5000 for the third fileID .... And so on ..)

And to keep track of where they belong, I am reusing the numbers for the materialID's, just adding one number - 3001 for the first materialID, 4001 for the second materialID, 5001 for the third materialID.. And so on....

This should be easier to use (I believe) than the system in the instruction sheet..

It should be safe to use, because it's very unlikely, that any map got ID's that high .. You should of course go see, if you for any reason got a number that high - and should this happen, just go one thousand up in number (or whatever you need to..)

Now - I considered for some time, to make a sort of "copy/paste" instruction set for this wonderful mod (thinking that nobody should miss it on their map, and that their modding skills shouldn't prevent them for having this mod installed) but apart from the time that I haven't got enough of, it really isn't up to me, to rework the instructions ..

But the author(s) should perhaps consider doing it themselves, as it isn't always the reader of the instructions that are wrong, when they don't understand ...

It is very hard to write an instruction that covers all areas, and still is easy to understand ... But when a large number of the intended users don't get it, something could be wrong with the instructions ..

I've installed a vast number of these kind of mods the last couple of years, and I must admit, that I've had to study the instructions hard, to understand how it was ment to be used ...

This should be read as positive critique, and an appeal to consider if the instructions maybe are to difficult to understand for new modders ...