NUX - It would be a great improvement to add a new section in Journal for "Game Hints"

Right now in the Journal we have

• Current Tasks
• Knowledge Journal

However that means that you need to mix unimmersive game instructions with immersive story.
Like here:


But if you add a new category:


Then you can put all the Hints that the user gets into that part and they can refer back to it when necessary.


This really helps the user if they get distracted and miss some Hint about UI but don't want to go full tilt into the daunting manual.
This also solves a whole lot of the issues with the Player Book in the inventory since you can make sure a lot of those end up in the more accessible Journal instead.

Another bonus of this is that you can get a use of all of these texts:

Which are usually lost in chat and never seen by the user again.
But those texts and hints contain a lot of carefully thought out info and deserves to be put somewhere.



5/20/2017 11:17 PM
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OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz (8) System RAM: 16296
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M GPU RAM: 4064
SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.504.Date.05.19.17
Area: IsleOfStorms/Begin
Area Display Name: Isle of Storms
Loc: (45.4, 17.9, 27.0)

@Lord British

 

No.
The journal in Ultima IX does not contain any Game Hints section.
The journal in SotA should not contain such section either.
Adding the Game Hints section to the Journal would ruin immersion.

 

I don't think that it would, and this is not Ultima IX, so I see no reason why there can't be a hint section.... if u don't want it, then don't click on it .... I think the journel needs a lot of work, too much clutter .... Would be nice if there was a option to hide/unhide finished quest and finished parts of the quest, so I can go back and see what I need to when I need too... and it would help BIG TIME if quests fit in their own category, ex: all quest that I got from a specific pace, like ardois, would be under "Perennial Coast: Ardoris " "Soltown etc and "Grunvald: Desolis" "Quel: Etceter" etc where all quest you get would be so much easier to find in the journal ....