Topic: Tutorial Guidelines, To-Do List

Thanks for your interest in showing your tutorials here  To help keep quality high, here are some guidelines and tips to help you make your tutorial better and easier to understand. First, some info about how your tutorial will be accepted:

General

Please don't just copy a tutorial written by somebody else that you have found somewhere on the net and post it here. We want permission. If you are posting somebody else's tutorial, you must have their permission.

Just make a thread in this board to start working on a tutorial 

You and people who helped you on your tutorial will be credited. I.e., something at the top saying "This tutorial is by X, with help from Y and Z", with links to your profile or site, something like this

Metin2 Tutorials & Guides are shown here.

Now onto guidelines for tutorials themselves:

Tags

First, tags have been added to help in making your posts more "active", helping people find what you are talking about

[metin2us] - Metin2 US
[metin2sg] - Metin2 SG
[metin2uk] - Metin2 UK

These are available for all metin2 servers, such as metin2br, metin2ro and so on. Ideally a tutorial should try to me as server agnostic as possible, so that the largest amount of people can understand it, but sometimes it is useful to reference a specific server.

[dendera] - Dendera
[listhmos] - Listhmos
[milgaard] - Milgaard
[shinsoo] - Shinsoo
[chunjo] - Chunjo
[jinno] - Jinno
[asmodia] - Asmodia
[pandemonia] - Pandemonia
[elgoria] - Elgoria

The same goes for nations. If you're talking about a specific map, try to help players who might be from other servers to understand what you're referring to.

This goes the same for weapons or other items. use the icon database to post icons next to the names of weapons or armors, items etc that you reference. This again helps players to understand what you're talking about, since the names vary between servers  . It may be better to use the small sized versions. So if I reference the Poison Sword, you know what I mean

Language

Try to be clear, use proper spelling and grammar etc. If you use a browser like Firefox, you can get dictionary support to help. A Spell Check system has also been installed into the forums, we recommend that you use it after writing. Keep in mind that the people who will be reading your tutorial may not have English as their first language.

Images

Images are a great help for almost every tutorial! When your tutorial is accepted and posted to the main site, your images will be re-hosted on liquiron itself, so make sure they're correct. Also, try to avoid adding extra text into your images; instead add the text after the image in your post. This is so that users who are using tools like Google Translate can still understand. Often many tutorial images are in German, and because the text is inside the image, it cannot be translated easily.

Please also keep images to a maximum width of 750px.

When You're Done

You could indicate in your topic that it's complete (or complete enough), PM me, or use the contact form to get the attention of all the administrators at once. If you want to update your tutorial, this is no problem. Just use these same contact methods and a staff member will do it for you

To Do List

Please feel free to suggest extra tutorials

Introductions / Beginner Guides
Introduction To Metin2

Character Related
Character Introduction - Warrior
Character Introduction - Sura
Character Introduction - Mage/Shaman
Character Introduction - Assassin/Ninja

General / Advanced Guide - Warrior
General / Advanced Guide - Sura
General / Advanced Guide - Mage/Shaman
General / Advanced Guide - Assassin/Ninja

Game Mechanics
Item Stats - What Is Useful, How Each Works
Upgrading, Socketing
Quest Walkthrough, Levels 0-30
Quest Walkthrough, Levels 30-60
Quest Walkthrough, Level 60 and Beyond

Miscellaneous
Unpacking your client & Viewing game resources

I would suggest that item names be also highlighted with a specific color or other formatting, in order to make it easier to distinguish them from other stuff, even with the icons; but that's just me.  Maybe make it a general suggestion rather than a strict guideline?

Stuff that I really need to learn about, as the newbie I am:

• I really want/need to read more about items and class stats, to learn how to pick the best weapon/armor, etc., for my character.
• Oh, and about skills.

And finally: is there any sort of "netiquette" in the game?  That is, like common knowledge within the community?  Things that a new player should know about?

That's all I can think of for now.

Update: I found this guide that explains many in-game abbreviations, in alphabetical order.  I also found a guide to item bonuses.  Both guides are found in the Metin2.sg forums.  If you think they are good enough, maybe we could ask for permission to post them here?

Nice nice, the icon database was actually shown to me by my friend Cody a week ago..it was very helpful for when I was working on my server

Are we allowed to post modding tuts or only in-game tuts ? I mean modding as in things that aren't giving the player an unfair advantage ofc.

very very nice

Nice nice, the icon database was actually shown to me by my friend Cody a week ago..it was very helpful for when I was working on my server

Are we allowed to post modding tuts or only in-game tuts ? I mean modding as in things that aren't giving the player an unfair advantage ofc.

Since at least one legitimate server allows this (Metin2 SG) I guess so