Do you plan on using the in game tutorial?

[August Borms]

No tutorial for me neither...

Sure, I'll make many mistakes, but I'll just pretend to be an incompetent Roman emperor while the AI burns down Rome

[Adagio]

Totural...who needs that one? It's more interesting just to jump right into the game...

Did I have a totural to find out how my computer works...NO, I had to figure everything out by myself...ok, my computer crashed a couple of times (read: many), but hey, you learn by mistakes (and crashes )

The totural makes me feel and makes me

[The diplomat]

Normally, I would not use the tutorial. I usually only use the tutorial on games that I am completely unfamiliar with. However looking at the tutorial screenshot at GamesDomain, I think I will take a look at it after I jump into the game.

[JayKay]

Sometimes you can really learn very important things with the tutorial, things that you would normally only find after you had played a lot of times!!

So i think i'll use the tutorial, just to get used to the new interface - knowing where things are, then and only then i'll jump to the game, and start one of the happiest day of my life!!

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Portugal
Nation of: Magellan's (from Magellan's Expedition);
Vasco da Gama (Discoverer of the Maritime path to India);
and Pedro Álvares Cabral (Discoverer of Brazil in 1500)

[Cre8engr]

I would not know what I do untill I sit down and start playing the game. In the past, I usually end up throwing the manual away and play the tutorial. Actually, MS Excel worked after I threw the manual into the trash can, but that's another program, and a Microsoft program to boot.

[Steve Clark]

Absolutely. I believe that tutorials (in their variations) are a must for all strategy games. I tend to be much more anal retentive than most in that I will go through the tutorial more than once before I play for real and I will devore the manual cover to cover before I even play the tutorial.

This is just my way of getting into a game, slow and steady, which has the advantage of sticking with me far longer than the typical fast and furious approach that leads to burnout.

[donarumo]

What I'll probably end up doing is playing my first game on Chieftan (does that count as a tutorial ) just to get a feel for the interface and new features.

Then either part way through that game or after completing it, I will move to a higher level and play for real. This is the same thing I did for SMAC and CTP and it seems to allow a good introduction to the game but palying on the easy level allows you to experiment more and find out how the game works.

[JayKay]

Originally posted by donarumo
What I'll probably end up doing is playing my first game on Chieftan (does that count as a tutorial ) just to get a feel for the interface and new features.

Then either part way through that game or after completing it, I will move to a higher level and play for real. This is the same thing I did for SMAC and CTP and it seems to allow a good introduction to the game but palying on the easy level allows you to experiment more and find out how the game works.

I totally agree with you!

Playing in the easiest difficulty level allows us to experiment various things, and do things that in the higher difficulty levels you wouldn't dare (lose time and resources), so you can experiment a lot and even play around with the AI so that some situation you want to test is more easy to get (aldo there are things that only happen in higher difficulty levels).

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Portugal
Nation of: Magellan's (from Magellan's Expedition);
Vasco da Gama (Discoverer of the Maritime path to India);
and Pedro Álvares Cabral (Discoverer of Brazil in 1500)

[ColdWizard]

i generally play by trial and error, and play the tutorial only if i run into a problem

[Rege]

I'm going to play the tutorial. If it is too basic and uninteresting I will, of course, skip it. The reason for doing the tutorial is that I really want to play the first game on Prince with 16 Civs. I don't mind losing that game. I just don't want to play chieftain or warlord because I think those levels are going to be too easy even for the first time U play.

I really don't want to see all there is to see from the game in my first try. So the tut will make me confortable to play a decent Prince-16 Civ game.

PS: First time I played CTP on the first level, even not understanding half of the game I beat the computer building every wonder and basically lost interest in the game...

[Frozen_Vomit]

It's the same for me. I'll install the game, choose huge map on price + 15 enemies. Maybe choose Russians, but not sure yet. I'll use the manual when I bump into a situation where I can help myself any longer
Did the same whit SMAC (not 16 civs though ) and it worked out quite well...

[Jason Beaudoin]

I may not use the tutorial. The good thing about TBS games is that you have the luxury of time... and I can use that just to explore and find out things on my own. If I ever get stuck, I might revert to it, but I'm going to be so excited to play the game, I don't think I could sit through the tutorial.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Jason Beaudoin
The good thing about TBS games is that you have the luxury of time...

Oh yeah, that is the best part of TBS games, in most other games when pressing pause key, all other menues freeze, which is kinda annoying when wanting to spend some time "surfing" the menus to figure out where to do what

[Crouchback]

The benefit of time and an autosave feature, best way to avoid making mistakes. But I may go through the Tutorial just to see how the interface works, but I doubt I'll finish it. I never have finished a game tutorial yet without getting bored.

BTW I like the way you've got around the custom avatar rules JayKay.

David

[Comrade Tribune]

I hope there is either a specific tutorial scenario that is challenging in its own way or, even better, a 'tutorial option' (extra advice and such) that can be turned on at every difficulty level. Then I would play my first game on King or Emperor, but with tutorial 'on'.

I prefer 'learning by doing', but I still want to avoid unnecessary mistakes.