2. Roll play
Well most of you out there know what this is, I will go ahead and give a little explanation of it. Roll play is basically the difference between real life, and a game. There is two things. In character, and out of character. In character is your character in game, while out of character is real life. For example in game, you can't say, I wish an admin would help me, because let me ask you. If you were in the wild, for real, would you randomly come up to someone and say hey, I wish an admin would help me with something. That might be what you'd say out of character. In character, you could complain if you were thirsty, or hungry, all of those. Or in character you wouldn't say something that happened in real life unless you could come up with a creative way of saying that in character. But saying I have to go eat because my mom is calling me, would be out of character unless your character in game had a mom who told you that in game, you had to meet up with her somewhere to eat. Another thing to note is that if someone insults you in character, you shouldn't take offence to that in real life, because in character is your character in game. You might punch someone and they might start calling you names or cursing you out or what not, but don't take offence to it. It's only in game. But, out of character if someone does that that means they are talking to you, in real life. Not you, in the game. Some people have a hard time separating the two, but that's up to you. We won't force you to do role play, but good names and using the different chat functions is enforced. If you don't want to participate in role play, you don't need to use the say or radio commands for too many reasons. Because those commands are for people willing to seperate there life from a complete different character in game. Just like a movie, in character, you are the character from the movie, and it has nothing to do with you, in real life.
3. Getting started
3.1. things often found in the game
In survive the wild, there is a couple starters that must be clarified. Mainly for the readme but you could see these subjects popup in chats as well, and also not to mention these are things that just show up in the game. If you don't understand some of them now, you will after reading more of the readme. These are listed below. •dlg's: These are basically short for in game dialog. It's just like something popping up with an OK button, just like a simple message. Accept for in here, your ok button is enter, and you can repeat the text in the dlg by pressing any of the 4 arrow keys.
•skippible track: Pretty self explanatory, these are simply audio files that play and can be skipped. When it is playing, just press enter and it fades out the currently playing track that is meant to be skippible.
•virtual input box: These are boxes that you type input. However they are not normal input boxes. the f2 key toggles character repeat. You can type like normal, and enter submits. Escape cansles.
3.2. launching the game for the first time
Now that we got the preliminary content out of the way, let's delve into survive the wild, and how you can play it. To launch the program, just click the icon on your desktop if you chose that in the installer, and in the start menu it is under all programs or programs, Sam tupy productions, survive the wild. If you decided to have no icons, just go to the install directory which by default is c:program filesSam tupystw or on a 64 bit PC program files (x86). Then, once you are in that directory go ahead and open stw.exe. If no extensions is enabled on your computer it will just show as stw and the type will be an application. Once launched, 2 things will appear. Note these are 1 time messages only. First, you will get a dlg saying that there are no settings set up yet and that it's recommended that you set some up in the options menu. We will get to this later. Then, once you press enter, you will get another dlg saying that there is no aliases set up and that they are configurable in the options menu. That is something we will not get into until later. After you press enter you will hear the Sam tupy productions logo. This is a skippible track. Next, you will hear it say loading... along with a sound that sounds like a pencil on paper. Just wait for that to finish. Then you will be into the main menu.
4. The main menu
This is a standard menu found in most audio games. It is configurable in the options menu, but by default you press up an down arrows in the main menu. If you can't go any farther you hear a sort of thud sound and it will repeat the last item spoken. The main menu currently contains 6 options. Most of them will be described below, all though some of them are going to have there own sections associated with them. The menu items in the main menu include: •log in. If you have created an account and/or have an account set up that you have created or you are using, click this option to log i