Interface's "question marks" to click
for newbies and others
from 
GalCiv2 Forums
GalCiv2 Forums
An option could be toggled on so that you see interrogation marks of three colors (gree/yellow/red from newbie to advanced) to get tips about whattever the "?" is pointing at.
This could be the tutorial, or it could be included when someone toggles tutorial on (and turned off by a "don't show it again" checkbox). "?" could have advanced strategic teaching which we had in this (wonderful) pdf titled something like "Unofficial Strategy Guide to GalCiv" from Orion Sector. It would help most player see all they can do out of trade / diplomacy and so on, out of just "better trade = better relation". Let's bring the "out of the box" in the box
In parallel to this idea, perhaps beta testers (or the last manual's authors) would be able and accept to write a few in the forums, so the team could just pick from what players find useful and adapt the texts to GC2.
Comments? Objections?
This could be the tutorial, or it could be included when someone toggles tutorial on (and turned off by a "don't show it again" checkbox). "?" could have advanced strategic teaching which we had in this (wonderful) pdf titled something like "Unofficial Strategy Guide to GalCiv" from Orion Sector. It would help most player see all they can do out of trade / diplomacy and so on, out of just "better trade = better relation". Let's bring the "out of the box" in the box
In parallel to this idea, perhaps beta testers (or the last manual's authors) would be able and accept to write a few in the forums, so the team could just pick from what players find useful and adapt the texts to GC2.
Comments? Objections?