Doghouse Reily Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Is there any way to get a manual in book form with the bundle. I do not understand why companies would not put a hard copy manual instead of a pdf copy. It is much more user friendly with a hard copy. I have been considering purchaceing the bundle but, I don't care for the pdf manual. Thanks 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhuffjr Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Welcome to TacOps you will have lots of fun with it. The manual is not provided in a hard copy form. To have it printed would increase cost/shipping charges. One option is to print it yourself and then take it to an Office Depot kind of store and have it bound. I purchased a pack of binders and the hard plastic covers/ "bookends" and just go in and use their binder back by their copy services area. They have one available for customer use. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorH TacOps Developer Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 > I do not understand why companies would not > put a hard copy manual instead of a pdf copy. Most computer wargamers are no longer willing to pay an adequate amount for their games let alone for paper manuals. It costs several dollars per packge to add a quality paper manual. A thick paper manual also adds to the cost of packaging, handling, and shipping. The number of people who will refuse to buy a product without a paper manual is not significant when compared to the overall cost of including one. The direct and indirect documentation included on the TacOps4 CD weighs in at about 9,000 letter sized pages - Tutorial, User Guide, Change Log, TacOps Gazette Compilation, 21 US Army Field Manuals, and 15 USMC Publications. The Military Reference Library CD contains about 37,000 pages of field manuals. I can't afford to provide paper for a niche market product that has to be sold for $25 to $35. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HercMighty Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Major I would like to disagree to a point here. Dangerous Waters by it's members have only had praise for the announcment that they will be able to buy a 540 page bindered version of the manual. Many wargames forums have members asking if there is a manual that can be bought, though there are the ones who prefer not to have a hardcopy. Actual sales of the DW manual will put the question to the test. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorH TacOps Developer Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 Let me know how that turns out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Once you get used the "Search" function in Adobe Acrobat you may find you have less need of hard copies. Actually I found TacOps pretty easy to understand and rarely referred to the manual anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel E. C. K. II Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Originally posted by Doghouse Reily: Is there any way to get a manual in book form with the bundle. I do not understand why companies would not put a hard copy manual instead of a pdf copy. It is much more user friendly with a hard copy. I have been considering purchaceing the bundle but, I don't care for the pdf manual. Thanks You could find an old TacOps fan like me who still has his manual from when the game was published under Arsenal Publishing and mug him :-p I may be wrong but i'm pretty sure the acrobat files hold lots more information then the original manual. I think the improvements in the game and additional manuals and military documentation well make up for the lack of a hardcopy manual 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 You can carry the CD to copy shops which will print and bundle the manual for you, or even email the PDF. If you want you can also get a much higher quality binding that way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HercMighty Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Originally posted by MajorH: Let me know how that turns out. So far in the forums people are opting to spend the extra $10 to recieve a 570 page spiral bound manual. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorH TacOps Developer Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Noted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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