Guides

The Guides board is for reference material that helps people get games working. Setup walkthroughs, mod installation instructions, multiplayer configuration, troubleshooting steps. Anything that takes someone from "I want to play this" to actually playing it. Guides are not discussion threads. They're documents that the author maintains over time. The comments section is for corrections and suggestions, not general conversation. **Writing a guide** Anyone can post a guide, there's no approval process. Write what you know and let the community decide if it's useful. A good guide answers a specific question. "How to set up Zandronum for online play" works. "Cool DOOM stuff" doesn't. If you spent an hour figuring out how to get an old game working and can explain what you did, that's a guide worth posting. You don't need to cover everything. A short guide that handles the basics is more useful than a long one that never gets finished. **Keeping guides current** Games update, mods release new versions, download links move. If you posted a guide, check on it occasionally. An edited timestamp is displayed so readers know how fresh the information is. If you find something wrong in someone else's guide, you can submit a suggestion or propose a full edit. The author reviews it and can accept, modify, or dismiss it. Even if they never act on it, your correction is visible in the comments for other readers. **Linking guides to sessions** When creating a game session, you can attach a guide so every player who opens the session sees it. Instead of pasting setup instructions into every session description or telling people to check a Discord, link the guide once and it stays maintained in one place. If someone posts a session with only a Discord link and no setup details, other users can link relevant guides in the thread. These guides are voted on as useful or not useful, and the ones that get enough votes surface for everyone to see. This gives guides a direct path to the people who need them most. **Reactions** Guides have a tag reaction system. Readers can tag a guide as Helpful, Well Written, Outdated, Inaccurate, or Low Effort. The tags and their counts are visible on each guide, so readers can tell at a glance whether a guide is still accurate and worth reading.