@griatch said in Make Evennia 'more accessible' - ideas?:
Not sure this can really be more front and center than it is now - the virtualenv is described (with a link to the glossary for extra detail) and activated for the first time as part of the very installation steps that installs and starts Evennia.
And never brought up again.
In the Quickstart, setting the environment is Step 4, starting Evennia is Step 10.
In the Linux setup, it's mentioned five code boxes before starting Evennia.
All of the steps in the middle are run once, and only once, for installation.
In the Administration docs "Start Stop Reload" it is not mentioned at all.
Knowing what virtualenv is and does is an intermediate topic and for some game-runners they might not even need to find out, just that it needs to be done. The documentation is not good at stressing that it needs to be done.
There is now a statement in the very last paragraph of the virtualenv glossary statement, but in none of these instances does "front and center" come to mind.
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edit to readers: Griatch and I are also talking about this on the Evennia Discord/IRC. A lot of this has been at least considered by the time you get there. I don't dislike the Evennia documentation, I just think it could be better for us utter newbs and I'm passionate about helping.
MUCH PASSION. SO CRITIQUE. WOW.