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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Welcome
I would like to show you how to Make Your Own Binds. How to Change and use Color. How to use Fooms. How to use Smileys. And how to do some Special things at Hardwood. This is the short easy version and some other nice links that might help you have fun at Hardwood. Hope you find it easy to use and most of all ~ Have Fun!
I would like to thank my friend Runt for her work that she allowed me to add. Together I think we covered the most frequently asked questions. If you still have questions ~ please just leave a comment.
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Celeste aka Jag
Binds
How To Make Your Own Binds
Example Bind:
Example Bind:
/bind wel =~[c9]~[j12]:lol Welcome to :bandit Hardwood :bandit
Format:
/bind ? =
Type /bind then space then what you want your
bind to stand for (the short version on bind) = then you make your bind.
Examples:
Bind Plain in Black Color /bind Jag= Her Jag
Bind in Color /bind Jag=~[c12]~[j15]Her ~[c10]~[j0]Jag
Bind in Color Smileys Added /bind Jag=~[c12]~[j15]:-D Her :lol ~[c10]~[j0]Jag >-D
After your Bindis made, when you want to use it, you simply type /Jag
which is what you chose your bind to be named is your short version.
In your color format you must not forget the [ ~ ]
and the small [ c ] is for your Color and the [ ~ ] and the small [ j ] is for your Outline Color.
Example for multi colors:
Multi Rainbow Bind: H U G S /bind hug=~[cff66cc]H~[c9900cc]U~[cff9900]G~[c 0000ff]S
Hit enter to submit the bind.
To use you would type /hug and your "hugs" bind will appear.
You can Also make a fooms bind:
Example:
/bind hk=/kiss 2 && /joy o && /kiss 2
This will send two kisses to your partner and joy hearts to yourself!
Helpful Links:
http://members.tripod.com/hardwood4dummies/id3.htm
http://reina.250x.com/binds.html
Colors
Hardwood offers 19 different colors for you to use in your binds and regular dialogue. In the picture below is what they look like in Hardwood.
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0 = Black
1 = Dark Blue
2 = Green
3 = Teal
4 = Dark Red
5 = Purple
6 = Brown
7 = Grey
8 = Dark Grey
9 = Blue
10 = Bright Green
11 = Bright Blue
12 = Red
13 = Pink
14 = Yellow
15 = White
16 = Tan
17 = Light Yellow
18 = Orange
If you right click in the chat window (the place where you type) scroll to color and it will list 9 of these colors you can chose from. That is like a shortcut if you would rather not make your colors into Binds or type them every time.
How To Do Colors:
Each time you want to use a color you must type the following code:
~[c?]~[j?]
The little c = the inside color
The little j = the outline color
Examples:
~[c1]~[j15] Her Jag
~[c10]~[j0] Hardwood Spades
~[c7]~[j9] Best Site EVER !
or you can type the name of the color too like this:
~[cblack] \\~[cred]I~[cblack]//
~[cblack] (~[cblue]o~[cblack]-~[cblue]o~[cblack])
~[cblack]__oOO_(_)_OOo__
You can even do more than one color in a line.
Examples:
~[c1]~[j15]Hardwood~[c10]~[j0] Spades is the ~[c7]~[j13] Best Site Ever!
This would produce the above example, but all in the same line!
Important!!!
You will notice when you type the ~[c?]~[j?] in Hardwood that it disappears. Don't worry, it's still there, it is just invisible so it doesn't show when you typewhat you want to say! When it disappears your following type will be the colors you put in!
You don't always have to use both ~[c?] and ~[j?]. They will work alone as well. If you use ~[c?] alone the outline will not show, but if you use ~[j?] alone, it will make the inside color black!
Hex Color Charts:
Hex color codes give you a broader range of color in Hardwood. You use them just as you would the standard Hardwood colors that you learned about above.
They are 6 digits, numbers and or letters. You insert them in your color code just as you would the Standards above.
Examples:
~[jffaaaa]~[cCC0033]
Hex Color Chart Links: http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/ http://www.the-eggman.com/seminars/color_codes.html http://eies.njit.edu/~kevin/rgb.txt.html Helpful Link: http://www.geocities.com/leeloriginal/StStephen.html
Smileys
Your Smileys: 
Smileys are a great way to decorate your binds and convey your emotion in the lobby. Here are the ones that hardwood offers you in the menu. To access this menu, right click on the chat area, where you type, and scroll to emotes. This exact listing will be there. Minus the symbols and explanation.
You can also type /smileys in the chat box to bring up the full listing in another view.
There is also one extra emote. That of a gold star. :star - Gold Star.
Hardwoods Smileys:
Fooms
Who to Foom:
You can direct fooms by using numbers or letters...
Examples:
To Whom: Codes: Examples:
All all /luck all
Yourself me self /luck me /luck self
Left 1 L l /luck 1 /luck L /luck l
Middle 2 N n /luck 2 /luck N /luck n
Right 3 R r /luck 3 /luck R /luck r
If you want to send more then one foom at a time...
Examples:
All /luck all,all,all
Yourself /luck me,me,me /luck self,self,self
Left /luck 1,1,1 /luck L,L,L /luck l,l,l
Middle /luck 2,2,2 /luck N,N,N /luck n,n,n
Right /luck 3,3,3 /luck R,R,R /luck r,r,r
Types of Fooms:
Coin /pay
Fireball /foom
Joy /joy
Kiss /kiss
Lightning /zap
Luck /luck
NoJoy /nojoy
Rainbow /rainbow
Slosh /slosh
Snowball /snow
Snub /snub
Soap /wash
Stars /star
hold Ctrl for Super fooms if you do not type it and want the super feature.
SuperFireball /sfoom
SuperKiss /skiss
SuperLightning /szap
SuperRainbow /srainbow
SuperSnowball /ssnow
SuperStars /sstar
Fooms are listed in the player menu too. To get to the player menu, right click on one of the avatars at the table, & in small pictures it will show you the fooms, and give you an option for super fooms.
You can send fooms to any number of people at the table. You would simply type a foom like the following example to send say kisses to two people at the table.
In a rated game, you get 3 fooms per hand. In a social game they are unlimited.
Example:
/kiss 1,1,1,2,2,2
This would send three kisses to the player on your left, as well as your pard.
Bonus Trick!
Wanna send two different fooms at the same time?Well all you need to do is type '&&' between each foom you are going to use.
Example:
/skiss 2,2, && /luck 1,1,3,3
This will send two Super Kisses to your pard and also luck twice to both of the other players.
You can Also make a fooms bind:
Example:
/bind hk=/kiss 2 && /joy o && /kiss 2
This will send two kisses to your partner and joy hearts to yourself!
How You can "Op" to turn "OFF" Fooms
1. Hardwood Opening Page click "Options" -----> Other -----> Click "No Fooms" -----> Click Okay.
2. Hardwood Opening Page click ----->Play Spades Online" -----> Login -----> "Options" -----> Other -----> Click "No Fooms" -----> Click Okay
3. During Game -----> Click Menu on top Left of playing Table -----> "Options" -----> Other -----> Click "No Fooms" -----> Click Okay
Helpful Link:
http://hardwood4dummies.tripod.com/id4.htmSpecial Features
Hardwood Special Features:
1. To see your own binds type:
/showbinds
2. To see your binds in text type:
/binds
3. To see the smileys on Hardwood type:
/smileys
Limit is 6 per Message
4. To make the table & background black type:
/blackout
This turns the table black while the cards and characters are bright.
5. To bring the table & background back from blackout type:
/blackout
6. To Ghost your avatar type:
/ghost
What this will do is make your character disappear.
/ghost
/ghost 2
By adding a 1 or 2 after will make you more invisible.
Nice for when you mess up that hand!!
7. To bring your avatar backfrom ghost type:
/ghost or /ghost back
What this will do is make your character reappear.
Normal
8. To Ghost your avatar's background type:
/ghostback
What this will do is make your background disappear.
By adding a 1 or 2 after will make you more invisible.
9. To bring your avatar's background back from ghost type:
/ghostback
This will make your background reappear.
10. Right click on the Chat Box you will see the (9) colors already in bind for you and the (34) Emotes or (smileys) available for you.
11. Hold the Ctrl Button down for Super Fooms.
12. Fairy Dust:
- Make a table.
- Close the Chat Box.
- Click on Menu, at the top left hand corner on the table.
- A Drop box will come down, but DO NOT click on any of the options there.
- Hold your 'ctrl' button down
- Hit the letter "p".
Once you do this the box will disappear and you be back in your game. The fairy dust will follow your mouse around the screen until you exit Hardwood.
Wooo Hooo you have Pixie Dust!
13. To find any player/guide's location in Hardwood:
- Type: /find (then their nic)
examples: /find Her Jag
* Server: Her Jag is in Game 1 in room Just For Fun Spades
* Server: Can't find: Her Jag
And it will tell you where that person is if they are in Hardwood!
14. Unbinding:
For instance, you have the bind /welcome.
To delete it you can type: /unbind welcome
It will then be removed from your bind list!
15. Check A Players Ping:
A lot of times a player will be playing slow and they didn't ask for a "be right back". Lag is often a big cause of this. Basically to ping means testing to see the connection rate of a particular IP address, in our case a player)
To Ping a player click on their avatar, or name and select ping.
Example:
* Lobby Server: Her Jag's ping is 128 ms
* Lobby Server: Her Jag hasn't responded in 15 seconds.
Ping Status Ping In ms What It Means
Good 1-500 ms Person is available & should be playing.
Fair 501-1000 ms Person may have some random lag, but still ok.
Poor 1001+ ms Person has highlag & probably appears to be away.
Booting No response in ? seconds. Player is booting from Hardwood.
When a player is booting, it means they have lost connection to the server. Once they are able to reconnect, they will automatically be placed back in their game. This can happen on dialup connections, as well as cable.
16. Booting:
Two things can happen if a player boots during a game.
1. Theywill reconnect and pop back into the game and continue on.
2. If the game has ended before they returned, they will get an incomplete.
17. Incompletes:
Incompletes come about a few different ways.
1. If a player boots before the games end & the game finishes without them.
2. If a player 'quits' during a game and does not return.
3. If a player is kicked from a game.
18. Player Profiles:
In player profiles there is a link called Web Profile. Clicking this link will open a browser window that will show you what games they have played, whether they won, lost, booted, kicked, or quit.
Booting will look like: This player was disconnected from the server.
Kicking will look like:This player was kicked from this game.
Quitting will look like: This player left this game early.
19. Game Stats:
Shows other players scoresat their table without being at thetable.
Example:
* Lobby Server: Game 1 Scores: Her Jag 71 Joan de Arc -60 Ogre 71 Guenivere -60
20. GoAway /away ... this will make you brown in the lobby as soon as you hit enter. To come back just check a profile or type.
Hardwood Helpful Hints By My Friend Runt & Myself
Helpful Hints By My Friend Runt
How to Reset Your Hardwood Nic
Note the game before you play!
1. Either be in the lobby or in the room lists.
2. Go to Edit Profile by clicking on your name or on the Left Side of the Hardwood Frame is Profile.
3. Go to the Account Tab
4. Click Reset Rating.
Your rating now will be back to all 0's, or a Provie Nic. Reasons to reset your rating are up to you, most do it when they have more losses than wins. It's a choice only you can make, and once you do it, you can't undo it. So if you don't like your ranking, reset reset reset!
A lot of people will just sit at a table, without looking to see what game they are playing. After they bid, they then realize they made a grave error & possibly one that they won't be able to recover from. Always remember to check the table before you sit or bid. On the right side of the table is a Game Information tab. The games rules will be posted there. Whether it be in spades, hearts or euchre, all the information about your game can be found on that tab.
Changing Your Avatar
Quitting and Cheating
In the lobby, or at the table you can change what avatar you have, as well as the color scheme.
Right click on your name, avatar, then Edit Profile or click the Profile on the left of the lobby menu.
Select the character tab.
Under Portrait, find the character you want to use.
Then select Background, chose the one you want.
Then move to Colors.
Change your colors.
Then select ok.
You have a custom avatar now!
Every day in the wood lobbies we see it. "XXXXXX is a quitter!" or people being called out about cheating.
These things really have no business being said in the lobby. Not that they aren'timportant on some level. But they make for a testy lobby. Just because you think someone is a cheater, doesn't mean they are. And the fact that they quit is put in their web profile for all to see, plus their incomplete. So it's basically just silly to say in the lobby. What goes around comes around, so please respect the other lobby dwellers and don't throw these messages up when you are upset. Things tend to work out, and the person who quit/cheated probably doesn't care that you are saying this anyway.
Muting vs. Reporting
Guides and You
Everywhere you go you will come across people that you don't get along with. That is life. But Hardwood gives you a few options to deal with the problems that can arise.
1. Muting - If someone is pushing your buttons, the best thing you can do is mute them & finish the game.
2. Reporting - When you have a problem player, one that's cussing, being rude, or anything against the TOS, file a report. You most likely will not get a response back from Hardwood's Office, but your report has been looked into and taken care of as they see fit. The decisions made are generally final, so there is no need for discussion with a guide or anyone else.
Basically, if you can't solve a dispute. Please mute the person and move on. Most people will continue if they know it bothers you. Reporting is a 2nd, and just as effective solution when used with muting.
Guides in the wood come in all types. They are all there to help you as best as they can. If you have a problem, and need a guide, call one into the table or lobby.
If calling in lobby for a guide, please just say, "Can we have a guide here?" If there is a guide in the lobby they will come as quickly as theycan to help you.
If calling in Yahoo, MSN, AOL, make sure you give them as much information as you can. What Lobby, What Room # and some details about your problem. If you speak to more than one guide, and one responds to your call. Tell the others that you're being taken care of. That way you don't have 2 or more guides jump on the table.
Remember as well, just because YOU call in a guide, that doesn't mean that the issue will be resolved how you wanted it to be. Sometimes a 3rd party can see what you don't. So allow the guides to do their job, whatever the outcome may be. Arguing with them will not help you.
Hardwood Helpful Hints By Me
Hardwoods Opening Page "Options"
1. Graphic Options
Uses hard shadows for the 3D cards.May improve performance.
2. Audio Options
Music ~ Shuffle the playlist. If you want the playlist to be shuffled automatically, enable the random option.
Volume ~ If you are having trouble with the audio, changing the playback device may help.
3. Deck Options
Change your deck of cards for color and size.
4. Other Options
Fooms and various other options.
5. Replay Game
How to Replay Game
Hardwood Opening Page ---> Options ---> Replay Game ---> Click lobby game log (When highlighted you can see the Date, Time, Players and Score, so, if you can figure our which game it was) ---> Click on the game you want to view ---> click "Start"
The Default is set at 10 games saved, but you can change that to none, 10, 25, 50, 100, or ALL!
How to Find Your Game Logs
A log of each game is kept in the GameLogs Directory.
Select how many of these you wish to keep saved. You can choose to keep none,10, 25, 50,100 or ALL!
1. On Hardwood ---> Options ---> Replay ---> Game ---> Keep Game Logs
2. On Your C drive --->Start --->my computer --->Local Disk (c): Your c drive or your main drive ---> program files ---> hardwood spades (hw file) ---> Game Log
The default number saved is 10. This includes ones you visit too as a game. So, if you visit alot of games and still want to review your recent game, it is best to change your options to more then 10, as stated above. Partner games are on the top and singles are on the bottom. The First game on the sheet is the oldest game you played and the last of the games are the most recent game you played (bottom right corner).
To me the hardwood game log is nice when you want to replay the game for review. The c-drive game log is nice if you have fooms off, like I usually do, because it will show you everything in the hands and game play and fooms too. This is the nice feature if you have to form a complaint, you should have the game log number and facts with your complaint to back you up. This is the best feature for that.
Example:
TIME
To see the time and date just type in /time then hit enter in the chat line.
You will see this in the chat screen
Time: Sat Dec 24 02:19:10 2005
Keep in mind the time that is displayed is the time your computer is set to. It has nothing to do with Hardwood Time or Cases Time.
AWAY
To make your name go to brown (sleep, inactive) you type /away.
Keep in mind SilverCreekEntertainment has made a change and after 10 minutes of inactivity you will be disconnected from their server.
ME
To make a statement that shows in the lobby chat as HerJag says Hello All, you simply type /me says Hello All
You can type in anything after the /me that you want to say.
Well, almost anything, you know whats allowed in Hardwood and whats not.
Differnt Balloon Actions In The Room
Action
Thought
Yell
If you right click on your talk balloon, you can choose Action, Thought, or Yell.
This will change your talk balloon.
How to REPLAY a Game that you neither WATCHED nor PLAYED in!
1. Obtain the "ENTIRE GAME LOG" from the Gamelog opened date to the signature. Place it on a "NOTEPAD" not wordpad.
GameLog opened Thursday September 21, 2006, 09:35:26 PM
# GameLogs are machine-readable, so some lines will look like nonsense.
# To view in game, choose Options then Replay from the Main Menu
GameLog closed Thursday September 21, 2006, 10:19:28 PM
Signature: 8E314858DF5EEA1F7870FDDDEECDE9D4
2. Go to "FILE" and "SAVE AS" What ever you want to label the file as.
3. Note before you hit "SAVE":
Up in the "SAVE IN"
Local Disk (C): ---> Program files ---> Hardwood Spades ---> Game Logs ---> Now name your file ---> NOW "SAVE"
4. Now you may go to Hardwood and the game log will be there for you to replay.
Hardwood Options ---> replay game ---> find the file name ---> start the game.
5. Do not interupt the game. If you pause, stop, or speed it up the chat will stop and just show you the cards. If you want to watch it without interuptions as if you was a watcher thru the entire game, to see the entire game and chat ---- DO NOT INTERUPT the game play.
Some Translators for those that may need it, since I speak no other language and have to use a translator for my friends sometimes.
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://translation.paralink.com/
http://translation2.paralink.com/
http://translation.langenberg.com/
After opening Hardwood Spades,
Press the F6 key or you can also
Click on "Help" and then "Unlock Spades"
Now put in your name exactly as it was given when you purchased your unlock key.
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Help >>Unlock Spades or F6 >> Fill in Name and Key or click "Unlock" or "Forget"
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1-541-474-3353
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After opening Hardwood Spades,
Press the F6 key or you can also
Click on "Help" and then "Unlock Spades"
Now put in your name exactly as it was given when you purchased your unlock key.
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Help >>Unlock Spades or F6 >> Fill in Name and Key or click "Unlock" or "Forget"