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.

Deck & Table Changes

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/

To Unlock Hardwood Spades:

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Help >>Unlock Spades or F6 >> Fill in Name and Key or click "Unlock" or "Forget"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.hardwoodspades.com/

http://www.silvercrk.com/support.htm

support@silvercrk.com

1-888-Game Net (toll free)

1-541-474-3353

Jonas Stewart

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Lost Unlock Key Lookup:

http://orders.silvercrk.com/orderwiz/LostKey.html?SID=12543167&FromRedirect=1

or:

To Unlock Hardwood Spades:

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Help >>Unlock Spades or F6 >> Fill in Name and Key or click "Unlock" or "Forget"

Rules

General Rules: Be considerate at all times of other members on the server. Do not abandon a game. Quitters will be automatically penalized 25 points if it continues. (no need to report quitters) Table talking, that is discussing your cards with a partner, at the table or Privately communicating with a partner your hand or how to play or defend a hand via ICQ, other IM's, or telephone is cheating. Intentionally stalling a game is not allowed. (kick a player that is doing this, please make sure they aren't just having some problems). Cheating in games is prohibited. Users should vote players out of a game if they are truly cheating. Do not fight or engage in personal attacks. (use the mute feature to ignore these players) Do not use racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious slurs. Do not create an account with any profanity, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, or racial, ethnic, or religious slurs. Do not use profanity or sexually explicit language on the server. Please avoid excessive shouting (using all caps) or flooding (repeatedly posting) Threatening or harassing or making demands to Silver Creek staff or guards is prohibited and can result in immediate termination of your account or temporary muting. Also, the lobby is not the place to discuss policy issues. Use of the server for the promotion of illegal activities is prohibited.

Please note:You will come in contact with players you won't like. That's why you have the mute tool, use it. We are not responsible for the conduct of players. Your participation in chats (in game or in the lobby), are subject to review, modification, and deletion, without notice. There is no private chat on the server... All chat may be logged by the server for review. Staff or guards are not always able to monitor Member's conversations or game play at individual game tables and therefore users are empowered to remove watchers, boot players and otherwise enforce the server Rules. Understand that the server is currently provided for FREE to players of our full and demo games and we have the right to remove or mute anyone as we deem necessary. No refund for the games will be given due issues occurring on the server.

Tournament posting Rules: If you are posting in a lobby for an upcoming tournament, you can post a notice a maximum of once every 10 minutes. You can increase the rate to once every 2.5 minutes in the last 10 minutes before the tourney starts. Do your best to alternate posts with other tourney announcements. That is don't post right after someone's post about an other tourney wait at least one minute before you post yours. Don't post the same tournament as an other player...in fact, it's best if the TD or someone appointed by the TD handles all the posting. If a guard asks you to stop posting or asks you to adjust your posting, do so.

You as a player have two tools to help you with issues that might arise on the server: 1.You can opt to block your viewing of a player's chat by using the "mute" option. To access the MUTE right click on a player and choose mute. 2.You can vote to remove a player from a game if a player is not abiding by the rules below. Again, right click on a player and choose "vote to kick" . However please use kick as a last resort as that player will be penalized for abandoning a game. Lobby guards will also try to help... if you get muted by a guard... don't take is personally, they are trying to give you a chance to cool off. Mutes are only temporary, so just wait it out and be polite. *Silver Creek Entertainment reserves the right to change its policies at any time.