Where should Custom Mansions folder go?

[VernJensen]

One advantage to online documentation is that you could link to it anytime someone asks a question answered in the online docs.

[brell]

Yes, this could be the answer to the doc problem. If you do that perhaps you should also advertise the forums in the help screen as many problems are solved here by the users helping each other.

[RobSeegel]

Another thing you could do with the custom mansion directory would be to build a mansion

installer

into the game. Just a very simple that interface that could move custom mansions to where they need to be - wherever that may be. This mechanism might do some rudimentary checking as well. Is it a MM2 mansion, is it an original (resource fork) mansion? Are the graphics compatible - nothing too complicated.

Once you have something that works with a mansion sitting in the local file system, it's not too much of a leap past that to download mansions straight from the forum using the web. I'd think even a rudimentary mansion installer/uninstaller shouldn't be too big a deal. Once you have some mechanism to manage mansions, it's less of an issue where the custom mansions reside.

The only other issue would be to make some way of migrating the custom mansions of the previous version to the new version before deleting the older version.