Remove all-hands scores and Revise tutorial

[brow42]

Blue fuze should be a treated as a primitive function on the same scale as tweak and rebuild and should be a default cookbook recipe. Perhaps there should even be a tutorial level introducing it.

[AsDawnBreaks]

That is also a good point. There are many new tools and "classic" user tools that aren't currently included.

[BootsMcGraw]

There should definitely be a tutorial on the usage of scripts. They do come in handy, when appropriately applied.

But the suggestion to get rid of the manual work to make this just another video game? Absurd.

Allow me the liberty to use an analogy.

Before automatic dishwashers were invented, folks had to manually grab each dish, run the sponge over it, top and bottom, maybe even use the scraper on the tougher stuff. Then rinse the dish, and place it in the rack to dry, or dry it by hand. With a large number of dishes, this could take hours.

Then the miraculous automatic dishwasher was created, probably by someone frustrated with the lengthy manual approach. Load those dishes, add soap, turn it on, and — VOILA! — clean dishes, within minutes. Some of the time. Often, dishes still had food waste stuck on them when the cleaning cycle finished.

The problem was, the person loading the dishwasher placed the dishes willy-nilly in the machine, with no rhyme or reason to the arrangement. Cleaning results were erratic, and often worse than if the dishes were washed by hand.

Jumping to folding….

Folding a protein is like washing dishes.

Manually washing dishes is laborious and time consuming. Given enough time and effort, however, it usually produces good results. Manually working a protein is laborious, and time consuming. Given enough time and effort, it usually produces good results.

Using a dishwasher automates the process of washing dishes, is easier, quicker, and when done right, produces good results. Using a script automates the process of folding, is easier, quicker, and when done right, produces good results.

Running a dishwasher without first scraping off the dishes and then loading them correctly (highly manual processes) produces inconsistent results. Folding solely by scripts without first manually working the protein into a better structure produces inconsistent results.

Washing dishes by first manually scraping off the worst food residue, then properly stacking them in the dishwasher, and then running the automatic dishwashing routine on the machine nearly always produces excellent results. The best results are made by an appropriate marriage of manual and automatic methods.

Folding a protein by first manually working on worst red parts, then properly placing the secondary structures in appropriate places, and then running scripts on the machine nearly always produces excellent results. The best results are made by an appropriate marriage of manual and automatic methods.

Summary: Manual folding is essential. Scripting is essential. Doing both is most essential to getting the best results.

[jakbinimbol]

My general point was to encourage more people to play, and not discourage them early.
If they learn recipes earlier on, it would make them level up and be happy.
They will invest more brain time, hardware, and $.
However, as they continue to play, they will discover that this will not be enough,
this is the time that they will learn that manual folding is essential to go to the top.
So, they will read the wiki, read the links, study, pep-tide bonds, cysteine bonds,
glyceine hinge, C and N terminus, why banding is necessary, why restructure, why do acid tweak,
why walk, etc.

The point is not to discourage them early.

Then we can have more players.

In our publications, we boast of thousands playing the game.
But in reality we are not close to 300 active players.
That is not enough!

Jak

[Darkknight900]

I think some basic recipes should be added through the tutorial, such as Blue Fuse and also a compressing recipe! Rebuilding is ok in the tutorial but compressing the whole protein wasn't mentioned there.

And yes the tutorials should also teach some scripts! A basic that someone can easily create new Recipes on top of it.