stratagy & tactical website
 

I've been thinking about starting such a site with the free space that my ISP provides me. I have front page 2000 and know how to use it. My questions to the group is there a need for this? And copy right issues, it would require permission from the posters in this forum to start this out. My thoughts are for a minimal graphic interface, but repository of cernals of tactics, and grand stratigies. Your thoughts?

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Thats an idea i've been having for a while....

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Sounds good Mudshark.

And if you have never developed a web site and kept it going..... it is a good experience.

If you ever have any web questions let me know. I might be able to help you or point you in the right direction.

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why would it require permission of people here? its not like we own pattent rights on grand strategy or anything.

besides, this is a public forum, and by definition things posted here are either opinions, or are in the public domain. is just a courtesy to acquire permision and acredit owners when reposting ideas found in a forum like this. as much as people like to get high and mighty about intelectual property, things said in this forum are about as significant as things said in a pub over a pint.

as for content, you might want to include strategic information from military training manuals, or ideas from the published writings of big boys like Rommel or Patten or Nimitz

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I like the idea, let me know if you get it and running

mac http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I will help you as i can.
Though i am not as good in the game itself as i could have been i consider myself having good strategies and being able to win from every tactical situation.
Plus i know HTML and graphics, so if you need any help, or if you get the website running and will be looking for several strategies (i'll gladly share some "from the tactical centre of Empire of TechnoLogic") you can reach me via e-mail by this link:
trouble11@hotpop.com

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Tlogic- yes The help would be appreciated. Great minds think alike! Great many cernals of information get lost in this furom in a matter of days.

Puke- you are 100% right, I was hoping for a sight
where the designers of all of the great Races out there would tell how to defeat their creations. I would like to set up a message boaed to discuss our findings. To make it clear as far as undesirable Posts I used to be a sysop for a pay female webcam (to this day I hate "chatting")

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Puke my area of interest is the the Napoleon era (perhaps this explains why I keep on getting my but kicked?). Huge supply trains, fortify, and then get killed by a fleet I could not even afford to field

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The idea is very good, but be careful: i think it will need a lot of work http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Specially if you want a "professional" (In contents) repository of military tactics/strategies. BTW, i have never seen any site like that. This raises the interest, IMHO http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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yes it is a great idea. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Mudshark,
I love the idea. I would be interested in helping and / or contributing. Feel free to email me at: gryphin@windingstream.com if you like.

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Gryphin I would appreciate the help you could supply

Puke; Quote "as for content, you might want to include strategic information from military training manuals, or ideas from the published writings of big boys like Rommel or Patten or Nimitz". Do you wish to contribute any kernels that would be of use? I have been studying Europe between 1790-1815. The supply side of the French of this era could be of use for SE IV. Napoleon also had great influence as far as inelegance,
Shutting down the border that was the target. Hence the concentration of force that was a complete surprise, the funny thing is that because of my interest in the past great Generals I happen to be in Last place in my current 3 PBW games. Go figure? I have been working on how to split up the various topics on the website I'm planning. Let alone how to deal with the (hopefully) input with this community. With Gryphin's help it should not be a problem. Honestly it will be a site with a small message board, and me asking for input with winners of PBW players, and kernels of this message board. And yes, the Generals of antiquity

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Some more content for your site-in-progress:

Sun-Tzu, the Art of War. We've had a few discussions about it on this site, one of them at
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...3&t=003576&p=2

There's a link there to an on-line copy of the text.


BTW Mudshark, not being funny and it mght have just been a typo in the thread subject, but if you're going to build a website about it then someone ought to point out that you spelled strategy wrong.

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Dogscoff, ooh, saucer of milk - Bournemouth!

Mudshark - I know nothing about the technical side of computers but I would be interested in contributing/helping.

Sun Tzu is good, Musashi's book of 5 rings is also worth a try but I think Sun Tzu and Tacticus need to be your starting point

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Too Gryphin
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

has all the tracking tools you need. And A whole lot more..............

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Mudshark: i would love to help. my wisdom on SE4 strategy probably is not as good as some others, but i tend to do OK. what you should use is the old forum thread from this server on PBW tactics. i dont remember the exact title, and cant find it off hand with a search, but it was a very exhaustive list of SE4 strategy contributed to by all of the top players, and everyone generally agreed that it was everything you need to know to fight the good fight.

as for modern military strategy, this is a good starting point:
http://call.army.mil/


edit: Tesco Samoa - i dont think MRTG is exactly what he was asking about. more like projections on how much bandwidth to expect to use based on similar sites experience. the answer would be something like: more outbound than inbound, so hosting it over an asyncronous home line (ADSL) would be a bad idea. other than that, its not only about the number of hits, but how much data you have to send on each hit. thus, simple graphics and text with a plain design would take alot less bandwidth than flash animations and big pictures everywhere. I am sure that a bulletin board and reference library would probably use less than a megabit if you kept it simple.

although 'sure' and 'probably' dont belong in the same sentence, i wanted to give Growltigga more ammunition with wich to admonish US citizens for bastardizing his language.

[ 09 January 2002: Message edited by: Puke ]

edit2: how about less than half a megabit if it was kept simple, and that with heavy trafic loads. I would be suprised if the entire shrapnel website used a megabit, and the bulliten Boards here probably use under a quarter. you could always ask the local web guru. I know some very high traffic, graphic and media intensive sites (read: porn) that peak at about 3 megabits, and thats peak for a very large operation.

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Puke,
Thanks for the link. Do you know anything about how serious they are about "Authorized DoD personal only"? I'm one of those folks that only crosses at crosswalks when it says I can.

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there are public sections and gov-contractor-only sections. you cant access anything that you shouldnt be accessing without a password, so i would not wory about it.

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Mudshark,
Did you have a spesific location for the BBS? I would consider putting it at my "vainty domain" site: www.windingstream.com . Does anyone have any idea how much Trafic a sight might gnnerate?

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http://www.ppc.pims.org/Projects/csrc/

is a interesting site. Articles from the 50's-80's on what would happen if Russia invaded Western Europe and other Cold war threats.

It is a good read

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first off I would like to thank the input for what is a humble idea. I have been spending time on working on the format of this website idea. I currently think that a striped down Version, with a message board will suffice. I am alloted 6 Megs of space for aweb site. My thoughts are for breaking down the game: early, Mid, and late game SE IV. Not to forget PBW, solo play. and masters of grand warfare. I even look forward to the typos that I will make in this site. Shyrka I have found Spain to be the most beutiful country I have had the pleasure of visiting. I have always said that this is where I wouls like to spend my honeymoon, if I could persuade my girlfriend to get on a airplane we would be all set to spend a vacation in your country. Shyrka if you are female, as I think you are (your reply to large breasted female vampires.) is a clue. I would love for your input. I cant get Jenifer ( My girlfriend to even do a turn). My plan is to put up some basic strategie/tactics, and a message board , my ISP does have front page 2000 extenions,