idea about newbie guide . plz share your opinions

[Boron]

i have much freetime at the moment .
so i got the following idea .
there are many things which are rather undocumented .

so my plan is the following :
i make a new thread were i ask all newbie questions on which i have no information so far and you experts answer .
the few questions left over for which either no one has a clue or there is disagreement between experts i post then in a small new thread and please illwinter for an answer because they have to know

after that i will write up a guide or two ( most likely in .doc or .xls ) and make them public then .
unfortunately i have no free webspace so if i would mail the guide to you arryn would you be so kind to host it on your site then ?
i think this would be a good solution

if i get enough positive responses to my plan in the next couple of hours i start my effort in 5-10 hours .
so hopefully my guide is finished in 3-4 days

[Gandalf Parker]

well if it feels like a question that was thoroughly answered already we might just use the search button and post a link to the previous conversation. But thats OK. It will still make a nice one-stop shopping thread for newbie questions. If its better than others that have been done then Im sure it will get posted and linked. There is always room for a good editor (as oppossed to a good writer) to make a better FAQ file.

[ July 29, 2004, 13:51: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

[Boron]

i want to focus on some things which are still undocumented .
unfortunately sunrays really excellent site is down and i have only downloaded so far the downloadable things and not copied the .html guides so far so perhaps much is already answered there .

i will try to give a brief and good understandable overview with some examples ( like in the dominion guide how dominion works ) about combat .
e.g. the fire spells do 14 + 2 per level above damage .
area of 1 = ....
than ´what i miss so far :
a formula how many maenads you get depending on the turmoil scale ...
stealth detection
pan cw reanimation / freespawn rates and so on

about half of the questions are now almost answered because i posted them in previous threads and got good answers

i will try to include a small sc / anti sc guide too that ppl get an impression whats important .
it took me e.g. almost 2 months until finding out how cool a sc pretender really is .
first weeks in sp i used rainbow pretenders .
tried once a combat pretender but had not much knowledge of combat spells .
i once used a vq then because i read at the forum how good she is but i only gave her some more death + blood lol and was unimpressed ^^.

because sp is so different from mp and a mp game takes about at least 2 months if nobody tells you in your first mp game you will most likely take a totally crap pretender than after 2 months be wiped out .
then you try your first sc pretender but because sp is not so good for testing it ( only for indy conquering ) your first build is still not so good and so i think most likely you find your first good sc pretender only in your 3rd mp game after 6 month .

so i will try to declare why some key concepts are so important .
like in the beginning i thought : woah ulm has 20 / 23 protection units they rock .
then i built them and they sucked against in my newbish eyes much weaker units .
now i understand because of their inferior attack/def Ratings + high encumberance .

and so on hehe .

hopefully i cover much .
i will include the formulas for blood hunt etc too in a legend .

so i want to make a faq , some charts / legends for formulas and so on
and a small guide on some topics

[liga]

Hi Boron,

that's a really good Idea ... and very close to what I was aiming to creating my Manual Addenda (just covering all the things are not well covered in the rules) .. I think it could be good/usefull for you to start a new project but I think it could be better to join our projects making a really good newbie guide.

I suggest you to read the Manual Addenda (it has most of the answer from this forum) and then look if something usefull for you could be there.

I have kept out details on the single spells (since Zen is writing a reference about that) and most of the things concerning strategies (SC and so on).

I think to have included all the formulas I was able to find on the net.

I have kept the oringal post in the guide, but it could eb nice to use the informations in the Posts to write more readable chapter.

I have also not included the Ceremony guide on dominions on my Manula Addenda becouse I think it is a little jewel and there is no need to integrate.

Anywya, let me know any kind of help/collaboration you need!

good luck
Liga

[Boron]

thnx liga

your manual addendum is great
so are zens miqr and scqr .

i have heard of zens plans . but he announced them already 2 months ago when i got dominions and joined the forum .
i have seen very little postings from zen on the board since about 1 month .
sure his guides will be great
perhaps you can share insight and say me when zen thinks he publishes his new spell guide and other things he plans

if this is in the next 2 weeks than my plan is most likely obsolete . but i guess it takes far longer so my idea was to provide a quick interim solution for the e.g. next 2 months until zens new puplications show up

furthermore if you have a beta and want feedback i would read it and then ask you questions .
i am at the moment still kind of newbie but on the advance to better understanding and hopefully an in future quite competetive player on the mosehansen games
so i could ihmo well evaluate if it is suited for newbies and with my starting insight ask advanced questions too .

[liga]

Originally posted by Boron:

i have heard of zens plans . but he announced them already 2 months ago when i got dominions and joined the forum .

He told on the forum that was close to be finished ... waiting just a sort of "suprvisor" approval ... anyway I think you have really a lot of things to work on not yet covered by any docs on the net (stealth, sc guide, ...).
Let me know how I could help you in realizing this guide ...

bye bye
Liga