Strategy Articles! - Page 2

Stone Mill · #11 March 14th, 2003, 12:29 AM

Cheers, mates! Pleased to hear your comments.

Rags/Slick, I really appreciate your opinions on hosting this, you did such a nice job with the FAQ. As you can see, the format is a bit different. Are you suggesting a hosted HTML page on someone's site?

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Originally Posted by MB:
The first chapter should be something like "How to create a good *.emp file?", because think that without a decent *.emp to play, is near to impossible try to win.

After see the empire characteristics of an human player at the first contact, I know if will be a balanced game or not...

I agree, and good suggestion. There is a need for discussing creating a good empire... would be logical as #1.

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Originally posted by 3HattedDragon:
Very nice article, Stone Mill! It left me wishing you had written the others as well

Well, I'm going to try and bang one article out every so often... On a few topics I have something in mind already. I should have another one up next week. On the topics for which I am not an expert, I will include strategies / ideas I've read from other players, and cite them as needed.

A Strategy Article is an inside look how a player approaches a certain aspect of the game. It is not necessarily right or wrong, or all-inclusive. I welcome anyone who wishes to try one, you can model my format, if you please. It is a neat opportunity to do a bit of creative writing. If you have an idea, or wish for me to clean it up for you, you can always send me an email or forum message, or post here.

Since this sort of thing is something I don't mind, I will continue to try an put together some decent articles. (As long as you don't get tired of my long-windedness).

CEO TROLL · #12 March 14th, 2003, 12:36 AM

Good Work Stone Mill....

...but give me dirty laundry...

Atrocities · #13 March 14th, 2003, 01:00 AM

Very nice.

Very helpful too.

Slick · #14 March 14th, 2003, 06:35 PM

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Rags/Slick, I really appreciate your opinions on hosting this, you did such a nice job with the FAQ. As you can see, the format is a bit different. Are you suggesting a hosted HTML page on someone's site?

First, you should decide how you want this project to end up. Any of these options would be good. You could maintain control of it in this thread and add to it or modify it in any way as you see fit. Or, with Ruatha�s concurrence of course, I think it would make a great addition to the FAQ. We could crack open one of those �Reserved for future use� paragraphs like #17 and that would make the addition very easy. We just add �17.� to the beginning of all existing paragraphs and there you go. Keep in mind, if added to the FAQ you would give up some control of it since it sorta becomes community property and anyone is free to add to it or add countering strategies. As for adding it, let me know. I am in the middle of another minor revision (being delayed by real life and a terrible cold right now) and would gladly incorporate it.

On the issue of a hosted HTML page. It could be a good thing but I have to say I am a little uncomfortable with this for a few of reasons. First, I am very unskilled at HTML; not that I couldn�t learn or that the necessary formatting would be hard, but a text file is just simpler. Second, having the file here allows us to quickly refer to it to help answer questions as well as cut/paste from other threads for additions; also, linking to other threads here is very easy. Lastly, I think it would be asking a little too much to have someone pay for a hosted site. If it was a free site, those usually come with pop-ups which I hate and access can be revoked on short notice. Maybe I am just a dinosaur when it comes to converting.

Thoughts?

Slick.

Dralasite · #15 March 14th, 2003, 09:39 PM

Nice article! Definitely gave me some new possibilities for my games.

Buddy Lee · #16 March 14th, 2003, 11:36 PM

Very juicy info, soaked up by an eager newb.

More articles!

Stone Mill · #17 March 17th, 2003, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by Slick:
First, you should decide how you want this project to end up. Any of these options would be good. You could maintain control of it in this thread and add to it or modify it in any way as you see fit. Or, with Ruatha�s concurrence of course, I think it would make a great addition to the FAQ. We could crack open one of those �Reserved for future use� paragraphs like #17 and that would make the addition very easy. We just add �17.� to the beginning of all existing paragraphs and there you go. Keep in mind, if added to the FAQ you would give up some control of it since it sorta becomes community property and anyone is free to add to it or add countering strategies. As for adding it, let me know. I am in the middle of another minor revision (being delayed by real life and a terrible cold right now) and would gladly incorporate it.

On the issue of a hosted HTML page. It could be a good thing but I have to say I am a little uncomfortable with this for a few of reasons. First, I am very unskilled at HTML; not that I couldn�t learn or that the necessary formatting would be hard, but a text file is just simpler. Second, having the file here allows us to quickly refer to it to help answer questions as well as cut/paste from other threads for additions; also, linking to other threads here is very easy. Lastly, I think it would be asking a little too much to have someone pay for a hosted site. If it was a free site, those usually come with pop-ups which I hate and access can be revoked on short notice. Maybe I am just a dinosaur when it comes to converting.

Thoughts?

Slick,
Hope you are feeling better these days.

I've pondered this a bit, and have weighed your advice.

I would be honored to have my Strategy Articles included in the FAQ.

Giving away control is no big deal to me, and I really like the idea of one-stop-shopping.

I hope I don't throw off your numbering system too badly... do you intend all strategy articles to be under #17, or for each article to have a number (i.e., 17, 18, 19)?

FYI: I'm not writing them in any particular order right now; I'm finishing up "Get the Most Out of Fighters" next...

Slick · #18 March 17th, 2003, 09:31 PM

For now I think the easiest way is to keep it all in 1 major paragraph for "strategy articles" or some such heading. I'd like to keep the other paragraphs available for other major areas of expansion. I'll take a shot at incorporating it in the next rev (from what is in this thread) and if it needs to be tweaked from there, that's easy too.

Slick.

Stone Mill · #19 March 17th, 2003, 10:42 PM

Sounds good.

So is the following ok?

17.1 Empire Design
17.2 Early Economy and Exploration
17.3 Managing Your Economy
17.4 Get the Most out of Fighters
17.5 Combat Strategies � Early, Mid, and Late Game
17.6 Rock, Paper, Scissors � (Which weapons and strategies counter others)
17.7 The Early Kill
17.8 Partnerships and Trade
17.9 How to Win in SEIV by Machiavelli XLVII
17.10 When To Attack

So this first article will be 17.2, with the subsections 17.2.1 and so on?

Slick · #20 March 18th, 2003, 02:25 AM

Looks good! I will use those general headings but I am very paranoid about running out of paragraphing room so I'll probably modify or group the lay out slightly so that there is still some open room around the higher 17.X paragraphs for future unknowns or expansion under this general strategy section. I'd like to save the other major paragraph numbers for other major expansion. Maybe Starfury, maybe SE5, the sky is the limit. Who knows how this area will expand later (?), I am sure others will add to this section so we'll keep some room to grow. Of course it is always easy to change later.

I will do my best to get it out by the end of the week.

Slick.