Strategy Articles!

[Kamog]

Excellent article, Stone Mill! Thank you, those strategies are very helpful!

[Stone Mill]

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?

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.

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]

Good Work Stone Mill....

...but give me dirty laundry...

[Atrocities]

Very nice. Very helpful too.

[Slick]

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]

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

[Buddy Lee]

Very juicy info, soaked up by an eager newb.

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