Strategies in Manual

[Akron]

Originally posted by rockville
1. There will be a separate "strategy guide", which the publishers will make money from (I'm not sure whether the developers do or not), so why give strategies away for free with the game when you can charge $12.95 for them?

These strategy guides are usually horrible compared to forums like apolyton. Its amazing they still sell them. But they get money off of it, so thats all that matters.

[Alex]

I'm pretty confident that Velocyrix (of SMAC Guide's fame) will deliver another work of art, right here on Apolyton, so why bother?

[Mongoloid Cow]

A strategy guide wouldn't be much incentive (is that how its spelt ?) to buy the game. It would just take up space, and have more innocent trees cut down, and waste more ink, and pollute the atmosphere in the manufacturing, and be useless because no two civs are the same with CSU's and different abilities, and Apolyton does a good job of giving out strategies, and...