How to make a SMAC Stategy Guide...

[Velociryx]

Claims that an armoured probe gets an upper hand in a probe duel can sometimes turn up false in a very painful way...

It's been a LONG time since I ran any experiments along those lines, BUT....the line of thinking is still with me and goes like this:

Armored units, if they survive combat, get morale upgrades. All other factors being equal (ie., two probes duking it out), the one with the higher morale will typically carry the day, thus: An armored probe who has a few victories under his belt will be of higher morale, and thus, more capable in a probe v probe duel than an un-armored, and thus, un-morale-upgraded version.

Take it with a grain of salt....like I said, it's been so long that I couldn't swear to it, but the above, or something very like it, was almost surely my line of thought.

-=Vel=-
(now back to your regularly scheduled programming)

[Commy]

Um, hello Vel...nice to see you, but, I think you posted in the wrong thread...but hey, that's okay...I'll post it in the right thread for you...

[Kataphraktoi]

i like the dark colours commy,easy to read

i hadnt thought of HQless empires before...

[Kataphraktoi]

So now, the next question is, how do you get rid of an HQ?

unless the answer is hidden where i didnt notice it( ) select a unit,move it into your HQ and hit b then hit enter

or you could be lame and rush a CP....

[Barinthus]

Originally posted by Kirov
Anyway, I voted for "make it very complex". Let's face it, not many of apolytonian people need tips like "build many formers".

Mock me all you want but I'm a noob when it comes to SMAC/X. My fellow pbemers can vounch for that .

I get advice like build formers! build supply crawlers! but there are so much I can do and what should be my priorities and so on.

Perhaps for most of you the answer is apparent but well like I said, I'm a noob ha.

Commy, the bottom line - write that guide the way you want. You will never be able to please everybody.

Whether the way you write it, I know I will be looking forward to read it.

[Commy]

Originally posted by Cataphract887 unless the answer is hidden where i didnt notice it( ) select a unit,move it into your HQ and hit b then hit enter

or you could be lame and rush a CP....

Actually, in a way, the answer was hidden...notice the background of my website is black...well, that last paragraph was indeed finished, and told how to obliterate and a bit more, but unfortunately, the text color was black, not white, so you couldn't see it...that's fixed now...

I plan to do Recycling tanks and Children's creche's tommorrow...

[Darsnan]

Originally posted by Kirov
there's really not much Googlie or some other Darsnan can be taught about the game...

Well, I can happily say that your statement isn't completely correct: I am still experiencing some new suprises when I'm playing in my own private tweaked games! I'll let you (and the whole community) in on my new "revelations" once I come back from my sabatical....


D

[Commy]

Originally posted by Barinthus
Commy, the bottom line - write that guide the way you want. You will never be able to please everybody.

Whether the way you write it, I know I will be looking forward to read it.

This is very true...I plan to give every single strategy possible...unbiased, I guess would be one way of saying it, but we all know unbiased is purely subjective...

Basically, every possible strategy, I hope, will be explained thoughly...I could also just find a short strategy for one thing written by someone else...how to pop-boom, how to ICS, etc...

I think that if the pros, the cons, and all the possibilities are presented, people won't be turned away and will make their own decisions as what is best for them...

[Commy]

Originally posted by Cataphract887
i like the dark colours commy,easy to read

i hadnt thought of HQless empires before...

I appreciate the feedback, thanks a lot...

[dacole]

Originally posted by Commy



Now, back to the strategy guide...I definitely agree that telling people "have good research and build an empire" is worthless...I have looked at so many strategy guides on the Internet, and they are all crap, all the same...so I think it was wise to ask the people here who actually have heard of the difficultly level called transcend...I could have sworn some of the people that wrote those guides had LD or something, "make sure to build atleast one garrison unit per base" is quite frankly not advice at all...

I agree that asking was a good idea but is Vel's guide not considered to be quite good? I've been using it quite succesfully for two years or so now.

[Flubber]

Vel's is quite good but of course certain gamers have used his strategy guide and elevated their game even more-- As well, people delving deep into the details of the game have probably discovered some errors.

Often long held beliefs which were detailed in the game files or manuals has turned out to be incorrect

[Flubber]

Commy

I wish you well and would never discourage a gamer that wanted to add to the resources available to other gamers

But I caution you to check and recheck your conclusions. You have attempted to correct statements of mine on a couple of occasions and even argued the points for a bit before conceding you were wrong after performing tests. Some of it was not what I would call super advanced knowledge either. Thats fine . . . its what a board is for, we learn from each other. I know I have certainly made wrong statements on here so its not like I expect deference.( although I have learned to note in my posts when some idea of mine is merely a belief which has not been tested-- an example is my "rough" formula for the chance of catching a worm-- I know its not the formula but it is an approximation that fits anecdotal experience)


But to write a guide implies a fair deal of certainty in what you are saying. Personally, I wouldn't feel qualified to write such a guide by myself and I know this game pretty darn well. So my advice . . .. If you want to do this, MAKE SURE TO run various portions of it through poly first. There are different people here with expertise on any SMAX topic you care to name.

You can write it, it can be in your style and with your tone and for your chosen audience but the poly community are very likely to catch the inevitable errors that creep in.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Cataphract887

i recently read the art of war.i was not impressed...

I wasn't either. Such works have to be viewed in respect to the time they were produced. I'm sure that if I had only been able to read works produced before Art of War I would have been blown away when I read it. Now everyone has read it and it has influenced other work for centuries.

[Sikander]

What ever happened to Marione / Mose? I miss him, he was our resident sceptic and stickler for proof.

[Velociryx]

And Hello, Commy!

Did I? (post in the wrong thread?) If so, my apologies....'s been one of those days!

-=Vel=-