Direction for Dom's Guides?

posted on May 11th, 2009, 11:59 pm

Since I will have a large amount of free time opening up soon I anticipate being able to finish the Mixed-Tech overviews as well as exploring more strategies as I see 'em... that being said, I was wondering what have I left out that needs to be put in... so let me know please so I can make better guides 

Likewise I was pondering  whether the build orders/strategies were too vague/confusing: if they are, could you guys tell me which guides have problems and where please?

posted on May 12th, 2009, 12:23 am

The Dominion is the only race that you have not written a guide for so if you have a chance it would be nice if your wrote a guide for them. Once finals are over (yay this week) I am going to work on writing a java program that can simply parse (extract) all the values out of the various files for stats. Also while your guides are good i would recommend that you add pictures or something along those lines. (For those of us who never grew up, and get bored of just reading text)

posted on May 12th, 2009, 1:42 am

Hehe, the girlfriend is going to be editing the guides soon to make them more... "user friendly" shall we say (better formatting and possible picture additions). Were you planing on making a list of all values for release and thus suggesting that I hold off... or...? Of course, this would be awesome nonetheless. I thought however it would be nice to include these values within each guide to give a quick reference when I say "this ship is fast" or "this ship has strong shields".

I haven't written one for the Klingons either... but I'm not the right person to attempt such a thing anyway (considering that I don't even know which of my strategies with them work....yet  ).

posted on May 12th, 2009, 5:21 am

hmm idk it depends on how much luck i have trying to figure out how to make the program do what i want it too. I have tried before to no avail. grr ... if i was you i would go ahead and release the offensive, defensive, and system values as well as the speed.

posted on May 12th, 2009, 6:32 am

  The build order/strategies are fine the way they are. You should be posting guide lines, at least that's I wanna read. Imagine all the players that would read your strategies and apply them to the letter. Hints are better. Like what would your fleet should look like middle game when facing borg for example. Or what units are best against a certain race. I guess the hardest part of the game is the beginning. If one starts bad, the game is almost certainly lost. It's just like chess, opening is crucial, after that general advices are better. I think you should elaborate team play, most guys that play online prefer this type of confrontation. Thanks for the manuals and keep up the good work. 

posted on May 14th, 2009, 8:42 pm

Ok, here's the deal: I'm going to combine all four guides together to make it easier to edit and download etc as well as add unit stats (cost and off/def/etc) for references when applicable (it will not be the same as Zebh or Deimos' guides though) and pictures to make it prettier. Formatting will also be changed considerably. Hopefully this will not only make the guide more comprehensive, but make it easier to read and more enjoyable (less wall of text-ee). Depending on what Mal does, I'll see if I'll write a Dominion guide. If I am able to learn the Klingon strats, I will post a strategy guide of that, most definitely. Obviously I'll continue editing and adding though 

posted on May 14th, 2009, 9:14 pm

Here Dom this is a little something i did with the replace command in notepad++.

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posted on May 14th, 2009, 9:39 pm

Last edited by Dominus_Noctis on May 14th, 2009, 9:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Hehe, very very pretty: I did a similar thing using that other thread and the "replace" option... but still came out kinda ugly at points (500 somethin pages long). This will definitely come in handy: thank you 

posted on May 14th, 2009, 9:44 pm

np i left out all the borg stuff cuz of the way they build their ships