Glest Advanced Tactics Guide

[orion]

It's been at least 6 months since I've been on these forums and it feels good to be back. I was originally part of the GAE team with Daniel.Santos as his web designer and contributer for the project, but since it seems he's inactive (and since I've lost my GAE board rank for inactivity ) I'll work on the following instead.

As I look through the boards, I notice that no "Glest Advanced Tactics Guide" has been posted yet (except for a tutorial or two) so I plan to create an elaborate tactics guide for each faction that new players (and maybe some older players) can use. In fact, I would like some players to tell me some of their favorite tactics in game so that I can add it to my guide. I'm posting this thread because I want to verify that no guide has been made yet and that it's ok to work on this.

Edit: I took a look at Omega's Glest Guide at the top of the page (how did I miss that?). I plan to be a bit more elaborate.

[orion]

First I need to get used to this game again.

6 months (or more) of no Glest = I'm very rusty = I'm having trouble beating a CPU Ultra.

[ultifd]

Yeah, no guide yet.
Hmm, cool, but the guide shouldn't be limited to GAE... After all, not too much...is different. Kinda.
https://docs.megaglest.org/Strategies + http://glest.110mb.com/tips.php
Has some good tactics.

[Omega]

Orion! Hey, welcome back! It's been a while (6 months? Feels like a lot more).

Anyway, Daniel's indeed been inactive for a bit, though Silnarm and Hailstone do most of the GAE work. Recent changes to GAE are:

-More Lua
-New pathfinder
-Water Units
-Various bug fixes, etc
-Debug mode (allows lua commands)

As well, GAE 0.3 will be coming soon, within the month. It will boast a new GUI, even more lua, MegaGlest's particles (see below) and carrying units.

Also while you were away, Titi started a MegaGlest branch of glest, which has improved multiplayer with a master server as well as improved particles, such as always on particles (ie: smoke from a building).

[orion]

Thanks Omega. I noticed a lot of the changes playing online with some familiar names on the IRC. The changes are great and it looks like it's impressing people (www.penguspy.com has chosen it as a distinguished linux game)

Anyway, let me know if there anyway I can contribute. I never knew much core programming, but I'm still a web designer/graphics designer (xhtml, css, js, php). I'll start by working on this tactics guide.

I figure that I'll make a guide for each of the factions. I'll start with the magic faction (since it's my favorite) and I'll post the drafts for users to review.

[softcoder]

Thanks for contributing Orion, its always nice to see people wanting to be part of making glest even better

[orion]

Anytime. This is going to take a while because I'll have to record the default stats of units for the guide (hp, armor, power, etc). I'll try to get it done this weekend, but no promises

PS: changed my name to Aaris'lia 

[Trappin]

Hi Orion, will you be using the Glest wikia for this guide? Omega just added infobox templates and they may be quite helpful when organizing the faction statistics.

[orion]

Good Question. I was originally going to make them into pdf's for download, but I guess I could do both.