TD's Tips for New Players

One of the newer players in Illyriad has been an absolute wiki-warrior at Arcanum Illyria over the past couple weeks (with my deepest gratitude for his efforts), and the data-based content available has been growing very aggressively.  I'm struggling to keep up with the editing, revision patrolling, and tweaks to structure and supporting content/templates.

As I do I'm also pursuing a full outline of introductory and intermediate articles, and a basic overview article that will index the per-section introductory ones (which in turn reference the intermediate ones).  You can see a half-finished first-draft example intermediate article in Siege.  After that I'll be re-vamping the main page, then there's the re-write of my calculators for NPCs, integrating them and potentially other web-page based tools into the wiki, HB 2.0 which I've barely started, etc....there's actually a lot going on, and right now most of it is happening on the wiki itself.

Regarding the meatier content/tutorial articles, I welcome any and all expertise or input--don't forget the help page (covering both help with wiki-editing and quality/structure guidelines), as I keep it maintained with frequent updates based on any new mistakes I discover that new contributors making.  I would ask that people please use discussion pages rather than dip directly into explanatory articles I'm in the middle of writing without warning, though.  There's plenty of opportunity for multi-user revision post-first-draft (when the stub indicator is removed).  And if you have educational content to post but don't know for certain where it should go yet (or if I have a place planned for it already), create and maintain it on your user page or a sub-page (like: http://illyriad.honoredsoft.com/wiki/User:Me/My Article) and alert me when you want attention.  (I will treat such articles as works in progress and ignore them/patrol their edits only for violation of terms until asked for input.)


Edited by HonoredMule - 11 Apr 2011 at 16:15

It strikes me that these "Tips" and "Guides" would serve  a far more useful purpose if they were  included in the "Arcanium Illyriad" or whatever it is called.

Edited by Bragdush the Bald - 11 Apr 2011 at 10:23

The thread is diverging topic again--oddly this time without intervention--so here's some quick random tips:

• Don't get overly excited about sovereignty early in the game.  Do research sovereignty when you've nothing better to research, but don't rush into it except to bolster a weak (3-plot) resource.  Pursued too early in the game, sovereignty will only hamper economic growth.
• Level up your commanders by beating on critters, but don't go into a fight blind.  Reference the list of NPC party sizes and units to quickly determine what you are up against, and only send good counter-units (i.e. spears and maybe bows against a mostly-cavalry species like elephants).  The linked page above will help you find stats on NPC units as well as indicate what kind of unit they are.  And if any stats or unit pages are missing, send scouts to the camp to find out exactly what you face.
• Stack NPC-hunting armies with attack-upgraded commanders as well as offensive units.  If your total attack value exceeds the target's average defense by a factor of 10, you'll take very minimal losses.  Note that this is total strength, not simply unit count.  An average elephant is equivalent to 2-3 cavalry units.  You can use this calculator to assess your own army's strength--NPCs are not yet recognized, but they will be when I get around to updating it and have all the data I need.
  

Edited by HonoredMule - 11 Apr 2011 at 00:36

Perhaps Brag, that's why they're one of the best( or best) training alliance out there. Giving out their secrets is something no specialist/master does, as in a master chef or master blacksmith.

And also TD great job helping these newbies out

Removed.

Edited by Strategos - 10 Apr 2011 at 07:27