Links To The Guides And Faqs

Niteowl

I'm posting this because I'm quick tired of seeing excellent posts and guides go to the wayside to more flammeriffic type threads. If you have a favorite guide, please post the thread, I'll go read it and post it here if applicable.


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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Commander Tips/Guides</span>
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<span style='color:yellow'>Ns Command Tutorial, A guide for new players</span>
Very detailed guide of the command interface. From the ground up.
<a href='http://members.optushome.com.au/sektor/nscommand/index.htm' target='_blank'>direct link</a>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71536' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Tips for Starting Comms</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=49647' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Marine Tech Tree</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68351' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Best Way To Practice As A Comm?, where to practice as a comm?</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53852' target='_blank'>link</a>

<span style='color:yellow'>Introduction To Basic Comming, For new comms who want common strats</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=60636' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>General Commanding Tips, For newish players</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51250' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Obvious Tips For Newer Commanders, add your own tips <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--></span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=49321' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Commander Basics, by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73332' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>General Command Theory by Firewater </span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73380' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Electrification, Your friend and foe at the same time by Lito</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78820' target='_blank'>link</a>


<span style='color:yellow'>Commander Build Orders / Gameplay Strategies., Both for newbies and vets alike.</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79470' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>NS by the numbers</span>
Excellent overview of stats, and timing for pub comming.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68798' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Recycling Information, tested this stuff</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70624' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Good Comm Openings</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69952' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Choke Points, Essential places...</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56986' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>The Flex Strategy </span>
reallly QUITE old, but still valid for today's pubs
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15468' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>The Food Principle (an oldie but a goodie)</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=63585' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Economics of NS</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59182' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>New Strategy....i Think, easy win for small games for marines</span>
First time, AFAIK, that the "cap empty nodes so gorges can build in small games" strategy was proposed.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=50190' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Build Order of Some Comms</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=65345' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Base Defense Discussion </span>
elect tfac, turrets, mines?
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=59403' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Locking Hives Down, What do you use?</span>
Ideas on how to lock a hive, which hives to lock, or whether to lock at all. 3.0 beta 4a
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=70193&st=0&#entry1056475' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:yellow'>Nslearn Commanding Article, gogogo</span>
An excellent guide for COMPETITIVE comming, i.e. for CWs, scrims, CAL, etc.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76141' target='_blank'>link</a>



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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Map Specific Strats</span>
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<span style='color:white'>Strategy For Ns_nothing, Map control and res-denial</span>
Excellent post by Stoneburg, one of the better strat writers out there, doesn't play anymore, AFAIK.
It's a touch outdated, and very infrastructure dependent, glean what you may
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=43992' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Ns_lost - Tips For Winning As Rines, anyone got tips for this tricky map?</span>
Some tips for this map, that comms seem to have trouble with
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48571' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Ns_veil, chokepoints explained, by Sakura</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53171&hl=ns_veil' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>A Pub Commander's Guide To Ns_ayumi, by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73310' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Commanding Guide To Ns_veil, siege locations, map strats, relocates.. by Space Jesus - 2004/09/20</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81233' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>A Pub Commander's Guide To Ns_agora, WIth some basic tips as well..., by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73298' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Commanding Guide For Ns_lost, From an average comms PoV by WildChicken - 2004/10/01</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=81996' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Commanding Guide To Ns_altair, A look at a disliked map by WildChicken - 2004/10/06</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82289' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Detailed Map Strategies - Tanith (ns_tanith), A Commander's Guide by rad4christ 2005/01/12 NS beta 5</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=85860' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:white'>Detailed Map Strategies - Nothing (ns_nothing), A Commander's Guide by 2 of Eight 2005/01/12 NS beta 5</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=86170' target='_blank'>link</a>


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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>General Marine Tips</span>
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<span style='color:green'>How Not To Die as a Marine </span>
nice thorough guide to basic grunting
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56621' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Marine FAQ </span>
a bit outdated, for 2.x
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=60125' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Marine Movement against a Skulk</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67945' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Importance of Mines</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62120' target='_blank'>link</a>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62646' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Guide to Mine Placement by SpaceJesus</span>
great guide on where to place mines on what structures, with screenshots <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=20&t=78005' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Importance of Welders</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62314' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>JP tips</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=65684' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Watching For Cloakers, hack free is the way to be!</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72062' target='_blank'>link</a>
<span style='color:green'>Mintman?s guide to scripting</span>
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74222' target='_blank'>link</a>




My Posts
I figures my posts should be isolated, as it's biased, deem them useful as you see fit
Acronyms and Abbreviations
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=23782&st=0' target='_blank'>link</a>
Massive Post on Sun Tzu, and How it Relates to NS
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55969&hl=ginormous' target='_blank'>link</a>
Medpack Delivery
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53460&hl=medpack+delivery' target='_blank'>link</a>
Beaconing
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61697' target='_blank'>link</a>
Silly Post on Comm Emotions
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61443' target='_blank'>link</a>

ekent

sticky <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Swift_Idiot

<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>I second the sticky.

Mostly because like half of those posts feature me talking to myself.

Actually no wait, I'm mistaken. :[ There are two other threads about mines that I contributed to. Let me find them.

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68106' target='_blank'>This one about mines</a>

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69332' target='_blank'>This one also about mines</a>

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68645' target='_blank'>More crap, this time about Alien RTs VS Marine RTs, which has to do with Game Economy</a>

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68399' target='_blank'>Why never to recycle RTs</a>

I remember writing a whole lot more junk. Maybe the rest of it is on the general forum. There are a lot of posts with information that can really help new players with the subtleties of NS. I like this topic.

One of these days, I'm going to write about how to prioritize targets and actions as a marine. I just see too many people dying to skulks because they were spraying the fade, or dying in general because nobody was covering. But that would be so much information, I wouldn't know where to begin.</span>

Sky

There are alot of these kinds of "indexing" threads going around different forums, I&S most of all. It's a hint to you forum admins out there - we need a better search/organization system! At the least there should be selectable tags to go in front of the thread name, just to be able to easily sort posts into categories.

Niteowl

yeah, i'd like to keep the first post mainly about more comprehensive guides and posts. So perhaps keep out threads where all it's resolving is say, not to electrify every rt.

Niteowl

*bump*

trawling through the past pages to page 10. it's pretty outdated any farther. please link me to good guides you find <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Niteowl

looking for more map specific strat threads, anyone got any?

Niteowl

added Lockdown thread. pretty much covers the gambit of what to lock down, or whether to lockdown at all.

Niteowl

recycling info added.

btw, ifyou find this post helpful, please reply. i know some of you have linked off this post, as that Food Principle Thread has been threadromancied <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Sakura

I find this index very useful, good job. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Regarding map specific strategies, I made a post ages ago about the ns_veil chokepoints. Although some of the info is outdated, there is a lot of stuff in there that is still pretty useful, especially in some of the comments... You can add it in if you want (or even better, someone could write something more up to date).

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53171&hl=ns_veil' target='_blank'>ns_veil chokepoints</a>

Niteowl

added, nice work on that post sakura <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> i only went back to around January of 2004, so yeah, will need help diggin up those gems <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> thanks for the info.

Niteowl

added post for the Command Tutorial, in New Players Forum. very detailed and thorough.

taboofires

This needs to be stickied, and copied (or linked to by something stickied) into the new player forum.

You've pretty much eliminated the need for new people to search, which is annoyingly important.

Niteowl

thanks alot taboo, i'll just keep adding until this index is so ginormous that the strength of 5 giant earth carrying tortoises could not carry it. then it might get stickied <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> no worries.

oh, and added my post about medpack delivery.

Niteowl

bump - added post on cloaking.

Niteowl

bump, added posts on ns_ayumi, ns_agora, and general pub tips by ..tim..

Firewater

I wonder if my post on Command theory will be placed in here.

Niteowl

weekly or monthly or bi weekly bump, which ever.

Mintman

<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74222' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...showtopic=74222</a>

I just wrote a short tutorial on scripting that might be useful.

Niteowl

<!--QuoteBegin-Mintman+Jun 29 2004, 09:05 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mintman @ Jun 29 2004, 09:05 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74222' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...showtopic=74222</a>

I just wrote a short tutorial on scripting that might be useful. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
sure, added.

That_Annoying_Kid

!

niteowl, this should be stickied

Niteowl

<!--QuoteBegin-That Annoying Kid+Jun 29 2004, 01:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (That Annoying Kid @ Jun 29 2004, 01:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> !

niteowl, this should be stickied <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
YOU SHOULD BE STICKIED TAK!! you big MUGA!! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> and thanks.

aonomus

Deserving of stickyage, for sure.. <!--emo&::tsa::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Niteowl

<!--QuoteBegin-aonomus+Jun 30 2004, 08:15 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (aonomus @ Jun 30 2004, 08:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Deserving of stickyage, for sure.. <!--emo&::tsa::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tsa.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tsa.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
thank you, he of many vowels <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->

oooh, you're also a MASTERMIND!! AHH!!!!

(i had no idea 80's board games could play NS, shows you the lot i know! :O )

<img src='http://users.bitstreet.com/~shannon/graphics/mastermind.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

ekent

That game sold it's soul to me, and cheap too.

Firewater

I guess my post on command theory (or offensive theory) is not worthy of note, even though every top commander uses it instinctively.

Niteowl

weekly bump


PS mods : if it's not kosher to bump yer own thread, let me know.

Ice9

Great guides. Most NS noobs should read through this...

OH NOES! NUBCAEKS! F4 F4!
(Stolen From Someone's SIG)

Niteowl

thanks <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> and yes, the new folks should take a gander.

Firewater

Post still ignored, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Niteowl

bump. will glean the current posts and see what i can stick in here.