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.



Commander Tips/Guides

Ns Command Tutorial, A guide for new players
Very detailed guide of the command interface. From the ground up.
direct link
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Tips for Starting Comms
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Marine Tech Tree
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Best Way To Practice As A Comm?, where to practice as a comm?
link

Introduction To Basic Comming, For new comms who want common strats
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General Commanding Tips, For newish players
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Obvious Tips For Newer Commanders, add your own tips
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Commander Basics, by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)
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General Command Theory by Firewater
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Electrification, Your friend and foe at the same time by Lito
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Commander Build Orders / Gameplay Strategies., Both for newbies and vets alike.
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NS by the numbers
Excellent overview of stats, and timing for pub comming.
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Recycling Information, tested this stuff
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Good Comm Openings
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Choke Points, Essential places...
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The Flex Strategy
reallly QUITE old, but still valid for today's pubs
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The Food Principle (an oldie but a goodie)
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Economics of NS
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New Strategy....i Think, easy win for small games for marines
First time, AFAIK, that the "cap empty nodes so gorges can build in small games" strategy was proposed.
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Build Order of Some Comms
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Base Defense Discussion
elect tfac, turrets, mines?
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Locking Hives Down, What do you use?
Ideas on how to lock a hive, which hives to lock, or whether to lock at all. 3.0 beta 4a
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Nslearn Commanding Article, gogogo
An excellent guide for COMPETITIVE comming, i.e. for CWs, scrims, CAL, etc.
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Map Specific Strats

Strategy For Ns_nothing, Map control and res-denial
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
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Ns_lost - Tips For Winning As Rines, anyone got tips for this tricky map?
Some tips for this map, that comms seem to have trouble with
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Ns_veil, chokepoints explained, by Sakura
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A Pub Commander's Guide To Ns_ayumi, by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)
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Commanding Guide To Ns_veil, siege locations, map strats, relocates.. by Space Jesus - 2004/09/20
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A Pub Commander's Guide To Ns_agora, WIth some basic tips as well..., by ..tim.. (aka [mmi]rad4christ)
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Commanding Guide For Ns_lost, From an average comms PoV by WildChicken - 2004/10/01
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Commanding Guide To Ns_altair, A look at a disliked map by WildChicken - 2004/10/06
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Detailed Map Strategies - Tanith (ns_tanith), A Commander's Guide by rad4christ 2005/01/12 NS beta 5
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Detailed Map Strategies - Nothing (ns_nothing), A Commander's Guide by 2 of Eight 2005/01/12 NS beta 5
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General Marine Tips

How Not To Die as a Marine
nice thorough guide to basic grunting
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Marine FAQ
a bit outdated, for 2.x
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Marine Movement against a Skulk
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Importance of Mines
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Guide to Mine Placement by SpaceJesus
great guide on where to place mines on what structures, with screenshots
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Importance of Welders
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JP tips
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Watching For Cloakers, hack free is the way to be!
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Mintman?s guide to scripting
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My Posts
I figures my posts should be isolated, as it's biased, deem them useful as you see fit
Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Massive Post on Sun Tzu, and How it Relates to NS
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Medpack Delivery
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Beaconing
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Silly Post on Comm Emotions
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sticky

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.

This one about mines

This one also about mines

More crap, this time about Alien RTs VS Marine RTs, which has to do with Game Economy

Why never to recycle RTs

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.

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.

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.

*bump*

trawling through the past pages to page 10. it's pretty outdated any farther. please link me to good guides you find

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

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

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

I find this index very useful, good job.

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).

ns_veil chokepoints

added, nice work on that post sakura i only went back to around January of 2004, so yeah, will need help diggin up those gems thanks for the info.

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

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.

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 no worries.

oh, and added my post about medpack delivery.

bump - added post on cloaking.

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

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

weekly or monthly or bi weekly bump, which ever.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...showtopic=74222

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

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niteowl, this should be stickied

Deserving of stickyage, for sure..

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

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

weekly bump


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

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

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

thanks and yes, the new folks should take a gander.

Post still ignored, weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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

weekly, whatever, bump.

What is this bumpage all about? Pseudo-stickying?

THANKS but no thanks..

are the links not useful?

The links are REALLY helpful as they help newbies and non newbies alike. Just most of degamer's posts are well... read some.

they are pretty useful but once you play a lot i think you learn all the tricks from exp players.

Nice job Niteowl compiling all those

thanks draconis, hydralisk.

and Lito, for the 10 gazillionth time!! I WILL NOT BE PLAYING GO WITH YOU!!! YAR!!!

maybe some boggle, or some Scotland Yard, but never the Go! j00 have smart hax i can't use :'(

bump

*bump*

Recommend *this* thread to be put in the list.
It's a guide to mine placement, includes lots of screenshotted examples.

bump, please link me to guides you found thorough and helpful. And let me know if any o the links i have in here are not helpful at all.

If it floats your boat I wrote a guide earlier today on how to configre and use a combat upgrade metabind script (confusing, teh thread explains) and also contains the appropriate code to keep the actual amount of scripting to a minimum. If called for I could also write a tutorial on how and why it works.

Anyway, linkage

Stickied. Make sure it stays updated.