^^ Yes to Beren Erchamion and Psycho_Lady. (and all the commentators who hopefully show Fizzer that it would help new players stay with the game). I hope he reads this and implements something. If someone better at that stuff than me could make a uservoice that would be amazing :)

OK, I've done some research and I'd like to check the accuracy of my conclusions. I saw in a post, something like "your Alt stats may be a better way to tell your ability ..." I couldn't figure out what 'alt stats' is. Further, I wasn't sure if I had any. After some searching I think what it means is as follows. The person in question has 2 (or more) accounts. Any but the first account are considered alternates - thus alts. The win rates generated by an alt account are therefore "ALT sats"

Am I right, do you think?

TY

Nope. He just missed out the 's.

He meant that you are an alternate account. He meant to say your alt's stats.

ty - that makes more sense now

Psycho_Lady: so what the hell is a PE?

Have to search this one :)

P.E (public enemy)

Probably used mostly in diplo games. So that explain why i don't know this one (and maybe same for ps).

ah! that makes sense.
yeah, i don't play diplos much.
i have been the PE before though :D
got bored on a slow playing role play story game once :P didn't ruin the role play though. :)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't know what a PE was. Just playing my first diplo now so I don't think I've been one yet.

Somehow I'm not all that surprised that this thread is on it's way to being archived ... But I'll resurrect it one time and ask Fizzer. Do you not think this would be useful to new players?

Fizzer doesn't tend to reply to the community any more :/

Yeah guess what? This thread, noobschool thread and now the warlight mentoring thread all left to die. But Fizzer comments on other threads in the meantime ... do you not hink helping new players is noteable? / deserves to be prominent Fizzer? Your silence is deafening.

OK.

I talked to Fizzer and if we can make guides that are:

"presentable, we can start with a notable forum post. Some new players do read the forum (just not all).

If it continues improving, we can stick it under the Help menu. The help menu is always visible whenever someone is on the site, and it's the most natural place players look when they want to learn more."

I know not all of you will help with this.

But I also know that most of the very good players do want better opposition and to help new players, so if we can make smexy guides that Fizzer likes they will get advertised and new players will see them!

I really think we should do this to help warlight develop, to help new talent come through, to keep the site growing, we should use the wiki at first and if that goes well it will be moved to an even more visible place on the website :)

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well since we have GG's guide, the only real issue to code and set it up so that when you log on there is a tab under "help" that will bring up the guide pages which are organized by type and skill level.

Fizzer is saying he wants to see uber guides before he will link them. The challenge has been laid down ...

But we should have a guide for:

*The main maps - ME Earth, Europe, Europa etc
* The ladder
* Warlight dictionary
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^^ Other important stuff I didn't mention :)

Post things that doesn't require exception playing skill (something not to do with strategy) and within a fortnight I should be able to write something up for you. I won't do playing terms because there's a Wiki page for that.