OffTopic Question: When you followed this thread, did you notice a dejavu feeling too?

I think most of us can agree* in some sense airlift can be incorporated or atleast we have had settings that were deemed non strategic (like airlift) which found their way into what we all agree are strategic templates

@LF
I actually read an entire page twice because I thought it was new, until the point when I ran into a post of myself

next time you can just airlift yourself to the last page of the thread but there will be some disagreement over whether that constitutes strategic reading

Are you familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect?

It's why QueefBalls, for example, isn't suitable to answer the question "What makes a template 'strategic'?".

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Dan coming in hot with a fine display of the ad hominem fallacy!

Anyone who plays this game is "suitable" to give an opinion on it brother. Just because you don't like what I personally have to say about this topic doesn't mean I'm not right.

Where do you see yourself on that competence scale?

well in many ways I went to school for this.

but that doesn't really matter when talking about words that are easily defined.

You're dodging the question.

I've said all I can without revealing personal information. but my opinion of myself is irrelevant to my ability to discuss and define strategy for a mobile game I play. you're just trying to move the goalposts again to exclude people who disagree with you from the conversation

Where on the scale are you?

idk about queefballs but is 100% at of course i know everything
edit: i meant dan not lnd

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Also you deny that strategic sub genre of templates even exists.

My meaning of 'strategic templates' is based on common traits found across all templates used in ladders and community events, where players compete in strategic events that indicate a player's actual skill. The characteristics of what make up the traits is definitely up for debate.

Yours is along the lines of "the game as a whole is strategic so doesn't matter how any settings are combined".

On another note, I saw a dream featuring a template with army cap + airlift cards + emergency blockades. Altered kill rates with high attacking percentage to kill neutrals faster

^ Did that for experimentation on https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=1511431

Example games:
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=36313951
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=36311211
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?GameID=36310596

In all cases i won because opponents couldn't figure out a winning strategy, likely because of being unfamiliar with individual settings and what happens in games because of that combination.

my meaning of strategic templates is the generally accepted definition of that combination of words in the English language: a template that uses strategy. couldn't be more clear.

When someone asks “what makes a template ‘strategic’”, they aren’t asking for a dictionary definition. That’s been everyone’s point.

and my point is that as long as it fits the dictionary definition, it's strategic. you can't just decide that doesn't work for you and affix some arbitrary parameters to what is or is not strategic. warlight doesn't get a special definition

I guess you don’t recognise any specific game types like I do. If you don’t recognise any, you have lots to learn.

As a side note, all assume you’re in the “high confidence, low competence” peak of the Dunning-Krunger effect.