Ok guys... we need a guide with details and screenshots...

Here are some things that need to be in the guide... feel free to
add more... This should be an on going guide PDF with hints and
detailed how to info...

1. Shields and Shield Penetration
2. How to Ferry / How to Auto Ferry from a Conplant
3. Advanced Production Tactics (Multiple Conplants guided by one primary)
4. Strengths and Weakness of each Race
5. Advanced Building and Pathing skills
6. Advanced Patrol and Pathing skills
7. Build orders and production
8. Rock Paper Scissors (Land, Air, Sea) Counters
9. Formations and Units
10. Maps - Info and Strategies

GO!

A wiki would be easier to develop and maintain.

Saying that a quick google found at least two.

http://wiki.tauniverse.com/wiki/Supreme_Commander

http://wiki.supcomuniverse.com/wiki/Main_Page

Prowlinger, I am loving this idea! A PDF game guide would be amazing especially with multiple user's input.

As for using a Wiki let me suggest you create an account at a place like http://www.wikispaces.com so that not every single person who googles Supreme Commander finds it and decides to edit it or hack it such as the Wiki on Wikipedia. Once a whole guide is made then you could put it somewhere with higher traffic such as Wikipedia.

I'll check back consistently to see what you guys are up to and try to put my two cents in as well. Maybe once it's done it can be put as a sticky somewhere and the contributors credited for !

If a wiki has nothing in it.... does it really count as a wiki?


There is no rock paper scissors only rock, bigger rock, and biggest rock

Yeah didn't really look at them which in hiensight was a mistake.

Okay, what the hell... I took the liberty of creating a new wiki for this project on a free wiki hosting site (supported by Google Ads). It's very empty at this point. All I have is a title page and a little background info on the game, GPG and ChrisT. So I'm not ready to make it a public document. But if you're interested in contributing, send me a PM and I'll give you the URL. Once we get things going, I'll open it up to everyone.

Poseidon88, I think that what you are doing is the way to go so you can have some control over the Wiki. I cannot even begin to express how excited I am that the community is taking such an interest to helping each other! Thanks to all of you who are making the game an enjoyable experience for everyone!

did the wiki ever happen? and if so where is it?

Brillent idea! lets fight the enemy with good'ol UEF propaganda! er, i mean un-prejudice facts hehe suckers

Que? Suddenly very confused, but i dont think the massive ammount of alcohol in my system is helping

Hrmmm, this is an intriguing idea. I might be interested in helping with hosting if that's a problem.

I'm a Wikipedia administrator, wiki bot developer, and I've installed/hosted/maintained two separate MediaWiki wikis.

Also I have a hosting plan (that I'm using with Supreme Commander Talk) and I'm nowhere near any of my limits, so I could easily add a wiki. Your thoughts?

Needless to say, the benefits of hosting within the community rather than using some 3rd-party service are innumerable.

Yeah that would be cool if you set that up. And have just checkled out you SupCom Talk sand thats a nice site, how often do you update it?

Well, see the post history. I can't promise anything for the future, but our current average has been at least two per day. We currently have three writers, and we're always looking for more.

And yeah, I'll start setting up the wiki.

Shush don't highlight my inadequacies (took WAY too long to try and spell that right) in my drunken state.

Okay, the wiki is up and running.

http://wiki.supcomtalk.com/

Use it for anything Supreme Commander-related. It's a sandbox right now. I'll probably end up needing a few administrators if it actually gets used a lot.

its foolish to waste efforts on two wikies so we should prolly pick a main one.

cyde's or Poseidon88's?

Where exactly is Poseidon's? I haven't seen a link posted yet.

It's hard to evaluate something you can't see.

its invitational only atm i think

Oooof, well that's not very useful. Well someone who has an invitation please tell me what licensing scheme he's using. I'm using Creative Commons by-sa, which is the same style of licensing as used on Wikipedia. Basically, you can copy anything as long as you attribute it and release it under the same license. So the issue of separate wikis shouldn't matter if they are both using compatible licenses. If he's not using a license, though, I'd be a bit worried about how the work is going to be used.

i sent him a PM about 1 hour ago, hasnt replied. think his offline

Ah well, if it's one of those free wiki hosting things he's using, I don't think it'll be too useful. They tend to set rather low limits on how much data you can store. Presumably a playguide would need to be able to contain lots of screenshots, and possibly even movies, replays, etc.. I can handle all of that traffic on my wiki and since I have complete access to the hosting account I can manually modify the wiki's configuration to enable stuff like replay uploads. Not sure how that works on wikis hosted with such places as wikispaces.com, but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow you to manually edit the configuration files.

Cyde Weys i started to make a How to Ferry / How to Auto Ferry guide on your wiki. Anybody feel free to edit, contribute.

I think we already have a very comprehensive article on transporting. Wouldn't want to duplicate effort.