Talk:Dark Reign: The Future of War
Dark Reign is a good game.
Top Dark Reign Players
On a similar note, I have some questions about parts of the "Top Dark Reign Players" section. It offers No references whatsoever beyond a clearly personal comment by one of the authors, whom I doubt can be even remotely called encyclopedic. I mean, some of the listed name sound more like someone's listing of their friends.... Examples: Ged: The upgrade-master. Never played games 1 vs 1, but was probably the best partner anyone could ever have in games with more than 2 players. Quit very early
So? Did that person win any official/major tournaments? What makes him particularly notable or worthy of mention. What made him probably the best partner one could wish for?
Demetrius (Blue): One of the best players ever. He had a knack for turning the tables on the opponent, even when he and/or his enemy were hit hard. His gameplay was amazing both in the vital beginning stages of the game and also the later stages. ~Considered by most to be the best allround player to ever grace Dark Reign.
Concidered by most? What most? Some references would be nice.
I honestly think that the entire section should be deleted unless one can provide alot of references and do some MAJOR rewriting... This is wikipedia, not a Myspace page. -Ghilz 20:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Dark Reign was never popular enough to have had any "major" tournaments that could've boosted anyone's popularity (there was one failed attempt called the COTT, clash of the titans). The only references to how good a player was are ancient (and varying) ladder rankings and differing opinions. I agree on removing the "Top Players" section, because it can never be anything but the opinion of whoever wrote it. -An old DR player (nick: Beldin), 14:30 19 August 2006
Hey, im still playing DR today and agree this section should be removed as it is nothing more than the authors opinion (milamber you queer) and refers to players that have not been active in at least 5 years. Since myself and other players dont agree with the comments made about half the players listed i vote this section be removed. If this section gets restored i am going to add my own name to the list and talk about how great i am :) -The legend that is James - Most commonly seen Reapering Fooooo's base to dust.
Shameless Self Promotion
Who the hell is this Nim guy? Anyway thats beside the point, I have a few objections to changes Nimrod has made to the page.
"As of 2006, there is a new clan that calls itself DUC (Desiccated Universe Clan) founded by Nim. The entire clan is based around a version of the game that was patched up by Nim."
Do the DUC plan on playing with themselves?? (ok dont answer that :|) You guys must be new because i have been playing DR on kali for a couple of years and never seen you around. You should know that it is rare to see more than 8 players online these days, hardly enough to be forming clans. Especially clans based on a version of the game patched by you... no offense.
Which brings me to my second point, you should not be promoting 3rd party material that is going to make the game incompatible with the official version of the game in multiplayer, especialy if your patch applies to the installation directory and not the map directories.
"The DUC version of Dark Reign has many bug fixes and aesthetic improvements that not even the makers of the game bothered to produce."
What exactly couldnt the developers be bothered to produce..? Your patch notes seem to revolve around you swapping one units audio for anothers. Whether this could be considered an actual improvement to the game would be entirely based on ones opinion. My opinion being... No.
"A new mapmaker who just recently showed himself is Nim"
Your about 9 years too late, and who exactly did you show yourself to??? :\ Was it Fooooo?
"his maps are designed with strategy, beauty, tactics, and realism in mind. For this reason many of his maps look like real places and look better then most other maps out there"
Errrrm... whos opinion would all this be in Nimbo? Is it by any chance... your own?
P.S. lmfao @ beauty
-James AKA "The Dark Reign Master"
AI
AFAIK Dark Reign 1 was famous due to brilliant AI engine.. Yet there is nothing about it in the main article
Use of 1st and 2nd person, too casual
Hi there. I added a little 1st and 2nd person tone Cleanup template, because there is a lot of sentences such as "You can check them out..." and "In my eyes, the best player...". Sounds more like a conversation than an encyclopedia article. That's all. Eptin 09:20, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- After reading Ghilz notes, I agree with him that the Top Dark Reign Players section is far too casual, may not be of encyclopedic importance. In addition to all of that, there are no references.
Significant edit
I am not a gamer and I have never played this game, however I have edited it as best I can to try and bring it into line with wikipedia standards.
Are they any elements I have removed that people feel should go back in?
I am performing further edits after this post.
--Charlesknight 18:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Major slash of online tactics section
OK I have performed a big slash on the online tactics section - why have I done this?
Well, reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT
"Instruction manuals - while Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, video game guides, and recipes".
In theory, the whole section should go but I think that if it's included as an indicative example of gameplay that a few examples should be ok.