User:Silv/PlayerGuide

This is an outline for a new player guide. The goals of the guide:

The goals of the guide:

• Teach mechanics of the game at a conceptual level. That is, without numbers and excessive details.
• Teach good gameplay, focus on guiding people to be good teamplayers.
• Teach the tradeoffs, what classes are good at what.
• Explain mechanics that are less obvious like "EMPed vehicles receive less healing".
• Explain RenX specific jargon (e.g. "med = medium tank").

Non-goals:

• Explain all mechanics in details.
• Explain all map specific things.

Structural goals:

• Be easy to read top to bottom.
• Have a logical structure to experienced players can find stuff in the guide.
• Clearly separate important from less important stuff.

Outline

• Overview
  • Setting
    • Universe
    • Infantry, tanks, air, superweapons
  • Notational matters
  • Teamwork
  • Goals
  • Tactics (economy, pushes, rushes)
  • Money, Victory Points, Command Points
• Buildings
• Roles
  • Anti-infantry
  • Anti-vehicle
  • Anti-building
  • Sniper
  • Taxi
  • Repairer
• GDI
  • Infantry
  • Vehicles
• Nod
  • Infantry
  • Vehicles

Don't forget

• Pedestal
• Status effects
  • EMP
  • Corrosion
  • Tiberium
• Discourage SBH / Mammoth / MRLS