determined newbie

hello,

hereby I want to introduce myself as new Empire player, in
case anyone cares...

Approximately 2-3 years ago I learned of Wolfpack Empire
to exist, while poking around the FSF's free software
directory.
I have to state, that I am a free software enthusiast
since nearly ten years now, and try hard to merely run
free software. Having said this, I must admit, that I am
typing this word from my mother's Windows notebook, which
I have to use, since I suffer from an OCD, and therefor my
GNU/Linux machiene is currently out of reach for me.

I am trying hard at the moment, to convince my friends,
who are hardened Civ veterans, of running a Empire server
and play a long term game.
As an result of this, I am now learning Empire again, and
read nearly all of the info pages and introduction guides,
I could found.

Being a purist, I only use the native emp_client, which
works fine to me, but think of switching one day to
WinACE, but only because of the advantages it offers for
the gameplay.
I am no hardcore Linux evangelist and very liberal and
enlighted (may I dare to say so??), when it comes to
different philosophies and personal tastes, everyone has.
So loving Linux and free software is just my way of being,
but enough of that stuff.

My career in strategy gaming is still short an started
with Civ2 and lateron Alpha Cantauri, for me still the
definitive sci-fi strategy expirience (well, because of
the great sci-fi stuff). Now I am playing mostly FreeCiv,
ASC, Wesnoth (though I dislike fantasy), roguelikes and
Go.
As you can see I am heavyly in free game gaming. I haven't
played many more modern commercial strategy games, since
they are to graphically overbloated for my tastes.
I am also relatively conservative, when it comes to
computer hardware.

I am very interested in supporting Empire.
Well that's difficult at best, because of the following
reasons:

- As an native german, I have some diffculties in siing
the english language correctly (as you may have already
discovered, I am truely sorry for that).

- I am doing a retraining at the moment and am confident
to become an IT specialist soon. But unfortunately my
capabillities in programming C/C++ are still poor at best.

- As a newbie I doesn't have the arcane insights into the
game concepts, procedures and rules.

Well that are my handicaps. The only thing I can and will
do, is report any bug or oddity I may find, since I am
quite good and dogged, when I find any potential
inconstistensies and unusualnesses.

I would very much appreciate to see a maintained web-page
for the game and a better, less cut up, up-to-date
documentation. That's what would even the steep learning
curve a lot.

Well, that's no claim, nor an accusal, just MHO.

Now that's enough of me, for the moment.

Great work done so far!


Best regards,

dTerm

<metalevel.DeleteThis@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:4289d839-ab3e-4e25-8b8e-4fe09b486e88@c30g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> hello,
>
> hereby I want to introduce myself as new Empire player, in
> case anyone cares...
>
> Approximately 2-3 years ago I learned of Wolfpack Empire
> to exist, while poking around the FSF's free software
> directory.
> I have to state, that I am a free software enthusiast
> since nearly ten years now, and try hard to merely run
> free software. Having said this, I must admit, that I am
> typing this word from my mother's Windows notebook, which
> I have to use, since I suffer from an OCD, and therefor my
> GNU/Linux machiene is currently out of reach for me.
>
> I am trying hard at the moment, to convince my friends,
> who are hardened Civ veterans, of running a Empire server
> and play a long term game.
> As an result of this, I am now learning Empire again, and
> read nearly all of the info pages and introduction guides,
> I could found.
>
> Being a purist, I only use the native emp_client, which
> works fine to me, but think of switching one day to
> WinACE, but only because of the advantages it offers for
> the gameplay.
> I am no hardcore Linux evangelist and very liberal and
> enlighted (may I dare to say so??), when it comes to
> different philosophies and personal tastes, everyone has.
> So loving Linux and free software is just my way of being,
> but enough of that stuff.
>
> My career in strategy gaming is still short an started
> with Civ2 and lateron Alpha Cantauri, for me still the
> definitive sci-fi strategy expirience (well, because of
> the great sci-fi stuff). Now I am playing mostly FreeCiv,
> ASC, Wesnoth (though I dislike fantasy), roguelikes and
> Go.
> As you can see I am heavyly in free game gaming. I haven't
> played many more modern commercial strategy games, since
> they are to graphically overbloated for my tastes.
> I am also relatively conservative, when it comes to
> computer hardware.
>
> I am very interested in supporting Empire.
> Well that's difficult at best, because of the following
> reasons:
>
> - As an native german, I have some diffculties in siing
> the english language correctly (as you may have already
> discovered, I am truely sorry for that).
>
> - I am doing a retraining at the moment and am confident
> to become an IT specialist soon. But unfortunately my
> capabillities in programming C/C++ are still poor at best.
>
> - As a newbie I doesn't have the arcane insights into the
> game concepts, procedures and rules.
>
> Well that are my handicaps. The only thing I can and will
> do, is report any bug or oddity I may find, since I am
> quite good and dogged, when I find any potential
> inconstistensies and unusualnesses.
>
> I would very much appreciate to see a maintained web-page
> for the game and a better, less cut up, up-to-date
> documentation. That's what would even the steep learning
> curve a lot.
>
> Well, that's no claim, nor an accusal, just MHO.
>
> Now that's enough of me, for the moment.
>
> Great work done so far!
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> dTerm

Welcome to Empire! Have you tried one of the blitzes?
If you encounter problems, feel free to post questions
here. Many experienced players from various countries
lurk here on RGE. Once you feel you are ready for more,
join a long-term game. Also, do not be discouraged
if you have top play and lose a few times. Each time you
will get better.

The development team welcomes bug reports. They work
hard at making it better. if you have any knowledge of
web pages, the Wolfpack site could use some help.

Tom