You've spent an inordinate amount of time in this thread putting people down and propping yourself up, criticizing others' advice without offering any of your own, and playing the part of the victim when others criticize you in turn. You claim you have no time to give any advice, but you've spent plenty of time here arguing semantics and throwing insults. When you mentioned that players should spend time tracking variables and parameters other than the turn number, surely you could have given a few examples.
I'm going to point this out again, since you blithely ignored it the first time:
I'd also like to point out something you said:
Your advice may be a decent starting point for a player starting out
Which is exactly what it was meant to be.
And as for this:
If anyone is genuinely interested I will be happy to write an article detailing my ideas but you´re a fool if you think I am wrong for not writing an essay about my ideas to such a hostile, antagonistic bunch who hasn´t even addressed the arguments that I have made, why would I waste time elaborating?
The thread was the height of civility until you came in. A couple of people objected to
your hostility and antagonism, to which you took even greater offense. And then it snowballed from there.
I haven't seen any arguments you brought up that haven't been thoroughly addressed. If something has been missed, feel free to bring it back up.
I'll add that I find it amusingly ironic that you were so outraged at Gherald's advice (which you admitted was a fine starting point for a beginner but useless for advanced players, as if nobody knew that already) and then later recommended playing against bots, which is an activity that is also a fine starting point for beginners and
also useless for advanced players trying to improve their game.
Oh, new posts...
The ¨alternatives¨ are myriad, and this advise is awful even for a beginner because a beginner would be better served paying attention to OTHER VARIABLES and measuring parameters other than turn number!!
If the beginner is already able to pay attention to other variables, they are not a beginner
What? So basically your advice is for someone who has played less than 5 games then? Or someone who is mentally challenged? Because I was able to pay close attention to more important parameters of each game and each turn within my first 15 games or so, and time my greening accordingly.
Sure I had not mastered my technique, but I at least was paying attention and learning accordingly
so basically your advice would work for someone with less than 15 games? In that case why not just let them play 15 games and get an intuitive feel for the game? Why try to have a schedule for buying provinces? Its ludicrous
Again, what parameters? How do they affect your timing? You're not offering anything of value here. If you are such a pro, it should be easy to offer the answers to these questions.
Oh, we're not a hostile, antagonistic bunch. f.ds is the nicest forum that I frequent. Maybe you're seeing your reflection off the lens with which you're scrutinizing us.
I am not antagonistic or mean spirited I simply enjoy speaking my mind and I lack patience for expressing myself diplomatically, for that, I apologize.
A nice bunch? Perhaps but I expected more logic from the likes of you and less impudence. I think you guys have an intense hive mind tribal mentality going on and you guys are backing up one of your own
loyalty to friends is admirable, but sloppy thinking, warped logic, advocating awful advice, not so much
Perhaps you should give others the same benefit of the doubt then.
I'm seen more logic and rationality from the "hive mind" than from you so far. Impudence? That implies that you are some sort of authority figure. Sorry, you aren't. If you want respect, you shouldn't jump into a thread just to insult people and then proclaim yourself the "Bruce Lee" of anything at all. So far, people have been far more respectful to you than you have been to others.
And to be clear, I'm not defending Gherald here out of any sort of loyalty. I've had relatively unfriendly debates with him in this forum, and I can't recall being in agreement with him before. But he at least remained civil in all discussion. Nobody is advocating awful advice here. Again, you said it yourself -- it's a decent starting point for a beginner. His advice was OK given the context.