why are you using guides?

[barenski]

I never use guides here

[Haak]

I never use guides, but I had to break down and use them on Metal Tooth and Chuck....felt so dirty afterwards I had to shower for a week. And, frankly, I was directed to the guides by my guild after asking what should I do to beat them. I agree, whats the purpose of playing a game if there's no strategy and thinking involved?

[Blackcuervo]

I never use guides here, well Im a white water rafting/cayaking guide on occasion, but why do you use guides for this here game, i mean how low is your bar if you admit defeat when a retarded monkey on painkillers can play this

Wow, you say you are a kayaking guide yet you can't even spell it correctly? How many people have drowned since you started teaching?

[Armando74]

Guides are useful if you have limited time to devote to researching combat combinations for each camp in a zone. Those with limited time find they can actually finish adventures before the adventure timer ends.

[YeOldeMan]

Why stop at guides? Why use the results of anyone else's efforts, for anything? So barenski, go build your own house, after creating whatever tools you deem appropriate or necessary, gathering your own food along the way so you don't go hungry. You'll need to make your own clothes, so budget time for that as well. When you're done all that, come back & post about your results. Well wait - build your own electrical plant, computer, internet, etc., so you can log back in.

[Jehosophat]

ill tell you a secret, but you mustnt tell anyone, most combat simulators for this game have some sort of hall of fame with best solutions for every camp on every map

lol Isn't that the same thing as using a guide? You're getting your troop setups from the "hall of fame" same way someone is getting their troop setups from a guide, it's just a different source.

[EpsilonSilver]

The way I see it, greater minds than mind have found the way.
I shall gratefully follow.
I am glad that someone took the time and effort to help me save time.
Does this make me no smarter than a retarded monkey? Meh, perhaps, but at least I am not Canadian!!!!

[Lamosos]

kinda, but i put those numbers there, usually i run my own sims, because i fight with w/e fodder i have on the island, and then compare, it takes certain skill to hide your solutions from hall of fame

this is military sims and its military intelligence we are talking about here

Exactly how much military intelligence does it require to tweak a combination from the hall of fame to match your current "fodder" situation in a simulator that somebody else has designed for you? And this is somehow less data entry than simply following a guide?

So, I guess to answer your question why anyone would want to do this... it is because they can afford to.
Get more fodder bud, there are some pretty good guides out there.
Most likely, much better than anything that you could come up with, based on what I've seen you write so far.

[soggyshorts]

if this game was new, i could see your point.
The Hall of fame feature means that this game (which is basically just math) has been figured out.
Once someone has figured out the optimal solution to a given problem, why try to re-invent the wheel?

[Seikatsukira]

Lol