First off, I want people to understand what the "Strategy" in the name of this board stands for. We are not just talking about strategy games -- we are talking about strategies for any kind of game: fighters, shooters, FPSes, MMOs -- you name it. If you want to see roughly how a strategy forum works, check out the one on Shmups: http://shmups.system11.org/viewforum.php?f=5
The only difference is that they have multiple threads per game (e.g. request threads, etc., or threads devoted to a single aspect of a game), whereas our board will operate on a strict one-thread-per-game basis. (With one exception -- read below...)
Moving on, I am gonna have to give an advance preview of a lot of the stuff that will be contained in the "On Meta- and Mini-gaming" essay. Specifically about the so-called "meta-gaming" fagotry. So this is how this works.
EDIT: THE ESSAY THAT WAS POSTED HERE IN DRAFT FORM HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETED AND CAN BE READ HERE: http://culture.vg/features/art-theory/a ... agame.html
ALSO, THIS: http://culture.vg/features/art-theory/o ... aming.html