|
There are
usually several hundred other persons logged in to Star Kingdoms
at the same time as you, and several thousand persons owning accounts,
so SK is a great place to make new friends. After all, it is a social
game, and if you don't want to get attacked, it can often be even
more useful to be a well-known and respected player with many friends,
than to have a huge defense.
Star Kingdoms has a built in message system,
where you can send a private message to a person by going to his
or her sector and clicking on the small icon looking like a tiny
envelope, to the right of his name. You can also use the game's
built in alliance- and sector forums, and the public forums to talk
to other players.
Most big and organized alliances also have external alliance forums,
and a lot of persons use different chat services (ICQ/AIM/MSN) to
communicate with their friends and sectormates. The most commonly
used in SK is AOL Instant messenger, so if you are new to SK, try
downloading that one (from www.aim.com), if you want to make friends
and get to know other players fast.
Sector Leader or Alliance
Leader
If you want to be sector leader or alliance leader, you should be
prepared that you will have to spend a lot of time messaging people,
replying to incoming messages, sorting out diplomatic problems in
chats, and making decision. it is not just to create an alliance
and hope that someone will join, or ask people to put their SL votes
on you, so therefore, it is usually better if you aren't any of
those two things in your first games, but wait until you first know
the game and have some contacts, before you try it.
Being the first person in the sector and the one taking care of
everything, at the beginning of a game might help a lot if you're
aiming at becoming SL. A few of the threads which are usually good
to create at the beginning when the forum is empty are:
•Welcome - a thread where you just
welcome everyone and where people can sign in even if they don't
have anything they want to say.
•Sector Leader - a thread where people
running for SL will explain why they should be voted for. If you
want to be SL, see SL message below.
•Alliance - a thread where to discuss
what alliance the sector should join. Even if you become SL, you
shouldn't be a dictator.
•Contacts - a thread where people can
post their contacts.
•Sectorname and sector picture - a
thread in which to discuss sectorname, and sector picture (a remote
hosted picture which is shown above the sectorname). If you need
anywhere to host it, www.angelfire.com is a service where you can
get a free account to do that with, for example.
•Bar - a thread where people can just
post for fun and get to know each others.
SL message
If you want to become SL at the beginning of a game, some useful
things to write in the thread where sector leadership is discussed
are:
•A little bit about yourself in real life.
•When you started playing, previous kingdoms and sectors,
if you still remember that.
•How much time you usually spend online, and where (in what
time zone) you live.
•Achievements in previous games. Have you been ranked in top
100 before?
•If you have been SL, VSL, alliance leader, or had some other
important responsibility in a previous games.
•Other reasons why people should vote for you.
About talking to people in SK, it is your
own choice how you want to act or how social you want to be. However,
it is never a good idea to insult other players or make enemies,
since offensive messages can be reported to the admins, which might
disable your kingdom because of that. |
|