Archive for the 'Meta' Category

A guide for new readers

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I’m realizing I haven’t made a truly meta post in awhile, so I’ll take another stab at it. Consider this “new reader education”. Our traffic numbers have grown a lot since the last time we did one of these. Anyway, here’s a nice recap of information about the site.

March 4 – Welcome [...]

Monday blues SupComTalk open thread

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Tis an open thread like any other, but with a bonus optional topic of discussion: Which custom map archetypes are you looking forward to being ported over into Supreme Commander from previous games? There’s a lot of great stuff from WarCraft III and StarCraft that can be implemented in Supreme Commander as soon as [...]

SupComTalk open thread (with random poll goodness)

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

This is an open thread; you know what to do. If you can’t think of anything to say on your own, try arguing with the other readers about what you think the correct answer to this poll is:

Exclusive SupComTalk interview with Chris Taylor

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

You may remember that we solicited questions from our readers earlier this month to send to Chris Taylor in the form of an interview. Well, we certainly didn’t forget about the interview, and neither did Chris Taylor, because he’s just sent back his responses. So, without further ado, here’s the exclusive interview.

I’d like [...]

What other games do you play?

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

This subject came up in a previous open thread, and I considered it worthy of more wide consideration. What other games do you play? Respond in the comments. The question is an interesting one, because as far as I know, there are two kinds of gamers. One kind of gamer gets [...]

SupCom etiquette

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Have you ever been playing a really fun game of SupCom online, having a great time of smashing through your enemies, when, out of the blue, your opponent begins cursing at you? Surely, this has happened at least once to pretty much everyone who has any experience online.
Actually, I have noticed something pretty interesting [...]

Four-twenty open thread

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Happy four-twenty everyone. This is an open thread like all the rest, except for one notable exception: it contains poll-y goodness about the removal of water maps from the ranked rotation.
In addition to the poll, if you have any thoughts on whether temporarily removing all water maps from the ladder was a good move, [...]

Open thread – demographics

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This is an open thread just like any other. Except, if you can’t think of anything else to comment about, take a look at SupComTalk’s recent demographics polls:

Age
Gender

Assuming that this site’s readers are a representative sampling of the game’s players as a whole, what are the implications? Or might this site’s readership be [...]

Gender issues and SupCom

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Following the age demographics poll from three days ago, which confirmed my suspicions that the majority of the readers on this site are young but not too young (70% between 18 and 34), I have another question to ask: how many of you are females? I would honestly be surprised if the answer were [...]

Supreme Commander Talk gets a forum

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

I’ve been thinking of adding a forum to this site for awhile now, and I’ve finally gotten around to it. So, check out the forum. As an added bonus, I’m using forum software that is compatible with the WordPress blogging software, so your login details here on the blog and in the forum [...]