R/D Made Easy

[Tim-Opolis]

Don't like the guide? Step up. Prove him wrong by writing a better one.

That statement would be all well and good if there wasn't already a much better Guide to Military Gameplay.

I conclude with my comrades on the Imperialist side of the spectrum, that I've said much more than this guide has and in many less words.

[Cerillium]

Don't like the guide? Step up. Prove him wrong by writing a better one.

That statement would be all well and good if there wasn't already a much better Guide to Military Gameplay.

I conclude with my comrades on the Imperialist side of the spectrum, that I've said much more than this guide has and in many less words.

That's still an outstanding guide. I thought it was exceptional when it first came out. My point was that there's little sense in "You suck!" flavored posts if people aren't willing to step up. All that's required is a link.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

And, amazingly enough, that guide is actually linked in this one....

Part 1: Basic Knowledge

To understand the advanced concepts in this guide, you must first create a strong foundation of basic fundamentals. The best source for establishing this is this thread. If you are new to Raiding/Defending, you may want to read the entire thread. However, if you know how delegates are elected, how regional influence works, etc., please skip to "Part V, Tactics".
Please read the thread carefully before proceeding.

[Port blood]

No. This is about making it as easy to learn as possible. I've been in numerous regions and organizations.

This is merely a general foundation. It is open to discussion. If you have a better opinion, share it, and I may edit it in.

Sooooo,just because you have been in numerous regions and organization you have authority on this subjects?

I. If you are a Founder or Delegate, create a regional puppet storage. If you are a member of a region, locate your puppet storage facility.
II. Create 10 puppets, with your main nation's flag (for high ranking officials), or the region's flag (for lower ranking members). All 10 puppets should have the same email address (a new, throwaway email address is suggested). It is also recommended that you block recruitment telegrams and all issues on these puppets, but this does not affect results in any way.

You're not a raider,you're like my old friend "a obvious spy",but then without the comedic effect

Do you seriously think puppets with TBH,TBR,TEK or any other flags wont be spotted right away?

The Eternal Knights also use a third method, designed by me myself, called "stealth switching". This is a difficult but powerful technique that combines elements of both of the above methods, as well as weeks of preparation, into one powerful method that can be used to fully seize several regions in an update, regardless of size, and gain access to Border Controls at the same time. We plan on using it to destroy regions permanently, but have not perfected it yet to standardize it and record it in this document, and is therefore currently classified.

please remove this,stop promoting your own group in a general help thread

[RiderSyl]

This is a grab for attention, dressed up like a R/D guide.

If TEK's news thread hadn't dropped off the face of the earth, this post wouldn't exist.

[Nephmir]

Oh, is that what my motives and intentions are? Thanks for clearing that up for me!

[Charax]

This is a grab for attention, dressed up like a R/D guide.

If TEK's news thread hadn't dropped off the face of the earth, this post wouldn't exist.

I sort of wish we'd sated their cravings for attention now.

[Port blood]

where did the TEK thread go anyways?

[Charax]

To the darkest depths of the archives, hopefully.

Probably on page 2 or 3 though.

[Port blood]

Oh,there it is,it disappeared from my "view my posts" overview as well

[Nephmir]

I decided to let it die, and stopped posting reports. I'll create a new one eventually.

[Cerian Quilor]

And, amazingly enough, that guide is actually linked in this one....

Part 1: Basic Knowledge

To understand the advanced concepts in this guide, you must first create a strong foundation of basic fundamentals. The best source for establishing this is this thread. If you are new to Raiding/Defending, you may want to read the entire thread. However, if you know how delegates are elected, how regional influence works, etc., please skip to "Part V, Tactics".
Please read the thread carefully before proceeding.

Then why this one? Because that one is actually better.

[Nephmir]

Because the other guide fails to explain step by step.

[Charax]

Step by step training can't effectively be taught from a guide written by someone who barely knows what they themselves are doing. It should be taught at update by people with experience and an in depth knowledge of the sub-game.

[Nephmir]

I agree, but it doesn't.

[Nephmir]

There are new regional contests/awards in the first few posts.

[SFBA wabbitslayah]

There are new regional contests/awards in the first few posts.

This will not get you glory and respect.

[SkyDip]

There are new regional contests/awards in the first few posts.

This will not get you glory and respect.

Furthermore, it is nothing short of hilarious that your group is attempting to buy out more experienced military minds with a stamp bribe just to improve your little guide.

[Leutria]

This will not get you glory and respect.

Furthermore, it is nothing short of hilarious that your group is attempting to buy out more experienced military minds with a stamp bribe just to improve your little guide.

I think you read that backwards. They go to regions that improve their R/D game using this guide, not to people who improve the guide.

[SkyDip]

Furthermore, it is nothing short of hilarious that your group is attempting to buy out more experienced military minds with a stamp bribe just to improve your little guide.

I think you read that backwards. They go to regions that improve their R/D game using this guide, not to people who improve the guide.

I read correctly, typed wrong. Furthermore, it is nothing short of hilarious that your group is attempting to buy out less-experienced military minds with a stamp bribe just to use your little guide.

[Leutria]

I hope that "your group" wasn't directed at me. I have nothing to do with this mediocre guide xD

[Nephmir]

There are new regional contests/awards in the first few posts.

This will not get you glory and respect.

I'm not even going to start.

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My goal is to help the smaller regions that want to have a military, but can't. You can't just foolishly assume what my intentions are based on a completely irrelevant topic. Furthermore, My region has nothing to do with this, this is my own project.

If you can do better, then please do. My goal is to help people before they fall to the UDL or TBR, so showing me up by making a better guide just helps me further advance towards this goal. The telegram stamps are simply encouragement to help build up the forces of small regions.

Useless attacks, on the other hand, don't accomplish anything for anyone.

[SFBA wabbitslayah]

This will not get you glory and respect.

I'm not even going to start.

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My goal is to help the smaller regions that want to have a military, but can't. You can't just foolishly assume what my intentions are based on a completely irrelevant topic. Furthermore, My region has nothing to do with this, this is my own project.

If you can do better, then please do. My goal is to help people before they fall to the UDL or TBR, so showing me up by making a better guide just helps me further advance towards this goal. The telegram stamps are simply encouragement to help build up the forces of small regions.

Useless attacks, on the other hand, don't accomplish anything for anyone.

Nah.

[Charax]

This will not get you glory and respect.

I'm not even going to start.

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My goal is to help the smaller regions that want to have a military, but can't. You can't just foolishly assume what my intentions are based on a completely irrelevant topic. Furthermore, My region has nothing to do with this, this is my own project.

If you can do better, then please do. My goal is to help people before they fall to the UDL or TBR, so showing me up by making a better guide just helps me further advance towards this goal. The telegram stamps are simply encouragement to help build up the forces of small regions.

Useless attacks, on the other hand, don't accomplish anything for anyone.

Way to not start.

[Strawberry Express]

Seeing as how the Pipes tool I devised for gathering update times got such a poor review:

The fact that you are linking to a Red Fleet pipes application to find out when regions update is just too much. I had to stop.

and is apparently so useless I thought I would share how a pro raider does it:

Man(y) people have written up guides to this. And here I'll go again!

1) Create a nation! Now this may seem obvious but you need to do it. If you want to do a sneaky raid and hope to fly under the radar, this has to look as normal as possible.
2) Decide your target! Choose where you would like to raid and also find out when it updates. There are a few more advanced tools to do this but the easiest way is to check to see if any of the nations have answered issues in the region₍₁₎. Find out what time the the issue turned and bingo! You know when the region updates and the time you need to get in by (may vary which is why triggers are nice but we'll cover that later...maybe)
3) Move your nation! Put your nation in a region that updates LATER (can also figure this out via the daily dump) than what your target does. Again you want your movements to look as normal as possible to look through some of your recruitment telegrams and see if any of those regions update later. This may make it look more normal.
4)Organize! Set the time of the raid (major or minor update? Day of the week?) and get this out to your troops, make sure their nations are clean and the like. Also make sure you all have an interface to be on during the raid, (Skype, Yahoo? Is Yahoo still a thing? Just use Skype) and get everyone logged on and have each other's contacts.
5) Check! Make sure you will have enough endorsements (Remember you have a point and then troops. So if 6 troops enter a region, there will only be 5 endorsements on the lead) that you can overtake the current delegate. You need one more than s/he has.
6) Optional, kind of, Trigger! You're going to go look in the daily dump₍₂₎. Find the nations of the region you are looking to raid and you're going to have to count back nations from there. Each nation takes .031 seconds to update so a 15 second trigger would take 484 nations back. Put the trigger nation in that region and remember how long you have. You're going to set up this trigger to answer an issue. Once you see the issue take effect during update, you now have the amount of seconds you determined before, until your target region updates.
7) Wait for your trigger or your estimated time! Have your troops all ready in chat, with their mouses hovering over the move nation to region button and if you're not pre endorsing (pre endorsing is more obvious to defenders and thus can be avoided if you want to be stealthy) a page open to the lead nation who will be taking the delegacy. Once you see your trigger update, or the time approaching...
8 ) GO! Give the go command and move in! Take the region!
9) (if you didn't pre endorse) Endorse! Endorse who you want to be taking the lead.
10) Wait until the region updates. The easiest way to tell this is to answer an issue before the raid. So when the issue takes effect, you updated!
11) Check...again! Are you still waiting to update? Well you probably missed or got your time wrong and went in a minute early. Best option here is to wait. Did you update but you're not delegate?! Well then you didn't get enough endorsements in on time. Are you Delegate?! Well put up a new WFE, close embassies, set one up with your region, post on the RMB and in the gameplay forums! Yeah.
12) Celebrate! Even if you missed, good job for trying and you'll get better next time. Every person's first raid conducted by themselves is a shit show. But you get better.

This has been Raiding with Venico! Also I always suggest triggering. It's much more accurate than guessing on variables. Any questions, contact me. *tips hat*

<sub>1. Which is what the Pipes tool does - check the code:
Results from Pipes:
Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:35:59 -0800
Following new legislation in The Socialist Republic of Dada Nouveau , the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit

Results from RSS "National Happenings Feed" for The Socialist Republic of Dada Nouveau:
<item>
<title>Following new legislation in The Socialist Republic of Dada Nouveau, the alarmingly racist TV show &#x27;Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things&#x27; is a hit</title>
<link>http://www.nationstates.net/nation=dada_nouveau</link>
<description>Following new legislation in &#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://www.nationstates.net/nation=dada_nouveau&#x22; class=&#x22;nlink&#x22;&#x3E;&#x3C;span&#x3E;The Socialist Republic of Dada Nouveau&#x3C;/span&#x3E;&#x3C;/a&#x3E;, the alarmingly racist TV show &#x27;Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things&#x27; is a hit</description>
<guid isPermaLink="false">dada_nouveau-NH-1394343359-233</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2014 21:35:59 -0800</pubDate>
</item>

Results from NS "Bation"API query http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/api ... happenings:
<EVENT>
<TIMESTAMP>1394343359</TIMESTAMP>
<TEXT>
Following new legislation in @@dada_nouveau@@, the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit.
</TEXT>
</EVENT>

Results from NS "region"API query http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/api ... happenings
<REGION id="communist_beach">
<HAPPENINGS>
<EVENT>
<TIMESTAMP>1394329383</TIMESTAMP>
<TEXT>
@@daukulis_country@@ removed @@the_soviet_motherland@@ from the regional ban list.
</TEXT>
</EVENT>
<EVENT>
<TIMESTAMP>1394329355</TIMESTAMP>
<TEXT>
@@daukulis_country@@ banned @@ardoanica@@ from the region.
</TEXT>
</EVENT>
<EVENT>
<TIMESTAMP>1394300359</TIMESTAMP>
<TEXT>@@dada_nouveau@@ arrived from %%osiris%%.</TEXT>
</EVENT>
<EVENT>

2. Or you could refer to the Moruna listing which happens to provide, in the last column, the rank of any given region, i.e. its number in the update cycle
Raiding region 300? Put your trigger in region #278 and station your WA in any region #301 +</sub>

I would love to be able to predict the exact time of a regions update to a tenth of a second and share with you how to do it, but without access to the "more advanced tools" alluded to I'm afraid this is the best I can do. Even NS++ cannot provide more accurate times and Afforness is much more adept at code than I!

Perhaps Skydip would care to share with the class his oh so superior method of determining update times?

The "tools" were never meant to do the job of raiding/defending for you (where's the fun in that?) merely to reduce the tedious process of data gathering - to filter it if you like.

How that data is interpreted and used is up to the recipient

Still you now have the Big Boys way of doing it so there should be no excuses right

_{PS Dada nouveau may or may not be an Osirian sleeper}