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The Get a Clue! Archive

These pages are maintained by Frank Niessink.
Last updated on 12 jul 1996.

Introduction Clue is the word that Netrek players use to indicate how much understanding one has of the game. Players that know what to do in different situations are considered cluefull, players that fool around are often called clueless twinks. These pages contain articles and notes that might help you to raise your clue-level.

A word of thanks to the people that contributed knowingly or unknowingly to this collection. If you feel something is missing or you have a piece of your own work that fits in here, please contact me.

General articles Get a clue: Tips for beginners and clues. Tips from the DrD.
How to help your team win, by Bert Enderton.

Strategy The basics of Netrek strategy and different possible strategies are discussed by FillInTheBlank in Netrek Strategies.

Tactics Other authors express their opinions on the usability of different tactics in different situations:
Last Planet Stand (LPS).
Tactical Starbase Ogg.
Scout dropping.
Scout bombing.
Overtime Tactics.
Using a frontline StarBase.
Where to base.
A space control algorithm.

Skills Notes on skills that are necessary to be(come) a cluefull Netrek player:
Planet taking.
Plasma.
Phaser locking.
How to base.

State of mind Zen and the art of Netrek? Maybe. But it is clear that to be a winner, a team needs more than players with good individual skills.
Useful.
Patience.
Oneness.

Other Clue Sites/Sources Red Shirt's guides to Netrek.
KIA's Clue Guide.
If you're from Europe be sure to subscribe to the euroclue mailinglist. The address of the mailinglist is: euroclue-l@risc.uni-linz.ac.at. To subsribe send a mail to: listserv@risc.uni-linz.ac.at with in the body:
SUBSCRIBE EUROCLUE-L <your_handle>
The newsgroup about Netrek: rec.games.netrek.

Miscellaneous Stuff that didn't fit in any other category. Probably because it has nothing to do with clue.
Ship statistics.
Clue ranking.
How to piss off clue.
Explanation of INL stats.
Network traffic generated by Netrek: Bytes per second and Packet length distribution.