ST: BATSUGUN!

[Randorama]

Thank you for replying so quickly!~

This is a bit of text, but it does not concern just this game, but info in general.

Actually, I posted this, not to ask you to change anything, but so that there is more info for newer players to the game to find @_@"...

I urge you to keep this thread around, it really has been super helpful to me!~

It is natural, I think, that with enough time, new strategy and new information will always be discovered, but that does not always make old wisdom suddenly useless or irrelevant I feel ^_^"...

If old information is always deleted, I think we also lose the history and steps on how each STG is learned.

At the end of the day, a lot of strategies, routes, etc, is a collective effort of the whole community which we all discuss and learn from each other over the years.

And I never believe in older information becoming "obsolete" because sometimes newer routes have higher skill ceiling and older routes maybe safer for either live stream event or newer player.

Please think about it! Thank you!~

(Edit: P.S. I also wanted to say, this thread, was a lot more helpful than the Shmups Wiki!)

Well, you could open a new thread with updated information and cure the thread for posterity, so to speak. All of my STs were originally designed as drafts that would have been removed once someone with actual expertise on the game would have been able to write a proper ST. For instance, I once opened an ST for Raiden DX that was just a collection of random notes reporting incorrect information, and that inspired SaucyKobold to write a technically impeccable ST for the game, to take the place of my old and obsolete ST. Having STs to stick around when they are not accurate anymore may be historically interesting ("Oh, when did we first have some documents on this game?") but might also be misleading (see the wrong instructions that you mention). Wikis usually report accurate information on their main webpages, and history of edits in the "history" file; we do not have this tool here.

If you want, you can copy and paste the ST and open a new ST thread for it. I will delete this and the other STs for the aforementioned reasons. Perhaps, you may update the wiki directly and open a new ST using the wiki as a main reference, too. Or maybe, the "shmups historians" (three cheers for self-attributed titles!) behind the shmups wiki can think of yet another solution. Outside a handful of threads from which I also extract the shmups reviews, I have no desire to maintain other threads on the forum. Younger generations could take this responsibility, take flak because people constantly complain about imperfections in documents involving unpaid work and generally learn how unpleasant is to deal with childish attitudes. I do research for a living, so I am willing to take flak at minimal rate per hour, PayPal payments accepted.