so how do you want us going about any revision / comments on already created sections.

I was reading over the Base and Tower Intro and where you say it is imperative that the melee barracks be attacked first.
i wouldn't say imperative but STRONGLY preferred. if for some reason the majority of creeps are attacking the ranged, and you are about to get seriously counter pushed, i would rather get the ranged than leave 2 standing.

Since the document is basically a very long research paper to me I need to be able to keep track on all of the changes that are made so I don't get lost or confused or have something overlooked. Small revisions can be posted here and I'll change them. If someone contributes large sections of information I'll add them as an editor.

Keep in mind that this isn't the final format for the information, so there's nothing stopping people from creating their own documents which will be incorporated into the wordpress site. I'd just like to keep control of my own document for my sanity.

The only thing we need to adhere to is the structure that I've outlined. If someone wants to claim a section, they can just let me know and I'll put their name in the outline.

DotA Basic Theory and Techniques

How to earn Gold?
Gold is the primary resource in DotA, you need it throughout the game to purchase stronger and better items as the game progresses and buyback your life should you need too. There for its handy to understand what gold is, and how you can obtain it.

Passive Gold Gain
Every hero on the map gains 0.8 gold every second, or 5 gold every 4 seconds. This is a fixed amount for everyone.

Reliable and Unreliable Gold
I figured I would explain what these terms mean before going into it more. These terms are more for the advanced players however its good to keep in mind what it means for you.

Gold can be split into two categories:

-Reliable gold - Any bounty you get from hero kills is added to your reliable gold pool.
-Unreliable gold - Everything else (Towers, Roshan, Creepscore)

The difference between the two (except from how each is earned) is how each one is spent:

-Dying can only take away gold from your unreliable gold pool and not from your reliable gold.
-Buying items uses up your unreliable gold first before using your reliable gold.
-Buyback uses reliable gold first.

Last Hits
Last hitting is one of the most important skill to master in DotA, because it will be a large portion of your gold through out the game. Last hitting literally means getting the killing blow on creeps, towers and heroes. Doing so will grant you the bounty on said creep wich will be added to your unreliable gold with the exception of hero kills.

Towers
Towers will provide your entire team with gold if destroyed, and they also have a bounty on it. If you last hit the tower you will obtain a large portion of this bounty, however if you let your creeps destroy it it will split the bounty evenly among your team. Use your judgement wether to last hit or not.

Items and Skills
There are 3 skills and 1 item that provide extra gold for you.

-Hand of Midas- Will provide a static 190 reliable gold bounty whenever used on a creep.
-Doombringer Devour- Will consume a creep and digest it, providing 40/60/80/100 unreliable gold.
-Alchemist Goblin Greed- Grants 2/4/6/8 +2 per creep kill in the last 20 seconds, this is capped at 26 extra gold per kill
-Bounty Hunter Track- Grants 150/200/250 gold per kill, or 50/100/150 to allies. (This only applies to enemy heroes)


=Edit: All I remember so far, feel free to edit or comment if I made mistakes anywhere, did have the wiki up to help so I at least got correct info=

I'm definitely getting a bit burnt out writing these guides. Any help will be appreciated.

I almost have the intro finished as outlined in my google doc.

i'm done my exams april 10th. i will def take some work off your hands then

I'll work on this tonight. Gonna have some time on my hands in the near future, should be able to knock most of it out. I'll probably throw up a google doc to start getting the information categorized and organized as well.

The rough draft of the intro section is complete, aside from the terminology which we will build over time. Now I need to reread, edit, add pictures, and then its ready to be published.

I'll get you publishing rights on the WordPress side of things tonight.

Thanks,

Doesn't Love have WP access already? Major Oops on our part if not haha.

I had some limited access before, but I think its now fully there. How do you want me to add these? Do you want me to just put them in a new category?

I'll check it.

Love you're going to want to make pages and link them together via Wordpress links. You can also nest pages which I've already done and its easy if you just follow what I did.

I only have the authority to make posts, and not pages. You aren't referring to posts, right?

Well we took care of that.

Awesome. I'll work on this as soon as the item database is finished.