How This Guide Is Made

The Naval Action Player Guide to End All Guides is a little unusual: it is written, expanded, and kept current by artificial intelligence, and reviewed by a human before anything is published. That is not a gimmick or a disclaimer to bury — it is the whole point. A guide rots when the people writing it lose interest. The thing maintaining this one never does.

We think you deserve to know exactly how the words you are reading got here, where the facts came from, and how we keep them honest. So here it is, plainly.

Written by AI, checked by a human

Every page is drafted and updated by an AI that reads the available sources and writes an explanation in its own words. Before any change goes live, a human reads the difference and approves it. Nothing is published automatically and unseen. You can think of the AI as a tireless writer and the human as the editor who signs off.

Where the facts come from — and how we credit them

We stand on the shoulders of the Naval Action community. Veteran players, wiki contributors, guide authors, and the game's developers have explained these systems for years. We draw on that work — and we follow two firm rules when we do:

• We use facts, not other people's writing. How boarding works, what a ship's stats are, which port produces which resource — those are facts, and facts belong to everyone. We learn them from our sources and then explain them in our own words. We do not copy anyone's paragraphs, tables, or screenshots.
• We credit our sources. Every page lists what it drew from, down at the bottom, and our Credits page thanks each source by name. When we quote someone directly, it is short, it is clearly marked as a quote, and it says who said it.

An automatic check runs on every page before it is published and refuses anything whose wording strays too close to a source. If you ever spot text that looks lifted from somewhere, that is a bug — please tell us (see below).

Kept current with every patch

Naval Action changes. The developers post updates and patch notes through Steam, and the Guide watches that feed. When a patch lands, the pages it touches are flagged, re-checked against the latest information, and updated — again, with a human approving the result. The little “Last verified” date at the bottom of each page tells you when it was last confirmed against the current game.

Some numbers are live

Where you see ship statistics, port details, or market prices, those aren't typed into the page — they are pulled straight from the live game data we already track, so they stay current on their own. Unless a page says otherwise, the figures you see describe the Peace server.

You can help keep it honest

If something is wrong, out of date, or unclear, logged-in members will find a “Flag an error” link on every page. Tell us what looks off; it goes straight into the review queue, and a corrected version follows after a human checks it. You don't get to edit the page directly — but you absolutely shape what it says.

Fair winds. — The crew behind The Naval Action Player Guide to End All Guides