This week at Starglade we are proud to present an article by our first guest writer. For those of you who are looking forward to Dragon Empires (from Codemasters), he will need no introduction. He's been writing a regular column on Stratics called Empire Echoes, where he writes articles ranging from informative descriptions of game features in Dragon Empires to his own thoughts on various issues in MMORPGs. This week at Starglade, Rob Charney shares his thoughts on data collection.