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StarCraft 2 Beta |OT| (Beta Now Reopen, GL HF)
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PhoenixDark
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Changed name to StonyJackson.pdark (my brother shares account)
Getting my ass kicked in the bronze league lmao. Before the patch I was at the top of the silver league, almost to gold. But since the patch came out I've constantly been swamped regardless of which race I play against. Won my last few games tonight, but jeez the competition level is ridiculous.
Getting my ass kicked in the bronze league lmao. Before the patch I was at the top of the silver league, almost to gold. But since the patch came out I've constantly been swamped regardless of which race I play against. Won my last few games tonight, but jeez the competition level is ridiculous.
Shambles said:
Yeah nice to know the hard numbers, but I really don't think you have to count your gatherers all that much. Aside from the 3 per gas rule, you can generally glance at a base for a couple seconds and tell whether you have it saturated.
I typically just keep pumping workers and grab expansions to give them something to do, at least till you get your 3rd base halfway saturated, as which point your main should be running out and you can transfer them and try to grab a 4th base.
You can almost never get to 3 per node on your primary anyway, by the time you do, the thing should be about mined out anyway.
TurtleSnatcher
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Yea I know for sure that 4 out of 5 of my placement matches in 1v1 were GS Preorder guys..
Walling in with 3 supply depots.. then i bust in and he has 5 scvs.
Walling in with 3 supply depots.. then i bust in and he has 5 scvs.
Ferrio said:
I use colossus mostly, backed up with sentries for shield and forcefield and stalkers to help out, maybe a couple immortals to soak some damage.. Psi storm is probably more efficient, but I'm not good enough at micro yet to hit with it consistently, and its a bit further up the tech tree anyway.
Sucks not having a gateway unit that can hold up vs them(although in decent numbers sentries and stalkers can do ok, and zealots with charge may be useful), but you should probably get a robo fac asap vs terran anyway to avoid bancheese.
hey guys, check out this replay of myself and misteranderson in a 2v2. i got proxy rax'ed in my own base and had to flee to my nat, and somehow we were able to defend against wave after wave of attacks, and then we come back to win it with a nuke to his face 
its a bit long...but hey, i liked it. maybe the best game ive been apart of, skill wise with the counters and MisterAnderson's micro.
http://bit.ly/bMC0DE
its a bit long...but hey, i liked it. maybe the best game ive been apart of, skill wise with the counters and MisterAnderson's micro.
http://bit.ly/bMC0DE
mcrae said:
looking over this, i dont understand why you would go 2 per node? sure you get more out of each worker, but you still come out ahead if you do 3 per node, at least if you dont have an expansion and you want more money. for example, on the gold patches, it actually comes out dead even if you take into the account the workers cost, but after that you are getting an extra 200 a minute, which isnt a lot but still.
only reason i can see you doing 2 per node is if you are supply constrained. but hey, build a depot with that extra 200
valenti said:
It sounds like you were hacked man. That's exactly what happened to me when my account got hacked a couple weeks ago(they stole my characters and gear in WoW). I had to download a form from Blizzard, fill it out, attach a picture ID and send it back to Blizzard just to get them to remove the authenticator. Once I got it back I got an authenticator of my own so I don't have to worry about that anymore.
Also all this business about 2 workers per mineral node. Do I actually have to spread them out myself? Or if I make 16 workers on an 8 node mineral spot will they spread themselves out?
Aesthet1c said:
I think they spread themselves out. The test I ran I just assigned all the workers to 1 mineral patch and they split themselves.
As for the 2 v 3 workers per patch. I think just knowing the differences between 2 and 3 per patch are useful.
If you are going with a gas heavy build to start then you might want to stick to 2 workers per so you can have that extra cash to put into gas production or units, and then move toward 3 workers per patch when you start preparing to expand. Where as if your build needs max minerals, then you need to get to 3 per patch as your goal to get the 'most minerals per second' return.
The map I played on had 10 mineral patches so the difference in the cost of 3 per patch versus 2 per patch is 10 workers at 50 min + 2 pylons for supply (200 min). So that total cost is 700 minerals. That 700 can go toward units/upgrades for your offensive push. Of course that is if you are doing a build that doesn't need max minerals.
But just knowing the differences allow you to tweak your worker count to better fit your plan. Or at least that is how it works out in theory in my mind.
But I am not good enough or experienced enough to say. I have all of 12 or so games under my belt.
valenti said:For some reason I got the authenticator on my sejin account so I will be using valenti.valenti for a while
That happened to me a week or two ago, i emailed blizzard and they asked for my bnet email, secret question and answer, and WoW CD key (thats the only game i had on the account, so they might ask for other games)
It took them two days for them to take it off. I'm sure if you called blizz they would remove it instantly.
Hackers are putting authenticators on bnet accounts so they can access it much longer, they pillaged my wow account, but i really don't care. I got a free month of wow time from it so whatever.
There is a tournament for Silver league players and below running over at gosucoaching.com.
A little info:
More info located here: http://www.gosucoaching.com/content/silver-stars-4-roar
Just thought I would mention it to all my fellow low level playa's.
A little info:
More info located here: http://www.gosucoaching.com/content/silver-stars-4-roar
Just thought I would mention it to all my fellow low level playa's.
maniac-kun
Member
is there any tutorial on the editor yet?
You'te not alone! I am basically losing all of my matches. zero wins. And you could pre-order the game for it's single-player and amazing custom games (mods, dota, etc.), the heart of casual starcraft.Adent said:I hate you guys. Why are you so good. I'm in the copper league and I'm getting my ass whooped consistently. I already want to cancel my preorder.
MeshuggahMan
Member
Calantus said:
Definitely. I wonder if they factor in how much you won or lost by. That would probably help a lot in determining your correct placement.
Adent said:I hate you guys. Why are you so good. I'm in the copper league and I'm getting my ass whooped consistently. I already want to cancel my preorder.
If you haven't played a lot of Copper matches yet then I wouldn't be too concerned. There are people throwing matches intentionally just so they can get put in copper and mop up. So some of those matches aren't against true copper level players.
Try to find out what enemy units are giving you the most trouble and ask in this thread for some help on how to handle that unit.
As a new player ( I don't know how new you are ) the biggest thing is to have an actual plan, and don't let money build up in your bank. So if you look up and see you have 700 minerals now you know how to spend it because you have a plan/goal. So if my plan is to mass Zealots, I look up and see 700 minerals then I will throw down another gateway, or start an attack upgrade, etc. So having a plan will help direct your actions when you get overwhelmed mentally. Also if I am going mass zealot, then I don't need gas. So I might not build a assimelator and probes to mine gas. That saves me 250 minerals which is another 2 zealots for my attack. So you can see having just a basic thought out plan can make a difference.
There are far better players in this thread so maybe they can chime in and help you out if you post specifics.
Cheeto said:
Is this what you are asking for?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=20918204&postcount=11057
watervengeance
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Currently 7/8 W/L ratio in the Bronze division
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Wow, I just won 4 games in a row using a Stalker rush strategy with the Protoss. I'm surprised at how powerful these guys for being available so early.
Ashhong said:
It's because each worker costs 50 min so you end up coming behind once you add the cost o the additional 8 workers. If you are cornered in, or are waiting for a new nexus/CC/hatch to build in your expansion it is worth it and what I have switched to doing, but otherwise you'll come out with more money in the end if you only build 2/node, or expand to a new base if you are > 2/node.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Sorry to laugh valenti..valenti said:
But the other gaffer was mint.. :lol
His account was compromised because he downloaded that hack which was a keylog/trojan and the person who stole it tried locking it with an authenticator. Blizz fixed it for him.