Returning to SC1

I'll keep this short, because a post like this is not worthy of a long tirade. During SC2 beta I was able to play at a high level fairly quickly, and noticed my apm was reaching an average of 180 in my solo games where I put in some effort. Apm is not measured to actual game speed in SC2, so its safe to assume my actual apm was 200-220 apm. In Warcraft 3, I was a pretty low apm player, 160-180 usually. In Starcraft: Brood War was more around 140-160.

It kind of let me confused how I could be so bad at Brood War STILL after almost 2 years of "casual" play when I was able to get to upper echelon ability in SC2 with no effort. Yea, SC2 is ez mode but why can't I use all my apm to conquer BW's "high skill ceiling." Should Single Building Selection and Lack of AutoMine really make that much of a difference?

No, it's because of everything BUT that. I tried playing the game again the last few days and was reminded why the game can be so difficult, because the ability to gain skill is not limited by your mechanical ability, your strategical ability, or anything in between. It's limited by your ability to overcome the horrendous AI and BUGS that plague it. Since some of you have bad memory's, I'm going to list all the @@*! that happens in less than 10 games that reduce my apm from 200 to 140. This was everything I encountered in just 6 games. SIX GAMES WTF.

1) Rebound clicking too slow, command doesn't get issued
2) Money spent AFTER construction, not when issued
3) Dragoons not attacking when animation cool down is reached
4) Dragoons not moving at all
5) Dragoons not caring you want them to unbug while spamming H or S
6) Dragoon pathing
7) All unit pathing
8) Worker pathing
9) Archon not moving where I tell it to
10) Archon jumping through minerals
11) Reavers on attack move running striaght into cannons
12) Reavers shooting duds
13) Reavers not even attacking with 6 lings in front of them and full clip of scarabs
14) @@*! randomly missing YES ALL UNITS HAVE RANDOM CHANCE TO MISS WHEN NOT EVEN NEAR A HIGH GROUND APPARENTLY
15) Iccup decides not to give lan latency even tho everyone has antihack
16) People dropping every game on iccup
17) Only south americans ever online on iccup, they LAG
18) Units getting stuck when they come out of gateways
19) SCVS being in your way when you want to build
20) Having to wait an hour for ur damn probe to build a pylon. You want to warp in 2 pylons or multiple gateways? Wait 5 seconds for each command after you tell it to warp one in if you want any organization.

Example of why am I a bad terrible C- Protoss:

You have 14 goons you want to move down a ramp. You right click the area near your natural. Suddenly one of them bugs on your ramp, You press H on it then tell it to move down the ramp. The rest of your goons are all of your base now running in circles. You tell them to go back down but one of the ones you grouped before is coming back up, you try to send it away but its bugging out and they're all bugging out and u want them to just go down your god damn ramp. But more goons are coming out of ur gatways that u swear were placed perfect and then they bug out the goons even more trying to get somewhere the other goons want to get to and they have AI bugging war unless they're already stuck between your buildings. There's 40 seconds of you clicking your goons all over the place. Then a ton of lings pour in and u cant even micro your goons cuz of 250 ms delay and half of them arent even attacking cuz Iccup doesnt even want to give u latency even tho u both have Antihack after u move them back and ur reaver decides to just walk around instead of shooting at anything even though u told it to attack move. So yea u 1a2a3a but u didnt left go of left click before u pressed 3a so group 2 of ur goons arent even attacking and everything else is bugging everywhere going bonkers. Well theres 140 seconds of you trying to micro your units and NOTHING working and you did manage to hit your macro cycles. Then the game freezes cuz ur using Windows 7.