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Warsaurus
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States19 Posts
April 24 2011 00:07 GMT
#1
Having played Starcraft II for around a month or two after it came out, and then slowly given it up for other games, I’ve decided to return, and hopefully stick with the game. That said, I have some basic knowledge, and basic understandings, so I won’t be learning the game from scratch.

I have not set a ‘goal’ yet. I need to, as a goal is very important for determining progress, and etc, etc. I would like the goal to be ‘Progress to X league’ but the more thought I give to this, the more I find that this is not the type of goal I need to set out for. So a long-term goal, has not been found. However I will have many short term goals.

For example, I plan to track my wins/losses daily. This will be a measure of improvement. If I play 10 games on Monday, and win 3. And then I play 10 games on Tuesday and win 5. I will see obvious progress. Of course there is the downfall of the matching system. If on Monday 7 of my games were against Diamond players, it will be much harder to compare to Tuesday, where I played Silver and Bronze.

From here on out, after this short introduction, I hope to write these blog posts as a sort of ‘diary’ [Silence! It is a Manly diary for Manly Men playing Starcraft II….Just go with it! =) ] So it will be more first person and retrospective than this introduction is.

I haven't decided on a standard format for any of the blog posts either. Perhaps give me ideas after the first few posts as to what information you would prefer on each game.

So, having said all of this, I have my coffee next to me, some cough drops for this terrible cold I have, Starcraft II opened in another tab, and a few days of no obligations ahead of me. It’s time to play the game. [Which you just lost...sorry. =) ]

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ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
April 24 2011 00:15 GMT
#2
The way you track progress is incorrect. Of course if you win ore you think you are getting better but in actuality the matchmaking system tries to get you to 50/50. If you have a higher win % for the day, that means you are in a better mode that day compared to others, not necessarily make progress. Because MMR is not shown, progress is hard to measure and points tell you almost nothing.

To view progress I suggest looking at how you play, how nicely you are hitting timings and using hotekys, keeping money low etc.

Anyways, good luck!
Jaedong :3
Wohmfg
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1292 Posts
April 24 2011 00:20 GMT
#3
I think you should be wary when trying to measure progress. Starcraft is a game that has so many different aspects to it, some of which takes months to improve. For the first few months I'd say it would be wise to make your goal simply "try and improve". Watch replays, play as much as you can, analyse your mistakes and correct them. Don't get hung up on how many wins or losses you have per day. For one, it's such a small sample size that it's not a good measure of skill over a short period of time. You could get cheesed 5 times in one day but still have played the best Starcraft you've ever played and come out with a losing record.

You won't actually know what you need to work on unless you start analysing your own game.
BW4Life!
apocriva
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada66 Posts
April 24 2011 04:57 GMT
#4
I've set a goal of trying to keep my bonus pool near-zero. With a full time job and family, my biggest roadblock to getting better at SC2 is simply not playing enough, so I'm hoping my goal just encourages me to play more! Improving will happen naturally if I can just play the game.

Best of luck!
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