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Grr, my macro sucks!

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Yew
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States940 Posts
August 04 2011 08:20 GMT
#1
Man, I'm so sick of being bad at macro. I wish I was grandmaster (because I will play faster ) but seriously, I get supply blocked a lot, and my main problem is when I go to attack my resources sky rocket lol. I always get at least 1k/1k and then when I notice it, mentally I go "oh this looks bad" and then I queue up 5 colossi and make a bunch of units to make my money go lower xD I have been playing platinum players though recently (I'm gold, #1 ranked) so that might be the reason why I feel so bad lol. Hopefully with some more playtime I can get better My main goal is to get to masters by the end of the year! So hopefully I can achieve that! FIGHTING!

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Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
August 04 2011 08:22 GMT
#2
Just keep playing the game. If you're having fun you'll be fine.
20/11/2015 - never forget EE's Ember
Yew
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States940 Posts
August 04 2011 08:32 GMT
#3
On August 04 2011 17:22 Alpino wrote:
Just keep playing the game. If you're having fun you'll be fine.

Yeah, i'm having a lot of fun with it I wish I could play longer though, I can only sit and play like 3 hours max without wanting to get on TL.net and just watch some streams. I just did my placements yesterday and got into gold, and then worked my way up to #1 in a day so I'd say that's pretty good progress I also played some customs vs. my plat friends and that was fun. Hopefully I can stay focused through the school year though. Last year I didn't play very often because I would come home and just watch streams, so I want to stay focused.
Ardhimas
Profile Joined March 2011
Indonesia75 Posts
August 04 2011 08:32 GMT
#4
If there's anything, learn to a move and go back to macroing. Even if you run your 10 sentries into lings without a single one making a forcefield, you're improving your macro, which is more important in the long run that winning that one game.
"Damn, you are like a man-bear-girl with those hands." - Qzy
boon2537
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States905 Posts
August 04 2011 08:36 GMT
#5
Take a look at this UMS
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=250917

I never try it, but it looks like an awesome tool to help you improve your macro.
Divine110
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States22 Posts
August 04 2011 08:39 GMT
#6
Im a plat protoss and my macro.. is not the best ... but i like to grab some people from a reddit chat channel and play them 1v1 and only focus on not getting supply blocked and multitasking i still hit that 1k/1k but i do it mainly in those intense micro situations :D just keep at it.. i know i am
I AM Divine <3
Lyter
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United Kingdom2145 Posts
August 04 2011 09:03 GMT
#7
On August 04 2011 17:32 Yew wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 17:22 Alpino wrote:
Just keep playing the game. If you're having fun you'll be fine.

Yeah, i'm having a lot of fun with it I wish I could play longer though, I can only sit and play like 3 hours max without wanting to get on TL.net and just watch some streams. I just did my placements yesterday and got into gold, and then worked my way up to #1 in a day so I'd say that's pretty good progress I also played some customs vs. my plat friends and that was fun. Hopefully I can stay focused through the school year though. Last year I didn't play very often because I would come home and just watch streams, so I want to stay focused.


3 hours is pretty good, after pretty much every game i tab out for a few min and surf
Yew
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States940 Posts
August 04 2011 09:03 GMT
#8
On August 04 2011 18:03 Lyter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 17:32 Yew wrote:
On August 04 2011 17:22 Alpino wrote:
Just keep playing the game. If you're having fun you'll be fine.

Yeah, i'm having a lot of fun with it I wish I could play longer though, I can only sit and play like 3 hours max without wanting to get on TL.net and just watch some streams. I just did my placements yesterday and got into gold, and then worked my way up to #1 in a day so I'd say that's pretty good progress I also played some customs vs. my plat friends and that was fun. Hopefully I can stay focused through the school year though. Last year I didn't play very often because I would come home and just watch streams, so I want to stay focused.


3 hours is pretty good, after pretty much every game i tab out for a few min and surf

Yeah, I get those urges too Stream watching is just too much fun! distracts me from actually playing lol
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 04 2011 09:10 GMT
#9
Man do I wish I had 3 hours a day during school days
I usually am too tired to play any ladder games or customs or don't have the time for that.
Only during the holidays do I have time.

I can tell that it's possible to get to Master league with your amount of time. But that is if you do spent your time playing games rather than watching stream etc.

I rarely watch streams only on few exceptions like if it's a good player of my race (in my case it's T) or if it's a big tourney like MLG or GSL stacked group.

It's best to just play than to watch :p I play whenever I can :D
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
RogerX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
New Zealand3180 Posts
August 04 2011 10:53 GMT
#10
On August 04 2011 17:20 Yew wrote:
Man, I'm so sick of being bad at macro. I wish I was grandmaster (because I will play faster ) but seriously, I get supply blocked a lot, and my main problem is when I go to attack my resources sky rocket lol. I always get at least 1k/1k and then when I notice it, mentally I go "oh this looks bad" and then I queue up 5 colossi and make a bunch of units to make my money go lower xD I have been playing platinum players though recently (I'm gold, #1 ranked) so that might be the reason why I feel so bad lol. Hopefully with some more playtime I can get better My main goal is to get to masters by the end of the year! So hopefully I can achieve that! FIGHTING!

No being grandmaster doesnt make you play faster. Playing faster makes you grandmaster (Excluding other key factors ie mindset, understanding of mechanics etc etc)
Stick it up. take it up. step aside and see the world
Hassybaby
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom10823 Posts
August 04 2011 11:07 GMT
#11
Overmake production buildings. If your macro is bad, just go full out. day9 talked about it a few days ago in one of his questions, and he basically said that as long as you are doing SOMETHING to deal with the issue, its better than just being like "argh, my macro sucks". 4gates piling up your resources? drop a 5th!
"These guys are mindfucking me into a sex coma" | "Mayonnaise is a must-have lubricant when performing necrophilia"
DisaFear
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia4074 Posts
August 04 2011 11:45 GMT
#12
On August 04 2011 19:53 SEA_GenesiS wrote:
No being grandmaster doesnt make you play faster. Playing faster makes you grandmaster (Excluding other key factors ie mindset, understanding of mechanics etc etc)


It's from a song, maybe watch it
How devious | http://anartisticanswer.blogspot.com.au/
Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
August 04 2011 13:32 GMT
#13
On August 04 2011 19:53 SEA_GenesiS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 17:20 Yew wrote:
Man, I'm so sick of being bad at macro. I wish I was grandmaster (because I will play faster ) but seriously, I get supply blocked a lot, and my main problem is when I go to attack my resources sky rocket lol. I always get at least 1k/1k and then when I notice it, mentally I go "oh this looks bad" and then I queue up 5 colossi and make a bunch of units to make my money go lower xD I have been playing platinum players though recently (I'm gold, #1 ranked) so that might be the reason why I feel so bad lol. Hopefully with some more playtime I can get better My main goal is to get to masters by the end of the year! So hopefully I can achieve that! FIGHTING!

No being grandmaster doesnt make you play faster. Playing faster makes you grandmaster (Excluding other key factors ie mindset, understanding of mechanics etc etc)


I didn't know New Zealand was so close to Romania.
iamperfection
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9647 Posts
August 04 2011 14:54 GMT
#14
On August 04 2011 20:07 Hassybaby wrote:
Overmake production buildings. If your macro is bad, just go full out. day9 talked about it a few days ago in one of his questions, and he basically said that as long as you are doing SOMETHING to deal with the issue, its better than just being like "argh, my macro sucks". 4gates piling up your resources? drop a 5th!


Yeah if you pile up resources dont que things like you did you want to make more production buildings like this guy said. When you que units your just tying up resources for no reasons to make yourself feel better about bad macro.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=406168&currentpage=78#1551
bebe01
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)512 Posts
August 04 2011 15:10 GMT
#15
Don't worry too much.. i'm grandmasters and my macro is awful.. (1.5k minerals 12 min into the game lololol)
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