So first of all I just want to say If i remember any one of my games for the rest of my life it will probably be this one... the rage it gave me... was just unbearable...

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I 14 pool, while opponent 6 pool all in's me... I manage to fend it off with one zerling left in the game... he proceedes to call me a hacker and blah blah... im happy just watching my one zergling chomp away at his hatchery then... I get a message saying a stalemate is detected... and game ends with his hatch having 2 hp...

Esel

Germany151 Posts

August 22 2011 16:50 GMT

owned i guess

Existential

Australia2107 Posts

August 22 2011 16:56 GMT

Wow that is real unlucky... Sorry mate :/

Hesmyrr

Canada5776 Posts

August 22 2011 17:03 GMT

That really sucks. Why did Blizzard think it was stalemate anyhow?

bt545

United Kingdom27 Posts

August 22 2011 17:05 GMT

OMFG the hatch had 2 hp left. I feel for u.

OmniEulogy

Canada6600 Posts

August 22 2011 17:07 GMT

wow.... thats brutal >.< better luck next time I guess

RebirthOfLeGenD

USA5860 Posts

August 22 2011 17:11 GMT

The stalemate detection activates when it sense no one mining for a certain amount of time if I remember right. There might be other conditions, but that is at least one of them.

I have a similar story from beta (before stalemate existed) where I was on that shitty lava map they used to have playing a PvT we get into an elimination race he kills my nexus, I hide pylons and have a much larger army, I saw him rebuilding CC in my main and needed to go kill it, but he was running around wiping out all my pylons so I had to hold my ground, killed his entire army, but by the time I got to his CC because I had to wait he floated it away. I killed all his army and had map control, but no workers or money, he had a command center but couldn't do shit because I was camping every expo. We sat there for 5 minutes and talked, and I ended up just leaving.

They have a lot of stupidly implemented things in sc2. The stalemate detection should take a LOT longer to kick in, or have better criterion. The revealing players with no nexcus/cc/hatch is just stupid. It's goal is to prevent pylon hiding homosexuality in games, but it actually just ruins elimination races and is just really annoying.

Artifice

United States523 Posts

August 22 2011 17:18 GMT

I thought one of the conditions for breaking a stalemate was doing damage to an enemy unit or structure... what the heck :|

Backpack

United States1776 Posts

August 22 2011 17:20 GMT

Dont you get a 5 minute warning?

You couldnt kill any of his buildings in 5 minutes?

Ryuu314

United States12679 Posts

August 22 2011 17:25 GMT

#10

On August 23 2011 02:20 Backpack wrote:
Dont you get a 5 minute warning?

You couldnt kill any of his buildings in 5 minutes?

He only had one zergling...it's gonna take a while to kill everything lol

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

August 22 2011 17:29 GMT

#11

When they announced the stalemate detector it was quite obviously flawed. So flawed it shocked me they would set it up this way.

moopie

12605 Posts

August 22 2011 17:42 GMT

#12

Seems silly that it doesn't realize if damage is still being inflicted = not a stalemate.

:/

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

August 22 2011 17:54 GMT

#13

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KazeHydra

Japan2788 Posts

August 22 2011 18:18 GMT

#14

On August 23 2011 02:54 krndandaman wrote:
they should make it so that they have to first fulfill the requirement of having no attacking units before announcing stalemate for not mining for a while.

that wouldn't work because if player 1 only has ground units and no mining ability and player 2 floats a building to the corner, it's still a stalemate. I like the idea of no damage being inflicted as an additional requirement to stalemate.

whitelly

Czech Republic50 Posts

August 22 2011 18:37 GMT

#15

You rage over such boring game ?That is some serious I-have-to-win issue
And at any rate,you won,so you rage just over some number in ladder?

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

August 22 2011 18:49 GMT

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Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

August 22 2011 19:06 GMT

#17

Shouldn't one of the criteria be nothing is taking damage?

Tegin

United States840 Posts

August 22 2011 19:48 GMT

#18

On August 23 2011 04:06 Chill wrote:
Shouldn't one of the criteria be nothing is taking damage?

Yes! If a building it under attack there obviously isn't a stalemate. Dunno why Blizzard implemented it this way. Sorry OP..that's brutal :/

CryMore

United States497 Posts

August 22 2011 21:19 GMT

#19

Sadly it's not taking damage, its building destroyed. I think it's to prevent someone from infinitely stalling a game (i.e. zealot versus 1-ling, the ling constant hits a building to stall the game forever), but even then its a bit silly.

Stale Mate (From Liquipedia)
Generate income,
Produce a unit,
Construct a building,
Research an upgrade, or
Destroy an enemy building.

Chill

Calgary26003 Posts

August 22 2011 21:23 GMT

#20

Ah I guess that makes sense. I never thought about one Muta flying around and dealing one shot worth of damage to stall a game forever.

Amui

Canada10567 Posts

August 22 2011 21:39 GMT

#21

Wow that's pretty epicly sad T.T Possibly they need to change stalemate conditions to extend time a bit.

Bibdy

United States3481 Posts

August 22 2011 22:03 GMT

#22

If they keep changing the rules every time there's some obscure corner case scenario, we'll end up with a Federal Government of Starcraft 2 Stalemate Detection before you know it.

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

August 22 2011 22:07 GMT

#23

On August 23 2011 07:03 Bibdy wrote:
If they keep changing the rules every time there's some obscure corner case scenario, we'll end up with a Federal Government of Starcraft 2 Stalemate Detection before you know it.

That sounds fun and might get me to donate $