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vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
September 19 2011 19:18 GMT
#21
It'd be a stalemate all the way around, unless one of you makes a horrible mistake.
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6600 Posts
September 19 2011 19:47 GMT
#22
considering how out of practice I am... I think which ever me doesn't storm his own units would probably come out on top.
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YourMom
Profile Joined April 2010
Romania565 Posts
September 19 2011 20:49 GMT
#23
Their behaivor would deviate the moment they are subjected to different experiences so you will never have 100% copy playing itself.
I'm very good at making carriers.
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25562 Posts
September 19 2011 20:51 GMT
#24
On September 20 2011 05:49 YourMom wrote:
Their behaivor would deviate the moment they are subjected to different experiences so you will never have 100% copy playing itself.


That's true. Even if the copy popped into existence during the loading screen, if nothing else the different spawn location would cause the experiences to be different. I'm not sure this would have a substantive impact, but there would be a "randomness" element introduced. Also, given that some maps can have assymetric spawns, that changes things. For example, if you spawn clockwise from your opponent on tal'darim altar, it's much easier to siege up and shoot into his natural mineral line for you than it is for him, etc.
When you stare into the iCCup, the iCCup stares back.
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JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
September 19 2011 21:16 GMT
#25
Well, I suck bad enough that it would probably be entertaining, since I can't imagine both of me would make identical mistakes at identical times.

Top tier players would be incredibly boring, because even if they tried to mind game each other, they'd just go in circles and never get anywhere, knowing how they thought.
DNB
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Finland995 Posts
September 19 2011 21:28 GMT
#26
This got me wondering, I thought it would be cool to make a custom map that is a 1v1 but exactly symmetrical. You would ask your friend to play on it against you, but he plays against a computer that is programmed to to the exactly same actions as the friend, except in an opposite direction with spatial actions. Epic trolling.
Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
September 19 2011 21:32 GMT
#27
I like to metagame my opponents so I'd basically be caught in an infinite meta-meta-meta-meta gaming sequence.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52798 Posts
September 19 2011 22:18 GMT
#28
Mass nuke basetrade.
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corumjhaelen
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
France6884 Posts
September 19 2011 22:26 GMT
#29
I'd pay a lot to watch a replay of Flash TvTing himself. That would be epic.
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blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
September 19 2011 22:30 GMT
#30
On September 20 2011 02:11 clayn wrote:
idra vs idra:
idra1: "this guy is just awful"
idra2: "this is so silly"


LOL this cracked me up. lmao I could just imagine that lolol.
When I think of something else, something will go here
Kashll
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1117 Posts
September 19 2011 22:39 GMT
#31
On September 20 2011 02:11 clayn wrote:
idra vs idra:
idra1: "this guy is just awful"
idra2: "this is so silly"


hahaha so true
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
Earll
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Norway847 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-19 22:43:06
September 19 2011 22:42 GMT
#32
was there not a huge thread about this on team liquid earlier? (might have been a different forum.) That thread was about fighting yourself though.

Anyway. Assuming everything was exactly the same (e.g a perfect replica, in a perfectly similar room, on a perfectly mirrored map, under perfectly mirrored conditions, and absolutely no difference from each other in any way.) Then the actions would be perfectly mirrored, and it would end in a perfectly equal draw. probably with the last 2 units killing eachother at the same time.
Wat
CaptainPlatypus
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States852 Posts
September 19 2011 23:05 GMT
#33
It would be the worst ZvZ ever, because neither player would have any baneling or infestor control whatsoever, and it would all come down to massive roach armies beating on each other endlessly until somebody gave up.
v1dom
Profile Joined August 2010
159 Posts
September 20 2011 04:34 GMT
#34
To the people thinking it would be a draw: utter nonsense. Even if you made literally identical decisions, things like position would come into play. Whether it was luck (a well placed baneling, or a stalker that gets into position 2 seconds on one side while the other gets stuck behind a zealot), map asymmetry (at a high level at least, starting position can change your decisions even in a mirror match), or something else, I can assure you that while it would be interesting and close games much of the time, the idea that you would end up in a true draw any more than normal is ridiculous.
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FlaminGinjaNinja
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom879 Posts
September 20 2011 11:53 GMT
#35
On September 20 2011 07:42 Earll wrote:
was there not a huge thread about this on team liquid earlier? (might have been a different forum.) That thread was about fighting yourself though.

Anyway. Assuming everything was exactly the same (e.g a perfect replica, in a perfectly similar room, on a perfectly mirrored map, under perfectly mirrored conditions, and absolutely no difference from each other in any way.) Then the actions would be perfectly mirrored, and it would end in a perfectly equal draw. probably with the last 2 units killing eachother at the same time.


Have you played nexus wars? Zealot vs Zealot, one will always survive . It has to do with which one attacks first, which is build into the game so it would never truely be perfectly mirrored

For the sake of this thread i'll say it's possible and my ZvZ game would be epic ^^ roach ling early game into mass roach infestor and then on to the hive tech. Who ever has the better possitioning wins
GinjaNinja.661 EU I'd like to thank my sh*t keyyboard for always messing up my 'Y's
Sayle
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom3685 Posts
September 20 2011 12:09 GMT
#36
12nex vs 12nex into split map and arbiter/DA. Would be pretty epic.
RaLakedaimon
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1564 Posts
September 20 2011 18:29 GMT
#37
I would definitely lose because I would feel bad about wooping my ass so hard in a match and let me have the win. That way I don't feel bad about woopin dat ass and I am also happy because I got a free win. GG me no re!
zhurai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States5660 Posts
September 20 2011 21:02 GMT
#38

On September 20 2011 02:11 clayn wrote:
idra vs idra:
idra1: "this guy is just awful"
idra2: "this is so silly"


you forgot the part where he gg's/leaves the game!
Twitter: @zhurai | Site: http://zhurai.com
pathy
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Taiwan619 Posts
September 20 2011 21:07 GMT
#39
it'd be really frustrating
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BabyToss!
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Czech Republic588 Posts
September 20 2011 21:25 GMT
#40
If I played myself, I'd not fret... would know I'd be safe vs any all-in/cheese (4gates, cannon rushes), because I never do any, thus my own 'twin' wouldn't either. Would win vs myself most-likely =D
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