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So like it is more of a rage blog rather than anything else.
So this is my first RTS game and I've been playing hours upon hours. I've played probably more games than most of the masters people in my division and I can't improve at all.
Nothing
Nada.
Every time I always feel improvement, I lose and lose until I am playing mid/high diamonds again and the cycle continues. I've watched my own replays and the same mistakes are getting repeated again and again with bad scouting/ bad macro.
I've bought myself an TW/KR account and I'm thinking of just simply moving and training on the KR server for one month and see what happens. The thing is I have no friends over there to talk about strategies with so that may be pretty bad...
 
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If it's your first RTS, then high diamond isn't bad at all.
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I'm in mid masters, but the hours I put into the game I feel like is not very productive. I've been at mid masters for uhhhh 4 months?
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You dont suck lol, kind of like an insult to players lower than mid master, I think your just getting behind with the metagame? Perhaps?
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The thing is the time I put into this game is not representative in my ladder rank. I have a 0 bonus pool at all times LOL.
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I don't know if a TW/KR account is going to help...it'll expose you to different styles, for sure, but because you aren't a GM player, you're just going to get placed against people of the same skill...things won't really be ramped up a level.
Improvement is hard once when you get to that mid-master's range. Totally been there.
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If I was actually playing at a mid masters level I wouldn't be too mad but the fact that I keep playing in a cycle of mid-high masters and then mid/high diamonds because of all the losses the other day.
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how many games do you have?
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I doubt that a TW/KR account will help much. At most, you'll just see a different style of play.
The way I went around with practice was by grinding out games with the AI (Green Tea AI or Fyn AI(this doesn't work anymore  )). That AI, even when just set to Medium difficulty, is better than most of the ladder chumps I went up against. I'm in Master league, just to clarify any confusion that the people I face on ladder aren't on the lower spectrum of the ladder.
Or you could just play Brood War. That helped me loads.
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On October 10 2011 09:43 Polar_Nada wrote:
how many games do you have?
4000 Ladder Games of 1v1. I don't know about customs 1v1 yet.
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Lol sounds like me, I just got my carrier (750 wins) I go on huge win streaks, beating low/mid masters, then go on huge losing streaks and play mid/high diamonds and this cycle never ends. I dont know how to improve and be consistent enough to get that promotiong.
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I'm just interested, what race do you play?
Also, do you honestly believe you aren't improving, ie. that your progress is stagnating?
Do you have any idea, whatsoever, what might be holding you back?
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I play terran. I feel that my progress is just going up and back down to the same point and back up to the same point. I think the thing that is holding me back is my decision making. For example, I have 3 bases and he has 2 bases and I don't know why I would attack but I just do it and lose my army and its gg. I can never stay passive and macro and when I move out constantly my small ass terran army just gets destroyed.
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are you taking active steps to improve certain portions of your gameplay? or are you just grinding out mass ladder games and hoping that the raw playtime alone will keep a constant and steady improvement?
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The thing is I don't know how to actually improve CERTAIN PORTIONS of my gameplay. I'm more of grinding out mass ladder games and hoping that the raw playtime will be constant and steady improvement which I feel is my problem here.
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I have no idea how to isolate certain portions of my gameplay and practice each part separately. With piano or something like that, I just practice one part but with sc2 everything is always changing...
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Well, you just identified a few different issues in your gameplay. You are uncertain as to how to concentrate on just one aspect of your game and your desire to win leads you to become overeager.
I think that mass gaming will help you hone your mechanics and you will intuitively be able to draw from that in real-game situations. However, if your goal is to improve and not just 'play', then you must always set goals for yourself. 'I want to win this next game' is not a legitimate goal. Any player who can be honest with themselves and are sincere in their desire to improve should go into every game with a plan.
If you want to force yourself to macro, then play a whole series of games where all you do is concentrate on building armies and improving your economy.
If you want to force yourself to be patient, then play a whole series of games where you cannot move out until you have a certain supply in your army, even if you know you can end the game.
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But the thing is if I just focus on economy and building army, when I go back to the overall game plan, wouldn't my macro be fucked up again? Also, sometimes my macro is insanely good and sometimes it just sucks big ballsacks.
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On October 10 2011 11:23 psp219 wrote:
But the thing is if I just focus on economy and building army, when I go back to the overall game plan, wouldn't my macro be fucked up again? Also, sometimes my macro is insanely good and sometimes it just sucks big ballsacks.
You just sound like a whiner. Instead of sulking and bitching look at your games and figure it out. Nobody here is going to give you a magic answer.
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On October 10 2011 11:34 Just_A_PhasE wrote:Show nested quote +On October 10 2011 11:23 psp219 wrote:
But the thing is if I just focus on economy and building army, when I go back to the overall game plan, wouldn't my macro be fucked up again? Also, sometimes my macro is insanely good and sometimes it just sucks big ballsacks. You just sound like a whiner. Instead of sulking and bitching look at your games and figure it out. Nobody here is going to give you a magic answer.
I had done that.. but I'm just looking for better and more efficient ways to improve.
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