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First, relax, then ask yourself, "Do I like this game?" If yes, keep playing. No? Stop.
I think what your master's friends are trying to tell you is "mash buttons faster and things will get better by default" which is what allowed me to go from silver to diamond without having the slightest clue as to what I was doing, except for the few things I copied off of streams.
Once you've become somewhat-proficient at button mashing, you can / should ask for advice concerning your button mashing "Am I taking my gas too early / late for what I'm sort-of-attempting-to-do? Do you have any tips or tricks for how to make my button mashing more efficient?"
When you and your master-league friends can look at one of your replays and say, "He droned himself to death" rather than "You have 1000 gas at the 8 minute mark", then they'll feel somewhat-comfortable giving you advice concerning strategy.
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From what it seems to me, it looks like you have trouble with your mechanics. If that's the case, I suggest you play on some trainer customs and mass team games. The reason I say team games is that in team games all you learn to do is defend early cheese and practice hardcore macro. To do this, you work on most aspects of the game people have trouble with - worker production, cheese defense adjustments, scouting, etc. I got incredibly better at 1v1 by spamming team games at the Masters level. I think it could work for you too.
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On February 08 2012 06:53 Reithan wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 06:42 slam wrote:
So.... why don't you just play ladder?
Where like.... you know.... it matches you against people of similar skill?
.... really? Except it won't. My MMR is from before surgery, when I was not all rusty and retarded. So all it's gonna do is match me against a bunch of people that will pound me into the ground while I'm just trying to dust off my (pathetic) skills. And I'll end up in gold or silver after like a 348576 loss streak and then have to claw myself back up to plat once I knock the retard flakes out of my brain...which will liekly result in a 3428756432 win streak...and both streaks will be equally as annoying.
This is a terrible thing to say. If you are currently incapable of winning in platinum, then you are not platinum and do not deserve to be there. Just play the ladder and who cares if you drop a league that you cannot compete in right now. If you are actually platinum then you will eventually be back there. Why hang onto something you are not.
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I know how you feel; I had no one to play with at your level, either, so I had to go it alone. Really, just go ladder. It's scary, I know, we all know, but... just do it. You have to if you really do want to improve. Eventually you'll just get over it.
On February 08 2012 12:37 eXigent. wrote:Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 06:53 Reithan wrote:On February 08 2012 06:42 slam wrote:
So.... why don't you just play ladder?
Where like.... you know.... it matches you against people of similar skill?
.... really? Except it won't. My MMR is from before surgery, when I was not all rusty and retarded. So all it's gonna do is match me against a bunch of people that will pound me into the ground while I'm just trying to dust off my (pathetic) skills. And I'll end up in gold or silver after like a 348576 loss streak and then have to claw myself back up to plat once I knock the retard flakes out of my brain...which will liekly result in a 3428756432 win streak...and both streaks will be equally as annoying. This is a terrible thing to say. If you are currently incapable of winning in platinum, then you are not platinum and do not deserve to be there. Just play the ladder and who cares if you drop a league that you cannot compete in right now. If you are actually platinum then you will eventually be back there. Why hang onto something you are not.
This is true, yeah, but it's really hard. When you reach a certain skill level it's extraordinarily discouraging to fall back down from it for an extended time. I personally quit playing (at least for now) because I got into master and then, after a week or so, fell back out. The demotion fucks with your head and keeps you from improving back to what you were before.
Best not to let it happen.
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On February 08 2012 12:45 UmiNotsuki wrote:I know how you feel; I had no one to play with at your level, either, so I had to go it alone. Really, just go ladder. It's scary, I know, we all know, but... just do it. You have to if you really do want to improve. Eventually you'll just get over it. Show nested quote +On February 08 2012 12:37 eXigent. wrote:On February 08 2012 06:53 Reithan wrote:On February 08 2012 06:42 slam wrote:
So.... why don't you just play ladder?
Where like.... you know.... it matches you against people of similar skill?
.... really? Except it won't. My MMR is from before surgery, when I was not all rusty and retarded. So all it's gonna do is match me against a bunch of people that will pound me into the ground while I'm just trying to dust off my (pathetic) skills. And I'll end up in gold or silver after like a 348576 loss streak and then have to claw myself back up to plat once I knock the retard flakes out of my brain...which will liekly result in a 3428756432 win streak...and both streaks will be equally as annoying. This is a terrible thing to say. If you are currently incapable of winning in platinum, then you are not platinum and do not deserve to be there. Just play the ladder and who cares if you drop a league that you cannot compete in right now. If you are actually platinum then you will eventually be back there. Why hang onto something you are not. This is true, yeah, but it's really hard. When you reach a certain skill level it's extraordinarily discouraging to fall back down from it for an extended time. I personally quit playing (at least for now) because I got into master and then, after a week or so, fell back out. The demotion fucks with your head and keeps you from improving back to what you were before. Best not to let it happen.
If all you worry about as a player is the league you are currently in (especially if you know you cannot currently hold that league) then you will probably never improve all that much further. Someone willing to improve at any cost would already realize the icon next to your name is meaningless and interchangeable in correlation to the skill level you currently posses, and would make the sacrafices (dropping a league) in order to maintain practice, and eventually overcome their setbacks.
Lastly, if you are extremely discouraged to continue playing because you fell down a league, then you are probably not made for this game. If anything, that should make a player much more determined to practice and do well, and regain the ground they lost.
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This would make a nice first world problem macro image.
"My friends are either noobs or pros  , I feel so alone"
Yeah, maybe just make more friends??????
Threads like this make me want to slap a bitch(meaning OP)
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OP speaks the truth back in 2009 when all my friends played Broodwar I had a competitive drive like no other to improve. We all started around Low D- where we played ICcup occasionally but mostly just played tons of games against each other every other day or so. Once I started losing some frustating games to my friends I started laddering way more then them and quickly got up to D+ and rarely ever lost to them, then they sort of stopped playing and I fell back to D.
In SC2 it's similar I became better then my friends again and they stopped playing as much T_T I was never even a poor sport about it, I always try and be supportive and get them to play more.
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Lonely people will come to this thread hoping to find someone who shares their pain, only to find that you have a fruitful social life with plenty of friends that even play sc2. Way to lead them on. =P
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