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Ah from Bangaldesh! Welcome neighbour. Seriously though, the best way to get people interested is to make them see the cinematics, understand the lore and MOST IMPORTANT -- GET THEM TO WIN.
If she's going to lose 40 games without learning anything then she's hitting aoe 3 faster than you can say zerg. I'd suggest you play a game with her as toss or whatever, then sit with her and show her mistakes and tell her what she could have done and throw in some games here and there when she's no longer a virgin (no pun intended) gamer. That way she has some fun in it and doesn't think she totally sucks to leave it.
Team games would definitely help her, you playing with her shows you have confidence as well and that as a team you guys can do stuff together (again no pun intended).
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somehow changer her ethnicity to korean
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On July 27 2009 01:53 Kage wrote:
Ah from Bangaldesh! Welcome neighbour. Seriously though, the best way to get people interested is to make them see the cinematics, understand the lore and MOST IMPORTANT -- GET THEM TO WIN.
If she's going to lose 40 games without learning anything then she's hitting aoe 3 faster than you can say zerg. I'd suggest you play a game with her as toss or whatever, then sit with her and show her mistakes and tell her what she could have done and throw in some games here and there when she's no longer a virgin (no pun intended) gamer. That way she has some fun in it and doesn't think she totally sucks to leave it.
Team games would definitely help her, you playing with her shows you have confidence as well and that as a team you guys can do stuff together (again no pun intended).
Yeah this is perhaps the best advice if you can't get her to do single player, if you can get 2 other friends and have a 2v2 on fastest, and tell the other team to go easy on her, even if you lose make sure its close, and then she might be hooked on trying to win.
You've got to make sure that she thinks she can win, crushing her one on one will get you no where.
If you can't get any teamplay games going, my advice is to play her one on one, first on fastest, and then on regular maps, while having you biggest empathy hat on, trying to remember what it was like when you first started, all the time giving her good advice about when to tech, and the basic gameplay mechanics.
Also watch some good games together.
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When you play her, try to handicap yourself at first
Like, you could try playing with one hand.
Or just purposely micro sloppy or miss units
Just until she starts playing on a decent level
Get her familiar with hotkeys, unit costs, damage, hp, things like that
Have her try all three races and see which interests her the most
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The best way to get somebody into starcraft is to make it fun, and make it matter. When you play, be loud and show you're having a good time. Make fun of her for being awful (lightly.."your zealots are so cute")
When you're playing sc, bring it up now and then. Relate her exploits to friends and exaggerate the battles. ("I had this MASSIVE army outside her base and somehow she got her army to do super-crazy awesome backflips and ninja moves across my mine-field. She murdered every last one of my men, even when they tried to surrender. You know, why am I even friends with you?")
If she thinks its fun and you create an experience for her, she'll want to learn to get better on her own. Then you can start introducing her to stuff. (stuff in parenthesis is what I'd say/have said to my friends)
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Best way to get people into starcraft is by showing them some gomtv matches - atleast thats my experience
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Thanks to everyone for the great advice, so far I've tried playing terran bio against her protoss, and just other weird builds in general, while telling her which units to get, which units are countered by what, etc etc. She seems to be enjoying it so far :D Gonna try team melee next, and no, I havent beaten her in a single match so far, mostly i just focus on telling her how she could be doing better. Again, thanks to everyone who took their time to reply!
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On July 26 2009 23:50 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
from there, if they want to get better, and they still seem interested after a few (10-20) hours of playing, introduce them to iccup.
Really ? That short of a time. Me and a friend of mine kinda fell in on StarCraft a few weeks ago. We are mainly practicing against each other. We have about 125 apm and go with very basic BO´s but we taught we still had a long way to go.
Sorry about derailing the thread but what most people seems the right thing to do Campaign.
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Yes, campaign is the way to go if you want to introduce yourself to the game but half of them are TvT and as we all know, the main difficulty with single player in Blizzard games is boredom...
So show her how bad she is if she really has 20 apm: play terran, max out in 13 minutes, rush, win, show replay.
Tell her to watch some progaming, and to learn touch typing
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