EPTAnyway, I am writing this blog post to track my improvement.
I learned so much more from playing than reading guides (how ever I still read them from time to time). It's too much for me to type out here. Even though im 21 to 81, I still learned alot. I should also mention I have been losing to my friends alot, so add nother 20 and my record in general should be 21-101 ish :O Most of my improvements are just in game sense, and situating to a final hotkey setup.
1-4 units
5,6 - gateways
7 - gateway at first (5d6d7d) then any tech building I want to track, then the robo facility.
8 - my stargate in PvZ, then nexus
90 - nexi
F keys - over bases.
I was confused on what to do with the units. Do I have a set plan like " 1- goons, 2 - zealots" or randomly assign units? I answered by watching a Bisu FPVOD (vs n.Die_Jaedong, so he must be multi tasking seriously in that game). During the corsair reaver he was performing, I noticed that he only hotkeys what he needs to recall within a moments time. Any defending units at home were not hotkeyed at all, instead it seemed he was using the F keys and microing them at that way. This also helped me realized the true meaning of hotkeys: to recall what you will be using very often, and wil need to switch back and forth from.
Another thing I have been doing is creating a grid of pylons. Basicallly every pylon in the early-mid game should be 2 gateways horizontally and 1.25 gateways vertically away from another pylon. Wat this does is create this huge power grid, and my gateway placement looks so smexy XD. Another thing is that I can have stargates aligned with gateways because they take up the same number of squares. Then I can surround my tech around my base and access them with 7.
Playing fast is very hard to do without spamming. I tried it, and I maxed out in around 20 minutes. I won that game, but I was doing everything very, very slowly, because I wanted to do what I wanted. In the end I had 10 000 minerals left over.
Some things that I have been thinking about that people can give me tips on:
1) Psi locking - im thinking of adding a pylon or two after every round of production. sometimes I have to defend and what not so.. any tips on remember on making pylons?
2) Creating a multi tasking pattern: I think I should go in order of my hotkeys: move my army, make units, check my tech/weapons, create probes. Will a pattern like this help me at all? I tend to do things on the fly.
3) Repeat a sound in my head saying "faster" in order to become faster. Or maybe turn on a light weight media player and set something saying "faster" in an endless loop while I am playing.
4) Taking expansions :/.. Should I do something like "take a new expo every 2-3 minutes, just to force myself?
Well that is all I can think of. GG GL HF to anyone I play.
