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On August 19 2009 10:30 evanthebouncy! wrote:
corrections
The instruction was not clear on how to do the triangle. You must, while on your way to some location, shift-que patrol on all 3 locations instead of 2.
How to do it:
Make your zergling go to some random location, sufficiently long enough...
While ling is on the way, hold down your shift.
press (p)atrol, left click point A
press (p)atrol, left click point B
press (p)atrol, left click point C
So when your unit will draw triangle between A B C
basically, all points you want to patrol between must be hit with a patrol command. Originally I'm sure you guys are trying to patrol from A B C but only point B and C are "patrolled on to", so that's why you get BCBCBC.
Some say it's impossible to tell a unit "patrol from A to B, then from B to C, C to A , then again from A to B etc..." , but... here's how you do it :
tell your unit to attack somewhere ( will be point A ) ; then, BEFORE it reaches that point :
press shift key, patrol + point B , shift patrol + point C etc...
after reaching point A , your unit will do the "multi patrol".
Maybe it won't win you any game, but it's pretty cool stuff ^^
edit : no need to use "attack" command, "move" will do.
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It will attack move to A then patrol between B and C.
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some use in a real game?? seems nice XD
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uhhhh no. I just tried this, and all it does is attack move to A, then patrol to B, then to C, then B, then C, B, C, B,CBCBCBCBCBCBCB. it does not do ABCABCABC.......
I think people would have figured this out by now if it actually worked -.-
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csfield : why talk before trying ???
I tried it before posting, can you understand that ??? It does work.
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On August 19 2009 09:25 Mzerg wrote:
Some say it's impossible to tell a unit "patrol from A to B, then from B to C, C to A , then again from A to B etc..." , but... here's how you do it :
tell your unit to attack somewhere ( will be point A ) ; then, BEFORE it reaches that point :
press shift key, patrol + point B , shift patrol + point C etc...
after reaching point A , your unit will do the "multi patrol".
Maybe it won't win you any game, but it's pretty cool stuff ^^
Tested this out, and it does work, with practice it wouldn't hard to be particularly fast at it, but I'm skeptical of it's practicality- a scouting air unit would probably make the best use of this to check for expos, but apm would do the same thing, without the stops. Interesting nonetheless.
I'm sure this has already been noticed, but I wasn't aware of it.
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caldo149 : cbcbcbcbcb.. is called patrolling from C to B, no need to write this...
you have to do EVERYTHING BEFORE your unit reached point A : is it too much for you ???
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not much practical application to this even if it did work CABABACBACBACBACBACBAB
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It may not be practical but at least the OP knew that. It's not going to win you any games but it's something cool to know ;D
Show some love.
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I just tested it; it works absolutely fine.
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good. Will use it on lings. Thanks!
Op, don't talk rude, what the fuck give you the right to talk like that. Fear the ban hammer yo!
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I just test it too; it does not work.
I did it exactly the way described in the OP.
The once the unit gets to A, it goes to B then C then continually patrols between B and C.
For those of you who say you got it to work, post replay?
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this is kinda cool. could help with keeping track of expos with ovies obs ect
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Wow this is something new I didn't know. Some situations this could be useful:
- Air units patrolling (against possible drops/recalls etc) especially in island maps.
- 1 observer patrolling 3 or more expo sites.
- Making your idle SCVs running around your mined out CC to mind fuck your opponent lol.
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On August 19 2009 10:24 mrdx wrote:
Wow this is something new I didn't know. Some situations this could be useful:
- Making your idle SCVs running around your mined out CC to mind fuck your opponent lol.
Well you should kind of hope you have other expansions running that you can send them to instead lol
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corrections
The instruction was not clear on how to do the triangle. You must, while on your way to some location, shift-que patrol on all 3 locations instead of 2.
How to do it:
Make your zergling go to some random location, sufficiently long enough...
While ling is on the way, hold down your shift.
press (p)atrol, left click point A
press (p)atrol, left click point B
press (p)atrol, left click point C
So when your unit will draw triangle between A B C
basically, all points you want to patrol between must be hit with a patrol command. Originally I'm sure you guys are trying to patrol from A B C but only point B and C are "patrolled on to", so that's why you get BCBCBC.
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yay, evanthebouncy saves the day.
thanks, i knew the OP didnt work as it is
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On August 19 2009 10:41 Grobyc wrote:
yay, evanthebouncy saves the day.
thanks, i knew the OP didnt work as it is
yay :D
I'm glad that op posted it never the less. It's hard to make open posts, but in good time 
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brb i'll try it with drones + overlord...
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