Written by Nemo
Translated from swedish to english by: Malmis
Nemo's Guide for a better Abuser:
The most important thing for a real abuser isn't to win at all costs, its to abuse undetected. A real abusers idol should not be like Arnold Schwarzenegger who utter "Fuck you asshole!" and "I'll be back!" and in the same time pulverizes his enemy's. A real abuser's idol should be like Lennart Swan, who successfully tricks the opponents without them don't even notice it, if he wins or not is not important - the knowledge that he tricked his opponent means more.
As and abuser you have a number of potential weapons in your arsenal.
Mineral hack
Not many knows that there is working mineral hack, but it is. It requires alot of feeling and talant to effective use a mineral hack. A comparison can be done to the game monopoly.
I asume that everyone has played Monopoly, where the first thing to do is to get your hands on the Racingcar (the hat and the iron realy sucks - here can we talk imbalance in gigantic proportions). After you danced around in the room to celebrate that you completed an important objective, you must become the bank manager. When you handle out the money to all the players, you should be able to take and hide around 15-20.000 extra dollars without being noticed.
To take the money isn't so hard - anyone should be able to do that. To use the money requires more skill and smartness. The point is to NOT use all the money at once. If you go for buying St Eriksgatan, (here we have another example of grim inbalance in mammut proporions, everyone knows that the blocks around St eriksplan is the most expensive in the whole Stockholm, i have written to Alga several times, but they seems less aware than blizzard about their inbalance problems, blizzard atleast patches their games sometimes) Diplomatstaden, Centrum and Norrmalmstorg on the first round, you opponents will mumble dissatisfied and in the same time try to calculate how you could make your rightful purchases.
Instead, what you should do is to wait untill you stops on Normalmstorg where your opponent has placed 7 houses, 9 hotels and a starport, he wouldn't be stupid enough to ask you where you got the money from, rather be happy becouse you coud pay the rent.
The same thing is for BW, for example if you are playing a 1v1 and you have given yourself 1000 extra minerals. You can use the minerals to build 4 extra pylons and 4 gates in the begining of the game, but if you attack with 8 zealots versus your opponents 1 marine he won't buy your explanation that you have godlike probe micro.
Instead of using all the resouces you got through the mineralhack you can enjoy the level of freedom that it gives you, removing all the limitations we are otherwise forced to live with. A comparation can be dome with someone who has won 3 000 000$ on lotto, he can buy all the things he could not afford before - the same thing should you do. Now you can use Science facilities as scouts or build 5-6 academies (always good to have some extra just in case something should happend) if you want. Your enemy would not see you as a mineralhacker but its possible that he question your mental resources or how many kromosomes you where born with.
Maphack
You will need a chessmasters intelligence and a local politician's state of mind if you wan't to use it properly.
The most simple way to discover someone who is maphacking, is to maphack youself. By using a maphack of your own, you can see if your opponent is hacking by looking on the way he scouts:
1)He dosent scout at all - deffinatly maphack, he already knows where you are and what you are building deffinatly an abuser.
2)He scouts you immediately - deffinatly maphack - he already knows where you are and send a scout becouse it shall look good, and then he attacks you.
3)He scouts you after a while - deffinatly maphack - he knows where you are but scouts some of the other start positions before he scouts you. THIS IS THE WORST TYPE OF ABUSER. DONT GET TRICKED!
Other ways to discover maphackers is if his troops always seems to be on the right place at the right time when you attack or if he always have the right counter.
If its that simple to discover a maphacker, how should i do to maphack undetected?
The most important thing is to confuse your opponent.
When he attacks your base - move your troops away so he can do some damage, you will reduce his suspiciousness.
If you have bunkers don't forget to evacute them as soon as the enemy are comming.
You can also build "wrong". If you are Protoss and you see your opponent goes pure mutalisk, a very good counter is pure zealots - now you will avoid all suspiciousness becouse you need to be a genious to tell that you builded zealots becouse he went mutalisk.
I used this strategy very sucsessfull in a semifinal against 5th.
Becouse i saw he went 3-3-3 goons the given counter was 0-0-0 scouts (speed upgrade is for wimps, real men don't run away and hide). A extra point is that i mineral hacked so i could afford atleast 3 extra scouts, witch 5th the loser didn't discove and got double abused.
For example - Witch of these players would you suspect most for being a maphacker:
Lanif[Beta] - Played on the ladder last season. Only play zerg, win his games under 5 minutes (exept the freewins)
Only plays small maps, never scouts.
Norse - Have a unerring ability in 2v2: after cleaning out one of your allied bases he leaves a search and destroy team of 20 m&m 2-3 tanks to look for probes or pylons, while you can walk in to his main base and destroy any building (including 2-3 empty bunkers). Builds zealots to counter mutas and hate people building towers and scanners to counter lurker.
Right Answer! Of course is abusers with Norses skill mutch harder to detect and should be taken with great care.
Disconnects.
Another possibility for an abuser is to disconnect.
But the har thing is: when is the optimal time to do it?
Newbies often chose to disconect when they have about 200 hp on thir last extractor.
But that is easily detected.
A more effective example in a 2v2 to put a disconnect when your ally has sacrificed all his troops to take out the enemys army and you are standing with 20 stimmed m&m next to his probes.
This is called "doing a SPRITe" and works very well in clanmatches where it takes the opponents with fully suprise.
FFA abuse
Exept hacks, there is other ways to improve your ladder rating. The most simple way is FFA abuse.
The objective in FFA abuse is that you, and a friend, starts a ladder FFA and then you nail the poor one that joined the game. Then you increase some well worth ladder points.
Some tips for those FFa abusing
1) You CAN'T send private messeges to your ally, if you are not using the /msg command. If you are using the /msg command dont forget the "/", its a little embarrassing to write "msg MasturR cliff the exp at 12 i'll take the main".
2) You cant ally someone in the game. That's why it's not smart gather your troops.
The so effective Marine and Zealot rush isn't working well in FFA becouse the coward marines will make bullet patterns in the lots.
3)Some opponents is so paranoid that they check the opponents IP everytime they lose (Katans gamefiner is the same thing for an FFA-abuser as a garlic is for a vampire)To avoid this, someone of you should move out of europe.
To FFA abuse is simple, but real men does it with style. To covince your victim that you are not allied its important you put up some show fights on places your victim can see it.
If you see some of his overlords or observers somewhere, send some troops and fight a little.
Your opponent will be so pleased that he won't ask why you had to fight for the 4'th time in 2 min on that empty cliff in lost temple.
Free wins
Another way to abuse is to accept free wins. Either you create a new ID or your friend does it, then you humiliate it totaly in some games.
If you want realy many points you can create multi ID's that you kick.
It's not so smart naming the ID's Loser 1 ,Loser 2, Loser 3, Loser 4, Loser 5, Loser 6, Loser 7, Loser 8 Loser 9, Loser 10 ect.
Real abusers dont like FFA abuse becouse there is no victim involved.
To bring this to an close i would like to point that the abuse debate has been to one-sided and focused on maphackers and ffa abuser. To get a picture you need to realize that abuse isn't limited to SC/BW, the biggest difference is if you are doing it with style.
And here is some lame jokes.
What is the likeness between the work and lost temple - it sucks starting at 6 !
What is the likeness between a Marine and Will Smith in Indipendence day? - Both can shoot down a space ship with a handgun!
What is the likeness between a lurker and Helen Hunt in twister? - both exactly survives a storm (can be funny if you are realy drunk)
I want to point that i didnt write anything of this
Peace out"
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That was Nemo's guide for a better abuse.
I didn't write it, i just translated it from swedish to english.