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Micro or macro? What kind of player are you? - Page 4

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Tensai176
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada2061 Posts
June 15 2007 11:58 GMT
#61
Macro, i almost FE in all my games now.
We see things they'll never see
ShaLLoW[baY]
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada12499 Posts
June 15 2007 12:22 GMT
#62
On June 15 2007 03:33 Dendra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 14 2007 21:38 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
depends on matchup

ZvT/ZvZ - Microooooooooooooooooo!
ZvP - 1sz2sz3sz4sz5su6su7su8su9sz0sz
1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a0a

actually only zvz is micro oriented even zvt can be played heavily on macro.


im sure it can be, but my zvt style is very ling heavy, and i tend to abuse muta hit and run, because my muta control is actually decent
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Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
June 15 2007 12:55 GMT
#63
certian matchups require more macro or more micro and others more macro. also as others said, ealy game you should be able able to be microing as good as pusan ;x
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25993 Posts
June 15 2007 13:07 GMT
#64
God i Treasure Macro.
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Heen
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
Korea (South)2178 Posts
June 15 2007 13:17 GMT
#65
My priorities (highest to lowest) for Protoss:

macro
game control
strategy (includes timing and such)
micro

I find micro to be ineffective, as in it is time consuming. It's not that my micro sucks. In fact, my micro is better than my micro. Most of the time, microing is just being cute, not a game deciding factor. Yes, July's muta micro alone can win games but he's a progamer and I'm not. Also, I don't play Zerg
('''(G_G/'''')
QuietIdiot
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
7004 Posts
June 15 2007 13:23 GMT
#66
I disagree, against a strong zerg player in PvZ, you need an equally good micro/macro to manage it all. Storm is crucial, can save you from the crushing ling drops, or miss them entirely, and leave your base in rubble.

Only kind of hardcore macro play in PvZ i can imagine, is the mujuk 2 base into 150/169 pop, then double expo. replace the remaining factor with high tech units according to zerg's, but even then, you have to be real careful with what you storm/drop at.

I also find early game scenarios, where micro is absolutely crucial and macro is relatively the same for when both players start pumping units.
Wasabi
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States3085 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-15 13:34:39
June 15 2007 13:33 GMT
#67
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Heen
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
Korea (South)2178 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-15 13:54:01
June 15 2007 13:53 GMT
#68
I'm saying that spending 2~3 seconds on micro, going back to macro, and back to the battle is my preference over babysitting my units for the full 10~15 seconds of micro.

Since you mentioned PvZ, I'll talk about my experiences with it. Usually, I send out my army and split them really fast so they have a 'larger surface area of attack.' Then I storm 2~3 times, go back to my gateways, and come back.

Early game micro is 'easy.' I don't konw how else to put it. It's not that hard not to fuck up consindering zealots are the easiest basic units to micro.

I'm going to go on a little side rant here: I've heard about P players bitching about idiotic dragoons since forever but god damn. I really feel their pain now. Just yesterday, I played about 10 games on LAN and my dragoons got stuck in 3 games. They would not fucking move until I pressed hold and reissued the command.
('''(G_G/'''')
artofmagic
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
United States1951 Posts
June 15 2007 14:02 GMT
#69
micro.. though i'm bad at it
evolve or die
ChaosKnight
Profile Joined April 2007
United States819 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-15 15:14:51
June 15 2007 15:14 GMT
#70
I'm heavily macro oriented, but like any other macro player, I can have sudden micro awesomeness... of course, micro I consider awesome for myself sucks pretty bad.
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