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how to honor original four workers?

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mmhmm
Profile Joined November 2019
22 Posts
November 30 2019 03:17 GMT
#1
Brood war is a beautiful gane. It can be an emotional thing for me. Sometimes, after winning an epic 45 minute struggle, I'll stay in the game a while after my opponent leaves to marvel at my achievement.

But I did not achieve victory unassisted. None of us ever has.

In particular, I feel as if I owe an enormous debt to those original four workers that spawned at the start of the game. They were with me from the very beginning of my fight and, as often as not, some of them are still mining on my behalf all the way til the end.

I've often lamented the fact that I'm unable to identify those four diligent souls. I tend to have many workers by the end of the war (as do we all) and, despite my repeated pleas, those four laborers have never stepped forward to reveal themselves.

I wonder if anyone else feels the same way. And, if so, whether anyone has developed any ceremonies to honor those four brave souls who persevered.
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11143 Posts
November 30 2019 03:26 GMT
#2
On November 30 2019 12:17 mmhmm wrote:
I've often lamented the fact that I'm unable to identify those four diligent souls.

if you save them to a control group at the start of the game and then never overwrite it, then when the game ends you can use that control group to identify them
brood war for life, brood war forever
-visnu-
Profile Joined April 2009
Australia149 Posts
November 30 2019 03:31 GMT
#3
On November 30 2019 12:26 Crunchums wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 30 2019 12:17 mmhmm wrote:
I've often lamented the fact that I'm unable to identify those four diligent souls.

if you save them to a control group at the start of the game and then never overwrite it, then when the game ends you can use that control group to identify them

that would be cool
RAPiDCasting
Profile Joined July 2009
Korea (South)594 Posts
November 30 2019 03:53 GMT
#4
On November 30 2019 12:17 mmhmm wrote:
Brood war is a beautiful gane. It can be an emotional thing for me. Sometimes, after winning an epic 45 minute struggle, I'll stay in the game a while after my opponent leaves to marvel at my achievement.

But I did not achieve victory unassisted. None of us ever has.

In particular, I feel as if I owe an enormous debt to those original four workers that spawned at the start of the game. They were with me from the very beginning of my fight and, as often as not, some of them are still mining on my behalf all the way til the end.

I've often lamented the fact that I'm unable to identify those four diligent souls. I tend to have many workers by the end of the war (as do we all) and, despite my repeated pleas, those four laborers have never stepped forward to reveal themselves.

I wonder if anyone else feels the same way. And, if so, whether anyone has developed any ceremonies to honor those four brave souls who persevered.


Wow...I didn't ask for these feelings...

I guess on this Thanksgiving Day I'm truly thankful for those 4 original workers. And just think about the very first time they were ever spawned in the very first game of Broodwar...and they're still doing their job. It just brings a tear to my eye.
The faster caster. @RAPiDCasting
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
November 30 2019 04:37 GMT
#5
So how often do the four original workers survive a game?
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
CHEONSOYUN
Profile Joined August 2017
520 Posts
November 30 2019 07:31 GMT
#6
o /)

salute!
JAEDONG...!!! EFFORT IS ANGRY. ZERG...?!
outscar
Profile Joined September 2014
2832 Posts
November 30 2019 08:32 GMT
#7
On November 30 2019 13:37 Disregard wrote:
So how often do the four original workers survive a game?


Especially if you're zerg?
sunbeams are never made like me...
Poegim
Profile Joined February 2017
Poland264 Posts
November 30 2019 09:40 GMT
#8
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Aka: Poezja[T4], Zulu. [[ Probably second best player in the world. In honor of my best friend Moagim, he was a Kraken from the sea. Poegim ]]
mmhmm
Profile Joined November 2019
22 Posts
November 30 2019 14:06 GMT
#9
If enough of us feel the same way, perhaps an upcoming patch could modify the game so that once all opponents leave:

Control group 1 automatically selects any remaining of the original four workers.
The Patrol command becomes Praise instead.
Attack becomes Applause.
Hold Position becomes Hug.
GeckoXp
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
Germany2016 Posts
November 30 2019 14:49 GMT
#10
Thats why always 5 pool
Cryoc
Profile Joined July 2011
Germany909 Posts
November 30 2019 16:09 GMT
#11
Nowadays, you can actually just start the replay, select your starting workers and fast forward to the end of the match to see, how many survived and what they were doing.
http://www.twitch.tv/cryoc
LML
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Germany1764 Posts
November 30 2019 17:42 GMT
#12
On November 30 2019 12:17 mmhmm wrote:
I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.


I don't. I simply click the "end game" button and go on. Because I know, I have to bring more victories to Aiur. The enemy never sleeps.
LML
AntiHack
Profile Joined January 2009
Switzerland553 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-11-30 21:58:18
November 30 2019 21:57 GMT
#13
It's just like the 12 original Dwarven in Dwarf Fortress, I always build special rooms for them and if one of them dies I craft a special tumb stone

Both Dwarven and SCV are miners if you think about it lol
"I am very tired of your grammar errors" - Zoler[MB]
L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
November 30 2019 23:31 GMT
#14
Ah damn. Over 20 years later and we still get silly new things like this. Love it
EffOrt and Soulkey Hwaiting!
seriosity
Profile Joined July 2009
United States214 Posts
December 01 2019 01:26 GMT
#15
This is beautiful.
art_of_turtle
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States1183 Posts
December 01 2019 02:52 GMT
#16
If it makes you feel better the original 4 drones usually die to storm drops. so thanks protoss players for always ruining the dreams.
Flash should fear Sacsri
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8091 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-02 02:11:09
December 01 2019 03:06 GMT
#17
If you were a drone would you rather retire and become a building (maybe something nice and fancy like a spire or defiler den, maybe something more quaint like a sunken colony, or something big and busy like a hatchery) or live out the rest of your days mining gas from a depleted extractor?
Free Palestine
mmhmm
Profile Joined November 2019
22 Posts
December 01 2019 03:58 GMT
#18
If you were a drone would you rather retire and become a building (maybe something nice and fancy like a spire or defiler den, maybe something more quaint like a sunken colony, or something big and busy like a hatchery) or live out the rest of your dies mining gas from a depleted extractor?


Tough decision. I definitely wouldn't want to get stretched out into a nydus canal. That's gotta hurt.
SuGo
Profile Joined March 2013
United States681 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-12-01 04:51:59
December 01 2019 04:51 GMT
#19
I know for me, one of my original 4, ends up being my scouter because I hotkey that little guy at 1 from the start. He eventually dies in most games, but he is forever honored for the intel he provides. Long live his 3 brothers.
chillzzz
Profile Joined August 2018
30 Posts
December 01 2019 08:10 GMT
#20
This is the cutest thread that's ever been posted on tl.
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