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On May 02 2008 16:54 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:
PsychoTemplar, just letting you know , a big reason you may not be succesful as a map maker: you come off as a whiny faggot.

That's not a helpful quality when trying to get people to embrace your maps.

On May 02 2008 14:29 PsycHOTemplar wrote:

Fuck it. I want to address this specifically, because this is fucking bullshit. The 'variations' of build orders in pro StarCraft on promaps is generally non-existent. Zerg's will expand to their natural quickly every game, even if they 9 pool. The only reason Zerg's 9 pool like 30% or 40% of the time, is to let Terran's know they can't 14 CC every game, or Toss know they can't 13 Nexus every game (forcing them to send out a pretty early scout every game just to see if they can). In the one in five times a player will blindly do the riskiest version of a fast expansion, it's an easy steal for the Zerg, which makes it worth it. This isn't variety, this is just an imbalanced game of rock-paper-sissors in the first 2 minutes of StarCraft when your almost build order determines whether you're at an advantage, or a disadvantage before you've even scouted the enemy. The rest of the game, just like in any map you think 'forces' you to do a certain build, varies and is ultimately the fun part of the game (tactics, scouting). It's the same with cheese proxy 2 gate builds against Terrans and proxy 2rax against toss. The only reason they exist is to let the other player know that on the rare (maybe 1/6) games it happens, they're insta-losing if they expanded too aggressively (and while some players will do this anyway, especially in a match they didn't have enough time to practice for, it's bad for their overall record if they do it too often).

So, as a matter of fact, the variation in the times and types of first 4 buildings you build, are really not that dynamic in pro maps, and certainly not a beloved feature of the game. Aggressive builds punish greedy builds, greedy builds punish safe builds, safe builds punish aggressive builds. Scissors beats Paper, Paper beats Rock, Rock beats Scissors. Only difference in SC, is that Scissors and Paper might only happen 20% of the time, while 60% or more you're going Rock, because it gives you a fighting chance against everything, Wins you a big advantage rarely, scores you a disadvantage rarely, and mostly gives you an even fight.

On May 03 2008 01:49 PsycHOTemplar wrote:
--Just gonna nuke my own posts.--