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Hey all i was sitting in class today and was thinking of an interesting thing.... Does personality predispose people to choose certain races over others?
What got me thinking along these lines was my starcraft sparring partner and good friend. Personality wise we are night and day, he is a quiet introverted person who "does things by the book" ie. He really isn't that spontaneous or impulsive. On the other hand you have me. Impulsive spontaneous very extroverted and generally i fly be the seat of my pants. Coincidently the races he chooses to play in starcraft are the following:
Terran: His favored race, he plays them because of their "cost effectiveness" and the fact that he can strategically move forward one step at a time. He loves the slow methodical "Terran push"
Protoss: His second choice for races, while he doesn't like toss as much as tron his reasons for picking toss above zerg is because once again, you can follow a plan to the letter, protoss units are more "cost effective" than zerg and thusly in his opinion are once again the better choice.
Zerg: He can't even stand to play them, he hates the fact that the units are not cost effective- and as he puts it just throw everything you have at a battle- don't plan just hope you have more than they have and gg.
Now my opinion of the 3 races:
Zerg: my main and really my only race, i love the instantaneous gratification- quick movement speed for troops, fast build times- no waiting. I love just being able to create hundreds and hundreds of units and just maul you over wave after wave. I mean i can just throw everything at you, 12 muta sure all i need is a few hatcheries, then next zerglings? why not? I just cannot get over thier mobility- imo it's second to none. Also defilers- sooo sexy 
Protoss: I would have to pick this race as second because quite simply i hate that tron units when not in proper position seem too fragile (at least to me) So i would have to say protoss is my next favorite. However i go nuts waiting for a single unit to get done, how expensive everything is- and the fact that 2 or 3 control groups of units is it- your army. Also their so slow i just can't stand them. However protoss isn't as bad as god forgive terran.
Terran: Well last and defiantly least for me at least comes tron. Can't stand them. I think their units take forever to make, and the worst part is how fragile they are. Also could you walk any slower marines jesus other than vults terran have no mobility on the ground- unless you stim your marines to the ground that is lol. If your rines get caught out of position or your tanks are out of positions then dead. I think you have to be OCD to play this race because if each and every little single thing isn't prefect nothing is going to work. IMo terran units are too specialized the only thing that is even slightly "all around" is rines that's it. I mean i just cannot understand how people play this race because it drives me into a state of mental psychosis.
Anyway so i was just wondering if anyone here would like to take the time to list theirs or their friends personality and their preferred SC races. I just think that it would be interesting to really see if there is a solid correlation.
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I'd say it reflects skills more than race.
In a very general sense atleast.
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If you define personality as: "The pattern of collective character, behavioral, temperamental, emotional, and mental traits of a person" then yes.
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On September 04 2008 08:59 MYM.Testie wrote:
I'd say it reflects skills more than race.
In a very general sense atleast.
elaborate?
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I have played all 3 races as my main, finally ending with terran just because I simply play better with them, I don't really prefer their units or anything over other races, but I just play terran best. Also I don't see how zerg's units are not cost effective, lurk can rape mass units for only 125/125, scourges can kill many air units for only 25/75, sunks have double the health and damage of a cannon for only 25$ more (i know they can't hit air, but people rarely mass air anyways, also there is scourges), 6 lings = 150$, which can kill 1 cannon, even without upgrades, AND you can upgrade them and they are mobile units. including the drone hatcheries are only 350$. I would say more but I think zerg is pretty cost effective, at least more than protoss IMO.
EDIT: About toss, I don't find too many cost effective units really, the only one I can actually think of is HT's, because of storm rape, cannons are decently cost effective, because of detection and AA, altough you could argue the same for turrets or spores too. Anyway thats my elaboration of why i think Z is still more cost effective than P
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Mostly people who want free wins are protoss id notice
people who like to work hard for wins are terran
and people who like a mix of both are zerg
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cracklings take half a supply, cost 25 minerals, and a pair of cracklings has a higher DPS than any single unit in the game other than nuke of course
I wouldnt exactly call that inefficient
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As far as the comments about races go- my friends and myself would like to say that we know that all comments about said races are not FACT however we as players perceive said races to be such.
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For me at least it's just what I already know.
I can't remember what made me pick protoss, but switching to zerg or terran would be such a shitfest of losing constantly for a while that I'd really rather not. Sometimes I play around with them, and I like both of them (probably zerg more since muta micro is the most fun thing ever), but I prefer a lot of things in protoss anyways.
I mean come on... storm is like the most imba spell in the whole game. Couple that with maelstrom and it's just hilarious.
Plus I get to mind control people. I mean seriously. I love this race.
One time I was in a PvT and I mind controlled an scv and built myself a big siege tank army. I then recalled my sieged siege tanks into the terran base. LOL
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I think people are misreading what originally i had intended to do with this thread. I don't want to hear about why you like a race- I only care about that partly. I want to hear about your personality and how that may or may not have effected the choosing of your main race. So ya.....
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On September 04 2008 08:54 Misrah wrote:
What got me thinking along these lines was my starcraft sparring partner and good friend.
whoever tells you otherwise is wrong, starcraft IS a martial art.
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On September 04 2008 08:59 MYM.Testie wrote:
I'd say it reflects skills more than race.
In a very general sense atleast.
Well, when I started terran was my favorite race because they were easier to me than any of the others. (This is of course past the protoss is the easiest as a first race stuff.) I decided that I would rather play zerg though because it didn't match my skill set. I would have to learn new things and adapt. I think that's partially why I'm slow to get better with zerg.
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does personality reflect sc race?
answer: no
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i noticed protoss's tend to be hackers, wonder why that is O_O
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Wasn't there a thread on this before? Anyhoo, I just chose Zerg because I though Lurkers and Ultras were the coolest units in the whole game. I am honestly much better at Protoss or even Terran, but I simply chose Zerg due to aesthetics and whatnot.
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I would say not in playstyle, but maybe in how you prefer the mindset of your races. Like Terran are brash and badass who just have their way bulldozing through shit, protoss are advanced and warrior-cultured full of noble killing machine units, and zerg are evil and seedy with pure maliciousness and domination.
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On September 04 2008 09:28 Machine[USA] wrote:
i noticed protoss's tend to be hackers, wonder why that is O_O
cuz protoss is by far the hardest race, so many frustrated protoss players turn to hacks
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I love protoss because of all the options you have. I think its the most adaptive race. Also psy storm is so mazing.
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yaeh probably. It always seems to me Zergs are the very aggressive types, the type that likes a lot of action, Terran are the very smart kind of folk who take things very methodically- mechanics and all that are a must for Terran obviously, and Protoss is just in between. Though, who knows how much the personality determines the race and how much the race determine personality [or rather, views on how the game should be played and the skills that should be focused on over other matters].
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I agree with TS...im zerg btw
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