On September 08 2011 14:00 Elite00fm wrote:
Just play Iccup, you'll probably get bored of sc:bw before you reach C rank anyway (it will probably take a year or so from scratch)

Not even close, if you play at least a few hours a day you can reach C in like 6 months or so, and you don't even have to be C to enjoy the game....

krndandaman

Mozambique16569 Posts

September 09 2011 01:54 GMT

#22

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erikzbi

China43 Posts

September 09 2011 04:38 GMT

#23

duh.

i have friends who is playing for 3 yrs and is still D+ (cant beat C- ppl)

either micro or macro

shenlong

219 Posts

September 09 2011 07:07 GMT

#24

A nice easy server is red-g.

It is a south american server with all types of skill levels but much easier than iccup/fish/brain.

get B.net Editor and put this in

Server name : Red-G
Host name (Ip) : bnet.red-g.net
Timezone : -4

export the registry file and open it, and it should appear on your list.

Any questions, feel free to pm me : )

*Note This server is Spanish based, and you need to regrister an account on the website: http://foro.red-g.net/index.php?action=register and log in with the same acct name/pass you used for the website*

_Quasar_

Russian Federation4405 Posts

September 09 2011 08:45 GMT

#25

Play on Garena, it's usually low level players, good for beginners.

And anyone can create games there (cause the connection system is different, not emulation of BNet, but emulation of LAN instead).

kamikami

France1057 Posts

September 09 2011 10:14 GMT

#26

On September 09 2011 17:45 _Quasar_ wrote:
Play on Garena, it's usually low level players, good for beginners.

And anyone can create games there (cause the connection system is different, not emulation of BNet, but emulation of LAN instead).

Yeah and the ping is acceptable too.

ZeKk

Sweden320 Posts

September 09 2011 14:11 GMT

#27

On September 09 2011 08:20 Lumire wrote:

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Not even close, if you play at least a few hours a day you can reach C in like 6 months or so, and you don't even have to be C to enjoy the game....

You must be talking about Protoss. Cuz it's just no way you're gonna reach C in 6 months with the other races unless you're the prodigy kid Koll.

LML

Germany1774 Posts

September 09 2011 15:47 GMT

#28

I have to say, two discers on ladder in about 50games or so, no single BM, very friendly people who talk english to me and usually everyone remakes the games with an english gamename if I ask them to, also on high or extra high it's perfectly playable and it's still nice enough to micro properly, imo.

The problem with finding games is sometimes there for minutes, but people will often regame you, unless you are one of those people who don't regame people because they beat you in the regame or because you won and are afraid of the next game against the same player.
I usually go to desktop then and go back to the channel after a minute or so and there might be people on the same rank (that problem might only occure if you are above 1100 points). And that is at my night time, so korean time around 3am-8am when I play, in day time the channel gets spammed so much it's hard to even notice people asking for games lol.

gulati

United States2241 Posts

September 09 2011 16:23 GMT

#29

On September 09 2011 08:09 ZeroChrome wrote:
In my over 500 games on Fish I've only encountered 3 hackers and none of them were on ladder. I've never been drophacked. Koreans are generally nice and will respond in English if you tell them you don't speak Korean. If they continue speaking Korean it's probably because they don't believe non-Koreans play on the server. Games are much more late-game oriented compared to the super all-in norm on iccup. Smurfing is a lot less common due to the 30 melee game ladder requirement.

Couldn't agree more. iCCup isn't bad whatsoever, but if you are ~ C on iCCup, Fish would be a way better experience overall, as per iCCup tapering off after C- nowadays. I also personally feel that Fish is extremely well-mannered, so I disagree with Holy Check's statement about them not being (although I am not good enough to seriously compete on Fish yet).

If the language barrier is hard for anyone - anytime you play Koreans and they try speaking Hangul for several lines of text, you can just say:

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"migug, ani hangul / korean" [ 미국, 아니 한글 ]

(basically saying USA, no Korean). They will believe you and understand most of the time.

I hope this helps.

LML

Germany1774 Posts

September 09 2011 16:27 GMT

#30

To be honest, I met alot of koreans with actually pretty good english, besides the fact that they are always interested where you are from and are like "really?", some of them have really good english, better than one might think, but there are also people who start ignoring you in the channel if you ask them to talk english to them, of course, but it's not like every foreigner speaks perfect english or even close to that.

gulati

United States2241 Posts

September 09 2011 16:35 GMT

#31

Oh yeah LML, most people would be surprised at how good of English some Koreans can speak. I have a lot of real life Korean friends born overseas who have only learned English from word-of-mouth and interactions at cafe's and stuff like that, but they can converse at a simple level quite impressively. As per being ignored when you speak English... yeah, that will happen sometimes. But I haven't seen that occurring more times than not. (Sorry for that double negative haha)

I just feel that we as foreigners should try, just as they try, to understand their native language a bit more. It's only the mannered thing to do in my opinion.