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fearthequeen
Profile Joined November 2011
United States788 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-03 16:13:33
November 03 2014 17:52 GMT
#41
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JieXian
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Malaysia4677 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-15 09:08:25
November 15 2014 09:03 GMT
#42
He's asking a vague question because he is new.

Please answer him properly if you can help him.

You need a plan. It can roughly be :
greedy (expand early and risk losing to aggressive play),
safe (expanding when you know you are safe by scouting the opponent and having defenses/an army)
or not expanding at all (doing some aggressive play yourself)

Then you can narrow down the question to : If I want to play safely, when should I expand? in PvZ that will be after you get your forge and 2 cannons, or more if you scout more than 6 lings. etc

OP i recommend you to watch some day9 to get a good foundation to all these questions as I'm not good enough to go through all the scenarios.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/brood-war/335184-day-bw-dailies
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Dan26
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
Australia239 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-11-16 23:38:30
November 16 2014 23:34 GMT
#43
whoops this is BW... um.. carry on.
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Regis
Profile Joined December 2010
Poland109 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-12-03 15:57:16
December 03 2014 15:54 GMT
#44

MCA: Banned from TL, creator of MCA launcher. Still has yet to post source code to github.


why i must put source code to github? I never said it will be open source. But you can see some parts there
https://github.com/mca64

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Uldridge
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium5184 Posts
December 03 2014 21:56 GMT
#45
Why would you want to defence your main, wouldn't defencing the opponent's base be more appropriate in certain situations? Like a reverse contain?
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