One thing I want to point out is your example of re-hotkeying. If you additionally selected units, then just shift-# instead of letting it go. It's only .5 secs or so faster, but .5 secs add up in an intense game.

Play

Australia608 Posts

January 01 2009 02:08 GMT

#26

i did not know this...thankyou

synapse

China13814 Posts

January 01 2009 02:45 GMT

#27

On January 01 2009 07:35 thunk wrote:
You forgot to mention when you're playing zergs and have to macro off three or 4 hatches - press control click on larva means you only have to macro using 2 actions versus click+sz click+sz click+sz or what not. It's an alternate way of macroing, perhaps not more effective.

I think it's much easier to click hatchery -> s -> d/z (whatever unit) just because the hatchery's larger, and so, unless you have godly mouse precision, it takes less time to click -> sz than to ctrl+click -> z. usually your production hatcheries wont be all clumped up together so doing ctrl+click will only get you maybe 6 larva...

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

January 01 2009 04:08 GMT

#28

On January 01 2009 10:48 Infinity.SkyLark wrote:

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Wow, I think you were being sarcastic there, hehehe.

NO MAN THIS SHIT TOTALLY CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVAH

H2O

United States34 Posts

January 01 2009 04:12 GMT

#29

You should extend the guide to add the use of the "Alt" key. I find it to be extremely useful, especially as a zerg player trying to manage more units than I have hotkeys for and for dealing with huge balls of units in various groups.

Also, I think more players are unfamiliar with the various practical uses of the Alt key than Shift or Ctrl.

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

January 01 2009 04:16 GMT

#30

Thanks! i didnt know the first part of ctrl clicking.

To the non chinese, Pangsai means the act of shitting in hokkien btw

onepost

Canada297 Posts

January 01 2009 04:24 GMT

#31

Didn't know about the control thing either. I was only using shift.

nataziel

Australia1455 Posts

January 01 2009 05:41 GMT

#32

Awesome, I use almost all of these except control clicking on wireframes in unit selection to just select the ones you want.

I thought I was pretty clever coming up with the shift click adding to control group thingo by myself hehe

Disarray

United States1164 Posts

January 01 2009 05:47 GMT

#33

wow very nice tips ><

Salv

Canada3083 Posts

January 01 2009 06:00 GMT

#34

Unit frame thing is quite useful, thanks!

huameng

United States1133 Posts

January 01 2009 06:15 GMT

#35

If you select a group of workers, some of which are mining and some aren't, tell them to mine with the shift key and only the ones that aren't mining will move. The ones that are already mining will just ignore you. Shift+control really help with efficiency, especially when used together.

The unit frame tip is really useful, too; thanks for the guide and for putting effort into making all those pics.

On January 01 2009 13:12 H2O wrote:
Also, I think more players are unfamiliar with the various practical uses of the Alt key than Shift or Ctrl.

What the hell is the alt key for ?_?

WhenHellfreezes

United States81 Posts

January 01 2009 07:02 GMT

#36

Thanks I found this guide helpful.

Its funny that cloud posted his explanation of lurkerling control because that was where I found out about the ctrl + unitframe trick. Keep up the good work.

Oh and alt click onto a unit selects the last group the unit was in. Thats for huameng. Though I've never found an in game use for it.

liger13

United States1060 Posts

January 01 2009 07:23 GMT

#37

lol, i feel like a n00b for not knowing the first one

i use the second all the time, so its all good

OmgIRok

Taiwan2699 Posts

January 01 2009 07:30 GMT

#38

Errrr not to be mean or anything, but I didn't learn anything from this =\
And most of this can be understood from just hovering the cursor over unit squares.

Appreciate the guide though. =}

Lamentations

Australia211 Posts

January 01 2009 07:43 GMT

#39

I thought all this was very obvious, and have been using it ever since I started playing SC about 6-7 months ago right form my very first game without watching FPVODs or anything. I guess I did used to play wc3 though and there are similar controls used there.