EPTOn May 13 2009 07:10 Fontong wrote:
Did you call her a skilless fucking newbie during the games as well?
Did you call her a skilless fucking newbie during the games as well?
Hahahahahahahha
teaching my girlfriend starcraft - Page 2
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LeperKahn
Romania1834 Posts
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Taurent
Canada401 Posts
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lovelyrose
Canada160 Posts
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Aqo[il]
Israel183 Posts
Do stuff like getting to 200/200 supply in 11 minutes with protoss by starting with a PvT b/o where you get 4 goons before expanding to nat, and force rules like get at least 50% goons so that you don't just spam zea. Once she can do this sort of macro properly, play micro maps with her, teach her to kill infinite zealots with 4 goons, kill infinite speedzea with 6 speedvult, vult+mines against goons, M&M control vs speedlings and lurkers. If she's motivated, and you actually teach her the basics like this instead of just trashing her in 1v1, she'll get a good hang of those stuff in 2-3 weeks and will be able to start playing on iCCup and improving on her own. Playing vs comps is pretty much a waste of time and I don't recommend that. Just teach her all the units and abilities in a maps with 1-2 of everything and do what I wrote up after that. Also do limited 1v1s once in a while so that she doesn't get bored of the macro practice, by limited I mean stuff like PvP where you're only allowed to build probes and zealots and no other units, to let her have fun and actually see herself improving slowly. | ||
Chill
Calgary25963 Posts
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CrimsonLotus
Colombia1123 Posts
She knew the game before, having played it when she was little, but knew nothing about competitive gaming. We played 1v3 on Python and i ended getting owned by the two computers, with some help from her. She rubbed it in my face for many days = (. | ||
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404.Nintu
Canada1723 Posts
On May 13 2009 07:23 Chill wrote: BTW if you want to know how she feels I'm available tonight to "teach you" how to play Starcraft. ROFL. | ||
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
On May 13 2009 07:06 YPang wrote: ![[image loading]](http://coolstorybro.podbean.com/wp-content/blogs7/125400/uploads/CoolStoryBrocopy.jpg) | ||
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
Make a UMS for her with a bunch of computer buildings/units that just sit around in different places, without attacking her, and let her figure out how to build up a base and control her units in her own pace while you guide her gently. Dont pressuring her to keep constant probe production or anything, just give her enough information so that she can move up the tech tree and build up an army. Let this take as much time as she needs, as long as she seem to be into it. Dont place out too many units to start with (maybe even start with a total of 10-20 low tier units or so, with some basic buildings). Better to let her finish the first verion of the map early, and you can do a second version with more resistance. That will only make her proud that she beat the map faster than you expected, which is good and will motivate her. Then when she gets the basics down, and insists on playing you, then you play really slowly, and stay at about her level both in micro, macro (not that easy to do). You can still have good habbits like scouting, to encourage her to do the same, but dont react with too hard counters to what you see (sometimes even the oposite, so she sees which of her units are good aginst which of yours).  Never roll her over completely. Let her win when she plays well, and punish her when she makes a misstake that she "shouldn't" do. Keep her win ratio at about 50%, to keep the excitement up. If you let her win all the games, the wins will not be as fun for her. Point here is that you should try to not show exactly how much you could beat her up. she will ofc realise that you are not playing at 100%, but it would probably discourage her to know exactly how far behind she is. guess you have blown that part already though. :DThen eventually she can play the computer, and then maybe two, and when she has beaten 2 comp for the first time, let her try a 1on1 LT NOOBS ONLY on bnet, to eventually give her her first real win.  Then when she has tasted n00b blood, she will crave for more, and MORE AND MOARRRR!!!1gl and more importantly hf  | ||
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decafchicken
United States19938 Posts
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Kim_Hyun_Han
706 Posts
the best way to teach someone starcraft basics | ||
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anderoo
Canada1876 Posts
On May 13 2009 07:25 CrimsonLotus wrote: I once tried to teach my girlfriend hot to play SC. She knew the game before, having played it when she was little, but knew nothing about competitive gaming. We played 1v3 on Python and i ended getting owned by the two computers, with some help from her. She rubbed it in my face for many days = (. i see what you did there | ||
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Gliche
United States811 Posts
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Sprite
United States1015 Posts
On May 13 2009 07:50 Gliche wrote: You're a jackass. Your entire post was just showing off the builds you did to stomp your girlfriend who doesn't know how to play. Teach her to play before you play her. It's called common sense. Couldn't say it better, you should have let her play the campaign and giver her pointers, now you made yourself look like a jerk  | ||
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Piste
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Chef
10810 Posts
That's what I do when I have to play a girl in StarCraft. And don't just make her play campaign... That's stupid. She wants to do something with you. There probably isn't a genuine desire to get super good at the game, even if she does play it casually. And don't hardcore teach her build orders hotkeys and everything... She'll just get bored or not retain much of it and you'll feel like an idiot. | ||
Pholon
Netherlands6142 Posts
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Trezeguet
United States2656 Posts
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Misrah
United States1695 Posts
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ReCharge
Philippines505 Posts
BTW: Like the others say, teach her, the basics, meaning, basic basic. not even probes or expanding, like how to make units, what to do when your out of supply I like to add aswell, after teaching her, and beating her first computer on her own (no coaching), congratulate her, she'll be like so happy about it. Yah.. good times. | ||
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