EPTOn August 11 2026 08:39 Waxangel wrote:
It's just the nature of the genre that any APM savings in one place will quickly get allocated somewhere else. Just like how BW-elitists complained that multiple building selection/production would make SC2 'easier', but in reality SC2 just became hard in a different way (a continuous harssment/defense multitasking test). Ultimately, your only choice is WHERE you want to be spending your many clicks and key presses.
Random side-bar from the above: I think one of BW's greatest strengths as a viewer esport is that players' decisions on where to allocate their APM was way more apparent for casual viewers, so it was easier to disintinguish ppl's styles as macro or micro players.
It's just the nature of the genre that any APM savings in one place will quickly get allocated somewhere else. Just like how BW-elitists complained that multiple building selection/production would make SC2 'easier', but in reality SC2 just became hard in a different way (a continuous harssment/defense multitasking test). Ultimately, your only choice is WHERE you want to be spending your many clicks and key presses.
Random side-bar from the above: I think one of BW's greatest strengths as a viewer esport is that players' decisions on where to allocate their APM was way more apparent for casual viewers, so it was easier to disintinguish ppl's styles as macro or micro players.
This is a good point and to me only makes a greater case for doing it the more manual, Brood War way, without copying it exactly. In terms of a teaching tool, it feels better to have these granular blocks like seeing your workers pile up at your HQ and understanding you've been away for a while, or having the 12 unit selection remind you that your army is getting big and should be split up, or putting more thought into where you put your buildings because you have to look at them to macro.
On August 11 2026 17:17 Miragee wrote:
What does D.O.R.F. even stand for?
What does D.O.R.F. even stand for?
On August 12 2026 19:36 TelecoM wrote:
Hopefully DORF comes out soon!
Hopefully DORF comes out soon!
Apparently coming out in like 90 years.
I tried looking for what D.O.R.F. means and couldn't find it in the obvious places. People who don't qualify their acronyms should be tossed down the shaft like Palpatine.
