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On September 16 2006 03:18 jhNz wrote:
other: liquidators :>

On February 29 2004 10:04 Promises wrote:
GroT is the man ^^
Let's just use our own brains, and perhaps (as NTT did) come up with some original stuff. Just figure out what goes wrong and how you can counter that. The worst playing period in my BW was when I started copying gosu reps.

Long-time lurker, first time poster. The editorial kind of ticked me off so I started an account over there and made my reply, and I thought I'd copy it over here even though I'm just preaching to the choir. =p
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<< At high speed, a game ceases to be a simulation of a real battlefield. Yes, we're playing in the far future with aliens and lasers and everything else, but come on. everybody's zipping around so fast that the screen looks like a shaken-up ant farm-which might make sense for the Zerg, but for marines to move like that en enormous suits of power armor is ridiculous, unless those resources crystals are supposed to be crystal meth. (that would explain why they're always out to score more.) >>

Failure to accurately simulate a battlefield is not a valid criticism. Can I have that chess set if you're done with it?

<< What's worse, though, is wthat when you're playing at that rate, you can go ahead and toss strategy out the window along with the realism. Min/maxers (people who bust out Microsoft Excel to figure out how to build the strongest possible force with the minimum possible time/resource investment) make the real strategic value of many RTS games debatable at normal speeds, but when sped up to two or three or four times as fast, it's not even a questions. It's no longer about out-thinking your opponent and the big picture, it's about reflexes, rehearsal of a super effecient build order, and micromanaging individual unit movement and abilities-no higher-level thinking required. >>

No, you can't toss strategy out the window, even at Fastest. If you do, someone who has not tossed their strategy out the window will beat you, using strategy.

Also, please realize that those spreadsheets apply equally well to Fastest, Normal, and Slowest. The most efficient builds are the most efficient no matter what speed you play at; the best strategies are the best no matter what speed you play at. A lot of the thinking (about build orders and counters and so on) has already been done for you; this is because StarCraft is an old game, not because it's a fast game.

<< In their Q&A and feedback time with Browder, some of the pro players noted that due to the changes made between Starcraft 1 and 2 there were a few moments when, while waiting for resources to acumulate or units to build, they felt they "didn't have anything to do." Isn't that when you're supposed to think? >>

Sorry, what's the point here? Speed setting has no effect on whether or not there are "empty times" within the game. The faster you go, the shorter the "empty times" are; the slower you go, the longer they are. Whether or not you think such "empty times" are desirable from a gameplay standpoint, is completely unrelated to speed setting.

<< I got yelled at a couple times during that trip for hosting a game and setting the speed to normal instead of fast or faster. I yelled back that if the game was supposed to be played at those speeds, they would be called normal. >>

If there was a setting you were "supposed" to play at, there would only be one setting.

Dan, to me this article seems very poorly thought-out. What you've done is to shed darkness on a very simple situation: Faster speed has no effect on optimal strategy but increases physical demand (for players) and adrenaline rush (for viewers). If you want to play a more relaxing game of StarCraft, that's fine; but I wish you wouldn't cast aspersions on everyone else's ability to think and move their hands at the same time.

On December 15 2006 06:13 G.s)NarutO wrote:
Nice , Nice!
Updates of the games?
Game 2 what map?

On December 27 2007 21:33 Marine50 wrote:



If anyone knows an Australian Hamachi server dedicated to Starcraft please post it. If not here is one. Please join and play

Name: AustraliaSC
Password: Starcraft

On June 18 2009 21:07 ibanez wrote:
This is my first post.

On June 11 2008 03:34 danieldrsa wrote:
Every rule is wise when the people who execute it are wise too.
At first read i thought it to be too arbitraly, but after some thinking, its make sense.
Well, by the way, i see if a veteran comits a grave fault here, it'll be suffer the consequences also.
This is what give strenght and truth to every rule.
I started today, perhaps one day i'll be better. Im really excited to learn about SC here.
Hope this to become fruitfull in the future

On December 30 2003 00:43 fearus wrote:
we know all the real gosus r on aus1

=p

On December 07 2006 13:05 FaCE_1 wrote:
Thanks for that.

On June 20 2009 06:10 Oni wrote:


^^ same here.

On August 29 2008 08:45 Racenilatr wrote:
when will the songs list be updated again?

he should attack purple, since the other 2, as you said "pose no immediate threat".

gg purple!

On October 07 2007 05:28 foeffa wrote:
Anyone knows when the next game is?

Goooo savior btw. ^^

On February 10 2008 18:37 Cube wrote:
Happy birthday Xellos - kill jaedong for me

lmao that was lararious dude.. "chikia chikida proba ahhhh" "hohohohoho" "yeeaa.."

On January 17 2006 18:53 Yaqoob wrote in 'PGTour Season 6 Who is who?':
Yep its not Linyu)Pj's account anymore. I was going to post that a week ago as the person who uses that account is in my clan. Pj wouldn't go 55-45 on PGT

On June 22 2005 04:43 pubbanana wrote:
The kid in the blue and yellow is Kim Jung Min (TheMarine)
That suit he's wearing is from his old pro team, KTB Futures

Reach is sexy