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I've been practicing the following:
1-2 Units (main army and spell casters/special units)
3 - Orbital commands
4 - All other production facilities
5 - Other CC's
Macro looks like this:
Say I have 3 barracks, 1 with reactor and two with tech lab. I also have two factories with tech labs, and a starport with a reactor.
They are automatically assigned in that order when hotkeyed together. So I want to make 2 marines from the reactor rax, 2 marauders from the other raxes, two tanks and two vikings. All it is is:
4 a a tab d d tab t t tab v v
The main problem I'm having is changing up the macro scheme as new buildings get added to the mix.
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i have bighands so i bind my units to 7 8 9 and my macro buildings to button 0. i use my nose to press space bar when something happens that needs my attention.
buttons 1-6 are used for my first 6 scvs so my apm goes through the roof during the entire game as i piano key scale through my keys to make it look good when i post replays.
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i kinda memorized what i built and how many buildings i built of it. so i just make my rax, factories, Sps all in 1 hkey...usually it's 2, 1 is all my CCs from expanding. and i just press tab to tab over to the next CC, or press tab to tab over to the next building that needs to make something.
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in regards to meta -- u can hold SHIFT and click on the new building and it will add it to ur new group and just remember to hkey it as CTRL whatever group # u assigned before.
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Mine is pretty similar to others but my peon production is somewhat unique.
1 Stim Units
2 Caster 1
3 Medivacs, Vikings, other casters
4 Barracks
5 Factories
6 Starports
7 Command Centers that I am producing scvs from
8 All CCs
Works well with protoss as well since you want to utilize chronoboost from all your nexus as much as possible. Already gained habit of 7eee8c click c click..
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if you just want to cycle throuth your CCs you don't need a hotkey for that.
Use Backspace
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I use:
1) Main thing I'm microing (scout, banshees, hellions).
2) Other unit or possibly my whole army.
3) Saved for units, actually I rarely use this.
4) CCs so I can multiple build SCVs and use Scans/Mules quickly.
5) Rax or Rax with reactors. So it's 5a
6) Rax with Tech labs. 6d or 6g
7) Factories. Usually 7s
8) Starport with reactor.
9) Starport with tech lab.
I find this helps muscle memory since I'm always macroing the same way.
Against Protoss it's like 5aaaa 6dddddgg 8dd
Against Zerg it's like 5aaaaaa 6dd 7ss 8dd 9r
Against Terran it's like 5aaaaaa 7sssssssssssssssssssssssssttt
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So I tried out using 1 for all CC's and 2 for all macro buildings and 3 + for my units, its really hard because its basically backwards from what I am used to but I think it could work pretty good ^_^
On March 17 2010 15:50 kNyTTyM wrote:
Mine is pretty similar to others but my peon production is somewhat unique.
1 Stim Units
2 Caster 1
3 Medivacs, Vikings, other casters
4 Barracks
5 Factories
6 Starports
7 Command Centers that I am producing scvs from
8 All CCs
Works well with protoss as well since you want to utilize chronoboost from all your nexus as much as possible. Already gained habit of 7eee8c click c click..
i like this setup nice ~~ =]
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I've started just doing:
1: Army
2: Tanks or Casters
3: Air units
4: Production buildings
5: Command center
I then just tab through the groups for specific things -- so my production cycle might look like "5ssss4aa[tab]dd[tab]ss[tab]dd". I'm really happy with it, it's actually quite easy once you know how many tabs it is to get somewhere. I think from playing FPS games for such a long time I just cannot for the life of me move my hand of WASD, so it helps having them near my hands... >_<
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1:units
2:spells or drops
3:cc
4:rax/fac/port
5:techlabs/armory/bays
works great with the grid hotkey setup 
1:cc
2:units
3:bay/armary/labs
4:rax/fac/port
works great with the standart hotkeys and for starters :p
I've been using the lastone since i started playing sc2 back in wings but now in lotv i decided to switch to the grid and tryed making a new hotkey setup and the first one seems to be working great
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I've remapped hotkeys 6 7 8 9 0 to Q W E RT Y, and I use those five hotkeys for units. 1 to 5 are used for buildings.
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1 Main Army
2 Flying Units
3 Energy Based Units (Ghosts, ravens)
4 Orbital Commands, CCs, Planetaries, Ebays, armories, ghost academies (I saw GanZi and Gumiho do something similar - ghost academy is my own touch ;D)
5 Rax, Factories, Starports
It helps a lot to get change some of the hotkeys for the buildings. I changed it so that I only have to use half of the keyboard on my left hand (turn into planetary - X, Patrol - Z, SHIFT F1 for 1st command center, etc)
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You are an idiot for bumping a 6-year old thread.
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On March 17 2010 13:13 cartoon]x wrote:
Offtopic but I'm using autohotkey to set 7-0 to f1-f4, then assigning my queens to f1-f4 and basically making them like the hero buttons in warcraft 3. Helps a ton
Then what do you use for camera hotkeys?
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CC + upgrades: 5
Production: §
Main army: 1
Medanks: 2
Caster: 3
dropship:: 4
Dropship/banshee: shift+q
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