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kyouriharu
United States9 Posts
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erulabs
United States41 Posts
The only activity where I notice my recent eating/health habits as much as in SC is off road mountain bike riding. If I'm caffeinated up and low on protein my skill level drops wildly. My mother came into town and cooked me good food that lasted about a week, I jumped something like 300 points up from 1200->1500 diamond Z. Of course, now that she went back home and I'm back to Ramen and Redbull, i'm back to my normal losing streaks  But yes, it's a bit weird for a video game, but I force myself not to ladder when I'm drunk/stoned/tired/hungry etc. Eat well, maintain your health and keep a good mood and you'll be -amazed- at how much better you play. This really applies to everything in life, but let's be honest. No one wants to be in peak condition all day long. The couch and the TV have a sacred place in every westerners life  | ||
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Kikuichimonji
United States102 Posts
On October 06 2010 04:25 Footloop wrote: Ah, sorry then.No, it cancels the units but it also ends the warpgate's cooldown. I'm fairly sure it also returns 100% of the cost rather than 75%, but I'm not entirely certain. | ||
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instantdry
Canada308 Posts
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ixi.genocide
United States981 Posts
On October 06 2010 12:10 instantdry wrote: If you borrow a roach and double tap unborrow at a cliff, it will go up or down the cliff. Mind=Blown........ 2 creep tumors are the most efficient number for spreading creep, more than that and your increase is nominal. 1 spine crawler, 1 queen and 4-8 lings will hold off almost all 2 gate pushes. Zergling +1 atk reduces "hits to kill" on marauders by 7. The longer a map is the better fast expanding is (this may seem obvious but may help zergs realize why they are losing more on smaller maps). Here's an important one- 5 RR is flat out beat by 2 stargate VR (Like everytime I have ever gotten into that situation). The zerg push starts out very effective but won't be able to kill the toss opponent completely before the vr's pop up and then it takes about 90 secs to get proper AA to deal with the VR's. Hydras have 80 hp which is equal to the notoriously weak sentry (40H and 40S). 2 base w/ 2 queens is outpaced by 3x reactor rax 2x rauder rax (which is 950 mins to zerg 900 spent). While this logic is flawed, it shows that 2 base T>>>> 2 base zerg and zerg expanding is dangerous because of lack of wall ins that other races have. fully populating the rax would take 1050min and 75g per minute. To go along w/ this rant mules are about as effective as 4x workers and the time on 50 energy is approx the same as the lifetime of mules (95 secs). Hatcheries make 3x larvae in the time that vomit larvae gives you 4. Because of this I have been testing delaying queen production and 2 dudes off gas to get a quicker hatch (and making queens after the hatch is down). | ||
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velo
Australia48 Posts
Heaps of useful info in this thread! | ||
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checo
Mexico1364 Posts
I learn i must no drone whore to hard, but if i manage to save the drones after i losse a hatch i can still come back XD | ||
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twoliveanddie
United States2049 Posts
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Fyro
Canada123 Posts
On October 06 2010 12:10 instantdry wrote: If you borrow a roach and double tap unborrow at a cliff, it will go up or down the cliff. Can you explain this some more? i can't get it to work | ||
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
On September 22 2010 00:04 TheFinalWord wrote: You can hold down a hotkey instead of spamming it. Wait... what? :O I'm 1200 diamond Zerg and I didn't know this :D | ||
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NeoLearner
Belgium1847 Posts
On October 06 2010 16:25 Subversion wrote: Wait... what? :O I'm 1200 diamond Zerg and I didn't know this :D I use this all the time to spawn drone 11 and 12. If you 9OL you will have a bit more than 100 minerals when the overlord pops. So if you hold down the button when the overlord is about to spawn, you'll have great timing. One trick I learned here is to turn up your repeat if you use the "hold-down" thing a lot. On October 06 2010 16:21 Fyro wrote: Can you explain this some more? i can't get it to work That's because I don't think it actually works... | ||
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kikki
United Kingdom41 Posts
On October 06 2010 16:32 NeoLearner wrote: I use this all the time to spawn drone 11 and 12. If you 9OL you will have a bit more than 100 minerals when the overlord pops. So if you hold down the button when the overlord is about to spawn, you'll have great timing. One trick I learned here is to turn up your repeat if you use the "hold-down" thing a lot. That's because I don't think it actually works... That's interesting, does holding the hotkey down pre-having enough minerals queue it as soon as you do? I've never actually done that I've just usually spammed the hotkey near to having enough minerals.. | ||
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skronch
United States2717 Posts
On September 22 2010 03:07 monx wrote: shift + "control group number" to add units to a particular group instead of remaking the whole group each time. Learned that at end of beta -_- holy shit i can't believe i didn't know this. glad i read this thread now | ||
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NeoLearner
Belgium1847 Posts
On October 06 2010 17:12 kikki wrote: That's interesting, does holding the hotkey down pre-having enough minerals queue it as soon as you do? I've never actually done that I've just usually spammed the hotkey near to having enough minerals.. Yes, it does. You keep hearing the "Not enough mineralzzzzzzz" a few times but when the larvae pop, drones are immediately built. Don't know if and how much faster it is than spamming. Would depend on your apm I guess. | ||
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Shrewmy
Australia199 Posts
On October 06 2010 07:00 erulabs wrote: This is outside of SC directly but... Maintain your health! The only activity where I notice my recent eating/health habits as much as in SC is off road mountain bike riding. If I'm caffeinated up and low on protein my skill level drops wildly. My mother came into town and cooked me good food that lasted about a week, I jumped something like 300 points up from 1200->1500 diamond Z. Of course, now that she went back home and I'm back to Ramen and Redbull, i'm back to my normal losing streaks But yes, it's a bit weird for a video game, but I force myself not to ladder when I'm drunk/stoned/tired/hungry etc. Eat well, maintain your health and keep a good mood and you'll be -amazed- at how much better you play. This really applies to everything in life, but let's be honest. No one wants to be in peak condition all day long. The couch and the TV have a sacred place in every westerners life A poor diet will typically impair cognitive function. Try adding in more meat into your ramen or something  | ||
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Scheefe
Netherlands226 Posts
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Mr Cochese
United Kingdom11 Posts
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HollowLord
United States3862 Posts
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J7S
Brazil179 Posts
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nanoscorp
United States1237 Posts
1. Put them in one group. 2. Identify target, and issue a move command BEHIND it. 3. Once your speedlings have moved past the target, a-move for the win. This works because your speedlings are faster than the banelings. The banelings get dragged behind like a deadly kite, while the speedlings soak up fire and form a wall behind your target. Clearing out a mineral line can be hilarious: you run the speedlings to the far entrance, he panics and moves all the harvesters out the other entrance... into the banelings. | ||
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