Silver zerg, 12:18, second try. My first try was a little better I think but the replay didn't save right with no opponent, and the very easy AI I added to fix the issue on the second try decided to send a zealot after me at the 10 minute mark. I think I had plenty of room for improvement still as I was definitely low on hatcheries at the end.

Ryndika

1489 Posts

January 14 2011 07:57 GMT

#63

I thought this was somewhat good idea until i read the line where it says you cant use macro abilities.

Hmm.. Doesn't that provoke bad play in the end? It's mostly about musclememory so if you do this exercisement I definitely think you should use all macroabilities you can.
Managing 6 bases with queens and without queens. The difference is too huge...

TheLunaticMonk

Finland36 Posts

January 14 2011 08:40 GMT

#64

Why not restrict the zerg to having 3 queens only. You dont get much more queens than that in standard ladder for larvae purpose.

Flexx

United States87 Posts

January 14 2011 09:30 GMT

#65

It's just a macro exercise. If you don't like the way it's set up.. then change it and play it how you want.

No one is making you kids do it this exact way. It's just a framework for you to creatively expound upon. So stop bitching about things you dislike about it, and say thank you to TS for the idea.

Just.Die

Australia1 Post

January 14 2011 09:33 GMT

#66

Bronze Protoss. 12:08, took every blue and have 17 nexuses.... nexii? probably doo it faster got supply blocked for about 5 seconds

JustinHit

United States196 Posts

January 14 2011 09:35 GMT

#67

If you're gona issue a challenge you really need to be specific on the maps, cause that plays a huge roll.

Flexx

United States87 Posts

January 14 2011 09:53 GMT

#68

On January 14 2011 18:35 HitStarcraft wrote:
If you're gona issue a challenge you really need to be specific on the maps, cause that plays a huge roll.

Christ.. Read the OP.

Metalopolis. Explicitly stated.

AvengerAzrael

Lebanon20 Posts

January 14 2011 10:24 GMT

#69

Silver Terran 11 45, had the whole map minning except the Gold expansions, a lot of commands centers.

KeepYaCoolBro

United States49 Posts

January 14 2011 10:47 GMT

#70

Practicing Macro without using macro abilities to get "muscle memory" and timings is not the best idea in my opinion. It's like practicing to hit the ball without an actual ball, or learning to catch a football without a real football. I play Terran and part of learning macro for me was learning when the energy on my CC's was enough to call down a MULE, the timing if you will.

I like the idea of this exercise in principle, but disagree strongly on not using each races "boost" abilities (queen, chrono, OC). Learning macro without using the macro abilities just gets you in a bad habit. I don't think that knowing how to push "S", hotkey your CC's to 5, build a depot here and there, and calling down a MULE is much overload. And if it is, then you practice it. Just don't do it without using the core fundamentals of your macro abilities. Making an SCV and MULES are one and the same to me, and indeed learning the timing on OC energy becomes more and more important.

My 2 cents. GSL back on.

The_A_Drain

United Kingdom36 Posts

January 14 2011 12:59 GMT

#71

Terran, no league (haven't finished my placement games yet, only started playing Jan 1st) 18:49 but I lost a handful to the AI roaches/hydralisks.

Edit: I chose to only make Command Centres for bases though, I imagine I could do it a lot faster is I made a hooz-ton of Command Centres. Ended on 8.

Tried again, 14:33 :D

Dilheisha

Canada55 Posts

January 14 2011 13:26 GMT

#72

Platinum Terran 13:09 doesn't seem really good...

Geiko

France1984 Posts

January 14 2011 15:05 GMT

#73

Master Protoss : 11:55 (got pylon blocked

)

Harstem

Netherlands263 Posts

January 14 2011 15:26 GMT

#74

11:56 master league .

REM.ca

Canada354 Posts

January 14 2011 15:41 GMT

#75

On January 15 2011 00:26 Harstem wrote:
11:56 master league .

Terran?

Spec

Taiwan931 Posts

January 14 2011 16:36 GMT

#76

Around 11:40, Zerg on Metalopolis. Took every expo, should've taken both gold first and spam hatcheries more.

edit: sry not suppose to take gold expo. Re tried taking all 10 expos first, got same time.

Hane

France210 Posts

January 14 2011 16:39 GMT

#77

11:50 toss master league (1st try, i think it can be improved)

REM.ca

Canada354 Posts

January 14 2011 16:59 GMT

#78

On January 15 2011 01:36 Spec wrote:
Around 11:40, Zerg on Metalopolis. Took every expo, should've taken both gold first and spam hatcheries more.

edit: sry not suppose to take gold expo. Re tried taking all 10 expos first, got same time.

League?