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rofllocktree
Profile Joined May 2012
Netherlands45 Posts
May 19 2012 10:53 GMT
#12661
On May 19 2012 14:58 tuestresfat wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2012 00:08 rofllocktree wrote:
what is the best way to train yourself?

I figured out playing multiplayer is fun but in fact you dont realy learn anything, it's just that you get more experience.

I heard something about custom maps and stuff?

anyone has some tips?

Could you clarify on what you mean by "train yourself"? What are you trying to train? Mechanics? Game knowledge? Strategy?



sorry, i forgot to mention i meant specially Macro
mikemal3496
Profile Joined March 2012
United States17 Posts
May 19 2012 23:08 GMT
#12662
I have a HUGE quick question. My friend has an starcraft 2 account and never uses it. He gave me one of his guest passes. He said I could have his account. Is it possible to delete his account and use the key from his account on my guest pass?
TheExodus
Profile Joined November 2011
293 Posts
May 19 2012 23:42 GMT
#12663
On May 20 2012 08:08 mikemal3496 wrote:
I have a HUGE quick question. My friend has an starcraft 2 account and never uses it. He gave me one of his guest passes. He said I could have his account. Is it possible to delete his account and use the key from his account on my guest pass?


No. You can use the free name-change though.
mikemal3496
Profile Joined March 2012
United States17 Posts
May 19 2012 23:46 GMT
#12664
On May 20 2012 08:42 TheExodus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2012 08:08 mikemal3496 wrote:
I have a HUGE quick question. My friend has an starcraft 2 account and never uses it. He gave me one of his guest passes. He said I could have his account. Is it possible to delete his account and use the key from his account on my guest pass?


No. You can use the free name-change though.


In my guest pass account I'm in mid-silver where as in his he's low bronze. So it's not possible to just delete his account, take his key and put it in my guest pass?
TheExodus
Profile Joined November 2011
293 Posts
May 19 2012 23:56 GMT
#12665
On May 20 2012 08:46 mikemal3496 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2012 08:42 TheExodus wrote:
On May 20 2012 08:08 mikemal3496 wrote:
I have a HUGE quick question. My friend has an starcraft 2 account and never uses it. He gave me one of his guest passes. He said I could have his account. Is it possible to delete his account and use the key from his account on my guest pass?


No. You can use the free name-change though.


In my guest pass account I'm in mid-silver where as in his he's low bronze. So it's not possible to just delete his account, take his key and put it in my guest pass?


No, keys can only be used one time. There's absolutely no difference whatsoevet between bronze and silver, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
Kiritsu
Profile Joined September 2010
Trinidad/Tobago7 Posts
May 20 2012 02:46 GMT
#12666
PvT 1 gate FE into 3 gate pressure against 1 rax FE terran - terran has 1 - 2 bunkers up with marines and sometimes marauder. I was watching TaiLs stream and he does a 7min timing push with 1-2 sentry (1 for GS and 1 for 1 forcefield), 2 stalker and about 4-5 zlot. Question is: The auto repair feature of terran tends to negate this pressure if I decide to engage the bunker as the zlots don't automatically attack the repairing scvs and attempt to bypass the scvs to hit the bunker. Anyways what I've seen TaiLs do is move walk all his units to attempt to surround the bunker > attack move and somehow his zealots attack the scvs. When I do this the zealots still attempt to magically phase through the scvs. Can someone shed light on the auto repair mechanic with respect to threat/do I have to hold position the zealots?
Hulavuta
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1252 Posts
May 20 2012 03:12 GMT
#12667
On May 19 2012 19:53 rofllocktree wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2012 14:58 tuestresfat wrote:
On May 19 2012 00:08 rofllocktree wrote:
what is the best way to train yourself?

I figured out playing multiplayer is fun but in fact you dont realy learn anything, it's just that you get more experience.

I heard something about custom maps and stuff?

anyone has some tips?

Could you clarify on what you mean by "train yourself"? What are you trying to train? Mechanics? Game knowledge? Strategy?



sorry, i forgot to mention i meant specially Macro


You CAN learn from ladder if you want, it depends on how you approach it.

A special macro exercise I learned was to just load up a game against an AI (of any level you are comfortable vs) where you are not allowed to attack, only defend. Macro up, saturating your bases and making units (idk how good your macro is at present and what league you are, but at minimum you should go for 2 bases).

Your goal is to reach a max out as soon as possible and then, once you are at 200/200, attack to make the AI surrender. Your time then becomes your score, and then it becomes very easy to see your progress.
Done with Team Liquid for a while. Don't expect to find me here.
ErrantMind
Profile Joined March 2012
United States63 Posts
May 20 2012 13:05 GMT
#12668
As terran, when i set down my third, what is the best method of saturating it? should i pull half from main, half from nat? most from main, since it will be lower on minerals? rally the other two bases to the third? Maybe this is stylistic, but i was wondering if anyone put some thought into this.
Black_Sheep
Profile Joined May 2012
United States13 Posts
May 20 2012 19:21 GMT
#12669
Is there a way to lock in your race selection? im protoss player and i sometimes end up in a game as "random"with out noticing.
lorestarcraft
Profile Joined April 2011
United States1049 Posts
May 20 2012 20:05 GMT
#12670
On May 18 2012 20:42 rofllocktree wrote:
is there a hotkey for techlab attached to rax factory or SP?

now i have to first double hotkey my hotkey for example rax and then manually click techlab...


X is the hotkey to add on a techlab
SC2 Mapmaker
Wrathsc2
Profile Joined March 2011
United States2025 Posts
May 20 2012 20:32 GMT
#12671
On May 20 2012 22:05 ErrantMind wrote:
As terran, when i set down my third, what is the best method of saturating it? should i pull half from main, half from nat? most from main, since it will be lower on minerals? rally the other two bases to the third? Maybe this is stylistic, but i was wondering if anyone put some thought into this.


It is stylistic. You can rally all 3 cc to your new base, or select half from both to go to the third and keep the rallies normal. For sure its best to mule your newest base at all times. And also you can use camera hotkeys to transfer much quicker.
A marine walks into a bar and asks, "Wheres the counter?"
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
May 20 2012 20:59 GMT
#12672
On May 21 2012 04:21 Black_Sheep wrote:
Is there a way to lock in your race selection? im protoss player and i sometimes end up in a game as "random"with out noticing.


It is usually locked. The problem you describe is probably from playing random in team games. You'll have to make sure you put it to back to protoss before you hit that 1v1 Find Match button. This has happened to me several times too.
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rofllocktree
Profile Joined May 2012
Netherlands45 Posts
May 21 2012 06:29 GMT
#12673
what do you guys prefer, double click units or CTRL-click to select them all?

I double click now but i make a lot of missclicks with it.
rofllocktree
Profile Joined May 2012
Netherlands45 Posts
May 21 2012 06:34 GMT
#12674
If I want to build something far out of my base, and I want my SCV to go back mining again after he finish building, can I rally him to just any mineral field or should this be a mineral field where I have a CC?
vorxaw
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada245 Posts
May 21 2012 06:39 GMT
#12675
On May 21 2012 15:34 rofllocktree wrote:
If I want to build something far out of my base, and I want my SCV to go back mining again after he finish building, can I rally him to just any mineral field or should this be a mineral field where I have a CC?

rally to a mineral field where you already have a CC
TheExodus
Profile Joined November 2011
293 Posts
May 21 2012 06:43 GMT
#12676
On May 21 2012 15:29 rofllocktree wrote:
what do you guys prefer, double click units or CTRL-click to select them all?

I double click now but i make a lot of missclicks with it.


I prefer ctrl-clicking but always end up double clicking because of bad habits
rofllocktree
Profile Joined May 2012
Netherlands45 Posts
May 21 2012 06:54 GMT
#12677
On May 21 2012 15:39 vorxaw wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2012 15:34 rofllocktree wrote:
If I want to build something far out of my base, and I want my SCV to go back mining again after he finish building, can I rally him to just any mineral field or should this be a mineral field where I have a CC?

rally to a mineral field where you already have a CC


cause when i rally him to a random mineral field he will go back there everytime?
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2594 Posts
May 21 2012 06:56 GMT
#12678
On May 21 2012 15:54 rofllocktree wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2012 15:39 vorxaw wrote:
On May 21 2012 15:34 rofllocktree wrote:
If I want to build something far out of my base, and I want my SCV to go back mining again after he finish building, can I rally him to just any mineral field or should this be a mineral field where I have a CC?

rally to a mineral field where you already have a CC


cause when i rally him to a random mineral field he will go back there everytime?

Yes, workers will return to the last patch they mined from when they've returned their minerals.
The frumious Bandersnatch
tuestresfat
Profile Joined December 2010
2555 Posts
May 21 2012 12:14 GMT
#12679
This is just a stupid mindgame I'm just wondering what other toss/zergs think.

PvZ, on maps where the natural gas is easily spottable by an overlord (daybreak, korhal, one on cloud kingdom, etc), how much would it mess the zerg up if you got a decently fast 3rd and 4th gas (like you were getting tech), but as soon as they complete you pull probes off gas in your main, and you followed that up with a hard 7-8gate all-in?
// obviously patrol a stalker at the edge of your main

I guess my question is, how influenced are zerg's decision making by seeing a fast 3rd/4th gas? Do they even know what it means or do they just derp and read nothing into it.
AmericanUmlaut
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany2594 Posts
May 21 2012 13:09 GMT
#12680
On May 21 2012 21:14 tuestresfat wrote:
This is just a stupid mindgame I'm just wondering what other toss/zergs think.

PvZ, on maps where the natural gas is easily spottable by an overlord (daybreak, korhal, one on cloud kingdom, etc), how much would it mess the zerg up if you got a decently fast 3rd and 4th gas (like you were getting tech), but as soon as they complete you pull probes off gas in your main, and you followed that up with a hard 7-8gate all-in?
// obviously patrol a stalker at the edge of your main

I guess my question is, how influenced are zerg's decision making by seeing a fast 3rd/4th gas? Do they even know what it means or do they just derp and read nothing into it.

It's not a stupid mindgame, but it's fairly high level. Below diamond, I wouldn't necessarily expect a player to have a build refined to the point that they're modifying their timings based on gas count. Which would mean that you just sacrificed 150 minerals and had no impact on your opponent's play. It seems to me like something you would mostly want to do in a tournament game when you've been able to look at your opponent's play and you've established that they respond to 3rd and 4th gas in a way that is totally unsafe against a gateway all-in.
The frumious Bandersnatch
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