Thanks for taking the time to draft this up. Analyzing replays is definitely an important aspect of your game, but sometimes it's difficult to pick out why you lost (other than if your army was smaller). This is a very well organized guide to use.

Looking forward to the build order refinement post.

EvolPenguin

United States73 Posts

February 24 2011 03:24 GMT

#63

Great write-up! I like that you have stuff for all levels. I've heard it all before but it's nice to see it all in one place.
On another note: I started using SC2Gears a few days ago, and it's great. Now I cannot be too lazy to not save my replays

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

February 24 2011 13:29 GMT

#64

On February 24 2011 12:13 Wonderbread wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to draft this up. Analyzing replays is definitely an important aspect of your game, but sometimes it's difficult to pick out why you lost (other than if your army was smaller). This is a very well organized guide to use.

And that's where the strategy forum comes in useful. You're able to post up what you think is the reason you lost and then people are able to review that and give you further advice.

Dabba

United States182 Posts

February 24 2011 15:03 GMT

#65

And why isnt this stickied? Awesome post.

Edit: bwahaha stickied!

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

February 24 2011 18:46 GMT

#66

Oh yes, I love this article already.
Plexa... marriage + me = yes by you? ):

Seriously, love love this topic. I hope it improves the SC2 Strat sub-forum.

Cheers to Saracen & Infinity

psp219

United States315 Posts

February 25 2011 01:52 GMT

#67

I'm a 3000 diamond and I found this very helpful. People always say watch your replays but I never knew how exactly I"m suppose to watch them. This thread is the perfect example of what you should be doing.

SFGhoax

United States21 Posts

February 25 2011 02:06 GMT

#68

amazing thread, helps ALOT when you dont know what to look for when you first start looking at replays an all

AnxiousHippo

Australia1451 Posts

February 25 2011 06:55 GMT

#69

Thankyou! Half the posts each and every day seem to just be [H] I can't win!
Now we can clear all that out of the way an get to the good stuff
Sorry if it sounds harsh, it isn't meant to be.

Kohaku

United States8 Posts

February 25 2011 22:57 GMT

#70

While I save all of my replays, organizing and renaming every time has been quite annoying, especially recently, as I have been sending them to others and getting some from coaches, partners and the web.

Thank you for passing along SC2 Gears.

It's an excellent 3rd party development with a lot to offer.

thesideshow

930 Posts

February 25 2011 23:02 GMT

#71

Great guide. Every player has to read this!

Chutoro

New Zealand95 Posts

February 26 2011 00:10 GMT

#72

Excellent guide, thanks very much for it. I have bookmarked it and expect to refer back to it frequently. I have already used it to good effect with one of my replays where I lost despite having (I thought) much better macro, and was able to see past the obvious mistake (micro mistake in a major battle causing me to lose my army) to the less obvious one (my injects/production fell off badly once I was maxed, so I never re-maxed and won the followup even though I should have been able to do so).

SC2Gears will save me a lot of time - saving every replay manually is tedious.

Twiggs

United States600 Posts

March 01 2011 01:15 GMT

#73

Posting to remind myself to look at this! Wow, great ideas here! I will for sure try this out and maybe get out of my Starcraft slump!

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

March 01 2011 01:25 GMT

#74

Can you extend this to analyzing other people's replays? I'm getting tired of people bandwagoning on the OP's erroneous conclusions.

Conrose

437 Posts

March 01 2011 19:17 GMT

#75

Not a request to have my replay analyzed or anything. It's just that I had a cheese fail video on another computer that recently died, and this computer can't read the site that I had uploaded it to. Can someone upload this to another replay site? http://sc2.replayers.com/replays/view/4740

Mk6758

United States2 Posts

March 02 2011 22:18 GMT

#76

Heyy TL peoples, I'm a terran and I need help can someone review this rep and tell me where I went wrong? It's tvp. http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/145642-1v1-terran-protoss-metalopolis Thanks for anyone who helps!

Killcycle

United States170 Posts

March 03 2011 09:13 GMT

#77

Beautiful. As a low level player this is a habit I definitely need to get into if I plan on rising through the ranks

searching through a replay is indeed overwhelming if you don't know what you're doing - which I know 10x more than I did before reading the article, and plan on putting the information to use tomorrow.

Also, it usually just seems like too much work - but I guess that's the price you pay for improving your game! Though it seems much simpler after reading this.

O captain[s] my captain[s]

pandaburn

United States89 Posts

March 03 2011 14:39 GMT

#78

On February 23 2011 01:57 Plexa wrote:Poor Worker Saturation
You need about 30 peons per base - 6 to mine gas, 24 on minerals. If you have 90 workers and 2 bases then you have 30 workers too many and desperately need an expansion.

Good guide in general, but I wanted to nitpick this point. There was a thread a little while ago that analyzed the effectiveness of each additional worker at a base (and compared it to BW) and it found that the return from an extra worker on minerals past 16 was smaller, which most people know, but also that it was nearly negligible after 20, and beyond 22 workers you were actually better off long distance mining on LT.

It's a small point, but you certainly don't need 24 workers on minerals. This may actually make your point about balancing worker distribution stronger.