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Screensaves revolutionized my play (reference: I'm high masters in Korea). Please use them if you're serious about this game. Your APM will remain the same, but it's much more efficient ---- It makes me so sad to see progamers having to click the minimap like 300 times each game to get to their rally point or build stuff at their new base. So so sad.
WHY use screensaves?
- Get to rally point efficiently (save ~30+ minimap clicks/game)
- Set up a new base efficiently. Perhaps 6 clicks per base / transferring drones, making gases, making spines/spores, planting hatch in the first place. (save ~20+ minimap clicks/game).
- Get between your bases when your queens die, or when your queens are fighting some drop/banshee/air-play. (value = invaluable!)
- Transfer drones :: camera#1 box-drones, camera#2 shift+box-drones, camera#3 right click on minerals. (save ~5 seconds of screen dragging)
Ever been in mid game and the game is so freaking hektik, you're banking up 800 minerals now and you want to put down your 5th base and make gases and stuff but you have drops to kill and mutas to micro and lings to use for counter attacks and overlords to spread?
Thank me later.
What I use if you wish to copy:
F1-F5 is all my bases saved (I do this at the start of the game).
SideMouseButton#1 is my hatch rally point.
SideMouseButton#2 is my next hatch I'm setting up (it'll be referred to at least 5 times for gas, transfer, spines, etc, before I rebind it to my NEXT hatch after that).
CAPS has been rebound to idle worker.
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Good read, thanks for the guide cecil =)
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I hate feelings...
every time I lose due to a stupid mistake I feel like I'm the worst player and that I'm too bad for this game. Although I "know" its just a stupid feeling, It takes a whole 20 min to get rid of it. This way its quite hard to queue up game after game.
Greate guide nevertheless.
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On September 06 2011 02:53 TCP wrote:
I hate feelings...
every time I lose due to a stupid mistake I feel like I'm the worst player and that I'm too bad for this game. Although I "know" its just a stupid feeling, It takes a whole 20 min to get rid of it. This way its quite hard to queue up game after game.
Greate guide nevertheless.
I understand! Too hard on yourself! It's just a game, and nobody should be naturally excellent at the game without prior experience. Even YellOw was in like Gold league.
Instead of focusing on how you make a stupid mistake, focus on the overall habits or overall execution, which is often times harder for people to see and much more important than not making small and stupid decisions. For example on my smurf account I've been hammering out some mechanics (army on 3 hotkeys) and play terrible while getting used to this. I make the dumbest mistakes in the world, but it doesn't matter because I know I'm focusing on improving one single aspect, and as long as I do that I can see progress and feel fulfilled.
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This was a great and inspirational read. Thank You
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Very noob question, what do I have to do to read this? I tried opening it in Word/Notepad but it was just a bunch of symbols 
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On September 08 2011 06:46 Daaffyy wrote:Very noob question, what do I have to do to read this? I tried opening it in Word/Notepad but it was just a bunch of symbols
Adobe reader, you can't open pdf files without it, google "adobe reader"
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just looked at the pdf really quickly and looks pretty good. Its nice that there is a guide with all this information all in one place.
not sure if anyone mentioned it but part of what is in the book is also discussed by Day[9] in his Dailies #252, 257, and 261. I would suggest watching those 3 dailies as well if you are looking to improve mechanically.
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On September 08 2011 07:38 googolpowder wrote:just looked at the pdf really quickly and looks pretty good. Its nice that there is a guide with all this information all in one place. not sure if anyone mentioned it but part of what is in the book is also discussed by Day[9] in his Dailies # 252, 257, and 261. I would suggest watching those 3 dailies as well if you are looking to improve mechanically.
Yeah I think I included all of those actually, in one of the sections! Thanks though!
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Omg thanks so much! This thread has helped so much
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thnx for this pdf this will help me out a lot in my gameplay <3
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Amazing work !! This .pdf has everything i was looking for to improve.
Thank You !!
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Great job on this, I really appreciate the effort. This guide helped me get a wider perspective and I am looking forward improving.
Truly inspirational and well written. Sometimes you just need a kick in the right direction, it is so easy just getting stuck in the mud not knowing what to do 
Thank you for a great guide!
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Printed it off it's a big guide, but that's all the better! Can't wait to read and improve.
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Excellent job! This will really help my play... ill be reading this instead of listening to my lecturer tomorrow :p
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Amazing work man mad props
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wow, just discovered this. Bumping it :D great read
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All of this is really obvious. If you didn't know stuff like this already you shouldn't be trying to get good at SC2 in the first place, since the game is 100% about decision making on the fly.
User was banned for this post.
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On October 03 2011 10:50 Joey Wheeler wrote:
All of this is really obvious. If you didn't know stuff like this already you shouldn't be trying to get good at SC2 in the first place, since the game is 100% about decision making on the fly.
Um, no it's not.
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On October 03 2011 10:59 BleaK_ wrote:Show nested quote +On October 03 2011 10:50 Joey Wheeler wrote:
All of this is really obvious. If you didn't know stuff like this already you shouldn't be trying to get good at SC2 in the first place, since the game is 100% about decision making on the fly. Um, no it's not.
ok so the entire guide is
pick a build that suits you
refine your build by watching replays
don't do bad engagements
the rest is about how as you play more your macro and micro gets better. this guide says nothing about the things that actually truly matter, but it's good for getting out of platinum league or something.
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