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awwnuts07
United States621 Posts
On March 19 2013 15:42 JonnyBigBoss wrote: What is cap/top/map? It's cap/tap/map CAP- Check your supply/money. If it's getting high, you need to build stuff TAP- Tap your hotkeys to check if your building are producing stuff. MAP- Check the minimap to see what's going on around the map. If your minimap is dark, then it's time to start sending out units for vision. | ||
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Magpie842
United Kingdom28 Posts
1. Everytime I build an SCV (or worker) or perform a macro cycle/check (raxes, facts n SPorts), I look at my minimap. It's just a small glance, but it's really useful for keeping me checking down there regularly. Out of interest, I also add to this with a glance at my resources and supply, just to keep aware. 2. I don't scroll. I make a big effort to almost always click where I need to be on the minimap. This is because it means that I have to look at the minimap! Combined with camera hotkeys this is all I need to be where I need to be, on time (note though, in a fight, I will camera drag some to track the battle). 3. When moving out with my army or harasses, I make sure to blip my attention to it on the minimap. Not sure how to describe this actually... I just ping my eyes to and from it so that the active edge of vision of the moving units is in my mind as much as possible. I got these tips from a few places; kudos esp to FilterSC and Day9. | ||
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
The second thing that helps with minimap awareness is to physically turn your head to look at it because a lot of times you get some adrenaline going on, and turning your head helps a lot to combat it. edit: You have to be willing to lose games as a result of working on different things in your play. For example, when I switched to Protoss I wanted to work on my warprism harass, and so I just did it no matter in every game in every matchup just for the sake of getting better at it. It cost me lots of games, but now my warprism BS is really good. | ||
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XDJuicebox
United States593 Posts
Don't "be aware of the minimap." Play with the minimap. When I play, my eyes are glued to the minimap. I occasionally dash up to check my resources or for really intense micro situations, but for the most part, I do that stuff out of peripheral vision, and my eyes are on my minimap the entire time. Give yourself as much excuse to click on the minimap/keep your eyes near it as you can. When you build stuff, instead of looking at the white blips in the bottom center console, look at the minimap. Just count the amount of buttons you press, that works anyway. You'd be surprised how much your decision making improves just by better minimap awareness. Your macro might suffer from not looking at the resources, but you shouldn't have to constantly look at your money to manage it. | ||
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stratmatt
United States913 Posts
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Shebuha
Canada1335 Posts
On March 20 2013 07:06 stratmatt wrote: try playing counter strike global offensive for a month....you will look at your minimap 10x more often the second you switch back to starcraft Be sure to play GO and not either of the other two. ? | ||
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