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I've won 75-80% of the games I've done with carriers, in plat. If you rush to get one out, that one carrier with your ground units should be able to crush a lot of stuff. Takes me around 8:30-9 mins to get 1 carrier out I believe. Once you get 1 or 2 out you have to be careful to not let them die, they are great dps, and with a cliff you can use one to tank dmg then pull it back.
And yes +1 atk for carriers is freakin amazing. I usually get it while I'm building my first carrier. Another thing I'd like to point out is that you don't need to win with carriers, you just need to do enough damage to stop them from killing you while you build up a larger army (after you build your first c and an expo). Sure some of my games would end with a bunch of carriers, but lots of times a player sees the first carrier and has an "o shit" moment (or in this case a "day9?" moment) and totally over prepares for a bunch of carriers.
Edit: I usually get mostly phoenix/zealot/sentry before carrier. Phoenix are great at helping picking off aa on the ground and in the air, and zealots with sentry can tank a lot of damage while your carriers kill everything. Really hard to focus fire on the carrier when a bunch zealots are hacking you to pieces.
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Of course, the whole point of the exercise is to find a way to use fast carriers.
The biggest problem is getting to them without dying. Oh yeah, they're dangerous in large numbers, but the time and cost of getting to "large numbers" is incredible, and how do you survive in the mean time? There are probably going to be a few hundred replays sent in, so I'm sure somebody will come up with something good.
The most obvious idea is to modify a forge/cannon wall-in voidray build to make carriers instead of VRs. But I have a sillier idea I think is more appropriate (which I plan to start testing tonight).
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On September 24 2010 01:55 d20 wrote:
Those HomerJ shirts are amazing! I have to get one (or two)!
Is there any way to make them easier for non-German speakers to buy one? Has anyone from the US been able to purchase one? Sorry if I'm showing my ignorance, I've never bought anything off of a foreign website before.
Thanks in advance for your help!
this. im interested in buying them too. Possible PM to D20 and me? >< ty
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On September 24 2010 02:06 ccdnl wrote:Show nested quote +On September 24 2010 01:55 d20 wrote:
Those HomerJ shirts are amazing! I have to get one (or two)!
Is there any way to make them easier for non-German speakers to buy one? Has anyone from the US been able to purchase one? Sorry if I'm showing my ignorance, I've never bought anything off of a foreign website before.
Thanks in advance for your help! this. im interested in buying them too. Possible PM to D20 and me? >< ty
From HomerJ via PM:
Heyho,
just contact info@youware.de they will help you out :D
Cheers,
Basti
I will post more info as I get it.
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On September 24 2010 01:41 Talic_Zealot wrote:
Stop theorizing about carriers and just try them, otherwise you'll end up making only zerglings and marines in your daily 2 games when you are not wasting your time in the forum..
lol, well said
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Can we start a Buy Day[9] new glasses fund? This has really been bothering me.
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he said that hes getting them fixed friday
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The first FundayMonday has now given me a new opening for PvZ: Going for fast lair and expansion after spawning pool instead of Queen, and get hydras right away. I still need to tweak it and work on it to get it more efficient, but it feels really strong. By the time Collosus can get out, you can already have a huge mass of hydras to do serious damage. And as long as you creep with overlords and get your queens to actively lay down tumors once you get them (I'm usually getting them once I begin building my Hydralisk Den) you can be mobile enough to deal with any agression the Toss can muster.
I love these new theme days Day[9], keep it up!
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On September 24 2010 04:26 Tennet wrote:
he said that hes getting them fixed friday
Yeah, prolly the same old way, Tape.
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On September 24 2010 04:21 Grond wrote:
Can we start a Buy Day[9] new glasses fund? This has really been bothering me.
There is always the option of donating to him through Paypal  Coincidentally I did so today actually saying he could use it for new glasses. Then I saw daily #185 and was like wtf 
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On September 24 2010 04:21 Grond wrote:
Can we start a Buy Day[9] new glasses fund? This has really been bothering me.
i would join in 
i already made a huge!!!! donation of 5dollar a week ago ;D
we could search some shop for glasses too :D theyll sponsor it if he at least says once in a daily who made his glasses :D
btw i dont understand why he doesnt take a sponsor or smth.. i mean its daily and the range of viewer goes from 3k to 12k per daily (more then the most of the last wc3 tournements)... there should be a sponsor interested..
btw whats the email for the newbie tuesday?
tuesday@day9.tv ?
btw i'd like to see some replays of yourself day[9] maybe some losses and you try to figure out why you lost...
i try to watch my replays always once after i lost but im not leraning realy much out of them
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Oh my gosh.
I just watched Day's Monday & Tuesday shows and I have to say, the first Funday Monday was one of the best Day[9] episodes I have ever seen.
This is probably not the first time I will say this is my lifetime but thank you so much for your contribution to the community Day. I enjoy your work so much. <3<3<3
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yeah he really needs some new glasses :D
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I constantly build Probes as Day[9] says and end up having way to many on each base, anyone else suffering from that?
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Hyrule19229 Posts
Stop making Probes around 60 :|
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On September 24 2010 06:14 CruelZeratul wrote:
I constantly build Probes as Day[9] says and end up having way to many on each base, anyone else suffering from that?
i got the same problem :D
but then i just smile cause i know day9 would be proud to see me losing this way instead of the other way =D
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On September 24 2010 06:14 CruelZeratul wrote:
I constantly build Probes as Day[9] says and end up having way to many on each base, anyone else suffering from that?
In the later game, your probe production shouldn't come to a complete stop but it should start to slow down unless you late double expand or something.
Once you're on your third base or maybe even fourth if your going for a heavy macro build you shouldn't really need to build any more probes as you can just transfer between bases. (disregarding mineral line harass)
Okay so lets say you're on one base and you want to expand, as you drop your natural expansion you should still be building probes on your main. So when the natural is finished, your main base should be over-saturated (20-25 probes), then take anywhere up to 50% (or more if your have tons of probes) to your natural which will now be close to full saturation.
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On September 24 2010 06:14 CruelZeratul wrote:
I constantly build Probes as Day[9] says and end up having way to many on each base, anyone else suffering from that?
Then expand more. :o
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On September 24 2010 06:14 CruelZeratul wrote:
I constantly build Probes as Day[9] says and end up having way to many on each base, anyone else suffering from that?
Expand?
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I'm having problems downloading the episodes, I click the download button but it goes to a VOD stream.
I dunno what to do!  wanted to watch episode 100 again but I cant as there isn't a pause button on the stream, and I can't download it.
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