Sc2gears 14.3.3: Replay version 2.1 support - Page 36

On October 18 2010 15:00 hyped wrote:
I think an amazing feature would be something to let you select a replay in sc2gears and then press a button to upload it straight to a replay upload site.

On October 16 2010 08:03 iokke wrote:


What's lame about it? It sounds great for people who want to work on increasing their APM...

A quick question, I skimmed through the op but didnt see this (maybe missed it). I see that it autosaves replayed, but does it auto-rename them too?

On October 18 2010 22:32 hangarninetysix wrote:


Well it probably won't help people too much, but it still seems like a tiny bit of an advantage. I mean, what if someone had an external program that automatically read when they spawned larva on the first queen hotkey and automaticaly beeped every 40 seconds, or reminded you when you were about to be supply blocked, or reminded you when your cc wasn't building so it you wouldn't have to check/remember when you were microing... I don't know, it just doesn't seem truly legit no matter even if it falls within the blizzard eula.

On October 18 2010 22:36 Dakota_Fanning wrote:

I think this is exactly in the same category with Razor mouses and keyboards: they blink when your APM is low. Razor peripherals are officially supported by Blizzard.

The APM alert uses only the windows registry (just like the Razor stuffs). Anything more you mentioned (larva and supply) are not available from the registry so it wouldn't even be possible to implement those in a legit way. So it's not the same.

On October 19 2010 06:34 hangarninetysix wrote:


It's not the same in terms of accessing files, but it's the same in terms of how it affects your gameplay. It reminds you to do stuff you should be doing when you're not doing it. I'm not saying it's breaking blizzard's rules, I'm just saying it's kind of... ehh.

On October 19 2010 02:02 Bumblebees wrote:
Is there anywhere to find out how to use the program's analyzation features?

Either I'm doing something wrong or I simply don't understand how to interpret the information.

For instance, the activity/apm charts in multi-rep are always straight horizontal lines (even against replays over a month). My activity and APM are anything but stable.

I don't understand what the numbers mean above units/buildings in the replay analyzer either. It doesn't count the units or supply, or number of buildings that exist. What is the number supposed to be?

On October 19 2010 06:51 Dakota_Fanning wrote:

It's exactly the same in terms of accessing files. I get the APM info exactly from the same place Razer keyboards and mouses get.

On October 19 2010 23:16 hangarninetysix wrote:


I think you misunderstood my reply. How is that the same as accessing larva/supply values? Regardless, that's the not the point. You could set up an external program to read keystrokes for 55v if you had your first queen hotkeyed to 5, and then beep 40 seconds after every sequence, and it wouldn't be accessing any information from the game, just your keystrokes. Legit by blizzard rules? Sure, probably. But it's still giving the player a bit of an advantage. And if the player is good enough to not need to be reminded to do things during micro/harass, then why have it at all? It just seems that the only reason to have APM alert is to give a player an unfair advantage, albeit a small one.

Again, not bashing the program... just this one feature is kind of meh.

On October 19 2010 07:32 Dakota_Fanning wrote:

Build/Tech Stat chart: the numbers mean how many times the abilities were used. For example the numbers over the units mean how many were trained. In case of buildings: how many was built. In case of other abilities: how many times they were used. Move your mouse over the bars or icons to display what it is if you're not familiar with all of them.

The charts in the multi-rep analysis: they show your development over time. You can choose the granularity of the chart, the period of time you want the info summarized. You will get one chart data for each of these periods (like 1 chart point for every day, or 1 for every week, or 1 for every month..).
These points will be connected with lines, or if you want, they can be approximated with a cubic function.

If it shows your APM is not stable, it doesn't matter, it shouldn't be. But you can see how it changed over the time. If you have many chart points, it's recommended to increase the period, that way the info for the periods will be closer to your average (bigger period => more games in it).

On October 20 2010 00:57 Dakota_Fanning wrote:
Replays only record the actions that are issued by the players, the success of commands are not recorded.

On October 20 2010 09:28 Bumblebees wrote:


Hmm, that seems to be the issue. I sometimes spam 4sd (hatch, select larva, drone), and it'd appear unsuccessful commands are being counted in the 'drone count'.

Thank you.