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SeaSmoke
Profile Joined July 2010
United States326 Posts
July 30 2010 19:56 GMT
#21
ctrl - f1 is great, but if you hold shift and click minerals after sending an scv/probe to build it will go back to mining immediately after building.

then you won't have idle workers in the first place
PokePill
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1048 Posts
July 30 2010 19:56 GMT
#22
Let me blow your guys mind, don't let your workers go idle. Use SHIFT beforehand!

10or10
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Sweden517 Posts
July 30 2010 20:02 GMT
#23
I always start the game by pressing ctrl+f1 to select all workers, that gives me time to point the mouse at the mineral patches. After that: build worker and split before the workers are at the first mineral patch.
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Roniii
Profile Joined March 2010
United States289 Posts
July 30 2010 20:06 GMT
#24
oh nice i wasnt even aware of ctrlf1
you think as i do
skeldark
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2223 Posts
July 30 2010 20:10 GMT
#25
ctrl - f1 Oo!
DAM why nobody said this to me before....
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phil.ipp
Profile Joined May 2010
Austria1067 Posts
July 30 2010 20:16 GMT
#26
dont know whats the problem with idle workers .. in the whole game maybe one or two idle workers exist for me, thats maybe some scouts .. not nearly game changing

you can shift queue commands .. so if i send a worker to build something i send it with shift back to some minerals instantly ..

i dont know where you all get your idle workers from?!?
ultratorr
Profile Joined June 2010
Canada332 Posts
July 30 2010 21:23 GMT
#27
Wow I never new about the Ctrl F1... cool thanks
yotogi
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2 Posts
July 30 2010 21:36 GMT
#28
I would recommend that you change you keyboard settings to allow the function keys to work correctly while you play. Trivial to change under they system settings and then change back. Then your function keys will, well, function.
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TradgyAtHand
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada99 Posts
July 30 2010 21:47 GMT
#29
We zerg dont have idle workers -_-
:D
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[GiTM]-Ace
Profile Joined September 2002
United States4935 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-30 21:53:30
July 30 2010 21:53 GMT
#30
how do you have idle workers over the map??

edit- must be a non z thing
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PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
July 30 2010 21:53 GMT
#31
On July 31 2010 04:04 Logican wrote:
or, you can press Ctrl + F1 and select all idle workers


didntk now that 1

thx buddy! :-D
Edlina
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark28 Posts
July 30 2010 22:03 GMT
#32
On July 31 2010 04:06 SincerelySaint wrote:
Most of the time all my idle workers are spread out so dragging a box doesn't work. Sure if your ran out of mins and they're all there then that's great but otherwise no. I wasn't aware of Ctrl+f1 but I'm on a mac with other functions assigned to the f-keys so this trick works well for me.


Ctrl + click works fine, you don't need the f-key. And it's just holding Ctrl + clicking, a lot faster than 8x shift + clicking.
cArn-
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Korea (South)824 Posts
July 30 2010 22:04 GMT
#33
by the way, how do you freaking center the camera on the idle worker ?
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carwashguy
Profile Joined June 2009
United States175 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-30 22:14:24
July 30 2010 22:13 GMT
#34
On July 31 2010 07:03 Edlina wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 31 2010 04:06 SincerelySaint wrote:
Most of the time all my idle workers are spread out so dragging a box doesn't work. Sure if your ran out of mins and they're all there then that's great but otherwise no. I wasn't aware of Ctrl+f1 but I'm on a mac with other functions assigned to the f-keys so this trick works well for me.


Ctrl + click works fine, you don't need the f-key. And it's just holding Ctrl + clicking, a lot faster than 8x shift + clicking.

If and only if all of your workers are idle. If some workers are working, then use ctrl+F1 to only nab the idle ones. Also, ctrl click won't select offscreen idle workers, so remember to use ctrl+F1 in these cases.
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