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Severian
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia2052 Posts
November 27 2010 14:00 GMT
#21
On November 27 2010 22:43 Primadog wrote:
Jesus your first post is this? I been slacking...


You missed something very important:

how does severianing workers sound for the technique? severalaning? severing?

I don't think it even really needs a name.

On November 27 2010 22:53 Shikyo wrote:
You can do this alot faster if you just hold down F1 and click around. Let me try how long it takes for a mineral line with 24 drones. About 5 seconds after stopping them on the first try... and I'm not even a good player.

Wow, this is great. I had no idea you could hold down F1. Makes it a lot simpler. I'll add it to the OP; thankyou!
navara
Profile Joined September 2010
France95 Posts
November 27 2010 14:03 GMT
#22
yeah tried it and it's really usefull thanks.
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17279 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-27 14:14:53
November 27 2010 14:14 GMT
#23
On November 27 2010 22:55 Skeyser wrote:
Sounds great for pros, but way too apm heavy for us mere mortals ^^

It's probably easier than most other ways to split workers. There's really not much to it.
twitch.tv/cratonz
Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany2959 Posts
November 27 2010 14:21 GMT
#24
Sounds like it would be working pretty well with some practice. May be learning that shit now because as a Zerg there are also a lot of "Baneling running to your mineral line" situations where all you can do is reduce your losses by spreading your Drones. And in those Speedlings/Blings matches you usually don't have too many Drones anyways early on so this should work exceptional well :>
WrathBringerReturns said: No no no. Sarcasm is detected in the voice. When this forum is riddled with stupidity, you think I can tell every post apart? Fair enough it was intended sarcastically, was it obvious? Of course not.
kardinal
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden154 Posts
November 27 2010 14:21 GMT
#25
Thanks it will help a lot <3
eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
November 27 2010 14:26 GMT
#26
On November 27 2010 22:55 Skeyser wrote:
Sounds great for pros, but way too apm heavy for us mere mortals ^^


huh? Its not APM heavy at all. It is simply selecting workers , telling to stop , then using the idle worker feature to send them to different places. Pretty much anyone can do that after a bit of practice.....
Krasso
Profile Joined November 2010
Denmark74 Posts
November 27 2010 14:31 GMT
#27
Wow, this is really great! :D Will definitely be using that, and it's so easy to do.

Thanks alot!
I could aim, but with this thing, i dont have to
Arch00
Profile Joined July 2010
United States233 Posts
November 27 2010 14:33 GMT
#28
This is surprisingly easy to do, nice.
www.twitch.tv/arch00 ~ Arch.391 SC2
Reminiscence
Profile Joined September 2010
Singapore34 Posts
November 27 2010 15:48 GMT
#29
just tried it, the effect is pleasantly surprising.. thanks
i think ill use it for those oh shit situations when my army move out, and they drop helions in my base, good way to minimise probe losses if you have no immediate way to fend those helions off, a good way to spam apm rather than selecting my army and spamming move non stop back to my base while watching my probes get fried
Zhou
Profile Joined February 2009
United States832 Posts
November 27 2010 15:51 GMT
#30
That's pretty witty. I'd like to see this happen on some screened games. I doubt I could pull this off efficiently enough... If anybody has replays of it being done, that'd be pretty neat.
Hugoboss21
Profile Joined June 2009
France346 Posts
November 27 2010 15:58 GMT
#31
yea this is pretty nice. Thanks bluflame are annoying :[
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. --Carl Sagan
Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
November 27 2010 16:02 GMT
#32
On November 27 2010 22:43 Primadog wrote:
Jesus your first post is this? I been slacking...


You missed something very important:

how does severianing workers sound for the technique? severalaning? severing?


I was thinking 'The Severian Split"
Toxiferous
Profile Joined June 2009
United States388 Posts
November 27 2010 16:04 GMT
#33
ive done this to success in bling zvz wars not all that hard
Cade
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada1420 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-27 16:08:40
November 27 2010 16:07 GMT
#34
I also use this technique in ZvZ vs Banelings.

Edit: Ninja'd!
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17279 Posts
November 27 2010 16:09 GMT
#35
On November 28 2010 01:02 Najda wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 27 2010 22:43 Primadog wrote:
Jesus your first post is this? I been slacking...


You missed something very important:

how does severianing workers sound for the technique? severalaning? severing?


I was thinking 'The Severian Split"

I vote we stop trying to name every single technique in the game. The humor in it has gotten rather stale.
twitch.tv/cratonz
MasterFischer
Profile Joined August 2009
Denmark836 Posts
November 27 2010 16:11 GMT
#36
The counter to hellions is NOT..

NOT


NOTTTTTTT

moving your workers... EVER..

why?

Because in each mineral line, are only 3-4 workers..

would u rather have roasted 20 at once, or just 3 at a time? while u kill hellions?

I never anybody just let it be, because ppl panic.. OMGLUKLZZZ hellioonzz, I must move away !
WHO is this who speaks to me as though I needed his advice?
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
November 27 2010 16:12 GMT
#37
This is a very effective technique. I think the best way to do this is
1) Select workers
2) Hit stop
3) Select Nexus
4) Hold F1
5) Spam click everywhere

The reason why you select your Nexus is that if there is any delay it will screw up how the F1 works (because the spamming click thing will cause all your workers to move making them no longer idle which screws up the F1). Pretty awesome really
Administrator~ Spirit will set you free ~
Spiffeh
Profile Joined May 2010
United States830 Posts
November 27 2010 16:13 GMT
#38
Right after boxing them you may want to bind them to 9 or 0 to make it easier to start mining again.
tsuxiit
Profile Joined July 2010
1305 Posts
November 27 2010 16:14 GMT
#39
I have been doing this against banelings in zvz, very useful
NuKedUFirst
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada3139 Posts
November 27 2010 16:17 GMT
#40
x.x Had I known this yesterday I wouldn't have lost the games were I gotta blueflame hellion dropped and Banelings bombed ._.

Great tip, will keep this in mind.
FrostedMiniWeet wrote: I like winning because it validates all the bloody time I waste playing SC2.
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