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Still awesome though!Saving Your Workers From Hellions - Page 6
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Patriot.dlk
Sweden5462 Posts
Still awesome though! | ||
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SoLuTioN.
Sweden21 Posts
Now all we need is a "select idle marine" button to fight blings | ||
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PaPhJoRt
Denmark95 Posts
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
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IcyPringle
Canada210 Posts
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Lobo2me
Norway1213 Posts
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HydroXy
United States513 Posts
On November 28 2010 05:45 SharkSpider wrote: Read a little further in to the post please. My post was in response to your saying that you used the hotkey to "control them faster," which was followed by the conjoined sentence that begins "and when the attack is done." This implies that you control them as a hotkeyed group while the harass is going on, creating the exact scenario that the OP was trying to avoid. On November 28 2010 05:24 SharkSpider wrote: The point is that you want your workers to be all over the place, to avoid attackers, etc. Sometimes you will need to do this to two bases at once. Before I started using 9,0 for this, I would always have to go probe hunting after I got MM dropped or something. This was a big problem because I'd lose more mining time. Now, I just flip to each nexus, make some new probes to replace the ones I've lost, and return the respective probes to mining. Having to select each probe is a pain, and the idle workers button might not even be your best bet because some probes will still be on move commands after the harass is over. It's just a time saver, not something meant to be done -instead- of what the OP is suggesting. Maybe you're fast with creating new control groups on the 0 and 9 keys, but I'd guess that for most people doing so would take precious seconds that you can't afford to not spend on splitting the workers. Then, assuming you're not wildly sending workers all over the map, you can simply go back to your base after the harass is over and control+click on the workers to select them all. | ||
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Hypatio
549 Posts
It also shows you with 500-2000 APM in replays when you do this, WOW! | ||
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
On November 28 2010 05:45 SharkSpider wrote: Read a little further in to the post please. The point is that you want your workers to be all over the place, to avoid attackers, etc. Sometimes you will need to do this to two bases at once. Before I started using 9,0 for this, I would always have to go probe hunting after I got MM dropped or something. This was a big problem because I'd lose more mining time. Now, I just flip to each nexus, make some new probes to replace the ones I've lost, and return the respective probes to mining. Having to select each probe is a pain, and the idle workers button might not even be your best bet because some probes will still be on move commands after the harass is over. It's just a time saver, not something meant to be done -instead- of what the OP is suggesting. Also ctrl+F1 selects all idle workers so you could just use that to select all the workers you moved away and have them return mining quickly. | ||
intrigue
Washington, D.C9933 Posts
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dCrumpets
United States22 Posts
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Gaius Baltar
United States449 Posts
On November 28 2010 06:03 SoLuTioN. wrote: Now all we need is a "select idle marine" button to fight blings ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu | ||
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dtz
5834 Posts
oh i'm sure it will be quite useful when doing scv all ins TvZ. spread the scvs to tank the banelings splash ^^ | ||
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whomybuddy
United States620 Posts
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blackodd
Sweden451 Posts
On November 28 2010 04:55 Almisael wrote: a thread with the same topic was created some time ago: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=164235 sad thing i can't play sc2... Well, this post was better in my opinion, also it was timed because all zerg facepalmed at that 5 blueflame hellion game | ||
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dronelord
Singapore42 Posts
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Liquid`EliGE
United States527 Posts
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
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Severian
Australia2052 Posts
On November 28 2010 04:50 goldfishs wrote: I know I've read this somewhere before, Now I've looked everywhere just can't find the thread, are you the same guy that posted this a while ago? Ah, I was unaware this had already been discovered. It's not very complicated so I suppose it's not surprising. I literally decided to figure out something like this after seeing the DreamHack game + Show Spoiler + Tyler vs Fenix on Metalopolis If anyone has a video or replay of them doing this in a real game, it'd be a great addition. I don't have any myself and unfortunately I can't get one right now. | ||
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MDew
United States256 Posts
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