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Penecks
Profile Joined August 2010
United States600 Posts
February 26 2011 01:45 GMT
#41
I agree with this, also want to throw in that, when you are zerg, on some spawn locations your overlord is almost directly over the middle of your hatchery, I've selected my overlord before and tried to make a worker and then flailed around like an idiot for a couple seconds deselecting the overlord etc.
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Treeplant
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States214 Posts
February 26 2011 02:05 GMT
#42
I agree with this, and not for lag/delay reasons. Because load times vary by opponent there never seems to be a consistent real countdown. Sometimes the dude takes forever to load and so you get some time to focus, but sometimes it loads so quick you hardly have enough time to get ready. Yeah theres the lobby, but it hardly counts since right after the 'countdown' you have to wait once again.
Klaxon
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada34 Posts
February 26 2011 02:51 GMT
#43
I totally agree with having a countdown after the game has loaded. I get all uptight just waiting for the loading to finish lol.
Torpedo.Vegas
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1890 Posts
February 26 2011 04:53 GMT
#44
On February 26 2011 07:23 Wordpad wrote:
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On February 26 2011 07:13 Slakkoo wrote:
so the practice thingy wouldnt be abused? hey, I'm pro in practice, I learned this new trick that you can pause and see their base then unpause


There would be no abuse because you wouldnt be playing in practice mode to start with, if you didnt know the guy. This would be for friends trying to improve!

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On February 26 2011 07:14 DusTerr wrote:
It's probably just a matter of time until someone creates a "training mode" map where you can do pauses and get vision and things like that (probably including a "reset" and other convenient practice/training tools).


Definitely hope so! I for one, would definitely put it to good use :D

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On February 26 2011 07:13 Torpedo.Vegas wrote:
I guess if I am going to play devil's advocate on this one, I put this thought out there. During high level games, would having a 3 second grace period after the loading screen effect the development of the game since the player is able to calmly and clearly identify their spot on the map and adjust their plans accordingly. This is oppose to starting the game right away with the rush to be mine as fast as possible, get a clean split and maximize early economy while then attempting to gain your bearings?


Sorry my English is not that good to fully understand the Devils advocate thing ^^ But I'm guessing your saying you already had this idea and made a thread about it? In that case sorry, I did try searching to see if something like it existed :S.

But to continue with the idea, it would also be cool if in tournaments or games where one of the spectators has the "referee" status (what DOES that do anyway??), that instead of having a 3 second grace-time, it changes to being an "indefinite" grace time - until the referee clicks the START GAME button. That would allow major tournaments to get everyone ingame and the commentators can start discussing the map etc. etc. until the schedule says 9:00pm (as an example) where the game is set to start! That way we don't always have to watch that stupid game menu / lobby in between games but can actually get our hands dirty analyzing the map :D

Anyways glad to see people agree, and knowing it's not just me being a weirdo ^^


Just for future reference, when someone is "playing devil's advocate" it usually means they are going to disagree for the sake of disagreeing or is taking a side of an argument that is counter to the general trend of the discussion. Like picking the "wrong" side just to pick it.
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10332 Posts
February 26 2011 04:58 GMT
#45
They put this in? NICE

I was worried they wouldn't have this high on their priority because I haven't seen many people ask or complain about it.

Really like this now :D Thanks Blizzard!
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
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