Trouble with Terran macro, cannot see progress bar - Page 2

On June 06 2011 03:13 erisco wrote:
Using the audio cue: a cool idea but are some cues skipped if other cues are happening simultaneously? I haven't paid enough attention to the audio to know if this occurs -- and paying attention to the audio that intently sounds difficult, as one missed cue and all of a sudden you could be missing a boat load of production time; perhaps this is a skill that could be mastered though.

Double tapping to view production facilities on-screen: other than that there are a number of probably scattered progress parse to visually parse, if your production facilities ever span more than one screen -- and judging by the games I've seen, they often enough do come the late game -- this solution becomes a bit inflexible. I would much rather use map bookmarks, as they can easily adjusted on the fly and account for multiple production facility locations. This seems like the most sound solution in my eyes.

On June 06 2011 04:48 sad.wish wrote:
get more APM, and skill and u will see when marines are finish building :\

On June 06 2011 04:53 TimeSpiral wrote:


Where you at, Mods? I thought we were cracking down on rubbish like this ^

On June 06 2011 05:07 CptCutter wrote:
queing units will not lose you the game (of course more than two production cycles of qued units is bad). contrary to what people think, queing units does not drastically damage your game.

On June 05 2011 23:19 erisco wrote:
Tapping the hotkey more frequently I do not feel is any solution. Say that I have a set of actions I need to do. For example say that I need to float a CC to an expansion, transfer workers, and drop two supply depos. This requires a lot of mouse work so it will take a few seconds.

However, I know keeping up on production is the more important thing, so I tap my production hotkey before I start anything and I see that all the facilities are still working. Then, I click on my CC to lift it. At that exact moment, all my production facilities become idle again, but I am floating my CC somewhere, transferring workers, and dropping two depos, all the while my production is still idle.

This problem would be mitigated if there was a progress bar. If it was 50% to 75% full, I would know that I could execute the actions before having to macro again. However, if it was 80% to 90% full, I would simply queue my next production cycle and then execute the actions. There is no way to make this judgement if all I can see is a binary "yes production is active" or "no production is idle".

On June 05 2011 23:19 erisco wrote:
Tapping the hotkey more frequently I do not feel is any solution. Say that I have a set of actions I need to do. For example say that I need to float a CC to an expansion, transfer workers, and drop two supply depos. This requires a lot of mouse work so it will take a few seconds.

However, I know keeping up on production is the more important thing, so I tap my production hotkey before I start anything and I see that all the facilities are still working. Then, I click on my CC to lift it. At that exact moment, all my production facilities become idle again, but I am floating my CC somewhere, transferring workers, and dropping two depos, all the while my production is still idle.

This problem would be mitigated if there was a progress bar. If it was 50% to 75% full, I would know that I could execute the actions before having to macro again. However, if it was 80% to 90% full, I would simply queue my next production cycle and then execute the actions. There is no way to make this judgement if all I can see is a binary "yes production is active" or "no production is idle".

On June 05 2011 23:15 Teim wrote:
I just check each of them a lot. Constantly cycling through all my production structures. Eventually you start to get a feel for the timing and just do it naturally which is actually quite amazing to see when you watch one of your own replays.