its going to be hard to do this cause in a game im not going to go omg w click click click ok which unit was closest... ill probly just be microing my units into postion and other things like this

RyanRushia

United States2748 Posts

July 26 2011 22:47 GMT

#42

nice job figuring this out pat... certainly helpful!

doodle

Netherlands14 Posts

July 26 2011 22:52 GMT

#43

Awesome find! Thanks!

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

July 26 2011 23:07 GMT

#44

On July 27 2011 07:43 Drazzyo wrote:
its going to be hard to do this cause in a game im not going to go omg w click click click ok which unit was closest... ill probly just be microing my units into postion and other things like this

You don't need to know specific orders, just how many gates are on cooldown and number of gates total. If you have 10 and only 4 are ready you know what area you should be looking in for the gates on cooldown.

NonY

8751 Posts

July 27 2011 00:25 GMT

#45

Nice catch, useful information!

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

July 27 2011 00:28 GMT

#46

On July 27 2011 09:25 Liquid`Tyler wrote:
Nice catch, useful information!

Well ok I officially don't feel silly now. I was going to make this two days ago but figured all the pros would just say "yea dude, we knew that forever, common knowledge." <3 <3

UnitedKronos

139 Posts

July 27 2011 00:31 GMT

#47

That's actually a neat little find, thanks the thread ^_^

ATrain64

United States15 Posts

July 27 2011 00:34 GMT

#48

This is very useful, thanks a bunch for the information!

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

July 27 2011 01:08 GMT

#49

Also the idea I had for late game I'll show here, it might suck, but it made sense to me.

Instead of grouping all your gateways in a "sqaure" laying them down in staggered lines.

Ex: You set up your gateways like this.

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Then if anything warps not right above or below your gates, you can basically split the map in two.

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I don't know maybe I'm just overthinking this however.......

michaelhasanalias

Korea (South)1231 Posts

July 27 2011 01:14 GMT

#50

this is awesome to know, thank you so much!

I wonder if this will affect base layouts for aware players in the future (making their gates in slightly more of a line toward opponent for example, rather than just placing them somewhere in base).

Cow

Canada1104 Posts

July 27 2011 02:36 GMT

#51

This is some useful information, always wondered but ended up just randomly clicking. Thanks for finding out and sharing!

philipov

United States81 Posts

July 27 2011 03:10 GMT

#52

On July 27 2011 07:00 -orb- wrote:
This is great to know, but you gotta wonder why blizzard couldn't just give us a cooldown bar over the warpgates just like every other race gets progress bars for their units building...

It's funny you should say this because I've always wondered why Zerg can't get an idle larva counter in the bottom right, like protoss gets an idle warpgate counter.

Anyways, this is a great find and I'll be using it when offracing.

Netherlands12045 Posts

July 27 2011 04:37 GMT

#53

jaw = drop... great find. I knew there are some trick into it from beta but i have never had a chance to test stuff out. Question: what if the distance is equal?

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

July 27 2011 04:56 GMT

#54

On July 27 2011 13:37 NB wrote:
jaw = drop... great find. I knew there are some trick into it from beta but i have never had a chance to test stuff out. Question: what if the distance is equal?

I got to imagine the odds of the distance being 100% equal is pretty low and I don't even know if I could replicate that (or don't know how).

Uncultured

United States1340 Posts

July 27 2011 05:31 GMT

#55

Oh my god, this was something that irritated me so bad in game. Now all I got to do is line up my gateways and I'll probably never worry about this again. Amazing.