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ThirdDegree
Profile Joined February 2011
United States329 Posts
September 22 2011 21:06 GMT
#681
I agree that the change is dumb, but only because it was something that didn't need to be changed and they spent some resources on it. But that being said, as long as everyone is compared with the same APM counter, doesn't it not really matter? You can still directly compare yourself to another player, as well as compare your APM from match to match.
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MindRush
Profile Joined April 2010
Romania916 Posts
September 22 2011 21:26 GMT
#682
APM is not a game-deciding factor - I mean the number it shows.
You can key-tap all day and have excellent APM and run all your marines into banelings, or just forget to build units and pile up resources -> c'mon, don't tell me it didn't happen to you !
At the end all that matters is who won and who lost
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synkronized
Profile Joined June 2011
United States125 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-22 21:29:25
September 22 2011 21:28 GMT
#683
On September 23 2011 04:38 Micket wrote:
I am going to laugh when people say stuff like 'lol Vibe only has 150 apm he just spammmmms he actually sucks i have same apm lol.' Then I'm going to ask, 'why is his macro soooo much better then. You must suckkkkkk even harder if have useless apm in the useless apm meter.'

Vibe doesn't suck. But I could tell from the get go that his APM was grossly inflated and he wasn't really that fast. Vibe's not bad, but he definitely spams enough to make his APM appear high even amongst pros when he's not really playing that much faster than others.
bakon23
Profile Joined April 2010
United States4 Posts
September 22 2011 21:48 GMT
#684
How can this be anything but bad/useless. Just because you are spamming does not mean you are not making action clicks. What is the point in even measuring your "actions" per minute if all of the actions are not included. Who cares if someone is wasting actions or not. At the end of the day they are still making action moves. The fact of the matter is this new way of measuring apm is not telling you exactly how many actions your are making. So I don't really see the point in SCII even measuring apm if it is going to be inaccurate.
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teide
Profile Joined July 2011
Spain178 Posts
September 22 2011 21:54 GMT
#685
On September 23 2011 06:26 MindRush wrote:
APM is not a game-deciding factor - I mean the number it shows.
You can key-tap all day and have excellent APM and run all your marines into banelings, or just forget to build units and pile up resources -> c'mon, don't tell me it didn't happen to you !
At the end all that matters is who won and who lost


that don't make sense, if you have excellent apm, you can split your marines, build all units and have excellent macro. If you have low apm you can't.
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Ghostface_Killa
Profile Joined March 2011
United States168 Posts
September 23 2011 00:38 GMT
#686
On August 26 2011 22:36 arbitrageur wrote:
zergs apm to drop significantly. 44v 55v 66v T.T sigh

EDIT: nevermind that would be 6 actions.


More like:

4 (select all queens), delete/tab (cycle to 1st hatch), v + shift-click, tab + shift-click, tab + shift-click

People should be less worried about APM counters and more about making their actions more efficient.
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NoMoS
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada20 Posts
September 23 2011 00:40 GMT
#687
On September 23 2011 09:38 Ghostface_Killa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 26 2011 22:36 arbitrageur wrote:
zergs apm to drop significantly. 44v 55v 66v T.T sigh

EDIT: nevermind that would be 6 actions.


More like:

4 (select all queens), delete/tab (cycle to 1st hatch), v + shift-click, tab + shift-click, tab + shift-click

People should be less worried about APM counters and more about making their actions more efficient.


No way that's faster
Alpino
Profile Joined June 2011
Brazil4390 Posts
September 23 2011 00:47 GMT
#688

On September 23 2011 06:26 MindRush wrote:
APM is not a game-deciding factor - I mean the number it shows.
You can key-tap all day and have excellent APM and run all your marines into banelings, or just forget to build units and pile up resources -> c'mon, don't tell me it didn't happen to you !
At the end all that matters is who won and who lost


People need to stop lying to themselves. It obviously is. Look at grubby's new vlog. oGs coach said that his problem was that he played too slow. You can only be at the highest level of play with great APM.

SjoW is great but he is not Code S material because he is slow. You can only play a perfect macro game with sick apm. You can only harass and multitask with sick apm. You can see that when multitasking is taking place people's apm will spike.

It is simple, as you play faster and faster you'll get the most from your BOs, your decisions and the engagements.

Have you never knew something you had to do in a game to win or be in a better position, but you just KNEW you couldn't pull the play atm? It happens to me all the time, if I were faster I would let less minerals float while I harass with my hellions.
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Ghostface_Killa
Profile Joined March 2011
United States168 Posts
September 23 2011 00:47 GMT
#689
On September 23 2011 06:06 ThirdDegree wrote:
I agree that the change is dumb, but only because it was something that didn't need to be changed and they spent some resources on it. But that being said, as long as everyone is compared with the same APM counter, doesn't it not really matter? You can still directly compare yourself to another player, as well as compare your APM from match to match.


I thought so too, then I remembered Day9's emphasis on "tapping" one's hot-keys in order to monitor unit production, cooldowns and upgrades while performing other actions, such as scouting. Now those players won't have their "tapping" actions counted when being compared to players who don't tap at all.

Not that I really give a crap. I think high and efficient APM is important for high-level play but I only ever bring up the APM tab for shits and giggles anyway.
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reneg
Profile Joined September 2010
United States859 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-23 00:57:42
September 23 2011 00:53 GMT
#690
On September 23 2011 09:47 Ghostface_Killa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 23 2011 06:06 ThirdDegree wrote:
I agree that the change is dumb, but only because it was something that didn't need to be changed and they spent some resources on it. But that being said, as long as everyone is compared with the same APM counter, doesn't it not really matter? You can still directly compare yourself to another player, as well as compare your APM from match to match.


I thought so too, then I remembered Day9's emphasis on "tapping" one's hot-keys in order to monitor unit production, cooldowns and upgrades while performing other actions, such as scouting. Now those players won't have their "tapping" actions counted when being compared to players who don't tap at all.

Not that I really give a crap. I think high and efficient APM is important for high-level play but I only ever bring up the APM tab for shits and giggles anyway.


And so what if they're compared? The only thing that'll happen, is maybe someone who's watching the replay (you, or the other guy who played, because let's be honest, most of the time no one wants to watch YOUR replays) and they'll glance at the APM tab a time or two, and go, "interesting, blizzard said we both played with 80apm"

And then the only thing you'll care about is who won. You're not going to go to bed that night thinking, "damn! If only i'd had more of my APM recorded, i'd've been able to beat him!"

Because you're going to be doing the exact same amount of actions. Whether or not blizzard writes it down is completely irrelevant.


Edit:
On September 23 2011 09:47 Alpino wrote:

Show nested quote +
On September 23 2011 06:26 MindRush wrote:
APM is not a game-deciding factor - I mean the number it shows.
You can key-tap all day and have excellent APM and run all your marines into banelings, or just forget to build units and pile up resources -> c'mon, don't tell me it didn't happen to you !
At the end all that matters is who won and who lost


People need to stop lying to themselves. It obviously is. Look at grubby's new vlog. oGs coach said that his problem was that he played too slow. You can only be at the highest level of play with great APM.

SjoW is great but he is not Code S material because he is slow. You can only play a perfect macro game with sick apm. You can only harass and multitask with sick apm. You can see that when multitasking is taking place people's apm will spike.

It is simple, as you play faster and faster you'll get the most from your BOs, your decisions and the engagements.

Have you never knew something you had to do in a game to win or be in a better position, but you just KNEW you couldn't pull the play atm? It happens to me all the time, if I were faster I would let less minerals float while I harass with my hellions.



That's exactly what he's saying. Who cares if tapping or not is counted. If you have the APM to split your marines, and macro and micro at the same time, then you'll still have a really high apm listed, and you'll be able to crush pepole in games.

If literally all you did is sit there and tap between buildings, and you're bad at macro, and micro. you'll lose. End of story, because you'll have super high gosu apm according to sc2gears, but you'll suck ass when you actually play someone.

No ones saying that fast players should slow down. This patch isn't going to slow fast players down. It's just not going to count some of the cycling that they do.

Not a huge deal imo
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infinity2k9
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom2397 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-23 01:17:45
September 23 2011 01:09 GMT
#691
Switching to view another group should always be counted as an action.. i mean it definitely is an action. It's not necessarily useless, plenty of times you simply need to cycle and check on things without issuing a command after. Who cycles past the first 5 minutes for no purpose?? Like it would actually be detrimental to your play unless you are able to keep up with the speed. Changing APM to an entirely different meaning is just weird, it's not minutes and it's not all actions... if you start removing things which just MIGHT be useless it's totally different.

Why even change this? don't get it at all. Have APM/eAPM instead of obscuring data people might want to know. It's not a huge deal of course but is pointless to change.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25050 Posts
September 23 2011 01:55 GMT
#692
Doesn't really affect me personally but it's one of those things that I just don't get, why change it? Were people calling out for this? At the very least keep the old APM measure and have an EAPM on top, in fact THAT way you can differentiate the spam a lot more easily

Agree with the people who think it was just to appease the lower-level players who perhaps find those high APMs disconcerting and whatnot.

Still not a massive deal, but bizarre.
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NewbieOne
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Poland560 Posts
September 23 2011 01:57 GMT
#693
I believe it's stupid to measure APM in game minutes first of all. And agree on adding a separate spam/efficient meter.
Omega1Kill
Profile Joined September 2011
4 Posts
September 23 2011 01:57 GMT
#694
i feel like they should just keep the apm and add an EAPM as well so it'd bel ike
average apm
current apm
average eapm
current eapm



just maybe... idk i feel like that'd be better
willoc
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada1530 Posts
September 23 2011 04:04 GMT
#695
Wow. This was an excellent change on their part. Good starts towards making APM make sense.
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Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
September 23 2011 08:17 GMT
#696
Umm, if tapping 12345 is spam then what the hell is spam clicking your army to a certain position on the map?

At least tapping 12345 on your production facilities actually serves a valuable purpose such as checking on your macro at all times while as only one click is really necessary for an army to move somewhere.

Seriously, APM makes NO sense after this patch because spam clicking your army overrides so many other actions. The previous way of measuring APM wasn't always indicative of how fast someone plays, but it made a hell of a lot more sense.
repsac
Profile Joined March 2011
91 Posts
September 23 2011 09:01 GMT
#697
gotta keep the newbies happy and make them feel proud to be non-spamming 30 apm players obv.
CatNzHat
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1599 Posts
September 23 2011 09:06 GMT
#698
The reason for tapping is not to keep you in the mindset or keep your fingers warm or anything like that, you cycle through your production facilities to see the progress of the units and maintain solid macro.

My apm was around 180 pre-patch, now it's around 130-150
owenowens33
Profile Joined April 2010
United States94 Posts
September 23 2011 09:34 GMT
#699
Arguments for the new change:

APM doesn't matter. It doesn't affect the outcome of the game and it does not directly translate into skill, so why do you care?
- Are any of the opponents of the new eAPM change really claiming that the APM changes the outcome of the game? Are people taking up this argument so confused that they think that this is what their opponents are claiming? No one believes that the number displayed as your APM is a factor in you winning the game.
- If APM is so inconsequential to you, then why do YOU care how people wish to see their APM displayed? If you play Protoss and don't care about the TvZ matchup at all, even in a spectator sense, then why would you be opposed to anyone taking a stance on a balance issue in the TvZ matchup, if it is obviously does not matter?

The new APM will reduce inflated spam, and now spammers will finally not be able to claim that their high APM translates to skill.
- You can still spam. In fact, the new system actually encourages movement spam, as mindless unit move commands, reminiscent of how people play diablo, still register as valid actions. In fact, there will be an even larger gap between mindless spammers and skill, since movement spamming is usually more useless than tap-checking.

The new APM is a better measurement of how quickly you are playing, since it only tracks useful actions.
- Read above, spam actions are still possible.
-
On September 23 2011 18:06 CatNzHat wrote:
The reason for tapping is not to keep you in the mindset or keep your fingers warm or anything like that, you cycle through your production facilities to see the progress of the units and maintain solid macro.

My apm was around 180 pre-patch, now it's around 130-150
. It actually boggles my mind how many people in this thread do not understand this very simple concept. Tap checking is something all high level players do, and is not useless spam. Watch any pro stream, and look at the bottom center at the current unit / building selections. It will occasionally show various control groups and production facilities being rapidly selected, with no action in between.

The argument being made here against the system is not that lower APM numbers for players will result in a difference in gameplay, rather, it is that the new way of calculating APM actually renders the statistic useless, as it displays neither effective APM nor real APM. This would be analogous to a scenario in which blizzard changed the workers produced tab to only show workers that mined minerals. The statistic is misleading and does not yield useful information.

Why is having the correct APM displayed useful at all? Well, to many, it can help them improve their hand speed, or increase the pace they play the game at. Trying to improve at something, like getting faster (not spamming faster), it is always helpful to have a reliable measurement to mark progress. When runners prepare for a race, they do not want their measurement be flawed in some way, i.e. only showing paces taken rather than overall time. The new system of calculating APM hinders the ability to see progress, since some actions that would legitimately help a player be a faster player are ignored and not displayed.
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Athrun
Profile Joined August 2011
Philippines16 Posts
September 23 2011 13:58 GMT
#700
From Blizzard's point of view, anything that keeps newer players motivated is good. The change to how "APM" is measured, along with keeping everyone below masters from seeing their losses some months ago lines up with such a policy.

For those who have a daily goal of increasing his APM (Diamonds and a majority of Masters perhaps?), it is quite annoying. BW-style APM, whether most of us will admit it or not, is usually indicative of a player's multitasking capacity. If we consider the widely accepted opinion that people below high masters have inefficient macro, the new change to APM represents a tool for improvement that has been lost.

Now, Blizz has 2 more expansions lined up. If blizz retains players who would have otherwise been discouraged by losses being shown, apm, etc., then it justifies those actions from an ROI point of view. I just hope they use the revenue well to improve this game to compensate the players who keep grinding away - players who never cared about losses in the first place so long as they perceive improvement in their game, players who actually care about their classic APM because they have been put in situations where their multitasking just couldn't hold.

Very shrewd of Blizzard, knowing that semi-serious players won't put this game down just because losses are hidden, and definitely not because APM measurement has turned into an utter sham. Those who constantly whine about losses and APM however, represent copies of HotS that might not get picked up.

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