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Sup3rior
Sweden442 Posts
On May 09 2012 14:55 Enzymatic wrote: Look, its another one of those "care way too much about something insignificant/irrelevant" threads. User was warned for this post yeah haha!! | ||
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Loophole
United States867 Posts
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Sorkoas
549 Posts
On May 09 2012 21:17 imMUTAble787 wrote: I never really considered facebook as contributing to the pandemic of ladder anxiety. I guess that's because I've never had an account on there, though. It was a joke about real ID referring to the fact that you can use an app to find friends on Facebook who have B.net accounts. Edit: With ladder fear I meant real ID being part of it as well as how you are only allowed to have one ladder ID. | ||
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imMUTAble787
United States680 Posts
On May 09 2012 22:03 Sorkoas wrote: It was a joke about real ID referring to the fact that you can use an app to find friends on Facebook who have B.net accounts. Edit: With ladder fear I meant real ID being part of it as well as how you are only allowed to have one ladder ID. Yeah, I figured thats what you were getting at. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45439 Posts
On May 09 2012 14:57 Megaliskuu wrote: Flash said hes been practicing sc2 hard for 10 days, not a big deal lol. 10 days? So what's his rank on the GM ladder?  In all seriousness, I'm surprised to hear that BW pros are complaining about how tough it is to get a hold on SC2. Obviously they'll need practice partners or a lot of time to grind on the ladder, but I don't see it making much of a difference if they come across a barcode ID on ladder or not. There are still tons of pro replays to study as well. Also: Not GGing is BM? Welcome to Korea, eh? Haha just imagine if they understood our BM thread... | ||
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Mantraz
Norway119 Posts
On May 09 2012 15:36 GTR wrote: Barcoding is going to become obsolete once someone figures out the hotkey patterns of these players. Could one rebind the hotkeys locally and work around this? I realise it's a bit of a hassle but saying you make 1->0 2->9 ... 5-5 Your ingame hotkeys would be trippy to keep track of but i dont think this is a huge factor for most players (some even hide them...) If it's capturing keypresses, then it won't, but if its reading what control group you access, then it would i suppose? | ||
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
On May 10 2012 00:30 Mantraz wrote: Could one rebind the hotkeys locally and work around this? I realise it's a bit of a hassle but saying you make 1->0 2->9 ... 5-5 Your ingame hotkeys would be trippy to keep track of but i dont think this is a huge factor for most players (some even hide them...) If it's capturing keypresses, then it won't, but if its reading what control group you access, then it would i suppose? You could also look at their APM patterns in SC2Gears. I actually think there are Korean Team Staff who go through replays trying to identify smurfs from their Teams ladder replays just to get information for upcoming opponents. | ||
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Warpath
Canada1242 Posts
My Natural Selection (HL1 FPS mod) team did this exact thing so the other team couldn't identify who is who for a little mind-game advantage, for example. There's probably a few people that are like HEY THIS IS FUNNYLOLOL and use the name, but it is certainly not the reason the pros are doing it. | ||
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bLah.
Croatia497 Posts
On May 09 2012 15:36 GTR wrote: Barcoding is going to become obsolete once someone figures out the hotkey patterns of these players. not really, for smurf accounts you look at hotkey patterns and then you know that for example "gamekiller" is actually "flash" and next time you see it you know who you're playing against. With barcodes when only thing you see is IIIIIIIIIII, you would need to check replay and check hotkey patterns after every game and look who you played against actually because everyone has same nick. | ||
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Gamegene
United States8308 Posts
On May 10 2012 00:43 bLah. wrote: not really, for smurf accounts you look at hotkey patterns and then you know that for example "gamekiller" is actually "flash" and next time you see it you know who you're playing against. With barcodes when only thing you see is IIIIIIIIIII, you would need to check replay and check hotkey patterns after every game and look who you played against actually because everyone has same nick. it doesn't matter if you don't know who you're playing on the ladder, but if you're able to find out after that ladder game what builds a Code S player is practicing for his next match against you or your teammate, that is a huge informational advantage. | ||
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Aunvilgod
2653 Posts
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GT350
United States270 Posts
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NexUmbra
Scotland3776 Posts
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JeffGoldblum
Cook Islands191 Posts
On May 10 2012 00:48 GT350 wrote: I hope Blizzard eventually reveals who they are. wat | ||
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Denzil
United Kingdom4193 Posts
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45439 Posts
On May 10 2012 00:57 Denzil wrote: So what does this mean about the elephant in the room? It means that the elephants are actually being put in a zoo... or a jail. + Show Spoiler + They're behind bars. | ||
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kinglemon
Germany199 Posts
On May 09 2012 14:40 stupidhydro wrote: Well the barcode names and hidden identities was inevitable since build orders, maps and who people are practicing with are all available in match history... yes blizz should just remove that. it should only be viewable to the persons that played that game. | ||
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musai
Canada552 Posts
Just have to wait until someone makes such a program :D | ||
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1st_Panzer_Div.
United States621 Posts
On May 09 2012 21:32 Loophole wrote: Barcode names made sense in BW, where you had to type a persons name on bnet to get any meaningful info about them, but in sc2 it's all done with drop down menus and context menus, so it doesn't really change anything. Still makes sense as you can only get their Win/Lose ration, there's not much info available on battle.net, and if it's a shared account, it's even less info. Edit: And Custom Games should absolutely not have the info stored on B.net. Ladder games is fine, as top pros don't usually develop secret strats on the public ladder, but having to have many accounts to keep your games hidden and/or use custom build order hiding maps is a bit excessive. | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
On May 10 2012 01:17 musai wrote: Hotkey patterns means using a program like this: http://bwchart.teamliquid.net/us/bwchart.php Just have to wait until someone makes such a program :D You mean sc2gears that does like twice as much and has been out for 2 years? :D | ||
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