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On August 09 2012 01:45 ELA wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 01:31 hunts wrote: Maybe now Ts will stop complaining about zerg after seeing it's balanced? Nah who am I kidding people will always cry imbalance even when there is none. Funny, find any Z's in here calling T's whiners, check their post history and you will most likely find something like this: Show nested quote +On September 10 2011 09:12 hunts wrote: neural change is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen from blizzard yet. Yeah infstor is a bit too good of a unit as is, but it's basicly the only thing actually keeping Z viable as a race. If they want to really nerf ifnestors, they need to buff zerg elsewhere to keep it viable, but they aren't doing that. They nerfed fungal with no compensation, but that was fine because it wasn't a huge nerf. But now they are doing a huge nerf, and still no compensation. The overseer buff while nice still in no way helps the actual Z army. And while the ultra buff is better than nothing, it still doesn't help the actual zerg army because honeslty, ultras are still useless and will die before getting to their targets, even if they are fungald. Keep it classy
This is absolute gold, you found the king balance hypocrite that the guy a few posts above me was talking about!
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This is actually very balanced, the international win rate is definitely where it is acceptable to be and with lots of figuring out, maybe it will return to normal, though I really think the queen buff was still too much and should be reversed, or at least bring BFH back .
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So you had to dig back 11 months to find something I said to somehow prove that it's now ok to whine about balance? Congrats... I guess? I guess the balanced win rates in korea and T even being ahead of Z again still won't stop the diehard whiners.
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This is really pretty good. Although international ZvT is on the verge, next month we'll see if it's gotten worse or better.
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On August 09 2012 01:54 CaptainCrush wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 01:45 ELA wrote:On August 09 2012 01:31 hunts wrote: Maybe now Ts will stop complaining about zerg after seeing it's balanced? Nah who am I kidding people will always cry imbalance even when there is none. Funny, find any Z's in here calling T's whiners, check their post history and you will most likely find something like this: On September 10 2011 09:12 hunts wrote: neural change is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen from blizzard yet. Yeah infstor is a bit too good of a unit as is, but it's basicly the only thing actually keeping Z viable as a race. If they want to really nerf ifnestors, they need to buff zerg elsewhere to keep it viable, but they aren't doing that. They nerfed fungal with no compensation, but that was fine because it wasn't a huge nerf. But now they are doing a huge nerf, and still no compensation. The overseer buff while nice still in no way helps the actual Z army. And while the ultra buff is better than nothing, it still doesn't help the actual zerg army because honeslty, ultras are still useless and will die before getting to their targets, even if they are fungald. Keep it classy This is absolute gold, you found the king balance hypocrite that the guy a few posts above me was talking about!
Beautiful, beautiful post! haha i love seeing stuff like this, people so high on their silly high horse that they can't even see themselves down below ^^
It's interesting to me that people seem to consider the 871 games in korea more valuable and indicative of balance than the 2,642 games played internationally... just the fact that subtracting two players' results from the korean data can swing the z/t ratio several percentage points shows how inconclusive the korean data is. That sample size is too small to be the relavent figure.
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On August 09 2012 01:54 CaptainCrush wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 01:45 ELA wrote:On August 09 2012 01:31 hunts wrote: Maybe now Ts will stop complaining about zerg after seeing it's balanced? Nah who am I kidding people will always cry imbalance even when there is none. Funny, find any Z's in here calling T's whiners, check their post history and you will most likely find something like this: On September 10 2011 09:12 hunts wrote: neural change is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen from blizzard yet. Yeah infstor is a bit too good of a unit as is, but it's basicly the only thing actually keeping Z viable as a race. If they want to really nerf ifnestors, they need to buff zerg elsewhere to keep it viable, but they aren't doing that. They nerfed fungal with no compensation, but that was fine because it wasn't a huge nerf. But now they are doing a huge nerf, and still no compensation. The overseer buff while nice still in no way helps the actual Z army. And while the ultra buff is better than nothing, it still doesn't help the actual zerg army because honeslty, ultras are still useless and will die before getting to their targets, even if they are fungald. Keep it classy This is absolute gold, you found the king balance hypocrite that the guy a few posts above me was talking about!
LOL, this is hilarious.
Seriously though, interesting stats as always, P doing quite well in korea lately!
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<snip> On August 09 2012 02:01 cmcaneff5502 wrote:
It's interesting to me that people seem to consider the 871 games in korea more valuable and indicative of balance than the 2,642 games played internationally... just the fact that subtracting two players' results from the korean data can swing the z/t ratio several percentage points shows how inconclusive the korean data is. That sample size is too small to be the relavent figure.
The sample size isn't small enough to be insignificant though. The only reason I prefer the Korean statistics in general is that the level of play is generally higher so it's as close as you're going to get to removing the human element from the statistics.
As an example, one could say that you should analyze stats based on Bronze-Diamond play instead of Masters-GM play because that sample size is larger. I think you can see that this approach wouldn't yield positive results.
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On August 09 2012 01:45 ELA wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 01:31 hunts wrote: Maybe now Ts will stop complaining about zerg after seeing it's balanced? Nah who am I kidding people will always cry imbalance even when there is none. Funny, find any Z's in here calling T's whiners, check their post history and you will most likely find something like this: Show nested quote +On September 10 2011 09:12 hunts wrote: neural change is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've seen from blizzard yet. Yeah infstor is a bit too good of a unit as is, but it's basicly the only thing actually keeping Z viable as a race. If they want to really nerf ifnestors, they need to buff zerg elsewhere to keep it viable, but they aren't doing that. They nerfed fungal with no compensation, but that was fine because it wasn't a huge nerf. But now they are doing a huge nerf, and still no compensation. The overseer buff while nice still in no way helps the actual Z army. And while the ultra buff is better than nothing, it still doesn't help the actual zerg army because honeslty, ultras are still useless and will die before getting to their targets, even if they are fungald. Keep it classy
bahaha, ultra nice thanks, that made my day
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all the zergs in this forum are pointing to Korean winrate for TvZ but the fact is nobody can macro, micro or cheese like a Korean terran... they are just a different breed. The other 99.99% who play Terran are still having trouble...3 months seems like a long enough time for the metagame to shift and if you look at the international numbers, the matchup isn't showing signs of returning to 50-50, rather the exact opposite.
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Forreigner terrans not playing so great.
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On August 08 2012 23:35 CaptainCrush wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2012 23:27 iiGreetings wrote: Whoa pretty danm balanced... because i heard that terran was struggling, but it turns out its dead even with zerg basically. Thanks for this grapefruit!
EDIT:i speak of the korean ladder, as they are ahead of the meta game on average. Unfortunately their metagame is to cheese or 1-base all in most of the time. The international terran win rate shows you what happens if you go beyond the early game :/ 5 percent imbalance is hardly that bad. No one complains at pvt 52%, with reason I'd say. Two percent is trivial. So a 3 percent increase on that is room for despair? I think lower level terrans need to merely accept: 1) they clearly havent been adopting the strategies of pro terrans as much as they should have 2) terran probably has the higher skill curve in the game.
It seems to be a sc2 thing to say something like "terran is underpowered at lower levels". Thats nonsensical. Terran is weaker than other races when you play it really incompetently. OK. That doesnt matter; stop playing it incompetently. Terran probably had a higher skill curve in broodwar and the community never talked about imbalance at the lower levels in that way, it was merely accepted that if you wanted to play terran there would have to be quite a few mechanical/timing things youd have to iron out before you could really fly up the ranks, and it would be frustrating. C'est la vie.
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Terran is a good race it's just americans are slow learners
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On August 09 2012 02:20 whatevername wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2012 23:35 CaptainCrush wrote:On August 08 2012 23:27 iiGreetings wrote: Whoa pretty danm balanced... because i heard that terran was struggling, but it turns out its dead even with zerg basically. Thanks for this grapefruit!
EDIT:i speak of the korean ladder, as they are ahead of the meta game on average. Unfortunately their metagame is to cheese or 1-base all in most of the time. The international terran win rate shows you what happens if you go beyond the early game :/ 5 percent imbalance is hardly that bad. No one complains at pvt 52%, with reason I'd say. Two percent is trivial. So a 3 percent increase on that is room for despair? I think lower level terrans need to merely accept: 1) they clearly havent been adopting the strategies of pro terrans as much as they should have 2) terran probably has the higher skill curve in the game. It seems to be a sc2 thing to say something like "terran is underpowered at lower levels". Thats nonsensical. Terran is weaker than other races when you play it really incompetently. OK. That doesnt matter; stop playing it incompetently. Terran probably had a higher skill curve in broodwar and the community never talked about imbalance at the lower levels in that way, it was merely accepted that if you wanted to play terran there would have to be quite a few mechanical/timing things youd have to iron out before you could really fly up the ranks, and it would be frustrating. C'est la vie.
When by "lower level" you mean where people can reasonable expected to pass, like plat+, it's acceptable even if not ideal. But if the "balanced" zone only consistent Korean pro-gamers, that becomes ridiculous. Is SC2 Terran learning curve so high that only people who are BETTER THAN FOREIGN PRO GAMERS can pass it? If it is, that's a pretty broken system.
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On August 09 2012 02:13 paddyz wrote: Forreigner terrans not playing so great. It's always been like that. In foreign statistics tvz never looked bad for Zerg just kr. Also people have to realize international has lots of no name joes playing super good zergs.
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On August 09 2012 02:28 blade55555 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 02:13 paddyz wrote: Forreigner terrans not playing so great. It's always been like that. In foreign statistics tvz never looked bad for Zerg just kr. Also people have to realize international has lots of no name joes playing super good zergs.
And it doesn't work other way around as well ? Your bias is just mind blowing.
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Guys don't forget, the international data also includes the Korean data, theres no real separation between the graphs, except that the international includes even more information.
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On August 09 2012 02:10 ShamW0W wrote:<snip> On August 09 2012 02:01 cmcaneff5502 wrote:Show nested quote + It's interesting to me that people seem to consider the 871 games in korea more valuable and indicative of balance than the 2,642 games played internationally... just the fact that subtracting two players' results from the korean data can swing the z/t ratio several percentage points shows how inconclusive the korean data is. That sample size is too small to be the relavent figure.
The sample size isn't small enough to be insignificant though. The only reason I prefer the Korean statistics in general is that the level of play is generally higher so it's as close as you're going to get to removing the human element from the statistics. As an example, one could say that you should analyze stats based on Bronze-Diamond play instead of Masters-GM play because that sample size is larger. I think you can see that this approach wouldn't yield positive results.  871 games are actually a lot though. People are still crying about the period like 09/2010 - 09/2011 where TvZ hovered around 60%, but there were only 1100+ games for the whole 12 months. Now we have almost 900 games for mere 3 months.
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The last 40 SC2 tournaments of note:
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/sc2-international/individual-leagues
This page lists the top two players from each tournament, for 61 total players. How many terrans on the list? Six . That means that if you average it, there's 22.5 protoss players, 22.5 zerg players, and 6 terran players making it to the finals of tournaments (some slots and two whole tournaments are ???). Only one of those 40 tournaments was won by a Terran player.
The stats show, unless you practice 8-10 hours a day every like the very top end Koreans, you're pretty fucked as a Terran player.
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On August 08 2012 23:44 aTnClouD wrote:Show nested quote +On August 08 2012 23:42 nkr wrote:On August 08 2012 23:40 aTnClouD wrote:On August 08 2012 23:39 nkr wrote:On August 08 2012 23:38 aTnClouD wrote:On August 08 2012 23:36 ragz_gt wrote: Holy just realized that international includes Korean... Foreign TvZ must be like 40% win rate. Don't worry Blizzard is hiring diamond random people for game balance, justice will be done soon. are you ignoring the TvZ winrates of korea?  Well the graphs just show that zerg is way easier to play if anything. That's why they are hiring low league players for game balance, so they can also work on balancing difficulty. but it also shows that terran is perfectly fine if you are good at the game, so maybe you should focus on that :D So it's ok for me to be twice as good as somebody and still lose cause the race at top foreign level is too easy, while I would have to move to korea and practice with the best players there just to be competitive and balance the win rates with my own race. Solid point bro, try again maybe. Whatever you say Avilo. Why don't you try to qq a bit less... Woah terran losing for a couple of months and EVERYONE ABANDON SHIP YO! If P or Z players acted like you, top level games would be tvt exclusivy
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I think the races are balanced, but you need to overcome the learning curve hurdle of Terran and this graph represents exactly how I feel everyday. If I had 10 hours a day to devote, then the races are balanced, but if I only have 4 hours a day there not. I’ve been playing Terran non-stop every day for the last 2 years. I’m platinum. I’m ok with that, I think I’ve pretty much resigned myself to it, but I’ve played Zerg and Protoss a handful of times and I was easily beating diamonds. Now, who knows, maybe my play style isn’t conducive to the dynamics of Terran, but it’s frustrating never the less.
Though, I will continue to march on.
http://i46.tinypic.com/10py22r.jpg
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