What advantage do you actually gain doing all that ?
You just not clicking and worker does not trying to go away. There is no single word about advatange from it. It just makes your life a bit less annoying by lowering one of small annoying things
None. There is no advantage versus the stack trick. This trick purely for convenience.
Existor may want to include that in OP and maybe reassure that this isn't illegal, as I can already imagine several more 'isn;t this illegal' posts lol. Cute trick man.
Thanks for this! I had asked about it in Jakatak's thread, but I'll be trying this tonight or tomorrow and see if I prefer it over the spam click method.
On May 07 2014 09:38 Liquid`Snute wrote: This could be named 'rapid fire worker stacking' instead of 'rapid fire mining', might be more accurate and to the purpose of the technique
This may be a bit too detailed, but do you think "worker stacking" is better than "worker pairing"? Is stacking the most common way to describe this type of thing? I just picked pairing because I thought it was most common, but I'd like to know if I was incorrect in thinking this.
Obviously this is a little more than just changing hotkeys, since you're modifying a game file
Modifying variables and hotkey files is legal, since those files are your personal files that are located on Documents. TOS is against modifying ingame files, that are located in SC2 folder.
You can't edit ingame UI or do any cheating through your personal Documents/StarCraft 2 folder, since that folder contains only your ingame settings, replays, custom observer interfaces, hotkeys, screenshots.
To add to this already excellent response: The files being modified in this case is a configure file, not a game file. Any variable or combination of actions put into a configuration file is parsed and compiled through an actual game file which holds predefined functionality. If it can be done through the config file it also means that the functionality already exists in the in-game files and that Blizzard has allowed people to actually access those functions.
Example of illegal would be to actually change the in-game file that parsed and compiled the actions defined in the config file by actually giving access,adding or altering functions in the core game.
An example would be maphack: As it is right now you cannot see what the other opponent is doing in multiplayer, the functionality for it exists but the game won't let you have access to it nor are there any config commands that can be created in a settings file or by a command prompt in game. The only way to access this is to actually hack the game itself by altering the core functionality in the game and rewrite the functions where you add access to it either through a settings file or by a command in-game.
In summary The config files and command prompts are interfaces created for the users where they can access functionality to customize their gaming experience and right now the interface allows users to actually change this. If it's considered cheating or unfair advantage then Blizzard can simply remove that customization option from the interface so that the user no longer can access it.
What advantage do you actually gain doing all that ?
You just not clicking and worker does not trying to go away. There is no single word about advatange from it. It just makes your life a bit less annoying by lowering one of small annoying things
That is my point, its a preference thing, for me having to do all those things and get used to that is far more annoying that spaming right click.
The last video explains it much better, Im pretty sure u can still do perpendicular and spam right click, so again its still about preference, if u prefer to hold down a key rather than spam right click, then this is awesome for you, just not for me
On May 07 2014 07:54 MysteryMeat1 wrote: Is this tournament legal? like if i were going to go to a lan would i be able to do this?
same questions
Anything done within the game client is "legal"". Using 3rd party software, such as the infamous snipe abuse trick where you could rebind snipe to scroll down/up on your middle mouse wheel, is "illegal". This is according to the EULA you accept when you first play SC2. I guess each tournament is different though so you would have to ask the organizers.
On May 08 2014 09:15 Salient wrote: Can you have more than one function set to rapid fire? I use it to warp in zealots. Would this override the other use?
Use the first method. You can see more than 2 hotkeys (left mouse button, grave, Q, A, and I can add more with commas) on same command
On May 07 2014 09:38 Liquid`Snute wrote: This could be named 'rapid fire worker stacking' instead of 'rapid fire mining', might be more accurate and to the purpose of the technique
Yeah... I came here thinking you guys broke the game and was about to complain.
This isn't so bad... It's so not bad, that there's basically no difference from doing it compared to normal...
So what's the big advantage? It still takes the same amount of time to stack two drones because you can't stop right clicking or pressing the hotkey you use until they're mining once the other drone is gone.
Edit: Sounds good for newer players then, but might not be beneficial at all for players that have gotten used to right clicking.
On May 08 2014 11:10 Thalandros wrote: So what's the big advantage? It still takes the same amount of time to stack two drones because you can't stop right clicking or pressing the hotkey you use until they're mining once the other drone is gone.
Edit: Sounds good for newer players then, but might not be beneficial at all for players that have gotten used to right clicking.
Watch the video. They're perfectly synced so they always stay together. A lot of the time when you do it 'normally' they'll be paired up for a few trips then split up again.
Since blizzards new patch, this no longer works for me. Whenever I press the smart command hotkey binded to a key like G with the alternate command to click, it simply executes the command one time after holding down G. I have to spam G many times for it move.
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