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Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8159 Posts
August 15 2014 10:58 GMT
#21
Great work yet again
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[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24239 Posts
August 15 2014 11:54 GMT
#22
On August 15 2014 18:12 boxerfred wrote:
Not wanting to take anything away from that analysis - but the tl;dr part was rather obvious . Though you seem to love those mathematics, so keep going!


Giving a mathematical proof and exact measure of what intuition can guess is part of a mathematician's work. I love these series too.
Sholip
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
Hungary422 Posts
August 15 2014 12:19 GMT
#23
On August 15 2014 19:53 HaRuHi wrote:
Great math as usual! Thank you.

I wish you would take on a "bigger" aspect in future posts, of course it is not easy to know beforehand wether something will have a big or small influence.

I try to cover problems that are relatively easy to solve. Alas, they often tend to be insignificant ones, as more practical applications can be really complex. Anyway, any idea for the topic of a future post is appriciated, although I still have some ideas, but I will run out of them eventually.
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Also, Zest is best." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
August 15 2014 12:24 GMT
#24
On August 15 2014 19:56 boxerfred wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2014 19:52 SC2John wrote:
On August 15 2014 19:47 boxerfred wrote:
On August 15 2014 19:31 Faust852 wrote:
I don't think you can fix this tho. Putting larvas on the otherside would make them almost unclicable.

That can't be an argument. You would have to exclude northern high grounds then . Also, there's very few opportunities to actually click larva manually (eg. hellions sniping larva, or running banes into it). Most zerg players will use the hatchery to access larva.

On August 15 2014 19:09 Sholip wrote:
On August 15 2014 18:38 GERMasta wrote:
If you take slightly less time to reach a certain amount of minerals, then you can make a new drone slightly faster, which is going to mean that you can mine with the new drones slightly sooner. I think OP didn't take this into account, but merely calculated the mineral disparity resulting from the distances that the drones would have to travel. It still shouldn't be a big difference even if you took the faster access to new drones into account, but it is something to consider if you want to be thorough with the analysis.

Yes, only the Larva system of the Zerg screws up things, insomuch as being able to morph additional Drones does not only depend on whether you have enough minerals. I think, though, the effect is so marginal that even if it snowballs, it remains negligible.



That would be the real thing to find out I think. Sometimes, I have the very subjective feeling of "gosh I'm so slow", which is really more than a feeling then some proven thing. That might explain what happens, because though I'm only a diamond/masters player (rather diamond then masters), I'm quite capable of executing a perfect hatch first build until 28-ish supply. Sometimes, I just feel slow. Dunno exactly why.


The feeling of being "slow" has mostly to do with mineral stacking. On some maps, the natural minerals that workers mine from suck more than others, but if you are really paying attention to drone stacking for the first minute or two of the game, you can really minimize a lot of this inefficiency.

Hm, I do pay attention to mineral stacking. Seriously. Thing is, I mostly play 3v3/4v4 these days, and on many of those maps, the mineral patches are truely poor placed, so that might be the reason? (ofc, I do not always stack perfectly, so that might be the reason, too, yep)


Well, yeah, some maps are just bad. For instance, I noticed today that on Foxtrot Labs in the top left (?) position, my drones will rally to a far away patch by walking behind the mineral line. The idea is not necessarily that mineral stacking will completely prevent these imbalances, but it should mitigate it some and give you the extra 10-15 minerals that you're used to.
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Hunta15
Profile Joined April 2014
United States81 Posts
August 15 2014 12:47 GMT
#25
This hold would have never worked if the spawns were switched
SuperHofmann
Profile Joined September 2013
Italy1741 Posts
August 15 2014 13:02 GMT
#26
On August 15 2014 17:14 lichter wrote:
The biggest difference in hatch-mineral positioning is the defense of early pools. If you are at a north hatch, your lings can easily be surrounded by enemy lings. If you are at the south hatch, your lings can never be surrounded without the risk of a drone surround.

This is one of the main problems in the early game of ZvZ. This is a huge difference. U can avoid this problem making the pool under the larvas so when the queen spawns it is 50% covered by the pool and the hatch, but it's not the same.
Vasacast always in my <3
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States6311 Posts
August 15 2014 13:14 GMT
#27
On August 15 2014 19:52 StatixEx wrote:
only way it can be solved if this EVER poses some kind of issue is that the camera is relative to you so you always spawn south

On August 15 2014 17:54 Dapper_Cad wrote:
Licheter makes a strong point.

There should have hatch orientation and an option to set it in melee initialisation as a minimum, that way mappers can use it if they wish.

More completely Blizzard could give players access to building orientation on hatches for other possible minuscule advantages, like spawning larvae away from potential bunker rushes.

Assuming you've done that in a way which works - isn't ugly as hell, is ignorable for newer players, doesn't require 6 fingers a hand to do, that sort of thing - the same for Terran addons at Barracks/Factory/Starport could be implemented as I'd guess that's decided more games than larva spawning.

What's wrong with just having larvae obey a rally point?
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
Sholip
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
Hungary422 Posts
August 18 2014 15:32 GMT
#28
On August 15 2014 18:29 JustPassingBy wrote:
How do you obtain the images? You are not using Latex and Tikz, do you? :o

I make the images using GeoGebra (sorry for late answer).
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Also, Zest is best." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
August 18 2014 15:49 GMT
#29
On August 15 2014 19:50 SC2John wrote:
Artosis wants the math on hatch first nexus blocking in ZvP GOGOGOGO


the normal one or the TRUE v Stork version?
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deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12131 Posts
August 18 2014 16:01 GMT
#30
On August 15 2014 19:52 StatixEx wrote:
only way it can be solved if this EVER poses some kind of issue is that the camera is relative to you so you always spawn south

Oh my, this was in NHL games(TAB key switched the view, so you can play all periods from down to up). I so much want this in SC2, I have a really big issues playing from Northern regions.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
Mafs
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada458 Posts
August 18 2014 16:09 GMT
#31
But is the advantage big enough to have any significant difference as the game goes on?

Is the difference 3.5 minerals per drone at the worst case scenario? Then its not worth looking into really, build order counters, and simple micro mistakes are far more influential than any kind of small drone imbalance like this.
.kv
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2332 Posts
August 18 2014 16:22 GMT
#32
the day they fix this will be the day they give terrans the option to put their addons on the left if they want to
graNite
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany4434 Posts
August 18 2014 16:41 GMT
#33
On August 19 2014 01:22 .kv wrote:
the day they fix this will be the day they give terrans the option to put their addons on the left if they want to


so... never?
"Oink oink, bitches" - Tasteless on Pigbaby winning a map against Flash
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12131 Posts
August 18 2014 16:46 GMT
#34
On August 19 2014 01:22 .kv wrote:
the day they fix this will be the day they give terrans the option to put their addons on the left if they want to

This could be together with the "view" rotation in LotV. But, yeah, I do not believe it will be there.

Is there any bnet forum or thread where we can write these ideas? I know, that some Blizzard employees read TL.net from time to time, but I fear it is not enough.
(Hope dies last )
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
August 18 2014 17:02 GMT
#35
Sholip, these are amazing/fascinating!

Many thanks
Uvantak
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Uruguay1381 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-18 18:34:14
August 18 2014 17:22 GMT
#36
On August 15 2014 21:24 SC2John wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2014 19:56 boxerfred wrote:
On August 15 2014 19:52 SC2John wrote:
On August 15 2014 19:47 boxerfred wrote:
On August 15 2014 19:31 Faust852 wrote:
I don't think you can fix this tho. Putting larvas on the otherside would make them almost unclicable.

That can't be an argument. You would have to exclude northern high grounds then . Also, there's very few opportunities to actually click larva manually (eg. hellions sniping larva, or running banes into it). Most zerg players will use the hatchery to access larva.

On August 15 2014 19:09 Sholip wrote:
On August 15 2014 18:38 GERMasta wrote:
If you take slightly less time to reach a certain amount of minerals, then you can make a new drone slightly faster, which is going to mean that you can mine with the new drones slightly sooner. I think OP didn't take this into account, but merely calculated the mineral disparity resulting from the distances that the drones would have to travel. It still shouldn't be a big difference even if you took the faster access to new drones into account, but it is something to consider if you want to be thorough with the analysis.

Yes, only the Larva system of the Zerg screws up things, insomuch as being able to morph additional Drones does not only depend on whether you have enough minerals. I think, though, the effect is so marginal that even if it snowballs, it remains negligible.



That would be the real thing to find out I think. Sometimes, I have the very subjective feeling of "gosh I'm so slow", which is really more than a feeling then some proven thing. That might explain what happens, because though I'm only a diamond/masters player (rather diamond then masters), I'm quite capable of executing a perfect hatch first build until 28-ish supply. Sometimes, I just feel slow. Dunno exactly why.


The feeling of being "slow" has mostly to do with mineral stacking. On some maps, the natural minerals that workers mine from suck more than others, but if you are really paying attention to drone stacking for the first minute or two of the game, you can really minimize a lot of this inefficiency.

Hm, I do pay attention to mineral stacking. Seriously. Thing is, I mostly play 3v3/4v4 these days, and on many of those maps, the mineral patches are truely poor placed, so that might be the reason? (ofc, I do not always stack perfectly, so that might be the reason, too, yep)


Well, yeah, some maps are just bad. For instance, I noticed today that on Foxtrot Labs in the top left (?) position, my drones will rally to a far away patch by walking behind the mineral line. The idea is not necessarily that mineral stacking will completely prevent these imbalances, but it should mitigate it some and give you the extra 10-15 minerals that you're used to.

Can you upload a picture indicating which was the mineral patch you where targeting? In Foxtrot i'm using one of the standard mineral placements specially to avoid such issues, if this issue still persists i will have to talk to the other mapmakers so we all stop using this configuration.

PSA: If anyone finds something that looks clearly like a bug or an unintentional issue with a map, please post in the corresponding map thread here in TL, otherwise we will have no way to fix it or even to know about it.

♦ Here i leave you a picture so it is easier for you to highlight which is the mineral you were targeting.
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | KTVMaps.wordpress.com | Check my profile to see my TL map threads, and you can search for KTV in the Custom Games section to play them.
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