EPTits about allowing someday an oov-like boy to revolutionize much more than brood war allowed in what touches the macro/micro relationship and making the game be about 14 cc ,14 nexus and to create a generation of forggs
[T] what could replace macro with MBS? - Page 16
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Ki_Do
Korea (South)981 Posts
its about allowing someday an oov-like boy to revolutionize much more than brood war allowed in what touches the macro/micro relationship and making the game be about 14 cc ,14 nexus and to create a generation of forggs | ||
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Auz
Australia3 Posts
I read something in one of the earlier post's that finally switched me onto registering. + Show Spoiler + 2. Make miners dumb - they auto mine towards the closest patch even if its being mined (they never mine gas automatically) they dont switch to another patch until they actually try to mine that patch, so you atleast have to change your rally point every now and then or else they will approach the nearest (probably occupied) patch and fail to mine it, and then look for another patch. this should cost another 1-2s of mining time per miner I think blizzard should take this and run with it. It's smart and i always thought that's how automine was going to work. Apparently i was incorrect. Say if you rally your workers to a mineral patch and then leave your base to look back at your current fight taking place, and in doing so you do not look back for quite some time, your miners that you have produced should be stacked up on one mineral, not mining, but waiting their turn to mine the node that you rallied them to. I really feel that this would reintroduce some of the macro (not enough) back into the game. A great player is going to be able to quickly look back at his base, re-rally his workers being built to an empty patch and then quickly return back to the fight. Just my 2c. | ||
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Samurai-
Slovenia2035 Posts
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ProTech_MediC
United States498 Posts
On January 19 2009 18:54 Samurai- wrote: lolBecause a SCV that goes mining as soon as it is produced instead of standing still is gamebraking.. You can do other important stuff instead of sending SCV's to mine... The only reason i dont oppose is that i want SC2 to be different then SC1, otherwise we could just have SC1 with better graphics, and because i dont see any big deal with automine... | ||
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Xily
Switzerland8 Posts
But most uf us can only speak about theory, because we haven't played the game yet. If i think about all the new units and mechanics i think that (even if there arent any more macro-mechanics added), you would have to do enough in your base(s). There are many new units that can jump/walk/fly/dig/blink into your base and cause chaos. So you have to keep an eye on your base and make sure you know what your enemy is up to. Also, with lesser apm "wasted" on macro, you will have more time to do crazy things with all those units. Macro vs micro could be more a macro AND micro. Macro would still require a lot of knowledge and starcraft-senses but you would have to do lesser clicks to realize them. If macro for you is managing your base, then macro in sc2 would be more like protecting your base. If you think that it would require less apm, just think about all those new units and their abilitys and mechanics. I think they'll be used in total crazy ways that requires a lot of apm and multitasking | ||
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Sonu
Canada577 Posts
1. Even if u can select, lets say 50 factories. Are u really going to be making 50 tanks at a time? thats 100 food. and a healt Terran army needs only like 1/3 or 1/2 tanks.. If Protoss go Carriers then ur screwed. 2. Ull need money to make the 50 tanks at a time. 150 X 50 = 7500 minerals. So ur not going be making them at a time. but for point number 2. U can still be like: O SHT I HAVE 2K MINERALS! I neeed to spend it. and then u go 1t | ||
Liquid`Jinro
Sweden33719 Posts
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ToSs.Bag
United States201 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On January 20 2009 11:42 FrozenArbiter wrote: Actually you have to press once per unit now, so 4ttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.. (etc) And that means that, regardless of the number of production buildings you have, you can mash them all on one hotkey, as opposed to having to manage your hotkeys more carefully in the current system. | ||
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Auz
Australia3 Posts
On January 22 2009 12:45 TheYango wrote: And that means that, regardless of the number of production buildings you have, you can mash them all on one hotkey, as opposed to having to manage your hotkeys more carefully in the current system. It free's up hotkey space to allow more units to be hotkeyed. You know. Units. The thing the game is supposed to be about? MBS is really a none-issue, and being able to bind more units to hotkey's is going to make the game appeal to many more people and overall improve the quality of battles in SC2. Like what frozen said. You still have to press the hotkey a multiple amount of times to build units. People are also forgetting that rallying 5 gateways to your current army isn't always what a player is looking to do. Many players are for example going to rally 3 gates to their army and 2 to their expo. Managing your rally points and where each unit is going is still going to create a large amount of macro. | ||
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