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On October 25 2012 16:15 Liszt wrote:
Like seriously a shitty protoss player attacks me after I 1 rax fe. I had 2 bunkers but can't repair because the he/she/it literally just one force field ON TOP OF MY FUCKing bunker and my scvs can't reach it no matter what. what the fuck do I do?

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On September 16 2012 14:59 FattySlug wrote:
Dear TL,

I had been watching SC2 since the beta until now. I stopped because I feel very dissapointed in the game in general and did not find the tournaments and competitions meaningful because it always just seems like one-random-no-one-gives-a-damn-about player pops up from nowhere and takes game, sometimes even matches, off the well-known-favorites players. And on harder competition like the GSL, champions couldn't even make it to the round of 8. From time to time one solid (not champions) player that no one thinks will win, win a big tournament. The SC2 scene just have too many different tournament winners in the whole of its lifetime. And after a while, you really started to wonder how much does skill factor to all of this.

I think you guys know what I am talking about and I am sure many of you feel it too that this is very dispiriting. Seeing your favorite, multiple times champions, player to fall under unsastifying and silly games, is very frustrating. In fact, I am confident to say to this phenomenon of instability in games and matches HURTS the viewership of SC2. Compare to other 1vs1 sports, such as tennis, the probability of random player's skill awakening is too high.

Thanks for reading my rant. Now I will get straight to the point is that the one possible fix for this which we can do right now, besides waiting 5 more years for the game to completely balance, is:

GAME SPEED

I have never seen or watch BW, but a few days ago, I turned on one of the BW streams and GAME SPEED is one of the glaring difference, but no one seemed to care about. The speed, I approximate it is about the normal level in SC2. It seems that people actually had more time to think about strategy and I think this is actually great. Why doesn't anyone considers this before?

SO why does game speed matter?

This is just common sense: the slower the game, the more time for your brain to make BETTER desicions, to macro BETTER, to micro BETTER, to craft BETTER positioning and strategic play, BETTER multitaksing. And therefore, create a BETTER spectating experience for everyone.

This change shift the emphasis of the game from mechanics to more strategical aspects. Just look at chess, for instance, the game is slow and takes time to think right? Starcraft 2 is a real-time strategy game. This change is to emphasis the STRATEGY part in that. The players will have more time to consider which risk to take and which strategy to use.

In tournament games, we see many great-players fell to lower-tier players due to cheese or timing push or crazy strategy, by just a small indescision. The MARGIN OF ERROR is TOO LOW. Slower game speed alleviates this problem by giving both sides time to conduct scouting and to react. The better player, with more experience, will no doubt benefited more from this. I think we will see less short and boring game, and more long and interesting game with a slower game speed simply because the defender will have more time to prepare. And not just the defender but the attacker will also have more space to micro and finding weak points. The overall quality will improve.This addresses the issue I mentioned at the top of my post.

In late game manouvering, this change will give space for more positioning play and exploiting weak points. In other words, more focus on the brainy stuff, while lower the demand for great mechanics.

Because SC2 is inherently easier mechanically, I think the speed of fast is the best (Current speed: faster)

CONCLUSION: This will improve the game quality in general. Increase the spectators' expericences.

So what do you guys think about this? Is this viable? Will this work?




NOTE: this is all theory crafting btw. Just got this idea a few minutes ago and I want to share it to you guys.