[Guide] History of Starcraft, Teamliquid and every - Page 4

jodogohoo

Canada2533 Posts

June 11 2009 04:26 GMT

#61

total annihilation had the craziest late game shit, REEL nukes and giant cannons already mentioned
besides that, really interesting to read

QQplay

United States229 Posts

June 11 2009 05:09 GMT

#62

Very nice read! I would never had known that there was a man in the turret

On June 11 2009 04:44 Boblion wrote:

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WTF ???? WTF ??? WTF ???

LOL

z]Benny

Romania253 Posts

June 11 2009 13:09 GMT

#63

On June 11 2009 12:20 [M]ToaD wrote:
About the car, yeah Chevrolet made the "StarCraft" model, and progamers use that to move from stadium to practice room etc etc... On my profile, you can find pictures about that.

Lol, seriously? They actually go with a "StarCraft" van? That's funny but in a rather weird way, may just be too much

Patriot.dlk

Sweden5462 Posts

June 11 2009 13:34 GMT

#64

hahahah.

One of the best posts i've read to this day

Dazed.

Canada3301 Posts

June 11 2009 19:28 GMT

#65

anyone send tec27 a message? We really should get the beta running, could be fun fun fun.

GoSu

Korea (South)1773 Posts

June 11 2009 19:32 GMT

#66

On June 11 2009 22:09 z]Benny wrote:

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Lol, seriously? They actually go with a "StarCraft" van? That's funny but in a rather weird way, may just be too much

Yep that's the truth. Look the KT van, you have sticker in front of the car write (StarCraft). This is the model of the car.
I dont think its too much. StarCraft is a national sport here, given that progamers are know as stars like singer, etc... they are rolling in these kinda vans, driving by the coach =)

clazziquai

6685 Posts

June 11 2009 19:45 GMT

#67

I enjoyed every bit of this guide/article

The man inside the turret is hilarious XD

Rodiel

France573 Posts

June 11 2009 20:33 GMT

#68

Very interesting, starcraft has a big history, hope star2 will make something as that big :p

Clasic

Bosnia-Herzegovina1437 Posts

June 11 2009 20:53 GMT

#69

Great fucking post bro.

Mutaahh

Netherlands859 Posts

June 11 2009 23:15 GMT

#70

This is the 1st guide, I actually read, damn what a nice read!!!

beta key for this man!

closed

Vatican City State491 Posts

June 12 2009 18:34 GMT

#71

Update, I found the picture of Protoss playing poker, made after BigBalls won $1 million

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

June 13 2009 16:58 GMT

#72

Lol ;p

I wonder what it is that makes protoss players good at poker -_-

Nazgul
GiYom
Smuft
BigBalls
Pooruser (frost(te) here IIRC)
Rainkhan
Fisheye
McNasty (I can't remember if he was main P or main T)

I'm unsure what race Peachy played, although I think zerg.

Under succesful terrans there's like..
Elky
Beast

Under succesful zergs:
Schnibl0r
Depending on what race you want to count Slayer as, I guess he could go here (or terran).

I'm sure I'm missing some people, but there's a lot of protoss poker players

What race did (Orky)Soul play?

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

June 13 2009 17:02 GMT

#73

Kain-The-Feared is another pretty successful poker player, I think he did mainly Protoss too (altho he randomed alot)

I dont think hes ever been in those major tournaments, but he told me he can definately make a living off poker (paid off schooling and etc If I recall correctly)

And if I can recall, I definately remember [GG]Slayer as mainly a terran player.

closed

Vatican City State491 Posts

June 14 2009 12:26 GMT

#74

Sorry for the fact that some of the dates are bit off; I am more focused on facts.
I have not included some of the important events that happened during StarCraft's 11 year history and consequently decided to make an update.

1. In 2004 Boxer played versus a blind guy.

It might seem like an easy win for Lim Yo-Hwan, but the blind guy was doing quite fine.
Of course Boxer was given a handicap - he had his eyes covered for the first few minutes..
I dont want to spoil the game, Boxer had to cheese a bit.

2. Allied mines

`SlayerS`_Boxer also used allied mines in a televised game - you will know why are they banned from tournaments...

Speaking of tournaments - in the past progamers would have better outfits.

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Hello! I am a Zealot!

3. Marriage

There was even a "StarCraft marriage" between: Lelis and Screwt[PiG]. Funny nickname for a guy, by the way, 'Screwed-pig'.

They met for the first time on the netcraft server and lived happy ever after. In fact they post from time to time on netwars.pl about being married and PvZ.

There are also lots of StarCraft parents: Manifesto7, KillMe1St, NotSorry, Tech)Psylo, FuDDx Saro, X)Benny, HellAngel, InfeSteD...
some of them will probably rise their children to became progamers, according to their posts at least.

Speaking of ladies

Apparently miss Singapore Cassandra Ng plays Starcraft too. She is usually given as an example of gamer girls. This example is of course not true, as there are no girls on the Internet...

Does anyone remember Zia?

She used to post here, but later on it was found that she has a penis.
Who will be next? LilSusie? mnm? Rpf???

There was also a female progamer league. It was quickly cancelled however, because most of the girls were ugly and could not play the game up to par. TossGirl is the only progamer girl that ever became sucessful (and in fact she is the prettiest). I have no idea why she is not called TerranGirl. She beat some progamers, some even quit StarCraft after losing to her. The best female progamer was probably [ugly]Betty - the tag explains why we do see her any more on TV..

[Oops]January... oooooooopps

4. The Team Micro Arena rage

Around 2005 everyone started playing team micro arena, which was originally created by Cygnus[x.1]. The map consists of two teams who choose units that they later use to destroy enemy nexus. This sounds simple, yet is very fun, as usually it is played by 6 players. Cygnus decided to keep the map unprotected, so many different versions were spawned, e.g. Team Banana Platform (where you could listen to the Banana song), a 4v4 version, Free-For-All platform with 4 teams, Team Micro Arena legends with completely rebalanced units and so on. In fact I have around 50 versions of this map and there is definitely even more ~ probably 150 versions float around.

Team Micro Melee and Team Micro Platform are maps based on this idea, but remade from scratch. In my opinion they are the best versions, so I would recommend anyone to try them. Team micro platform can be found here - it was updated by GrandInquisitor from TL!. Team Micro Melee was made by the TL in-house mapmaker - Bill307. I can refer you to the proper topic.

There is a whole community dedicated to playing TMA: www.team-micro-arena.net/, just like there is a community dedicated to playing money maps: vilegaming.com.

5. Map editors, map makers and the whole map-making community

Noone ever gives the credit for Heimdall and Suicidal Insanity. Most of teamliquid.net players
who mostly play melee maps have probably have never heard about these guys. They are the creators of the two best Starcraft map editors - Starforge and Scmdraft. Heimdall is the guy who
introduced neutral buildings into games, long before they were ever known by Korean mapmakers.
It always shocks me how the relatively small http://www.staredit.net/ community never receives any credit. Most of you probably do not remember the time when there was no way of making "backwards" ramps, which led to many map making problems (map could not be exactly symmetrical) - these guys solved it by allowing to edit the isometric sections of the map easily. If you read any mapmaking guide it will definitely direct you to any of those two programs.

Staredit.net members have made lots of GREAT maps and most of the mapmaking tricks would be really hard or impossible without them. Take a look at few examples:

When will we see such tricks in pro maps? Why are the professional maps so plain? This is not professional.

Check the Staredit.net mapmaking hall of fame for more references

6. Rigged maps, winbot and other forms of cheating

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Forbidden Zone, a semi-island map.

When there are ladders, people will always cheat. Some will do it to play better opponents, some just to ruin the game of others, some want to prove that they are gosu. Testie went 104-0 PvT on the map called Forbidden Zone, in order to prove that this map is imbalanced in PvT. He played like Combat-EX though - dodged all the good opponents and picked the ones with ratio lower than 50%. I am not sure if he begged the opponents to quit like the latter player though..

Speaking of maps - you should be cautious when you download one, players like LastShadow rig them, so that the units would cost less and would be built faster... - such thing even happened on Korean TV Warcraft 3 league! Yes, the organizers were cheating because they considered the game to be imbalanced and they would give Orcs some advantage. Perhaps this is the reason why replays of televised games are so rare? :-) To progamers: if you are reading this... use a tool called "rep2map" in order to extract the maps from the replay, then check them out in the editor to see if the unit statistics have not been altered.

7. The funniest post on TL.net

This post always makes me laugh. I had to post it.

8. The funniest thread on TL.net - Veg deleted RUNDLL32

9. UMS means not only sunken defense

There are many, many types of UMS maps (defense, RPG, bound, worms, the unknown...) most of which are barely known by melee players. I decided to create a map pack in order to popularize my favourite type - micro control maps.The results so far are incredible.

The pack has been downloaded nearly 250 000 (two houndred fifty thousand!!!) times on yaoyuan.com. And it can be still found there - click me.

Gemcraft - flash game based on one of the StarcCraft UMS maps.

Many StarCraft UMS maps are so good that whole GAMES were created on the basis of their mechanics/ideas. The first to become popular was the whole "tower defense" genere - which are based on the idea taken from the map with same name.

Not to mention the most popular Warcraft III UMS:

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DoTA - based on the "Aeon of Strife" from StarCraft. This probably doesn't need any explanations.
Just go try it.

10. Zerg invaded the Earth!

This weird creature is actually called Bathynomus Giganteus. They have a length between 19 and 37 centimetres (7.5 and 15 in), and reach the max weight of approximately 1.7 kilograms (3.7 lb).
They seem like a nice alternative for a cat. Click here for Wikipedia article.

11. The invasion of giant isopods was fortunately stopped by Lego StarCraft units!

12. The battle took place at 3D Lost Temple

13. And we won!

14.The saga continued, however, as Nada played Satan

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Click here to read the whole Nada/Satan manga.

15. After all that we have started learning English with StarCraft

Yes, there are textbooks used to teach English by means of StarCraft in Korea.

16. Our favorite game was released on GameBoy

Not.

And on Calculators!

Yes, someone actually programmed this and it looks just great!

17. Unfortunately most people still didn't know about additional pylons!

18. Yet we still play

Sometimes lose:

Winbot, the little program that ruined ladder on Blizzard servers.

19. We learn new tricks every day though!

20. There were also lots of progaming incidents over the time though.

I really recommend you to read them:

Part 1 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=25706
Part 2 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=25917
Part 3 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=25917
Part 4 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=26071
Part 5 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=26924
Part 6 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=29303
Part 7 - http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=29303

21. In 2009 another secret got revealed - two players can parasite a critter at the same time.
Did you know that? There are lost of such StarCraft trivia.

22. StarCraft bling is becoming more and more popular!

just like StarCraft t-shirts...

Ok, these are technically teamliquid, winged-horse t-shirts.
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...origami...

...StarCraft chips...

and cakes..

This cake received over 3000 diggs!

That's Pure Pwnage - right?

Ps. Xellos will win the OSL if he stops to DDR.

Kaniol

Poland5551 Posts

June 14 2009 12:41 GMT

#75

How could anyone doubt that WC2 was pretty? It's graphics still is quite nice. I remember times of playing WC1, like no right click commands, you always had to click move, then confirm with left button, etc.

And out of all games i have ever played most notable sound comes from church in WC1. Dunno why but i liked the chorus in there so much

deL

Australia5540 Posts

June 14 2009 13:13 GMT

#76

No mention of Dark Reign

I thought that was better than TA in gameplay but people got sucked in with 3D and it was still a competitor of SC

Very interesting read - not written or formatted the best it could be, I have to say, but it does the job and I enjoyed it and learned something new. Big thanks!

Trezeguet

United States2656 Posts

June 14 2009 13:18 GMT

#77

wow, nice guide, and I did not know about the man in the turret!

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

June 14 2009 13:20 GMT

#78

tolkien fan Liquid~Nazgul and and meat fan Liquid~Meat

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

z]Benny

Romania253 Posts

June 14 2009 14:02 GMT

#79

Awesome update!!!!!

Hammy

France828 Posts

June 14 2009 14:27 GMT

#80

Great read : ) Some stuff isn't 100% accurate though (like the order in which some players rose to stardom for example) but that isn't really important.
I would suggest you edit your post on the 4th page into the OP I guess. And perhaps add a tiny bit of spoilers for the slow connexions. I think that would improve you're submission's quality for the contest^^
Again: it was very enjoyable to read, GL with the contest!

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