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CorruptedHero
Profile Joined August 2011
Austria3 Posts
September 07 2011 16:44 GMT
#1
HI everyone, well i play in iccup/brain/fish(actually started yet ). but dunno which one should i try to practice most of the time. Iccup is really dangerous right now.(new season every high rank seems like d ranks ) and i played in fish a couple times and everyone play at least like c rank(or i am too noob :D). brain seems a little easier i guess. Well. Any Advices for my Improving?? thx.. (my first write in tl i hope i did it in right way...)
keiraknightlee
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States301 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-07 17:40:20
September 07 2011 17:39 GMT
#2
Iccup for me is the best server The foreigner to Korean ratio is pretty high, there are a lot of games at the D to D+ rank, it's clear and straightforward, and you can understand everything only by knowing English. Compared to Brain and Fish, Iccup is the nooby server...but also the most fun
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CorruptedHero
Profile Joined August 2011
Austria3 Posts
September 07 2011 18:01 GMT
#3
On September 08 2011 02:39 keiraknightlee wrote:
Iccup for me is the best server The foreigner to Korean ratio is pretty high, there are a lot of games at the D to D+ rank, it's clear and straightforward, and you can understand everything only by knowing English. Compared to Brain and Fish, Iccup is the nooby server...but also the most fun


hehe thx really good advice any other ones?
Zyferous
Profile Joined September 2010
United States270 Posts
September 07 2011 19:02 GMT
#4
I'd say that no matter what, you'll have a harder time playing on brain/fish than on iCCup. The problem with iCCup these days is that it's hard to find games higher than D+/C- so that's when you jump to fish to practice.
Jaedong forever.
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10230 Posts
September 07 2011 19:15 GMT
#5
Iccup first. Rank up to C/C-. move to fish as there are rarely ne games from D+/c- and higher.
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ZeKk
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sweden320 Posts
September 07 2011 21:30 GMT
#6
How is the easiest and fastest way to get set up for fish/brain server's in a secure and stable manner without have to go through all the 16 pages in the thread reading "this or that wont work issues"??
Djagulingu
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany3605 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-07 22:33:16
September 07 2011 22:33 GMT
#7
Even in the season start, iccup is much easier than brain or fish. If you're like me, a noobie who doesn't know how to move or attack with 3 control groups of units and macro from 3 or more bases at the same time, iccup is best for you.
"windows bash is a steaming heap of shit" tofucake
DorF
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden961 Posts
September 07 2011 23:33 GMT
#8
Practice ICCup until you're like C-level, then move onto deeper waters if you like a challenge
But if you just want simple practice games in melee mode or something, come to Op teamliquid and ask for games, there's not alot of people on there at most times but sometimes you might get lucky.
BW for life !
IslandMapBonjwa
Profile Joined August 2011
Ireland86 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-08 03:23:42
September 08 2011 03:23 GMT
#9
How is the easiest and fastest way to get set up for fish/brain server's in a secure and stable manner without have to go through all the 16 pages in the thread reading "this or that wont work issues"??

Create a thread asking for someone to upload their "Anti-Hack Minilauncher ENTIRE folder" and you won't have any issues at all. Ex: One person uploads their entire folder to a file hosting site. The difficult part of getting it isn't so much of finding it, but getting it to actually open. Believe me, it is really hard to get it not to crash at least in my experience.
0mgVitaminE
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1278 Posts
September 08 2011 04:20 GMT
#10
I followed this thread
Korean Gateways Guide
and it got both Fish and Brain working well for me no problems.
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Elite00fm
Profile Joined January 2008
United States548 Posts
September 08 2011 05:00 GMT
#11
Just play Iccup, you'll probably get bored of sc:bw before you reach C rank anyway (it will probably take a year or so from scratch)
NationInArms
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1553 Posts
September 08 2011 05:21 GMT
#12
You should probably just start with ICCUp since that's where most lower level players play. Also helpful if the SC2GG server (don't know if that many are on though) and entering the sc2gg practice league. For improving, pick a race and get your build orders down. Macro is essentially what makes someone rise in the lower level ranks (imo).
BW for life | Fantasy, MMA, SlayerS_Boxer | Taengoo! n_n | "Lelouch vi Britannia commands you! Obey me, subjects! OBEY ME, WORLD!" | <3 Emi
CorruptedHero
Profile Joined August 2011
Austria3 Posts
September 08 2011 15:14 GMT
#13
Thx all of u guys for Advices. Well i am like d+ low c- and i guess i will practice in fish and iccup at the same time
Holy Check
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Romania155 Posts
September 08 2011 16:17 GMT
#14
Fish (korean servers in general) is not nearly as good as people make it seem.
First of all, there are very few people during "european hours" (19 - 01 CET) and it's not that easy to get games. Second problem is the lag. Sure some people lag more than others (you might not even be able to host games), but you are bound to have problems with koreans that just leave when they see high latency. Thirdly, it's very hard and bothersome to report hackers and you get that feeling of being screwed and not being able to do anything about it.

Last but not least, and I hope I don't get banned for this, you might just get tired of how retarded koreans playing on Fish are. There, I said it. They don't or don't want to speak English; when they do it's usually random retarded BM; if they see you typing in what appears to be NON-KOREAN they will STILL spam you with korean regardless (which is epically annoying); they leave without GG; don't leave at all (Fantasy timing); they do the gay invincible drop hack and they even do gay shit like floating their buildings or hiding pylons / geysers.

Disclaimer: please please don't see this post as Korean bashing or something like that. It's based on my experience with Fish and on what I've seen others go through. I'm not saying it's not hard to get games on iccup when you're above C level, I'm just saying Fish isn't the paradise people make it out to be.

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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
September 08 2011 17:32 GMT
#15
On September 09 2011 01:17 Holy Check wrote:
... I hope I don't get banned for this...

I'd be a little more careful with the martyring there.

I play on Garena because it has a more relaxed atmosphere than ICCup and much less lag issues. Although the price you pay for this is encountering lots of players at or below the D level. The highest it gets there is about B- or B.
kamikami
Profile Joined November 2010
France1057 Posts
September 08 2011 18:38 GMT
#16
On September 09 2011 01:17 Holy Check wrote:

Last but not least, and I hope I don't get banned for this, you might just get tired of how retarded koreans playing on Fish are. There, I said it. They don't or don't want to speak English; when they do it's usually random retarded BM; if they see you typing in what appears to be NON-KOREAN they will STILL spam you with korean regardless (which is epically annoying); they leave without GG; don't leave at all (Fantasy timing); they do the gay invincible drop hack and they even do gay shit like floating their buildings or hiding pylons / geysers.



You are on a KOREAN server, the KOREANS there are not supposed to know English, and you are supposed to type in KOREAN on those servers. It's absolutely normal that you receive Korean even if you type English first. If it's on IccUp and some guys type you a message in Korean (which you don't understand), what language will you type to reponse ? English. Why do you expect it to be different on Korean server ? Also, all other stuffs that you mentioned happened on every servers, and foreigners also do the same "gay shit" that the Koreans do, so it doesn't mean anything.
Khassar de Templari
Holy Check
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Romania155 Posts
September 08 2011 19:23 GMT
#17
On September 09 2011 03:38 kamikami wrote:
You are on a KOREAN server, the KOREANS there are not supposed to know English, and you are supposed to type in KOREAN on those servers. It's absolutely normal that you receive Korean even if you type English first. If it's on IccUp and some guys type you a message in Korean (which you don't understand), what language will you type to reponse ? English. Why do you expect it to be different on Korean server ? Also, all other stuffs that you mentioned happened on every servers, and foreigners also do the same "gay shit" that the Koreans do, so it doesn't mean anything.



Yes, koreans not knowing English is an issue that makes Fish less "user friendly", but I was not blaming them for that. I was blaming them for spamming, for retarded BM, for leaving without GG, for drop hacking and for doing gay shit. And that does not happen on every server: less people have dropped on me in 2 years of playing iccup than they did in 1 month of playing Fish. I've only played against a hacker once on iccup (infinite money), while on Fish I got drop hacked 4 times this week. I have rarely encountered random unprovoked BM on iccup, while on Fish it's something I deal with almost every day.

But it's mostly the retarded spamming that grinds my gears. When I'm on iccup and someone types a message in korean, my thought process is like this: "hmmz, this guy is probably korean". So I type "no korean" or I ignore him. When a korean is playing on Fish, his thought process is "spam spam spam spam; this guy is typing some random characters; I'll spam some more or BM him in korean; and I won't stop no matter what".


Yes Fish is a korean server and I know we foreigners are guests there and we don't have many rights. My initial post was just expressing another point of view that newcomers should take into consideration when asking "where should I start playing" and being overwhelmed with answers like "Fish; yeah Fish; play Fish it's great".

Mottz
Profile Joined September 2010
Portugal101 Posts
September 08 2011 19:32 GMT
#18
On September 09 2011 01:17 Holy Check wrote:
Fish (korean servers in general) is not nearly as good as people make it seem.
First of all, there are very few people during "european hours" (19 - 01 CET) and it's not that easy to get games. Second problem is the lag. Sure some people lag more than others (you might not even be able to host games), but you are bound to have problems with koreans that just leave when they see high latency. Thirdly, it's very hard and bothersome to report hackers and you get that feeling of being screwed and not being able to do anything about it.

Last but not least, and I hope I don't get banned for this, you might just get tired of how retarded koreans playing on Fish are. There, I said it. They don't or don't want to speak English; when they do it's usually random retarded BM; if they see you typing in what appears to be NON-KOREAN they will STILL spam you with korean regardless (which is epically annoying); they leave without GG; don't leave at all (Fantasy timing); they do the gay invincible drop hack and they even do gay shit like floating their buildings or hiding pylons / geysers.

Disclaimer: please please don't see this post as Korean bashing or something like that. It's based on my experience with Fish and on what I've seen others go through. I'm not saying it's not hard to get games on iccup when you're above C level, I'm just saying Fish isn't the paradise people make it out to be.

I have to agree that you sometimes needs to do CyberSex with some koreans for them to play, or they keep barraging you with more weird symbols and eventually leave the game, I get Fantasy's more often on iCCup, but on the other hand i feel the games are less cheesy and more macro oriented, out of like 30 PvT, i only got 6 fact pushed 2 times, compared to 95% of iccup players on the yellow ranks.

Sharing the same opinion as most posters here, i have to say that C- is a good timing to go to fish.
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
September 08 2011 19:45 GMT
#19
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ZeroChrome
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1001 Posts
September 08 2011 23:09 GMT
#20
In my over 500 games on Fish I've only encountered 3 hackers and none of them were on ladder. I've never been drophacked. Koreans are generally nice and will respond in English if you tell them you don't speak Korean. If they continue speaking Korean it's probably because they don't believe non-Koreans play on the server. Games are much more late-game oriented compared to the super all-in norm on iccup. Smurfing is a lot less common due to the 30 melee game ladder requirement.
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