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MrInocence
United States172 Posts
Someone may have thought if this already, but I still see most pros use the old method on their streams. This is much easier than spam right clicking, and frees up some time to micro your scout. Try it  EDIT: YOU ONLY HAVE TO HIT THE "S" KEY ONCE. Stop saying that you have to spam the s key. | ||
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sYnKaotyk
United States16 Posts
Thanks for the tip <3 | ||
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Isomer
United States186 Posts
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
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HighLach
United States132 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
i spent the last few days in nerd jail working out the theoretical perfect man-executed builds for a lot of pvp openers, so my probe micro is extremely improved. i can drop a few other words of advice here, if anyone has any questions | ||
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OPnitemare
United States23 Posts
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Latedi
Sweden1027 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:30 OPnitemare wrote: Just tried it, I think that when you right clicked the mineral patch, the other worker was close enough to finished that your worker stayed on. Could you clarify, as I might not be doing it exactly? What I was doing was telling a worker to mine, then immediately telling another to mine that patch, hitting S then right clicking the patch again. essentially you spam (s) and right click at about the same speed. be careful, though. when the probe is about ready to accept its fate, you want to hold off on the (s) spam as you might clip it's efficient mining, and then the probe that returns will try to find another patch if you don't have at least 1 worker on every other patch | ||
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KawaiiRice
United States2914 Posts
dont have to spam click weee | ||
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OPnitemare
United States23 Posts
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mrGRAPE
Singapore293 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:31 Latedi wrote: Haha that's awesome :D Hey Alej do you stack probes on 9 or before that? always before that. your 1st probe will always be rallied to the most efficient tier of patches and the first available of this tier. you can find the first available of this tier by checking to see which of the most efficient tier probes is the first to move from the patch. as soon as you see the first probe move on the 2nd trip, the worker is to be rallied their. once the 1st worker out of the nexus/cc is paired up, you can move a 2nd tier probe (preferably the closest one) to a second 1st tier patch. on some maps, the probe will fight you a few times, but make sure you get it locked in. the 2nd probe is to be rallied to the 2nd tier patch from which you took this probe. also, on maps that have more than 2 efficient patches, you must reroute 2nd tier mineral patch workers to 1st tier ones after the first trip. the most efficient way to do this is waiting for the probe to finish mining (it has minerals in hand) and shift click it to a first tier mineral patch. don't shift click it to mine until the probe has finished mining, or it will return to the its old patch and then try to mine from the patch you shiftclicked to before returning the minerals and then return to the 1st tier mineral patch you so designated | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:32 KawaiiRice wrote: I move my worker back and line it up in position while the first scv is mining dont have to spam click weee wait you are putting 2 scvs on one 1st tier patch before one of them has made the first trip? because this is inefficient. edit: oh nvm i think i misread and assumed you meant one of the original 6 in their first wave O_O dono why i jumped to such a terrible conclusion for the great kawaiirice! | ||
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ClysmiC
United States2192 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:32 KawaiiRice wrote: I move my worker back and line it up in position while the first scv is mining dont have to spam click weee That's what I do too. Can be done pretty quickly with a shift-click so you can focus elsewhere. | ||
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Latedi
Sweden1027 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:36 Alejandrisha wrote: always before that. your 1st probe will always be rallied to the most efficient tier of patches and the first available of this tier. you can find the first available of this tier by checking to see which of the most efficient tier probes is the first to move from the patch. as soon as you see the first probe move on the 2nd trip, the worker is to be rallied their. once the 1st worker out of the nexus/cc is paired up, you can move a 2nd tier probe (preferably the closest one) to a second 1st tier patch. on some maps, the probe will fight you a few times, but make sure you get it locked in. the 2nd probe is to be rallied to the 2nd tier patch from which you took this probe. also, on maps that have more than 2 efficient patches, you must reroute 2nd tier mineral patch workers to 1st tier ones after the first trip. the most efficient way to do this is waiting for the probe to finish mining (it has minerals in hand) and shift click it to a first tier mineral patch. don't shift click it to mine until the probe has finished mining, or it will return to the its old patch and then try to mine from the patch you shiftclicked to before returning the minerals and then return to the 1st tier mineral patch you so designated Ooh thanks, this is very useful to know. My laziness has led me to not stack before I have 1 probe per mineral and then stack the next 4 on the 1st tier patches. This should actually be generating significantly more minerals ^^ | ||
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CecilSunkure
United States2829 Posts
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:40 Latedi wrote: Ooh thanks, this is very useful to know. My laziness has led me to not stack before I have 1 probe per mineral and then stack the next 4 on the 1st tier patches. This should actually be generating significantly more minerals ^^ the first 2 moves i mentioned are pretty much amazing on all maps but shakuras. workers insist on being dumbasses because the minerals there are not oriented for efficiency like they are on most maps. i have some qualms with shattered temple, as well. in the top and bottom positions, the minerals seem to be less efficiently oriented than are the left and right spawns. | ||
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Alejandrisha
United States6565 Posts
On January 13 2012 10:41 CecilSunkure wrote: I'm confused someone explain what to do explicitly? What does click s fast mean. What is fast? Just create some numbered steps of specifically what to do >.< fast is like 5 times a second. spamming it as though you are trying to force the probe to have a perpetual command to "stop" and also "mine" the minerals so that it will mine it the instant the other probe has finished mining. again, you have to be careful not to clip the window where the probe will start mining with a stop command or you're just wasting your time and your minerals | ||
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chambertin
United States1704 Posts
could you maybe just pop up a rep or two of you doing some nasty probe micro, so I can just study that ? ty <3 | ||
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