Starcraft II Officially Announced

[KSUowls]

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I just had a 1v1 game that ended in stalemate (and apparently resets my win streak). The guy sent all his workers over and attacked me so I just uprooted my base (Terran) and ran around until the stalemate counter ticked down. Suffice to say I reported him.

Out of curiosity what did he do that deserved reporting?

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Out of curiosity what did he do that deserved reporting?

If that isn't the biggest cheese move I don't know what is. After killing my workers instead of simply building up/teching up to finish the game properly, he uprooted his command center and followed mine around the rest of the game. What is the point in that? I don't want to play games with idiots like that.

[USF11]

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If that isn't the biggest cheese move I don't know what is. After killing my workers instead of simply building up/teching up to finish the game properly, he uprooted his command center and followed mine around the rest of the game. What is the point in that? I don't want to play games with idiots like that.

Worker Rushes are legit. Its easy to counter.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Worker Rushes are legit. Its easy to counter.

And what do you usually do after the rush?

[USF11]

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And what do you usually do after the rush?

You should have the advantage cause you just killed all his workers and you now have a 3-4 worker edge.

You need to micro manage your workers to kill his attackers if you dont he wins.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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No, I meant if you were the one rushing.

[USF11]

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No, I meant if you were the one rushing.

Oh you leave one worker back to collect during the attack. Rebuild off of him.

[KSUowls]

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If that isn't the biggest cheese move I don't know what is. After killing my workers instead of simply building up/teching up to finish the game properly, he uprooted his command center and followed mine around the rest of the game. What is the point in that? I don't want to play games with idiots like that.

It's within the game mechanics so there is nothing to be reported for though.

You have to be ready for whatever your opponent throws at you. Whether it is some kind of rush like a worker or a proxy rush or if they sit back and build up a mass army. You can't expect every game to go 20+ minutes.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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It's within the game mechanics so there is nothing to be reported for though.

You have to be ready for whatever your opponent throws at you. Whether it is some kind of rush like a worker or a proxy rush or if they sit back and build up a mass army. You can't expect every game to go 20+ minutes.

I'm not frustrated with the worker rush. I understand its an early game rush strategy, but when it is not 100% successful and your next best strategy is to gun for a stalemate then that's just 15 minutes of my time wasted.

[KSUowls]

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could you not just drop your cc and start building up workers again? He's probably either out of minerals and can't do anything or he's in the same situation as you and you both just start over building up workers and go from there

[Fresh Tendrils]

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could you not just drop your cc and start building up workers again? He's probably either out of minerals and can't do anything or he's in the same situation as you and you both just start over building up workers and go from there

He was following me around with his command center and his workers (he was terran as well).

[KSUowls]

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I assume he was planting his workers anywhere you tried to set your cc down at?

If that's the case...well that's just dumb on his part because he has an advantage on you at that point and could win instead of going for a stalemate. Nothing to really do in that situation.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I assume he was planting his workers anywhere you tried to set your cc down at?

If that's the case...well that's just dumb on his part because he has an advantage on you at that point and could win instead of going for a stalemate. Nothing to really do in that situation.

That's pretty much my line of thinking as well. In the end its better for me because I probably would have lost* the match anyway instead of having it end in a stalemate.

*I checked his recent matches (I usually do, just as a barometer for how I'm progressing) and none of his matches went longer than 3 minutes. So, that's probably all he knows how to do and probably couldn't have out macroed me.


Moving on. After having watched that video Munkey supplied a link to, I'm doing really well. I'm currently 31-36 and am currently 14th in my league. Its surprising how simple the game becomes when you simply focus on producing workers/supply depots and then transition that philosophy into constantly producing military units.

[Munkey]

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Just made it to Master's league yesterday, wasn't expecting that at all.

[MachoMyers]

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Saw this thread updated so thought I would post. Finally played Starjeweled, my first attempt at a custom game and I really enjoy it. I played a couple of games with a stranger and got pounded but I imagine it would be good fun with a friend.