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Offline fssbzz

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« Reply #90 on: Tue, 21 December 2010, 16:21:29 »
i set myself play SCII 3 ~4 games a day,
not really into SCII.
just play the game for fun.
and i never even play Starcraft 1 before.
is my friends who force me to buy SCII to play with them lol.
and NOW, catalysm is out, they just left me alone here playing SCII, they are all on WoW.
i don't really know how i get into Gold too.
I know i'm from bronze climb slowly all the way up to gold.
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Offline Azuremen

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« Reply #91 on: Tue, 21 December 2010, 17:24:18 »
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Everyone says that... do basic macro properly and you will get to Diamond easily.  I don't know if things have changed since those people got Diamond (supposedly it's gotten harder) or if there is exaggeration.

Totally willing to play a game with someone on this concern.  I'm doing the worker/supply thing fine, I really don't think it's all you need to get to Diamond.  Everyone in Gold and up is doing proper macro techniques, from what I see.


They aren't. I play against Gold players that are friends, etc, and while they aren't terrible about keeping their money low, they just don't expand smoothly or make enough workers and often get supply blocked.

Most players in mid-diamond have terrible macro, honestly.

It is way more than keeping your money low.
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« Reply #92 on: Tue, 21 December 2010, 23:31:35 »
Hey, so Battle.net keeps going down.  If I don't get back on, it's not because I didn't enjoy the conversation, but that I simply gave up.
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« Reply #93 on: Tue, 21 December 2010, 23:56:43 »
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Hey, so Battle.net keeps going down.  If I don't get back on, it's not because I didn't enjoy the conversation, but that I simply gave up.


I can understand that.

As for the replay stuff, I wasn't watching your previous games, I was just looking through the info on the score screen. The economy tab tells how many workers were created over the course of a game. I was just going off that.
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« Reply #94 on: Wed, 29 December 2010, 19:08:19 »
Well, I posted second here but back then I wasn't even ranked. So here's my profile (EU, NewbieOne, 967):

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1744281/1/NewbieOne/

I'm ranked low silver in solo and it seems to be kinda reliable despite some weirdness about the placement matches (I lost one placement match by unnecessarily building up some defences before banshee-pushing a Protoss player that managed to survive and outcheese me with DT). In the beginning, I won most bronze matchups and lost all silver matchups but now I end up beating the highest ranked silver doods but not getting any gold matchups. I guess this is because I still need much practice of the basics.

I got gold in the 3v3 placement and I kinda consistently stay near the middle (this is probably because team is a bit more forgiving, you don't need to have everything covered and everything does not depend on you all the time). I'd probably move up somewhat if I played team league but right now I'm replaying the campaign missions on hard and focusing on solo if I do play league. I'm a bit torn, however, as to which league I should play.
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« Reply #95 on: Fri, 07 January 2011, 23:41:54 »
So, I just beat Elbowglue's noob ass in 2v2...

EDIT rude, false statement gets no attention?
« Last Edit: Tue, 11 January 2011, 23:34:00 by AndrewZorn »
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« Reply #96 on: Tue, 11 January 2011, 14:43:35 »
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Well, I posted second here but back then I wasn't even ranked. So here's my profile (EU, NewbieOne, 967):

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1744281/1/NewbieOne/

I'm ranked low silver in solo and it seems to be kinda reliable despite some weirdness about the placement matches (I lost one placement match by unnecessarily building up some defences before banshee-pushing a Protoss player that managed to survive and outcheese me with DT). In the beginning, I won most bronze matchups and lost all silver matchups but now I end up beating the highest ranked silver doods but not getting any gold matchups. I guess this is because I still need much practice of the basics.

I got gold in the 3v3 placement and I kinda consistently stay near the middle (this is probably because team is a bit more forgiving, you don't need to have everything covered and everything does not depend on you all the time). I'd probably move up somewhat if I played team league but right now I'm replaying the campaign missions on hard and focusing on solo if I do play league. I'm a bit torn, however, as to which league I should play.


Apparently the system takes multiple things into account when considering whom you are going to play in terms of skill. It is rumored that macro stats and your micro/personal physical computer characteristics(APM) are also taken into consideration because they improve your ability to act upon things when making decisions.

The only way to get better is to continue playing and or practicing with people whom are better than you.

We gotta get a GeekHack channel going so we can play with each other considering channels are now available with the new patch.
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Offline JinDesu

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« Reply #97 on: Tue, 11 January 2011, 15:09:05 »
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Apparently the system takes multiple things into account when considering whom you are going to play in terms of skill. It is rumored that macro stats and your micro/personal physical computer characteristics(APM) are also taken into consideration because they improve your ability to act upon things when making decisions.

The only way to get better is to continue playing and or practicing with people whom are better than you.

We gotta get a GeekHack channel going so we can play with each other considering channels are now available with the new patch.


Where did you hear that? There was a big ladder analysis done on Team Liquid where they determined it was a hidden MMR rating for everyone that determined rankings and favored vs unfavored. The analysis was then submitted to Blizzard, who then said "close, but not quite".

A general idea of how you get ranked is that Bnet matches you against people who's MMR ratings are similar to you, then puts you against people with higher MMR ratings if you show a winning ratio. If you lose against the player with the higher MMR rating, they keep you at your level.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #98 on: Tue, 11 January 2011, 23:32:52 »
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Where did you hear that? There was a big ladder analysis done on Team Liquid where they determined it was a hidden MMR rating for everyone that determined rankings and favored vs unfavored. The analysis was then submitted to Blizzard, who then said "close, but not quite".

A general idea of how you get ranked is that Bnet matches you against people who's MMR ratings are similar to you, then puts you against people with higher MMR ratings if you show a winning ratio. If you lose against the player with the higher MMR rating, they keep you at your level.
This is correct, APM etc is not taken into consideration.  Pretty sure I saw Blizzard confirmed that the end result is all that matters.

Now that there are chat channels, yeah, I'll have mine to auto-sign-in to GeekHack... hopefully I'll see some people ever.
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Offline Arc'xer

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« Reply #99 on: Wed, 12 January 2011, 15:30:23 »
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This is correct, APM etc is not taken into consideration.  Pretty sure I saw Blizzard confirmed that the end result is all that matters.


SC 2 uses a modified Elo ranking system to determine position.
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« Reply #100 on: Wed, 12 January 2011, 16:04:51 »
Right...
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Offline Azuremen

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« Reply #101 on: Sun, 16 January 2011, 03:24:59 »
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This is correct, APM etc is not taken into consideration.  Pretty sure I saw Blizzard confirmed that the end result is all that matters.

Now that there are chat channels, yeah, I'll have mine to auto-sign-in to GeekHack... hopefully I'll see some people ever.


Oh snap. I'll add that to my channels I think.

And yes, nothing in game is taken into consideration for rating, just whether you win the game or not.

And I need to get into Masters League, ughhh.
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« Reply #102 on: Mon, 17 January 2011, 15:56:56 »
Hopefully will see some people in the geekhack channel soon! Haven't played much lately
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« Reply #103 on: Tue, 18 January 2011, 10:39:17 »
Just found this thread, a few months late!

Wang.187 (noticed someone else had my name too)
Diamond 1v1 #37, 852 points currently
http://sc2ranks.com/us/583589/Wang

I haven't played ladders much lately, just random 4s and 2s with a friend.  The system just gives me too much anxiety, so had to chill on that.  But, I'm always down to practice some friendly 1s or SotIS.

Hit me up!  Add via email (danwang918 at gmail dot com) or character code.
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Offline AndrewZorn

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« Reply #104 on: Thu, 20 January 2011, 00:33:22 »
After this happened, I had to save it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I4ys8s3qE
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Offline Azuremen

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« Reply #105 on: Mon, 24 January 2011, 03:19:24 »
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I haven't played ladders much lately, just random 4s and 2s with a friend.  The system just gives me too much anxiety, so had to chill on that.  But, I'm always down to practice some friendly 1s or SotIS.

Hit me up!  Add via email (danwang918 at gmail dot com) or character code.


I've added your info to the first post.

As for anxiety, I use to have that really badly but I've just found if you play a lot you stop caring about losing as much. At least, that is what I am doing.

Also, would anyone be interested in a replay pack from me? I play Protoss but I tend to mess around a bit and my average game length is over 20 minutes, so rare macro Protoss style :p
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« Reply #106 on: Mon, 31 January 2011, 08:06:50 »
Andrew - That vid made me laugh, gotta admit. ;)

I'm brand new to the forums(first mech shipped out today, can't wait!), but saw this thread and had to post, since SC2 is a lot of what I've been spending my free time on lately. I'm not too great, currently in Silver league. I've still got some basics to get down, but I'm learning relatively fast.

Used to lan BW with friends a lot in high school, but none of us ever took it very seriously. We mostly played on BGH, and as a result none of us ever got "good." Recently it was the GSL that got me into SC2, I'd just never realized how deep the game could really be, I just love how much there is to learn/improve on. I played Zerg in BW, so naturally had to stick with that in SC2.

Anyway, I'm on the US server, ID is:

cometbus.465

I might try the geekhack channel when I'm on next, I'm usually up for practice/screwin' around games.
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Offline JinDesu

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« Reply #107 on: Mon, 31 January 2011, 12:32:57 »
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After this happened, I had to save it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I4ys8s3qE


I'll go through my replays and show you a player who reacts the complete opposite way (and loses 4 drones to me).
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« Reply #108 on: Mon, 31 January 2011, 19:22:07 »
I too just discovered this thread. Be prepared for me to rant and rave about the upcoming GSL season once it begins. I'd start a discussion about the recent finals if it hadn't been such a walk-over.
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Offline JinDesu

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« Reply #109 on: Mon, 31 January 2011, 21:55:59 »
What is the Geekhack channel? Is it just Geekhack?
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« Reply #110 on: Tue, 01 February 2011, 01:27:46 »
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What is the Geekhack channel? Is it just Geekhack?


Think so, though I haven't seen anyone on... ever :(
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« Reply #111 on: Tue, 01 February 2011, 03:09:31 »
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Think so, though I haven't seen anyone on... ever :(


I remember to pop in there, but I've been stupid sick lately and just not online much.
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« Reply #112 on: Tue, 01 February 2011, 10:52:02 »
If that's the case, I'll idle in there every night (probably 8pm-midnight eastern). If anyone wants to play or practice, just let me know.

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« Reply #113 on: Tue, 01 February 2011, 13:51:18 »
I'll hop in the channel when I'm on, just lately I've been screwing around with some old friends from FFXI days, doing random custom games.
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« Reply #114 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 08:34:58 »
Hey guys, my character name/number is shablaGOO.870. I'm only Platinum and I haven't been playing that much lately but I plan to get back into it soon, so feel free to add me/message me. I'll definitely check out the geekhack channel as well, despite reports of no one ever being in it lol

edit: Here's my profile link
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« Reply #115 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 12:59:52 »
Since there's channel support now, why not join the channel GeekHack? I'll jump on there this evening and see if anyone's around.
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« Reply #116 on: Wed, 02 February 2011, 13:07:44 »
I'll be in the GeekHack channel tonight around 2300UTC (5pm Central Time) if anyone wants to play. I'm getting bored of laddering against anonymous people...

Also, Azuremen, could you update the OP to include Beaver.399? Right now it's just "Beaver" on your list

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Think so, though I haven't seen anyone on... ever :(

I set it to auto-join at startup, so hopefully I'll see more people on there. I'd suggest a vent server, but I fear we won't be able to hear each other over the clattering of our mechanical keyboards :D
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« Reply #117 on: Sun, 06 February 2011, 03:21:04 »
Hey guys!

New to Geekhack as a poster, but long-time lurker.

I absolutely LOVE Starcraft 2.  As a result of my playing I have neglected my XBOX 360, went out and bought a Razer DeathAdder mouse with a Steelseries QCK mousepad, and recently placed an order for a tenkeyless Filco Majestouch with cherry browns.

I'm almost always online since I don't have a full-time job yet.  Been playing a lot of customs and ladder games lately, trying to work my way into Masters league.  I'm currently at 2675 Diamond after working my way up from Bronze league back in July.

You can find me online at sawedust.851.

And if you guys need some help with Protoss or Terran mechanics (as those are my two main races, although I've converted to playing Toss full time), hit me up!  I'm always willing to help out a few players while I still have the free time. :)

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« Reply #118 on: Sun, 06 February 2011, 03:32:40 »
here are my 2 accounts, masters on NA(which i dont really play on much anymore)
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/981081/1/Cyberpsycho/
this is my korean account

http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/profile/2741958/1/Cyberpsycho/

only diamond right now, and for those wondering, it is actually really hard to get into higher leagues on the korean servers, masters was super easy for me on the NA servers, its going to take a lot of work to hit it on the korean servers. platinum on the korean servers is like low tier masters on the NA servers. if anyone wants to play, or needs help feel free to pm me here and ill give you my real id ^_^
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« Reply #119 on: Sun, 06 February 2011, 23:43:02 »
I've updated the first post as best I can. Let me know if I missed anyone, I'm a bit out of it (been very sick lately and on some meds)

Cyanide, what are you character ID numbers? The B.net profile pages don't include those, and I don't know any way to extract them out of it. Also, how did you go about getting a Korean account? I heard it requires you to have a Korean SSN or something insane.
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