what I find the most confusing is the hotkeys..
I am playing using the Grid hotkeys.. it works alrite.. but it's very cumbersome...
The repetition required to make it second nature is ridiculous. I had an idea years ago that I wanted to get good (WoL). I was going to play Terran, so all I did was practice simple macro and try and hit timings. I still have them written down: 3:45 natural, 6:50 factory, 7:30 engineering bay, 8:00 starport, 10:00 50 scv, 10:50 +1 attack, 12:00 combat shields. There wasn't any reason you couldn't hit diamond with just marine/mauauder/medivac even with poor micro at the time if you never missed timings. After a while I could do it without trouble against AI, then just as it was second nature enough to do it against humans I quit. While I was marginally successful none of it was fun. But yeah, after way too many hours of dedicated practice you never have to think about hotkeys again.
And so like many endeavors in my life, I know exactly what I need to do to be successful, I know that with sufficient focused effort I will get there, and with full recognition of what it will actually take to be good, I choose not to because the effort is overwhelming, and I just don't like it enough.
