Ben_H

Other 90s music would be just fine.

If they can get the original music back, though, I demand an optional N64 mode. THPS1 music is, to me, a collection of fuzzy lo-fi snippets of full songs. :D

@FluxWaveZ said:

Could anyone share some hotkey tips?

For example, how do you Zerg players handle timely larvae injects? I've been hotkeying each Queen on a sepearte hotkey, pressing the key twice to jump to their location for the larvae injects, but is it simpler/faster/more efficient to bind them all to a single hotkey and use the mini-map for the injects? I also like having them all on separate keys because I'm not use to using the mini-map to jump from Hatchery to Hatchery, so I use the Queens themselves.

Edit: Shit, I just hit Platinum league and I still feel like I'm crap at this.

There's a hotkey that's called Base Camera or something like that of which is bound to the backspace key and you can use this to hop between all your hatches in one button press per hatch. I rebound it to the tilde key and use that to hop between hatches then click the queen and inject (you don't even necessarily need to hotkey queens but you can. I just keep them all in a consistent position and box them quickly instead of hotkeying but I think hotkeying is more efficient, I just haven't taken the time to learn it yet). Once you get fast at it you can inject all your hatches in under a second each. A bonus is that the Base Cam button is usually consistent with the ordering on which hatch it hops to first so as soon as your injects pop you can keep. I used to do minimap but this way feels more precise (and once you practice it you can go a lot faster).

On the topic of thinking you're awful, I feel the same way and apparently Bnet thinks I'm good enough with Protoss that it promoted me to top Diamond from Platinum, which is hilarious because I'm awful. My Zerg is now lower ranked in Diamond than my Protoss, and I think my Zerg is way better than my Protoss.

Oldest still active thread I've ever seen. I posted somewhere in here before, but I'm not searching for it.

Same reason PC games used to come in boxes large enough to require a real estate agent: because "lol".

@captain_clayman said:

aren't they doing the x-com game?

oh wait that's firaxis. always get them mixed up.

SimGolf was made by both Maxis & Firaxis. (Both Sid Meier and Will Wright worked on it) so i'm praying for a sequel that will never happen.

It's tough to say without seeing a few replays of how you play to see what your main issues are.  I'm a diamond Zerg myself (though I'm awful because I only get to play about 5 games a week now thanks to uni) and the thing I notice the most about lower league zergs is they're always paranoid about attacks so they never build drones and end up with a bunch of useless attacking units sitting around wasted and half the economy they could have.  Stop worrying about winning, and what league you are in and for a little while focus only on droning unless you specifically see an attack coming (which you can scout by simply building a few zerglings and placing a couple at Xel'Naga towers and one in front of their base).  At first you will probably lose a few games because you accidentally droned too much and had no units but after a bit you will begin to learn when it is safe to drone and when to start preparing for an attack.  Learn to count your drones quickly by boxing over them, try to get 16 per set of mineral patches along with 6 in gas at each base and expand soon after unless you are being attacked.  That rule isn't set in stone but it is a great place to start when first figuring out how the zerg economy works (Catz used to teach that to his students on his stream, and I adopted the rule of 16 on minerals then expand and it helps a ton).   
 
If you don't want to lose ladder games, just use a custom map like Macro Or Die or a build order tester, and just practice droning, building overlords, and injects.  Literally, I'm not kidding, if you can get a good grasp of Zerg economy, you can easily get to Platinum or Diamond by simply macroing then killing them with a stream of units.
 
The biggest issue I see with players below Platinum (and even up to and including Diamond, I see this a ton in TvZ when I play Terran) is that they focus too much on units, composition and cutesy stuff and not on economy.  If you get all of the economic stuff down until it's automatic, the game will become much easier since you will simply have way more resources to use.  There's no point trying to discuss strategy when you have a huge deficit in units caused by not having enough resources (which is caused by not having a strong economy).

@Branthog said:

@Ben_H:

What the fuck IS that thing? Is it human? It looks like a creepy CG monster.

I don't know, all I know is that it was nominated for some award at the Grammys. And with that, I rest my case on why award shows are a joke.

I truly don't care for any of them, but the Grammys is the one I care least about for reasons such as this:

I still think the moral of the story in all of this is don't allow any service to save your credit information. Yes it takes a minute to fill it in, but I'd rather do that than go through the hassle of dealing with the stuff some of the people having to do when dealing with the Xbox phishing incidents. Also, don't have really crappy passwords.

Good, then I might not tank my mark in classes by playing it too much.