05-19-2007, 07:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-19-2007, 07:30 PM by Swiss Mercenary.)
Quote:I have less than 1/2 that apm and can manage. Well, it's definitely a mess and I'm not very good in general, but it's quite manageable with say, 130 apm. There are quite a few low apm users that are strong, particularly protoss as they have the simplest means of production. It doesn't matter if you can't manage everything if they can't either.:D
And it still doesn't make me feel any better, because when build-macro-spamming, I feel like I'm in a race against time, that I'm always losing. Forgot to have that fourth factory working out tanks for a minute? Even if it won't matter, I feel like kicking myself when it happens. And it happens far more often with me then it does in WC3 (Although there, something like that is probably a 'gg' right there)
Quote:I was never that good at WC3, but my impression was if you didn't have a couple of buildings hotkeyed and rallied to a hero, you were playing suboptimally. I wasn't a micro god by any stretch of the imagination, but 4-5 units getting there mid fight for the cost of 4-5 keystrokes seemed a good deal to me.
I used to have at least 6 buildings hotkeyed. Then I noticed that it didn't matter overmuch if I just had 2 - instead, I started saving my quick-access hotkeys for say, selecting individual casters, or parts of a control group, for better battlefield micro.