I am curious to see which maps in Team Fortress 2 favor Offense or Defense. I know that Steam collects massive amounts of data on player statistics so they probably have the data somewhere.
Does anyone have a link to statistics on which maps have had more offense wins vs defense wins or vice ve...
For Terran it's easy to know that you can have either 1:1:1 or 3 Rax on 1 base, but I don't know that for Protoss yet. (Well, Zerg is just a mather of throwing a Hatchery down when you have spare minerals, easy there... :P)
You shouldn't cut your workers until it's fully saturized, unless you are planning on going for a cheese or all-in.
Same for the early Chrono Boosts.
They go based on what they scout. :-)
But well, I had like 400-500 minerals.
And at that moment I should've thrown down an extra Gateway. (Can't tell about if it should have been two, a next replay showing too much Minerals should teach me that)
But it's just... Zealots & Stalkers costs more than the units for Terran, so I was unsure if I could keep constantly producing if I would throw down a Gateway.
@IvoFlipse: Now that I think of it, it's not purely about the buildings but it's about the minerals which makes it harder to think about this on-the-fly in the game.
But anyways, nice to have a 800 mins 200 gas in my head from now on.
Hmm, you can think of it in another way too...
Like keeping apart X mins and Y gas a minute for teching purposes.
100 mins for Supply Depot
100 mins to spare
@IvoFlipse: An 1:1:1 build examined for 600 minerals / minute --> 200 into 1 Rax + Reactor pumping 4 Marines / minute --> 200 into 1 Fact (Naked or Tech for Research) pumping 2 Hellions / minute --> 200 + Gas into 1 Star (Naked or Tech for Research) pumping 1 Medivac/Viking/Banshee/Raven / minute
After 1 Minutes spare you can create Bunker, after 4 Minutes spare you can create CC, etc...
That's 4 Marines, 2 Hellions and 1 Support unit every minute once your base gets full saturization.
And I'm not even counting in MULEs
@IvoFlipse: And this would be in an aggressive setting (as in pushing, medivac dropping, placing bunkers, ...), it doesn't count in armored units until you get your expansion and could go 1 Rax + Tech, 1 Fact + Tech, 1 Star + Reactor.
Hmm, the Banshee is useful against Marauder/Tank/Roach, but less effective against Protoss who could opt for Stalkers + Observer.
But the problem with armored units is that the opponent will produce less than you as he is dependant on gas, so harassment by a drop could set him back. But well, once again this is just a random example and I'm theorycrafting too much... :D
You won't know until you melt it into a BO, practice it and try it out to see the effectiveness.
@IvoFlipse: But I do think that the above way of thinking about it might be a good way to work towards a BO.
And then you can just tell SCBuildOrder what you want when. :-)
Actually, if you don't do this and ask SCBuildOrder straight for something specific you could be sacrificing your economy/technology/... just to get those units.
Perhaps, instead of an extra Rax and Supply Depot (+9 supply) just to get out one more marine (which you might not need), you could've gone a CC (+11 supply instead) for a better economy and more production buildings or an eng bay to upgrade your army.
@IvoFlipse: Well, I think I'm going to figure out a 3 Rax start (on main) and then go into Fact and Star based on my Expo.
And practice to do the whole thing as good as possible.
Or go 1:1:1 main and build 2 extra Raxes on Expo.
(Not counting in the MULEs again, they do 40 mins/minute on top of what the SCVs do)
Hmm, perhaps I shouldn't think of the units, as I would base them on what I scout.
On my 1st campaign pass I've chosen "Breakout" mission. Now I do that the 2nd time (to have everything done on Brutal) and want to choose "Ghost of a Chance".
Q1:
Remember, that the penultimate mission (I've chosen "Belly of the Beast") require Tosh to participate. If I do "Ghost of a Chance" n...
**In case I scout an early push BO** (3 Rax, 4 Gate or 2 Gate Tech, 6 Pool or Later Pool + Gas [Bane/Roach]) - Produce Marines - Place 2 Bunkers (each one has the HP of 9 Marines!!!) - Produce Tanks (Unsieged against Armored, Sieged against Mass Light) - Produce Banshee to check if he expands and harass his economy.
**In case I scout an economy BO** (2 Rax FE or 4OC or 1:1:1, 1/2 Gate FE, no Pool) - Produce Marines (Naked) into Marauders (Tech) - Produce Hellions (Reactor) - Produce Medivacs for healing/dropping (Reactor) - Can swap Rax and Fact later to go for Marines + Tank/Thor instead of Marauders + Hellions.
For either way I throw down my expo after the Starport (which is basically the time I would either have my defense up or have pushed my opponent back, at this point I create two more production buildings which would best fit. I have the option here to lift one of the buildings to get an other addon and then create the other building in place...
Like for example, in the second way I can lift the Starport (so the Reactor comes free) to create a Tech Lab on it for BCs and then create a Rax on the Reactor. (Well, I would first see if it is more feasible to swap with another building just to decrease tech time...)
Well, I actually went 3 Rax because of the issues I was having with Zerg, but the same can be done with a 1:1:1 build.
On the first scout he will only see a Rax and Gas, you will have the 1:1:1 up by the next time your opponent will scout/scan.
Or even better, your defenses up so he will not be able to scout the 1:1:1 at all...
A good player will figure out if you a) delay pushing him for too long, 2) harass with a small amount of units or 3) if he scouts your incoming drop.
That's basically how a lot of Diamond Terran players play, AllNight is an example.
Oh, the StarCraft II room is frozen, else I would've suggested someone to migrate all these messages.
After bringing my European (Irish) XBox to the US, I've found that my TV doesn't support PAL (except in black and white with PAL-60). Is there a way to make my XBox output NTSC (such as by modding it, for example)? Alternatively, do converters exist to make this work?
If I cook up some meals, will the dwarves eat those first? Is there a way to stop them from eating them (if, say, the upcoming caravan is excited about them?) entirely? Or would I have to forbid each meal as it was made?
How do we deal with questions like this, that are in the end medical questions. I'm not thinking about off-topic/on-topic, but about liability. Wrong medical advice on this site could cause legal trouble.
Is there an official SO policy about that?
@LessPop_MoreFizz Yeah, I quickly edited my answer because I saw Mark Trapp (he answered a second later so I saw it on my refresh) talking about three mounts. Didn't suspect my less good answer to be accepted, perhaps because of the LvL 40 mount...
(on iPhone 4, iOS4)
Cut the rope is really a great game. I installed both the full version and the Xmas version.
However there are two things pretty annoying
Opening the levels page shows first a cutter animation taking 3~5 seconds. It really seems to be on purpose (not an animation during a...
I am afraid my farms are a bit far from my fortress, so is it possible to build some sort of a fast transport system in order to speed the process of moving to and from my farms?
I keep seeing references on the web to being able to summon Knives Chau as an assist character... But nothing says how to do so. Is there some magic combination for this?
(It's the Xbox version, if that makes a difference.)
About the idea that captcha "hampers math sites much more than others":
The CAPTCHA issue is a site-independent aspect of the software platform and not something that seems peculiar to a math site. It could be that it is triggered more often on math sites, and this might be for reasons of the ki...
I'm just learning Overlord 2, and I've reached the point where I get the spell to control/kill townspeople. I've controlled 3 of them like it instructed me too. But I can't figure out what to do next. I seem to be blocked on both sides by firecracker "walls", and it told me I can't get through...
I was "playing" on Project Euler and passed across the Collatz Problem, and it mentioned it was still unproven.
I immediately noticed two things:
After the $3n+1$ the result is always even, leading to $\frac{n}{2}$
$\frac{n}{2}$ is an trivial action, especially in a binary representation.
Th...
"When you propose to have solved a well-known open problem, especially without having done any significant work, you are implicitly insulting everybody who has ever worked on the problem by assuming that there is an extremely simple solution that all of those people missed."
We closed the domain naming thread (click for details).
Instead, let's start with a killer "elevator pitch!" Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you started:
The Elevator Pitch
This isn't as easy as it sounds. Imagine the user who will never read you...
sure they are @ArdaXi, but I can understand how one would be somewhat insulted if someone claims to have 'solved' something, while probably not grasping the pitfalls of it (enough)
> I have to say, though, that the en passant sniping at the volunteer mods and other contributors whose background isn't exactly congruent with yours is unnecessary and unhelpful.
sure there are kinks to Area51's process of getting a site created
anyway, Math is an exception and not the rule when it comes to the community aspect. If only because there is no 'one community' in Math, which becomes painfully visible from the responses to @alexanderpas's question
you can't expect arch-nemeses and enemies to play along nicely
I am considering trying out WoW. I dont want a subscription, i doubt i'll be hooked and if i have to grind i am instantly quitting or spending the remaining time exploring (then quit).
But as for strategies, help, common early game mistakes, etc what should i know? Do i need yo join up a guild? ...
I'm kind of amazed math gets any traffic, considering their philosophy toward new people seems to be "f**k you for trying, come back when you've got your PhD and your efforts are no longer insulting to our intelligence"
The infobar does say "for people studying math at any level"
This has been really frustrating for me. My units don't actually move when I release the right mouse button. They stay exactly where they are and move when I end the turn. How do I get them to actually move when I tell them to? If I tell a unit to automate its movement, it moves during my tur...
I have just bought Fallout New Vegas. I read the patch notes and I saw that many bug as been fixed after the release.
What I am wondering now is, if there are any known bugs and if there are mods I should install to fix them, before starting my adventure in New Vegas.
auch: "Stop playing games. Seriously. Not fun little indie games or iPhone games, but the soul-sucking, time-stealing, life-owning games like World of Warcraft, Starcraft and Counter-Strike. As a general rule, if it has online multiplayer, a strong social aspect and isn’t free, you’ve got the recipe for a life-owning game."
"And days add up, like it or not. We cannot stop them from doing so." http://goo.gl/Asoo5 (via @migueldeicaza)
Kicking in chat is pretty useless and/or pointless. You may want to consider either removing it, or turning it into something more effective -- maybe user-specific room-specific 30 seconds long silencing.
Kicking in chat is pretty useless and/or pointless. You may want to consider either removing it, or turning it into something more effective -- maybe user-specific room-specific 30 seconds long silencing.
i have a 2tb external hard drive and i want to put battlefield 1942 on it. i got the game to install and run smoothly on the hard drive, and i need a patch update. when i install the patch, it doesnt find the game, and thus does me no good. how do i get the patch to find the game on the external ...
well...I don't think many of my real life friends would be interested in asking questions on a gaming site...and I don't have many followers on Twitter
Are there any gaming sites we could promote ourselves on?
if you start playing a new game, make sure you ask any question you have about it here
this is especially true for new games, because sequels generally already have a knowledge base for their previous parts that already established some Google-fu for that topic
but regardless, asking questions is by far the best thing you can do
Is it possible to prevent DF from pausing every time something comes up (liking hitting gold or whatever). The reason is that I am doing extensive mining and I want to leave the process unattended till it is over.
I am curious to see which maps in Team Fortress 2 favor Offense or Defense. I know that Steam collects massive amounts of data on player statistics so they probably have the data somewhere.
Does anyone have a link to statistics on which maps have had more offense wins vs defense wins or vice ve...
Is it possible to zoom out/in during gameplay in DF and not through altering the init.txt file and reloading the game?
On my 1st campaign pass I've chosen "Breakout" mission. Now I do that the 2nd time (to have everything done on Brutal) and want to choose "Ghost of a Chance".
Q1:
Remember, that the penultimate mission (I've chosen "Belly of the Beast") require Tosh to participate. If I do "Ghost of a Chance" n...
I have a paladin character. How to ride a horse?
After bringing my European (Irish) XBox to the US, I've found that my TV doesn't support PAL (except in black and white with PAL-60). Is there a way to make my XBox output NTSC (such as by modding it, for example)? Alternatively, do converters exist to make this work?
If I cook up some meals, will the dwarves eat those first? Is there a way to stop them from eating them (if, say, the upcoming caravan is excited about them?) entirely? Or would I have to forbid each meal as it was made?
How do we deal with questions like this, that are in the end medical questions. I'm not thinking about off-topic/on-topic, but about liability. Wrong medical advice on this site could cause legal trouble.
Is there an official SO policy about that?
(on iPhone 4, iOS4)
Cut the rope is really a great game. I installed both the full version and the Xmas version.
However there are two things pretty annoying
Opening the levels page shows first a cutter animation taking 3~5 seconds. It really seems to be on purpose (not an animation during a...
I keep seeing references on the web to being able to summon Knives Chau as an assist character... But nothing says how to do so. Is there some magic combination for this?
(It's the Xbox version, if that makes a difference.)
I'm just learning Overlord 2, and I've reached the point where I get the spell to control/kill townspeople. I've controlled 3 of them like it instructed me too. But I can't figure out what to do next. I seem to be blocked on both sides by firecracker "walls", and it told me I can't get through...
I was "playing" on Project Euler and passed across the Collatz Problem, and it mentioned it was still unproven.
I immediately noticed two things:
After the $3n+1$ the result is always even, leading to $\frac{n}{2}$
$\frac{n}{2}$ is an trivial action, especially in a binary representation.
Th...
We closed the domain naming thread (click for details).
Instead, let's start with a killer "elevator pitch!" Joel will be blogging about the elevator pitch approach to naming, but to get you started:
The Elevator Pitch
This isn't as easy as it sounds. Imagine the user who will never read you...
I have just bought Fallout New Vegas. I read the patch notes and I saw that many bug as been fixed after the release.
What I am wondering now is, if there are any known bugs and if there are mods I should install to fix them, before starting my adventure in New Vegas.
Kicking in chat is pretty useless and/or pointless. You may want to consider either removing it, or turning it into something more effective -- maybe user-specific room-specific 30 seconds long silencing.
