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Burning Starcraft Questions

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From: alvinst...
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:01
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I know this is group is pretty much dead, but I have some Starcraft
questions that have been bugging me for years including a recent one.


1.	Is there a computer crash hack?

This happened to me 3 times over the weekend.  I win on bnet and
instead of going to the stats screen, my screen goes blank.  I can not
even do a ctrl-alt-delete.  I have to reboot my pc.  I find hacks
annoying, but this one crosses the line.


2.	Why is there a long delay before games are listed in bnet?

This one drives me nuts.  I click the list of games, and it is blank
for 30 - 60 seconds.  Then the list displays.  If I get booted from a
game, I have to go back to waiting again for the game list to refresh.
Does this happen to everyone?   It is majorly frustrating when you
have players dropping, leaving games, lagging out, then you have to
wait again.  Any way to avoid this problem?


3.	Ok, how the hell am I supposed to select the workers at the
beginning?

	This totally baffles me.  I am often accused of being a noob within
the first 5 seconds of the game because of the way I select my workers
to start mining.  If a pro is on my team, they quit the game simply
because of my mining technique saying that I don't know how to micro.
I simply double click one unit to select them all and send them to a
patch.  What else can you do?  It takes longer to select one
individually, or hot key all 4 of em.  It is a very stupid
accusation.  What do they save? Three seconds of build time?


4.	How do you do the tank drop on the ledge thing?

	I just can't pull it off.  I give my drop ship the command to unload,
and it refuses.

5.	When launching an attack, what should be targeted?

So you get an army going, and ready to attack.  Now, strategy really
plays a big part especially if I am doing an early rush.  The strat
guides will tell you to use the	attack move command and click
somewhere inside the base.  I usually end up with a failed attack with
this method.  For example, if the terran has bunkers at his choke, and
I can just run by them, the attack move would have me wasting mytime
on the bunkers.  I need to do the most damage in the minimal time
because in 	a team game, his buddies are on the way.  So which is most
important for hurting him?

 A.Attack his workers -   Good plan, but if he bunches them all up, it
takes too long to kill them all, plus his attack units are destroying
my armyin the process


B. Attack his hatch, cc, or nexus -  it will prevent him from pumping
out more units, but takes too long and my army is vunerable


C.Attack his army -  with no army, he is screwed, but I run the risk
of wasting all my time and units without damaging his base one bit.

D.Attack his defenses - if there are cannons, sunks, bunkers, they can
rip my army up fast if I ignore them.  If I do attack them first, then
I run the risk of the attack being all for nothing.

E.Attack his army buildings - go for the gates, hatches, barracks
etc.. Then he can not pump out any more army.  Again, this takes too
long.

F.Attack all the pylons first - might be the best strategy against
toss.


 Any replies would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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