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<alvinst...@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I am ready to throw in the towel on playing Starcraft online.  In the
> last three days of playing, I won only 3 games out of 40.  I used to
> win all the time.  The fun is gone because several factors make it
> impossible to win now.
>
> I only play 3v3 team games, and you would think the luck of the draw
> would eventually give me decent teammates in an expert game.  Nope, I
> always get the worst noobs.  In one game, this idiot turtled and took
> 30 minutes to build 2 carriers. Meanwhile I was slaughted as all three
> players hammered me.  I've tried every strategy in the book.  There is
> no way to beat 3 super pros vs me.  Last night, I tried going mass
> defense first.  I built 20 sunkens.  They ripped through the sunks in
> less than 60 seconds.  Funny, I could send a 100 unit army, and die
> fast if I go after such a defense.  Every game ends up with me
> fighting 3 on 1 since my teammates can't mount an offense.
>
> A large part of the frustration is the game hosts always stack the
> team.  Usually they team up with all their buddies.  If I try to host,
> no one will join my game.  Now, I get so pissed off that I stopped
> playing.  I join the stacked games, then announce that I am leaving.
> If the host makes a new game, I login with a new ID, and repeat the
> process to irritate them.
>
> Even more amazing, whenever I do get a decent teammate, the game
> almost always puts them in an isolation position far from my base so
> they get attacked first.
>
> Anyone else deal with these frustrations?


Don't play BGH/Money maps. It's for noobs.

The time/effort you spend for building 20 sunkens could have been used to 
build/upgrade your troops which is the essence of winning. Sunkens won't 
help you conquer your enemies, innit?

Ps. This is most probably the first OT post I've made since '98?
-- 
Steven Ung
Return of the Ignorant Asian! 

"The Ignorant Asian" <ste...@nodomainname.com> wrote in message 
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> Don't play BGH/Money maps. It's for noobs.
>
> The time/effort you spend for building 20 sunkens could have been used to 
> build/upgrade your troops which is the essence of winning. Sunkens won't 
> help you conquer your enemies, innit?
>
> Ps. This is most probably the first OT post I've made since '98?

Yes if 3 "expert" players are all attacking one person, that person should 
not last very long!

A good practice strategy is to pratice beating the computer building 
absolutely no static defense at all (including barracks blockade)  This will 
force you to mass produce units and attack

Try 1 on 1 with LT and then 2 on 1 with LT.  When you can beat 2 computers 
on LT with no static defense then you will begin to have an idea of how to 
produce units and use units to attack and defend, as opposed to buildings.

When Blizzard made the AI's for SC - they did an extremely shitty job of 
teaching the computers how to siege / retreat - as such many people playing 
against the computers found out they could easily win by building static 
defense and then allowing the computer to commit mass suicide on it. 
(Actually I do not believe there is any in battle retreat feature - but I 
can't remember if units ever give up while chasing someone.)

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LTP

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>
>Anyone else deal with these frustrations?

I don't know about you, but in a 1v3 game you should be losing, even
against comparedly less skilled players (lest they really really
suck), BGH or not.

The only thing you can really do is to find a buddy of your own with
which to play with, or stick to 1v1 games - that way any fault for you
losing or winning is undoubtedly at least going to be your and only
your fault/accomplishment.