StarCraft talk

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:12 pm

It calls to me.

Who here feels like playing? Or at least talking about SC?

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:33 pm

Terran wall of denial PWNS UZ!!!!1111!

Sorry couldn't help myself. I loved that game, spent alot of time in North Carolinia playing it (Marine Combat Engineer School is there).

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:09 pm

I once played against a friend and built a fleet of Scouts. He was terran and had built an army of Goliaths. (because he knew my fondness for scouts)

My scouts were flying around and I caught sight of his army on the move - so I attacked. My friend hadn't done the attack-move function, he had just told his army to move. There were 30+ scouts taking out 30+ goliaths, and they just wouldn't stop and fight back. By the time they did, his army had been halved while my scouts hadn't even had paint scratched off the plating.

Needless to say the game went on to finish in my favour.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:20 pm

I've got two replays in recently, showed them both off to Stofsk. I'm proud of the 8 player (one me vs 7 comps) where I came out ontop....

Protoss for the win, Carriers and Corsairs pwn j00 all...

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:27 pm

You played that 8 player map on free-for-all

Post by **Dark Silver** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:33 pm

Of course I played it free for all!

And I took them all out as they came!

no one gets past my cannons of dewm

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:34 pm

I played it, got bored with it years ago.. Is it odd that I enjoyed both Red Alerts far better?

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:43 pm

SirNitram wrote:I played it, got bored with it years ago.. Is it odd that I enjoyed both Red Alerts far better?

Yes. You're weird.

Honestly I haven't played it in ages. I'm trying to get into it now.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:48 pm

Come now....

a LibArc Tourny would be nice....

Stofsk was asking me about it earlier...if we can get enough players...
I wouldn't mind a weekend of it.

The Village Idiot · Post by **The Village Idiot** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:22 am

Free for all LibArc SC Tourney.....Now theres an Idea. As for me I usually had the defense tatic down pat. Or the classic sweaping lines of defense torrets.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:45 pm

So I just played one of those epic Me vs 7 computers in a free-for-all, and after about 40-50 mins I win the game (12 battlecruisers pwn all computer opposition) and then I go to save the replay, and it does but it saves the first game where I die in the first 5 mins and had to restart. It didn't save the 50 min game. What the christ.

Something Awesome · Post by **Something Awesome** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:05 pm

Stofsk wrote:
SirNitram wrote:I played it, got bored with it years ago.. Is it odd that I enjoyed both Red Alerts far better?
Yes. You're weird.

Honestly I haven't played it in ages. I'm trying to get into it now.

Eh, I've never been too fond of (meaning "good at") these RTS games, but I also enjoy Red Alert much more than Starcraft. It seems like there's more strategy to them than the 'Crafts, which to me just seem like a race to see who can click fastest and memorize the most hotkeys. I like Starcraft much better than Warcraft 3 though. The very concept of heroes is repugnant to me.

As to a tournament, though, I might give it a shot if my laptop is alive by then.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:11 pm

I never played Red Alert so I don't know what it's like. I remember playing Dune 2, C&C, didn't think much of it. TA of course was my first love.

BTW, I played that epic game on Big Game Hunters, which appears to be a modified version of Hunters, (these are maps in case anyone was wondering) and I gotta say BGH and it's unlimited resources kill the fun. You're supposed to expand when your home resources begin to deplete. It's all part of the fun IMO.

Post by **B4UTRUST** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:42 pm

You also expand on money maps to gather resources faster. There's still reason. Also it gives you a tactical advantage of more places to work from.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:05 pm

Ok..so a LibArc Starscraft Tourny.....

figure it for a weekend I'm home...

How about we make this interesting? See if we can get enough interested parties, we make this a cash tourny? A small entry fee (say, 5.00 USD), with the prize money being split between first and second place (the prize money would be, of course, the entry fees.)

So...anyone up for a lil Cash Tourny like that? If we do it once, and it goes well, I'd even be willing to make this perhaps...a annual event, say..every two months? Just something to look forward to during downtimes.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:42 pm

I would suggest money not having any part in this.

For a start, it seems we don't really have the player numbers to justify that kind of thing. We seem to have at most half a dozen who are interested in playing Starcraft. You would need many more people to make a cash tourney at all worth it.

Secondly, by adding cash as the prize you add way too much competitiveness into the equation. A little friendly competition is a good thing, but when money is on the line things have the potential to escalate out of control. Besides you don't need money as the prize. Simply putting a tally up that shows who's the best player is really the only thing this kind of activity needs.

Post by **Dark Silver** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:40 pm

mmm, good point Stofsk..

So, sound of whoever would be willing to throw down in a SC tourny

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