How do you play the game? Are you a macro, micro or mixed player.
Also post what you think is the most effective way to play.
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How do you play the game? Are you a macro, micro or mixed player.
Also post what you think is the most effective way to play.
Since I'm to the beta, i try to micro and macro as efficiently as i can.
But I'm sure, that once i get the hang of it, I'll be more of a macro/offensive kind of guy ;)
I'll start off and say I'm a macro player, though often times I like to mix it up.
Overall though I want to make an economic advantage over my opponent and overwhelm him in the mid to late game.
I also don't bother to micro my army too much and would rather just A move my army with just spreading it if I need to and get back to macroing.
Probably mostly macro, though some games I do switch it up to a micro oriented play.
Wow, so many polls lately :p.
But yeah - Macro for me ;). For one, I play Zerg, and I feel that Zerg are a race which really rewards mechanical play. Also, I get quite a bit of delay when I play, so my units are fairly unresponsive, which makes micro quite difficult for me to do. That's another reason why I tend to rely on a macro advantage to win games :p.
Micro for me....Maybe cuz i've played to much DoTa and WC3....
I would say I'm mixed, but my crap computer is making me more of a macro player at the moment. Your latency needs to be perfect to micro.
I think I've always been more of a macro player though. I tend to build up really big forces when given the opportunity, and enjoy dragging out battles. To play effectively though I think you need to have a good mix. Aggression in SC2 is key. Thats why I'm not that good.
I'm definately a micro player, but I've been working on my macro lately.
Same here :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gifted
I used to be heavily micro-oriented, but my macro has been improving lately ... so much so that I have upgraded leagues :D
The most effective way to play is I believe: 80% macro - 20% micro.
Reason being that with 80% macro, you rarely lose unless you're up against a much much higher tech unit like Broodlords, Carriers or BCs. But then, it's your fault for not getting the right counter. However, if you scout correctly and build the right kind of army, you don't need micro as much as macro. You just position portions of your army, throw down a couple of spells, then return to main / warp-in pylon field, and make more units.
And expo every time you're in an advantage.
Since I'm not in the beta yet, I can just refer to BW, but I do think that it applies to both, sc 1 and 2 as well as to wc3, at least somewhat.
Micro is very important during the early game, while macro gets more and more important during late game!
As long as you just control a few units it is important to get the most out of them, but later on, when bigger armys clash, it is more about having the right counter units. It is still important to be casting, if the counter units you've chosen work only this way, like high templers' Psy Storm against masses of weak Zerg units. So whether micro or macro is more important also depends on the units currently in play.
Since I am a batter macro player than a micro one, it often happens to me that I am being out-microed early on and not even able to reach the late game.
Which pisses me off really bad by the way; every time it happens! :)
In general I still think everybody has to find out for himself which way works best for him.
I am very heavy micro, but I really need to work on my macro :/
Im more of a mass and attack move kinda guy. I was always the opinion of yes micro will get you the most money out of your units but macro will get you more units faster which in my opinion is better. No amount of macro will stop 10 units from killing 5 of yours if their the same units.
I'm with you, it would be best to do both perfectly, but if you lack the ability and who doesn't, I feel macro will give you an advantage over micro.Quote:
Originally Posted by minerals
Ofcourse I'm automatically dismissing Attack moving 10 mutalisks into a well constructed and defended base or attack moving 5 colossi into an array of immortals.
micro, i just mass things, lol
As a Terran player, I mostly try to bunker up my main, build CC's there and then fly them to island or easily defensible expansions.
I then try to get to ghost/nuke tech and Banshee/cloak tech and raid the heck of the other player's mineral lines.
So I'd say I'm heavy macro at the beginning of games and then go into micro toward the middle and end.
There is nothing quite like nuke dropping on a player's expansion mineral lines. Especially two drops on two different expansions
at almost exactly the same time. Scares the crap out of most players.
mixed...equally bad at both ^^