Macroing while microing

[alexamasan]

Hey, just wondering if any of you guys are able to macro while you micro your units. Got any tips to help do both? A lot of times I find myself concentrating so much on microing units and for a good while, I don't do anything macro oriented.

[Gradius]

The key is to find a good time when you feel that the battle is going well that you can go back to your base. Go into your battles with the attitude that you're just looking for a time to go back to macro.

[DemolitionSquid]

Day[9] likes to stress that should be microing while you macro, not the other way around. Instead of thinking "when in this battle can I go back to my base?" you should be thinking "when in this base management can i go to micro that battle?"

[Zabimaru]

I love Day[9].

Macroing whilst Microing, or Microing whilst macroing... It's a damn hard thing to balance at high levels of play and such an easy thing to just tell people to do.

[alexamasan]

I like day9 also, but it's just that it takes me a really long time to stream the videos on his website for some reason, so I don't watch his videos usually. But thanks for the advice though.

[MajinX]

keep ur production buildings on hot keys, it takes 5 seconds to que up 5 units per production, just keep ur eye on minerals also as u micro a battle

[GRUNT]

Day[9] likes to stress that should be microing while you macro, not the other way around. Instead of thinking "when in this battle can I go back to my base?" you should be thinking "when in this base management can i go to micro that battle?"

He's just trying to be cute. Gradius is definitely right. You want to be in macro-mode until there's a fight, but you better believe that once a fight breaks out, it needs your attention until it's safe to look away.

[Castozor]

I find that hotkeying my productionbuildings helps a lot. This way you can quickly pump out units during a fight without having to look away or taking too much time. Although I'm not in the Beta I suspect that SC2 won't be too different from other RTS's in this regard.

[ChAoS]

The easiest way to macro while microing is to set your units up so you don't really have to do anything(atleast for a few seconds) then macro really fast and get back to the battle. Since we can hotkey multiple buildings you shouldn't have to go back to your base anymore unless you need to do something like make depos or build.

[alexamasan]

Since I'm a zerg player, I often have to go back to my bases to tell them to spawn larave. I don't know why blizzard made it that we can't use spawn larvae on the hatchery's unit icon anymore. I think that would make macroing much easier for zerg players, but there must have been some reason why we can't do that anymore.