Wow Doug!
Any tips as you are a SC2 master!

I'm downloading now, won't be done until about 5AM...
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Not a master, just an experience SC1 player from back in the day. Tips are simple:

The most important skill is being able to transition. You might have a great strategy to tech all the way down to Vikings and start air/ground assaulting your opponent but as soon as they leave the base you get a nydus worm up the butt and your base is flooded with speedlings. Or when the Vikings get to your opp base, he has TONS of AA defense and you can't break it. The transition to the new strat is the hardest and most important skill to work on.

As for my strats, I usually stick to Marines and Marauders for Terrans, for Protoss I usually try a cannon rush (building photons in the back of their base unbeknownst to them) and then transition to Void Rays, and for Zerg the best way to win is to learn to build your first set of 'lings as fast a humanly possible. A 6pool (only 6 drones and then a spawning pool) sets you back SIGNIFICANTLY in the post rush phase, but is the fastest, a 12pool is pretty standard for longer games, and for me I usually do an 8pool, two waves of 'lings and then transition to roaches through a Nydus tunnel.

At the most competitive levels, SC is all about two things, minute timing and "micro" which is being able to selectively control each unit as a standalone and make the most use out of them. I am not great at either.
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I'm considering it.. but... Download or Disc?

If you have a Disc, can you download it if the disc breaks?
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Yep, you have that option on your battle.net page.
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I started the download (on cable internet service, upgraded on top of that) last night around five.

It's a 6.99 gig download and at six this morning it's at 5.60 gigs completed.

Now I've got to go to work! Argh!!!
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Payday today.. so I picked up SC2 :-)

Installing now... I feel like I did back in middle school playing the first one.
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Whats everyone's email addy?
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My battle.net ID is my username @gmail.com. Feel free to add me, I'm not comfortable playing online yet since I SUCK, rofl, but I'm practicing against a computer AI and think I might want to graduate to real people soon :-) rofl
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my username @ gmail.com

as well :-)

I've been trying to practice 2v2/3v3 league play, but I'll turtle against an AI for kicks lol
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Managed to place gold 2vs2 and bronze 3vs3 ..

Still haven't tried 1vs1 yet...

Fun game. To say I'm addicted is an understatement. Total nostalgia trip :-)
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add me, mine is also username @ gmail[dot]com.

I exclusively play online and am working my way OUT of platinum in 1v1 (Have only won one game since ranking up there.
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Can't believe no one else has this?

or are they too busy playing?
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I want to get it but funds are an issue this month. I PM'd the guy who said he was going to be to busy to play to see if he wanted to trade some smokes for his copy but haven't heard back from him.:-) you never know, it was worth a shot!
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Ive been playing a little between school and work look me up under > Ballzwik
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I got you Jordan, lets 1v1 sometime.
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:-) :-)
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My problem is the campaign is TERRAN ONLY, the Zerg and protoss campaigns will be DIFFERENT EXPANSIONS. By the way I beat the game twice already. It's nice but I feel screwed on the $60 price tag without a Zerg/Protoss campaign. Also the maps are WAY TOO SHORT, I spent 1 hour on the longest map then 38 minutes then like 30 minutes.
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This game is much more focused on all the OTHER options, such as multiplayer, challenge mode, games vs. ai, etc. its a great game, and the value seems good to me.
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Yeah...the campaign was fun, but I definitely bought the game for multiplayer with my friends. I don't know, so far it seems worth the price to me :-)
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Yeah I'll have to try the other mods but I don't really play online much....don't like getting beat by 12 year olds on summer break.
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