Zock AMA

[Zock]

I noticed a lot people asking me questions about the game, and i want to give you the option to do too. As more detailed your question is, as better then answer will be. You can also post replays if you want a review, but i won't do too many of this reviews.

I'll answer to this thread on an irregular basis, but will try to answer all questions.

[Ze_PilOt]

Is eating a lot of pizza help you playing better ?

[lextoc]

Could you check out my replay?

Thanks!

[rootbeer23]

what do you see in this picture?

[ZaphodX]

Thongs or French knickers?

[Zock]

Is eating a lot of pizza help you playing better ?

Yes, but the quality of the pizza is very important. A bad pizza could have very negative effects on your skill.

If you are, or tend to get, overweight, i don't recommend this method to increase your skill. The negative aspects may be bigger then the benefits.

Else i recommend following method:

Try all pizzerias in 20km radius. Test three certain pizzas everywhere and determinate the best pizzeria.

Eat all pizzas they have once and note how your skill increased in your next game after each.

The top3 will be the pizzas of your choice, don't take always the top1 or the skill increase will get lower over time.

Could you check out my replay?

-Your start BO can get improved. You should get the back mex earlier, and i wouldn't recommend the very early t2 mex, instead more engies/units
-Your factory que with 3 mantis 1 medusa is not good. In early game you don't have any use for medusas. Make only mantis, but also scouts.
-its better if you make 2-3 AA in 3 factories then 9 AA in one factory. One will take too long to get the AA out.
-as you lost many engies, you should reproduce with more then one facotry now. With all the reclaim its not bad to spam engies from multiple facs anyway.
-Minute 6+ , dont make massstorage that early, teching more mex is better.
-still increase number of reclaiming and also building engies. You are able to get a lot things done on that map in a short time due to the many ressources and reclaim.
-you do good raiding, but the lack of scouts is hurting you.
-Minute 8, you should scout
-and use all your idle units to do more pressure, i.e. raiding bottom left
-you invest a lot in eco, and not very much in units, vs your opponent its ok, but against one who makes more units, you'll get in trouble
-you should aim to claim right top side back, a radar in that area would be recommended
-instead of teching so many mex together, its better to do one after eachother, and assist it with engies
-Minute 12 still no scouting, still too few engies reclaiming and building
-now you should really invest more ressources in units, more factories, maybe go to t2/t3 etc. Eco only can't fight.
-don't tech 4 t3 mex at once. One by one, with assisting engies. Also you stopped making power, even tho you need much more for that, and also for future.
-Minute 14, good scouting, even better if you'd use a scout instead of all your ints, you risk to lose them
-Minute 16: due to previous mistakes you lost mapcontrol, but you got very good eco. But you REALLY need t3 and big build capacity on it now, aswell as more energy.
-t3 ACU is wrong choice, you need t3 units to gain mapcontrol back
-game over

overall too much eco, not enough units. You stayed on the unit production you had on minute 5 for the entire game. You need to constantly increase it over the game.

what do you see in this picture?

Cybran ACU how it would look like if it were not paper

Thongs or French knickers?

depends on the person and situation. On you, Thong

[lextoc]

Thanks alot for that feedback, will help me!

[Ze_PilOt]

You are going in a pizza hunt ? (hopefully not a pizza hut).

[Eukanuba]

Zock, what's your history of playing RTS games? Which one did you start with and which did you play along the way?

When did you start playing FA?

How long did it take you to become good?

[Hascins]

Are you gonna play planetary annihilation?

Greetz Knorpsel