Your Goal in Starcraft 2

Zombrex

I find being in the Battle.net league system very addictive, even in Bronze I feel like I'm in a serious sport, even sometimes feeling I have a responsibility to keep going (can't let my fans down you know :pac:)

Other online games are great (love TF2 for example) but unless you make a commitment to be in a clan or something you probably just play for fun once in a while, dip in dip out, etc. There isn't much sense of progression other than a vague notion of getting better. With Starcraft you feel every game matters.

Part of the genius/pure evil of Blizzard I guess.

Anyway, recently I decide to get a bit more structured with how I approached SC2, as it tends to be eating into my other gaming time (my Xbox is literally gathering dust). Thinking about it I found myself setting goals. Obviously I'm not getting into Master without dedicating a lot of time to SC2, so easier to achieve goals seemed sensible.

For a start I would love to get out of Bronze and into Silver. Silver seems respectable, Gold and higher seems like a lot of dedication, which perhaps at the moment i just don't have the time for.

After hopeful promotion the next goal is to take a step back from the league and get better at Protoss and Zerg. Like a lot of n00bs I tend to play almost exclusively Terran, fearing that taking on a new race will cost me league games and precious points. So Terran to Silver and then a good few non-league games practicising Protoss and Zerg.

These seem like reasonable goals to my mind, but I would be interested in what goals you guys set yourselves in Starcraft.

Is it simply get higher in the league, or do you have more complex goals in mind? Or none at all if you don't think of the game in those terms.

Ramza

Don't worry about the division thing, I was stuck at the top of my league for months, with a 55%+wlr and tonnes of points, took me a while but you just need to keep winning against silver players and eventually, maybe randomly :P, you will get bunked up

As for my goals, it is to be my best and maybe one day reach grand master league

Funky

i wanna be the very best,
like noone ever was,
to beat hatch first is my real test,
cheesing terran is my cause.

my probe will travel across the map,
searching far and wide,
for the perfect proxy pylon place,
to warp in all my guys!

protossman!

Zombrex

Funky wrote: »

i wanna be the very best,
like noone ever was,
to beat hatch first is my real test,
cheesing terran is my cause.

my probe will travel across the map,
searching far and wide,
for the perfect proxy pylon place,
to warp in all my guys!

protossman!

that, er, sort of rhymes

PurpleFistMixer

Wicknight wrote: »

that, er, sort of rhymes

Have you never seen Pokémon?

I don't have any structured goal, since I play so little 1v1. I guess my current goal is "play some 1v1, maybe learn a build". I started off in platinum somehow (I won all my placement matches bizarrely) and got kicked down to silver so I guess I will try to not get moved down to bronze. General ladder-climbing I guess. What else can you do but climb any nearby ladders?

In a crazy pipe-dream sort of way I'd love to do commentary/casting, but I'm way too crap and ignorant of the subtleties of the game to do that, so I just stream/record my games for posterity. Maybe one day...

BlitzKrieg

just wait til the league reset.

Thats going to cause a big shake up I think.

Firstly everyone will be afraid of being put in a low league so it will be a week or so of heavy cheese playing

Then there are alot of players (us) who deserved bronze/silver when they started but now are actually pretty well held together who will put some players who have been getting far too comfortable at the top out of place.

So my goal is to steadily improve and practice until the next patch and then quickly skip up platinum at least. I got my macro down pretty good now, the focus is on micro which is still hit and miss.

seraphimvc

i just play mainly with friends now in team game or i play some 2v2 random when i am bored. i have some 1v1 practice partner which they find me time to time for some practice matches but i never ladder 1v1 now

deep down i am hoping blizz will release HotS asap so i can see what are they are gonna do to fix zerg(lets not go down to the balance whining road but seriously 80% winners of all the tourneys globally are non-zerg). i just feel like it takes more works on playing zerg at a competitive level than other race and i dont like that (i am no pro but i feel so tired when i see the oppo bad in micro/macro everything and win with a-move). i will defo ladder 1v1 more when i see some nice changes to the game. i was thinking to change race but sadly i cant due to unknown reason:( i just love zerg so much!

that said i cant wait for our boards night would be nice if we can get the thing going every month! i dont really care about win/lose when i am with real life people but losing in ladder to strangers is a different thing :pac:

Sols12

Well I started off as a terran player happily playing away. Ended up being placed in bronze then got promoted to silver pretty quick. Played 31 won 14.

However I then discovered 4vs4 and my first game was hectic as hell and I knew there and then I was addicted to the absolute mayhem and carnage of 4vs4s:pac: Played 212games and won 103 so far in Gold. Just hate how many games are ruined by players who leave early or really dont know how to play as a team (mass units and sit by themselves while everyone else gets destroyed) At about 40 games of 4vs4 I deceided to switch from terran to Protoss and loving it at the moment!

My main goal is to learn Zerg and then go back to 1vs1 as random and cause hell Just can't see myself leaving 4vs4s for the forseeable future tho!

I ended up playing with a random person in 2vs2 and saw he profile where all his game types (1vs1, 2vs2, 3vs3, 4vs4) were platnium. I thought that was pretty cool so I suppose that my very end goal. Although unlikely in acheiving that! Now if i didnt have a girlfriend ......

Khazidhea

oh come one zergs won GSL 1 and 2 ... and if anything its zerg who defends all the game and then just a-moves and steamrolls everything. a good zerg that is who doesnt die before he can do that. as a terran I really cant just a-move zerg because everything will die to banelings, in fact as soon as I reach creep I start to move sooooo slowly unsieging and sieging tanks and inching forward. and at the same time good zerg will counter attack and I have to defend and if pull back to many marines then tanks will die.

zergs are GOOD. just like any other race. there is no point in waiting for buffs, the game is not gonna change drastically.


ladder resest doesnt really change much, because your MMR stays the same. like master league was practically a reset for top-diamond players, because if u have all your bonus pool spent then you start at 2379 points (total sum of bonus pool at that moment) and all divisions are equal. the amounts of points you get for a win depends on difference between your opponents MMR and your points. so the first day all the opponents were "Favored" and I would get 20 points for win and lose 0-3 points. Now that my points are approaching my MMR Im getting like 8-15 for the win and lose 5-10.


oh and back on topic. my current goal is to get into top200 EU. and win some money by playing starcraft xD

Chicks

My next goal is Master League..I've been making my way up the ranks in baby steps so I'll just keep doing it that way I have a tendency to slack though

pixelburp

I may have left the BSL, but I'm still playing here and there. I would like to beat Protoss players sometime, figure out some way of kicking their asses. Still can't turn a game against 'toss into a victory.

BopNiblets

Nuke every game.

I played a FFA there and got 75 kills on one ghost... TOTAL. BOSS.

But as far as leagues go, I want to get out of platinum, it's too stressful and it's actually making me apprehensive about playing knowing I'll just slide slowly down into Gold or worse, what would be the quickest way, just join a load of games and quit immediately after joining?

PurpleFistMixer

BopNiblets wrote: »

But as far as leagues go, I want to get out of platinum, it's too stressful and it's actually making me apprehensive about playing knowing I'll just slide slowly down into Gold or worse, what would be the quickest way, just join a load of games and quit immediately after joining?

Well, perhaps ironically, once you've accepted that you don't mind dropping a division or three, you can play games without any apprehension because if you lose, you wanted that anyway. And if you win? Great.