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Gaming News of the Day: Astronomers Study StarCraft Strategies
Earlier this week, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh research astronomers Dr. Thomas Targett and Dr. Duncan Forgan released an academic paper investigating which StarCraft II race has the most viable game strategies. The team observed 500 professional StarCraft II matches in order to gather their data, taking notes on when players made choices that would affect their long-term success or if they were playing to make the battle end swiftly. After running 100 simulations through the Monte Carlo method, they determined the members of the Terran Dominion had the best chance of permanently defeating the Zerg and Protoss races for control over the Milky Way. Disagree? Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #StarcraftScience.
Hat tip to Wired.
Terran imba. It’s science.
—Idra
(Via: SC2QuoteOfTheDay)
Wow! I’m always amazed by such realistic cosplays!
My experience with pretty much every Terran stream lately
This kind of thing is what makes watching StarCraft games just as fun as playing.
Well-Mannered #15: Concept Development
so this is basically how learning how to play Starcraft went…. I had a whopping 32 actions per minute (that’s not good….) and I still don’t know what anything is :) But I sure can collect minerals!
Thank goodness Lucas was on my team and I had Bryan telling me what buttons to push! So we won :)
32 actions per minute?! That’s insane!
That’s a little more than one action every other second!
I can’t keep that up too easily, so my APM is really variable.
Early on my APM is like 15, then once I have some units it goes up a bit, and it isn’t until I’ve expanded or started attacking that I see an APM spike.
Anonymous asked: the Starcraft sign, according to my chinese-speaking companion: "come f--- hotel" is the bigger size font and the words under it say: "continuing the human race is human's biggest responsibility and job."
Really? Can anyone confirm? I can’t even copy down the characters in that image, so I have no idea how to even verify this!
That language and its characters aren’t even reproducible with my keyboard…
Found this Chinese sign in district 10. Can someone translate it?
I’d like to know, too!
I haven’t played Starcraft 2 in like a year, so I just figured I’d give it a go until I realized I couldn’t log in thanks to an outdated authenticator I installed on a phone I replaced a while back. To update this Blizzard needs you to send a photo I.D. to them for security measures. I dig security and all, but I just want to play single player without having to log into anything. This was the photo I.D i attached with my request for help. I’m sure it won’t do me any favors, but I’ve got plenty of other stuff to do besides play Starcraft, I spoze.
Jim found a solution to all of his problems
>He said, attempting to cheer up his battle-worn broseph
Jim Raynor isn’t messing around when it comes to his entertainment.
UGH, FINE.
Sean “Day[9]” Plott talks about StarCraft, E-Gaming, and The After Hours Gaming League.
Full interview and more pictures here!
Dayum, Sean!
Posing like a model now, are we?
Day9 explaining the application of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War in Starcraft (article from WIRED magazine, higher resolution in comments)
