*Starcraft*

Ooooo Craftay

(Chamuki: December 19, 2002: 12/19/02)

Although I'm not a strategic genius, I do give myself credit for some skillz. Starcraft to me is like the upgrade of chess...adding the element of time. You have your rooks and your knights and your zealots and your dragoons, but then you add time to that all. It is probably comparable to having a gameclock in chess. But instead of just white and black to choose from, you have Terran, Protoss, and Zerg. Most people out there in the Starcraft world are dumb...just like any other videogame. Most people will play the 3v3 shared bases stacked minerals a la 3v3zeroclutter -and while it isn't without its merit and its fun it requires less skill than other aspects of the game- but real players know that the difference between beating a player and a punk can be one drone on one stack of minerals...or the placement of a supply depot in front of a bunker so melee characters can't attack it. And if you put four actual players together...you have to deal with coordinated rushes...in which case strategy plays an even more important role. It's like playing 4-player chess. (okay I've overused the chess metaphor -you get the point) Anyway the varying ways that this game can go are what make it interesting...and although it is simple to understand the basics (point and click) that is just knowing that the knight can only move in an L shape...that hardly coordinates your entire board for a pawn to bishop 4. (sup Jake) So yeh, here are some of my demos from currently the only realtime strategy game that I play. And if you want to reach me I play on Useast as *chamuki, *shieldz, *pureguard, and *sean connery.

Note: In order to play these replays you must have Starcraft installed, and you need to place them in your ...Starcraft/maps/replays folder. Then you must run a multiplayer game and select the replay and you're set.