the original sin

-im bad at macro and occupy myself alot in a very tiny area of the map doing uneccessary micro.
-im bad at lategame transition, i am often surprised by being massively outecoed or my tiny units get obliberated by striders
-when at frontline, i play very risky close to the front with my com. it surprises me, however, i do not get punished so much for it.
-plopping defenders is a curse and very unfun way to play. when com is at front, expect defenders forrests.
-sometimes i fail to advance a front despite knowing what i should do/build. i just dont play focused enough. this often results in stalling. being often not one of the weaker players requires me to carry, which i then fail to deliver. and other front fails and game is lost.
-i still think vamps really do rule the skies vs swifts (and they do when a critical mass is reached and the correct single-target commands are given), but i often fail to swifts. i also know this and i knowingly refuse to swift instead of vamps. this vamp-thing is also is a disadvantage to being raided hard and did cost some wins here and there...
-i am pretty resistant to the new-new unit names, so i confuse my teammates in coordination.
-i cannot label anymore, somehow the keybinding, along with the icon distance is reset every new game. i cannot fiddle out how to fix this. no labels mean no information.

Well, I AM a Zero-K noob so that's out of the way.

I played a lot of TA back in the day and TA is a game that lends itself well to a porcupine strategy. So I approached ZK in the same way and got brutally ravaged time and again. The contents of ZK are what they say on the box: expand or die. The lack of metal-making options make a stay - at - home strategy impossible.

Zero-K is also very fast. It took a while to get used to the pace that everything happens at and I still tend to panic and if you see my commander going round in a circle ... well ... you know that I'm having a meltdown. Getting a plan for a fast exit from the first 5 minutes was crucial for me. I've more or less got a system whereby I can make it out sort-of intact and with the economy started.

I tend to raid early and flatter to deceive when I run out of ideas mid-game. 1 vs 1 this tendency causes me to suck and I'm usually much better as a team where I can support the push of my team-mates.

I've played a lot with my commander right up front and, boy, have I learned my lesson. Namely, you lot are a bunch of head-hunting commander cannibals that like nothing better than to turn my commander into a smoking entree roasting over a fire. On the plus side, I'm so used to getting my commander destroyed that it no longer bothers me. Like, whatever, just carry on shooting.

I still like commander morphing which everybody seems a bit horrified at. I get that it's probably metal that could be used elsewhere, for better return. I guess I see it as having a big unit at the front, NOW, rather than later.

Also, it gives the cannibals something to do ;)

good.. good.. yesss soon firepluck will be the last and he will be forced to lobster toast himself =D mhuah ha ha har

i feel the power the word noob once had over us being slowly undone as we take back our pride as the flawed masses.. soon we the many lobsters will vastly outnumber the cowardly elite and they will be forced to concede they too are imperfect lest they dwell in fear for a time.. it is ok to fail.. the community can mature and gather new users in a toxic free environment..

ok well since nobody else probably has the balls to be flawed now.. i guess the moral is.. that some people play the way they want.. and if we all played the way we 'should' we would all play the same and it would be like ai vs ai..

ironic that this games lore is about the ensuing fight over the transfer of consciousness from organic to machine..

many now similarly push for robotic routine game-play and if that directive wins i can see why it computes

i and others have not forgotten we are human and have favored play styles and unit choices despite the fails its more fun imho

maybe people may not simply be just trying to win perhaps they are also enjoying yelling noob as well as shifting blame off themselves in the process.. and to be fair they are probably right.. but if we did change into the right and only way to play we would loose some soul

This post is like spiritual yoga for gamers : P
Could possibly be abused under a tournament to check your opponents weaknesses.

I dont have enough routine in what I do and often find myself with insufficient build power and wind up com morphing to compensate. I often feel like I get a lot of value out of raiding which has given me a habit of zooming in to micro in general, meanwhile having my com or something die elsewhere. Donating morphed coms to the enemy is something of a speciality of mine.

I rather rarely use repeat build in favor of ordering units ages ahead which often bites me in the ass when I run out of units to build.

There are many hotkeys I dont use, particularly the idle con one.

I resist switching fac to get to the optimal unit for the given situation.

Rather build hordes of small units lategame than bigger more decisive units

I sometimes forget that terraform exists

It's a bit hard to critique my play because I play so inconsistent that I dont have a lot of fails that I always do besides the ones already mentioned. I suppose being inconsistent is a critique?

Ah yes like Anir there are units like ticks I just dont use.

to admit to that much is still a step in the right direction well done

oc your gameplay is perfect im sure that's why it wasn't mentioned

i agree topkack hi is cheap and easy to spam but hi is too easy to counter with 'sup' i feel hello is more reliable.. and goodbye is underused and is at-least viable in the late conversation.. maybe mix in some skirmishing words like 'hows it going' and just hope when the heavy conversations start nobody breaks through your front-line banter

• Excess
• E-Stall
• Using dante whenever I don't know how to counter a unit
• Not building enough porc, especially in my base

If you wanna beat me, send your full assault force straight at my base. I never defend it because usually nobody dares attacking the opponent's base directly.

After reading DeinFreund 's comment:

11) Don't porcing my base. I usually only have 1 Picket or Lotus.

I take a weird sort of pride in just not microing units sometimes, like as if I didnt even need them cuz my econ is OP. I find it funny to win games with dreadful attrition rate.

Also I like porc too much so I get triggered when people make those dumb units like impaler which ruin everything.