#1  [164152] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| Hope y'all enjoy. :) |
| #2 [164153] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| Approved! Rater abuse! |
| #3 [164154] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| Ok, so I lied about taking my time and proofreading it and all that. Guess there's just some things you can't teach an old dog. |
| #4 NewbEye[164158] |
| dp-216-106-106-147.storm.ca |
First non-author.
Fourth comment kekeke.
I am forced to choose sleep over reading a rater report. Cracked it open though, and congrats on throwing the page layout into disarray :o |
| #5 [164159] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| You saw nothing! But, seriously, thanks. I had forgot to resize the map image. >_ |
| #6 wakiki[164160] |
| unknown.mgy.al.charter.com |
Heh, only five comments, and four of them are maar's! Nice =]
The report was pretty good. A picture or two would have helped, _especially_ when you were talking about the positioning of your forces relative to high ground.
The fewer pictures you have, the more value each of is worth to the reader, so please keep that in mind; it would most likely be worth your time if you only do two or three total, and each one is less important after that.
The best parts of the report were the parts where you explained what information you were gathering based off of the most miniscule observations. (Most of this happened early on).
The game was pretty good, but the tide was only turned once or twice - I'm not revealing which because some fools read the comments section before the report ;) |
| #7 Born-to-Porn[164162] |
| x1-6-00-c0-26-27-e8-82.k54.webspeed.dk |
Hey Maar, where do you play these days? I haven't had a game with you in like 6 months or something.
And of course the report is great and a good read because it gives a lot of insight as to what you're thinking during the game and what information you base your decisions upon and so on. Well done. |
| #8 NewbEye[164168] |
| dp-216-106-106-222.storm.ca |
The third first-person SC report in a row. Egotistical maniacs!
On the report...
You shoulda proofread. There were minor typoes, most of which you'd have cleaned up if you'd run it through a spell-checker or taken an extra day to do a second draft. Also, a small number of sentences weren't crafted well -- they read confusingly. This:
"They show just how manly they are after they see that the fairly large contingent of lings have been bolstered by four or so hydras by turning tail and running into range of the cannons."
A tad run-onny. It'd be much more clear if you switched things around to:
"After they see that the fairly large contingent of lings have been bolstered by four or so hydras, they show just how manly they are by turning tail and running into range of the cannons."
I was going to whine about the pic density being so low in the early game, but that wouldn't be fair, as there ain't much that goes on in the early game. The pics you did have illustrated the battles nicely, showing the evolution of the fights. However, minimaps would've helped to illustrate the game flow a bit more.
(Neat map, by the way. It was unfamiliar, but the most visually stunning one I've ever seen.)
The report was chock-full of strategical comments -- I was learning things left and right. The tidbits about what to expect from the zerg, given the number of their expansions and the type/number of units they were fielding, were insightful. I had no idea people built shield batteries in serious games...
To sum up, definitely a good read. If it truly takes you less than a day of effort to pump stuff like this out, it's a pity you've not been contributing more during our dry spell.
Guys, I say we ban this sucker to teach him a lesson :o |
| #9 [164171] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
Thanks for the comments, guys.
wak: First off, holy shit it's been a long time since I've seen you. O_O Yeah, a couple more pics might have helped in situations such as that, but I was afraid of including images that might just slow things down. I guess I could have tried using them and seeing how it worked with them but laziness reared its ugly head. Yeah, the game wasn't spectacular, but I thought it was pretty good. ^_^
BTP: I'm mostly on PGT or west now. I didn't have any net connection for like 2 months, and have been playing a good bit with clan/on PGT to make up for it. I'm on prOxi.maar on both servers.
NewbEye: Yeah, I'm notoriously bad about not proofreading. It's all I can do to make myself proofread stuff I'm doing for class, so I can't bring myself to do it on something I'm doing for fun. ;/ Maybe next time I'll wait til I let somebody else have a look at it before I submit it, but there's never anybody on when I have a report finished. -_-;;
Yeah, I guess minimaps would have helped. It's been so long since I did one I plum forgot about them. T_T
The map is one of my personal favorites. There's plenty of opportunity to play really aggressively and cheesy as well as easily play safely and traditionally, which I love.
I don't build shield batteries as often as I should, but the 2 gate battery rush is a somewhat common build. It's mostly used in PvP as it can be pretty easily executed against a 1 gating toss, but I've used it to great effect in all 3 MU's.
Yeah, I'm a lazy fucker. But if you ban me I can't contribute, either. ;p |
| #10 PeaceableGhost[164174] |
| ppp-70-236-209-221.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net |
Wow. This makes 10 comments. 5 are by Maar. Comment whore, anyone?
Liked the report, though. Sounds like a good game. Though I don't have strategic comments or anything to make. 8. |
| #11 Beastback[164175] |
| host24-230.pool879.interbusiness.it |
| Hey, Im trying to write a report. When I post my .css styled report, it comes out as a bland black on white in the preview section, and the image sourcer does not link to my images that I have uploaded to battlereports. HELP. |
| #12 [164176] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
Hmm, are you using the on-stie html editor or are you doing your own html file? If you're using your own html file, you'll need to include your css in a table instead of doing it as you would a regular web page.
Not sure what your problem is with the images if you're using your own html file. If you're using the html editor on-site, I don't know much about it so I'll go look into it and see what I can find. |
| #13 Beastback[164177] |
| host24-230.pool879.interbusiness.it |
| I'm creating my own file and FILE READING it at battlereports. Table? Maybe. I will try it. Thanks. |
| #14 [164178] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| Yes, instead of using a "body" for your css, set those attributes to ".mybody" or w/e you want to use and surround your report in a table and set the table to "mybody" class. |
| #15 wakiki[164180] |
| unknown.mgy.al.charter.com |
Heh, maar, I still check the site. Especially now that people are posting reports again. I just don't post on the forums as much these does. Oh, and as for THIS:
"Yeah, a couple more pics might have helped in situations such as that..."
You know, the word "more" would imply there there are _actually_ pictures ;P And don't you dare bust out that Alice In Wonderland logic or I shall smack you! =] |
| #16 [164181] |
| dblt-216-227-24-194.gtcom.net |
| ...There are 16 images in this report...? O_O |
#17  [164184] |
| user-0ce2kp9.cable.mindspring.com |
I'm really confused how that ended. I was following okay up to there and you lose a battle. Then three lines later you make a drop and it's over. Blew my mind. Other than that I thought the writing flowed well. The only issue is on a map I'm not too familiar with I really had no idea what was going on where just from the writing. Minimaps!
Minimaps!
Also, you didn't use images as effectivley as you could have. Like the random reaver wireframe. I spent a second wondering what that was about. I'm not going to bitch about the picture columns (even though you have GIMP supposedly and can make proper collages...) since that's what you do I guess, I just feel that you didn't use images to convey the action that well. You had a sequence showing that one battle, a couple stills of other battles...and that was it. I don't think you needed all of the pics that you used, and it felt like it would have helped a lot to include some in other places (earlier on, for example).
Minimaps!
I like that you wrote strategy. I need to reread this to analyze PvZ so I can try to counter (as if I can micro or even remember what these units are called). Thank you very much for doing so.
I'm going to throw you a 7 and say it'd be a 7.something if we had tenths. It'd probably also take me twice as long to think of what to rate it. |
| #18 mattzarella[164188] |
| 96.5.33.65.cfl.res.rr.com |
yea man more pictures
once again i enjoy the single perspective writing style where the reader only knows what one player is doing. it works very very well in a 1v1 and if i knew that the Z was doing the entire time the report would have been far less interesting. also, i enjoyed reading about your speculations as to what he was teching to/how big his army should be etc.
and yes, minimaps! aaah i love minimaps, there wasnt a single one in the entire report and it drove me nutso. it is especially important to provide those visuals when some people (myself included) don't know what the map is like and where your expansions are. i had to refer back to the big map image at the beginning a few times to know what you were talking about when you said mineral only. more minimaps will get rid of that problem. it would be interesting to provide a single perspective minimap update, too, if you really wanted to stick to that style.
i think i agree with des but im not sure. definitely higher than a 7 but i dunno about an 8. also it does not really matter what i say. keep em coming |
| #19 detomaso72[164190] |
| firewall.awhc.com |
| Nice game and nice report. I always notice in the summary people say if they had done this, then this would have happened, but when you are playing, if you spend money on more drones to harvest more gas, you have a half a control group less lings. You know what I mean?? |
| #20 wakiki[164198] |
| 71-8-83-100.dhcp.leds.al.charter.com |
| Wtf, somehow I read the entire report then forgot that there were pictures in it. : The only one I remembered (lookig back) was the Ling's kiling the Nexus. |
| #21 lnept[164202] |
| cache-dtc-ab07.proxy.aol.com |
| hey maar i was planning on making a battlereport, but i have no idea how to make pictures or anything. help me plz^^ |
| #22 Dibbler[164211] |
| 213-84-180-234.adsl.xs4all.nl |
| I started but didn't finish. But I will, Maar, I will! Good to see you keeping br-ing alive. |
| #23 [164215] |
| dblt-216-227-23-122.gtcom.net |
| Thanks for the rating DD, |
| #24 [164216] |
| dblt-216-227-23-122.gtcom.net |
Mmm, nice commenting eating br.com! Glad I copied this before I hit add. -_-;
Thanks for the rating DD, wub. But, again, not that gay stuff...not without cash.
About minimaps: apparently you guys like em or something, so I'll keep that in mind.
About GIMP: If you think I can do anything on GIMP, you don't know me as well as I thought. I can crop, I can scale. As you can see, I can't even add borders (though I did spend about 15 minutes trying to figure out how). Collages are a bit out of the question. ;(~
About images earlier on: I still don't see how they could have helped, but maybe they would have. There wasn't much they could have shown besides lings are here, zeal is here, lings kill zeal. ;/
To mattz: Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it. :)
To detomaso: Everything is give and take. And, to borrow your example, sometimes it IS best to have those extra lings. But, especially in the game here, more often there is a better path to take. Sacrificing 6 lings now for 4 ultras later is big.
wak: self-owned ;p wub
lnept: Yeah, man. If you can't find me on b.net hit me up on the forum (either here or pteam), I'll be glad to help. ^_^
dibb: big hrt now you just need to write another report ;) |
| #25 OverTheUnder[164222] |
| 12-205-145-63.client.mchsi.com |
| noob~_~ |
| #26 Agent_of_Sol[164253] |
| spc-manuscripts.LIBRARY.UPENN.EDU |
| I enjoyed reading this. |
| #27 NewbEye[164255] |
| dp-216-106-106-89.storm.ca |
| Good grief. Quit writing essays in Raider's contribution and put out another report already. |
| #28 [164256] |
| dblt-67-158-144-139.gtcom.net |
| I've had a rash of good games recently. So a new one is in the works, but no promises on how soon it might come about (got a lot of other stuff going on right now T_T). |
| #29 Psyonic_Reaver[164297] |
| mail.seventhmountain.com |
Loved the report Maar. Everybody has already hashed what needs to be done to make a more awesome report so I won't say a thing not that I have room to talk since my reports are worse then yours. =p
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| #30 x]FS[x[164531] |
| d138h167.resnet.uconn.edu |
| maaarr.... eeeek! |
| #31 Blackchaos[164721] |
| 125.156-78-65.ftth.swbr.surewest.net |
| Cool! Liked it alot. |
#32  [164845] |
| 71.196.133.211 |
10
-1 for destroying the site with CSS
-1 for losing your 'edge' maar (♥)
** super ninja edit to come** |
| #33 [164846] |
| 71.196.133.211 |
| nevermind, gg me |
| #34 [164847] |
| 71.196.133.211 |
| the 'edge' was going to be a jpg of you swearing for about a screen, but I can't edit comments too well so you'll just have to use your imagination. |
| #35 [164848] |
| blountstown-216-227-33-168.gtcom.net |
| Well, you could just link me to the jpg. Or post it in the forum or something. And I soooo haven't lost my edge. You shoulda been there after I lost my cw match this afternoon. ;p |
| #36 Feanor[164891] |
| p54835283.dip.t-dialin.net |
| Was a nice report to read. thx! |
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