I don't play Starcraft 2 because it has no good custom maps.

blizzard fix the custom maps

Huh. Unusual premise.

My interest is piqued, but I'm drawing a blank on a good starcraft pun or wordplay to use as a name. I'll keep thinking on it.

More Gas?

Team Annihilation.

And instead of Star Craft, let's go play Total Annihilation. Fuck the haters!

This is now Total Annihilation quest.
Build metal extractors!

Pylons.

THE PYLONS OF FURY.

>>496139
Build more Solar Panels!

>>496165
Oh no! It's too late!
ENERGY STALL D:

>>496262
Quick! Burn some vegetation or crystals to gain more power!

>>496269
Not to worry, we already built a bunch of hydro generators!

Suggestion 2013/02/26(Tue)05:45 No. 496274 ID: 68bbc5
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The Project

>>496273
Sonar shows incoming submarines, and our shipyard's only halfway done!

>>496347
Then harvest the Shipyard to build a Reactor, DUH.

>>496356
Why did we decide to build a shipyard when the enemy has water superiority?
We should be building torpedo bombers from an airbase!

Suggestion 2013/02/26(Tue)16:07 No. 496403 ID: 7b591d
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After some deliberation and procrastination by playing one of your favorite other games from the 90's, you decide on a name for your budding organization by blending together a couple names you had an idea of.

The Pylon Annihilation Project is live. Maybe it's not a simple name, but this is the same industry where teams named Icybox and SPARKYZ (all caps) had success, so it's not a big deal.

You've reached the most important part of putting together a new team- the initial roster. The men and women who play the game for you and propel your team to either stardom or mediocrity.

Choose from FIVE players from the image list. You'll have the opportunity to sign further players, but consider this your founding team. Keep in mind the attributes that spell out success in SC Manager Quest:

_{(skills are rated on a scale of 1 to 10 and can improve with time!!)}

macro: how well the player excels at macromanagement- making units, dealing with economy, planning their army. this is the most important attribute for a starcraft pro. Lee "NaDa" Yoon Yeol was famed for his macromanagement.

micro: micro-management how well the player actually controls their units- moving their army and giving specific commands and using their abilities. this is arguably the next most important attribute for a pro- however, while many good players excel at micro, not all micro-centric players are good. Lee "Jaedong" Jae Dong became known on an international level for his micromanagement.

knowledge: knowledge of the game. what units to make vs whom, gameplanning, build orders, tactics, and more. a good player can be "book dumb" and play it by ear, but a prepared player is a winning one. Lim "NesTea" Jae Duk's unparalleled decision making garnered him three championships at the highest level of play.

versus Terran/Protoss/Zerg: the familiarity and skill a player has against a specific race. some players are excellent against one race but hopelessly inept against another. a good player is comfortable against all opponents.

[b]teamwork[b]: how well a player interacts with his peers. it's no use having a team of all-stars if they can't stand each other. players with high teamwork look out for their fellow teammates and increase their morale and sometimes even increase their skill. SlayerS was a team that, in its brief lifetime, featured a ton of great players, but eventually fell apart and disbanded due to internal strife.

that being said, the initial list of eligible players has been sent to you. votes will be tallied up and the five highest votes will become the first members of The Pylon Annihilation Project. _{you can vote for up to 5 players in 1 post, so be sure to detail your favored potential lineup.}

SplIt's the best by far, with all around good stats, and no ego problems. Any team should have him.

>>496418
slpit and finese are good choices. I like enza, his stats are good.

>>496425
Aye, Enza is good. Venus would be good to teach others how to OH GOD. I just noticed their hair. Is there something in the water in Korea?

>>496403
I suggest ROYAL, GALLANT, tetHys, KanaEdge, SpliT.
They all have high teamwork and solid skills. We got at least one of each race. SpliT can mentor the newer members. GALLANT can help KanaEdge break the "one trick pony" thing. tetHys would be good for getting our name out there his streaming.

>>496435
Seconding.

>that not-really-subtle reference to tozol quest
4/5 bretty gud

that being said, i wonder if sotiris might be a good pick-up.

Our group is PAP? People are either gonna SHOOSH us, or make smear jokes. I'm not sure which is worse.

>>496458
Just use a triangle logo and deemphasize the A.

Terran/Protoss/Zerg? This some kind of weirdass mod? Where's Core?

>>496502
They were banned from Tournaments after the Krogoth Incident.

Suggestion 2013/02/28(Thu)10:27 No. 496821 ID: 7b591d
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After some careful deliberation and procrastination, the first iteration of your team has been announced.

SPLiT, EnzA, R0Yal, tetHys, Gallant make up your initial roster. After some additional debating, you decide to override your initial goal of five players- KanaEdge and Venus are added on in a reduced role, mostly because depending on the competition you may need the extra players.

Your players have been set, and you decide to check out the hub of operations- your desktop.

The Hub (which is a much cooler name than just calling it your computer desktop) is the center of all things in SC Manager. You will communicate with players and sponsors, browse the web for information, write up and organize things and do all sorts of things from this hub. Over time, more options and shortcuts can be added to the hub as you gain experience, meet new people, and find new opportunities.

There's a lot of things that you can do off the bat. You can try and organize a practice schedule (or at least a time for everyone to meet up and practice), browse the web, contact your players, or even try and get a hold of your team in-game. You had Total Annihilation on the desktop, really, but in a fit of "going cold turkey" you've gone up and uninstalled the game altogether to focus on Starcraft.

You have a lot of options at your disposal.

Right now, your Skype account is being bombarded by someone trying to get a hold of you.

_{and i just realized that i misspelled "annihilation" in the team logo. i accept any mockery- in future updates and visuals this will be corrected. ;_;}

Welp, pop open that Skype window, let's see what they want.

Visit tgchan.org
Start browsing the web for porn.
Really, no, it's not procrastination if it's starcraft rule 34.

Might as well see wants you on skype. If it's not someone you hate, or another one of those obnoxious adult chat services (seriously, why are there so many of those on skype? And why do they try to sell their services with blind calls?) you can talk to them.

Figuring out a schedule is probably the next thing you should do.

>>496821
...Wait a second how are we receiving a message when we aren't connected to the internet?

Answer the message then let us make a schedule.

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After considering browsing the web to procrastinate further and pausing to consider your magical internet connection, you open up Skype to figure out who wants you.

It's your webmaster/assistant/jack-of-all-trades friend, Lee. He plays Starcraft as well, but in all honesty, he's awful. But he's a great friend and good with computers, so it's nice to have him around. It seems now he wasn't able to get ahold of you for a live chat, but he's contacted you with some choice information- namely, information about your first competitions.

He's attached a small list of tournaments that will be possible for at least one of your players to attend. Signing up for a tournament so soon is completely optional - if you feel your team isn't ready yet, so be it- Rome wasn't build in a day, and neither were great teams. Regardless, Lee is expecting a reply back as to what you're interested in doing about the events below, whether it be attending or not:

ESV TV Korean Weekly #10
Information: The Korean Weekly is The ESV TV Korean Weekly is a single-elimination, weekly individual tournament held exclusively on the Korean server. Some of the very top teams in the world are represented each and every week and it is open to any professional player with access to the Korean server. $150 USD is awarded to the winner of a massive bracket open to any Masters/Grandmasters ranked player. A lot of pro players currently with big-name teams use this as a stomping ground, but winning this competition most certainly gets your name out. The time-difference makes it a bit difficult for any foreigners to attend.

Esports Weekly Match
Information: The Esports Weekly Match is a weekly 64-player single-elimination tournament held on the Korean server. The winner of each competition has the chance to compete at a seasonal offline tournament for a chance to qualify for the GSL Code A, part of a prestigious tournament held seasonally in Korea. A lot of players currently with big pro teams or players trying to get into pro teams play here, so the competition is fierce.

GosuHasu Amateur Series Monthly
Info: Compared to the prior two, this tournament has a much more relaxed atmosphere at the cost of being one of the largest ongoing competitions in the Korean scene- anyone is allowed to join as long as they join the 256-player bracket in time. Game times are flexible and it's good for experience, but there isn't really a monetary prize for this competition outside of the (very little) name value from the event.

GlenMetalTech.TV K-League
Info: this event has a long and lengthy qualification process- the qualifier bracket is bigger than the actual event! Held once every two months, every game in the main event is broadcast on stream by a rotating panel of noted streamers. It's a nice way to get your name out if you can deal with the bizarre amount of games you will have to play.


WakWakWak SSL Season 5
Info: Gained its name from a hilariously bad attempt and misspelling of Korea's currency- the competition itself is known for a double-elimination 128-player bracket with two 64-player brackets going on at once: the winner of each face each other in the grand final, which pays out 100$ and the chance to land a sponsorship. A lot of amateur teams send a lot of players here to try and gain financial backing. Because of the early-afternoon scheduling that it uses, foreigners have a little more lee-way in attending considering it's usually not-quite-midnight in the easternmost parts of the Americas.

Huh. I kinda think we want to figure out schedules, and do at least a little practice and team-building before we get to it? Unless we wanted to just test the waters in one of the easy ones.

Let's get an idea of how much time we have for training before signing up for those things. I'm thinking GosuHasu and WakWakWak would be good beginner 'warmups'. Eventually we'll want to get experience against top players, but let's shake the team down first. Also, it might be good to get the ball rolling on GleuMetalTech given how long it takes to qualify for.

Signing up for WakWakWak might be a good way to figure out where your players are at and what they need to train.

These references are killing me, by the way.

It would be good to spend a month team building first, but if we do go tournament mode, Gohasu.