New Player - Having trouble
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 3:52 pm
So I just did an online game of EE on Save-EE (we did prehistoric to pre-WW2 (whatever that epoch is, not sure if this is a standard format or not)). I was kind of upset because no one was talking in-game. It's like... this is a really small community, can we not talk to eachother and socialize? Maybe they didn't speak english or something but at least type something so I know what they are speaking Zzzz.
Anyways, I have really high actions per minute so I sent my first 5 scattered all into different directions to find my patch of food, made a settlement next to the patch. Bound my main building to a hotkey, then with my remaining villager looked for nearby wildlife to hunt. Any new villager went to hunting.
I figured that wood, iron, and gold are pretty much worthless for the start of the game so I only focused on Food and Stone. Once I had around 20 villagers, I sent 4 to scout for more patches of food. I found two more and sent six villagers to each, building a settlement and tower to guard.
I feel like making a barracks isn't needed until you have Granaries. Any food I spend on Barracks units is less food I'll have to epoch up to get toward Granaries and more workers. The one exception is Archery range which I can make Slingers that cost only wood and gold. Those are super expendable since they aren't too hard to find.
Docks kind of feel really wonky, BUT they are kind of like trading wood (the cost of making the structure, the cost of the fishing boats) for food (food you get from fishing boats). I saw one of my opponents just making insane amounts of Clubmen and I was kind of thinking he's an idiot because he's probably gouging his food supplies by making those. And yet, somehow he's still on par with me.
Somehow I just lost complete control of the game and it went really downhill. Next time I'll record the game on twitch but like... I really just don't understand how I lost. Is there a way to see scoreboard after a game has happened? I alt-f4ed out of the game out of frustration because I needed to log off anyways. I can't find replays in the client either but I read a post saying that replays don't really exist? Is that true?
Thanks for any replies. I play StarCraft 2 competitively at a really high level so maybe there's some core knowledge I'm missing when it comes to EE.
If you can, be really descriptive when it comes to your comments. I really don't understand much jargon so if you say like 6 citizen food 6 citzen gold 3 archery I'm not going to understand at all what you're talking about.
Anyways, I have really high actions per minute so I sent my first 5 scattered all into different directions to find my patch of food, made a settlement next to the patch. Bound my main building to a hotkey, then with my remaining villager looked for nearby wildlife to hunt. Any new villager went to hunting.
I figured that wood, iron, and gold are pretty much worthless for the start of the game so I only focused on Food and Stone. Once I had around 20 villagers, I sent 4 to scout for more patches of food. I found two more and sent six villagers to each, building a settlement and tower to guard.
I feel like making a barracks isn't needed until you have Granaries. Any food I spend on Barracks units is less food I'll have to epoch up to get toward Granaries and more workers. The one exception is Archery range which I can make Slingers that cost only wood and gold. Those are super expendable since they aren't too hard to find.
Docks kind of feel really wonky, BUT they are kind of like trading wood (the cost of making the structure, the cost of the fishing boats) for food (food you get from fishing boats). I saw one of my opponents just making insane amounts of Clubmen and I was kind of thinking he's an idiot because he's probably gouging his food supplies by making those. And yet, somehow he's still on par with me.
Somehow I just lost complete control of the game and it went really downhill. Next time I'll record the game on twitch but like... I really just don't understand how I lost. Is there a way to see scoreboard after a game has happened? I alt-f4ed out of the game out of frustration because I needed to log off anyways. I can't find replays in the client either but I read a post saying that replays don't really exist? Is that true?
Thanks for any replies. I play StarCraft 2 competitively at a really high level so maybe there's some core knowledge I'm missing when it comes to EE.
If you can, be really descriptive when it comes to your comments. I really don't understand much jargon so if you say like 6 citizen food 6 citzen gold 3 archery I'm not going to understand at all what you're talking about.