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What does map ban mean?
It's a map ban process.
This occurs in many games. I'm not aware on the specifics of Starcraft; but if it works like other competitive games, it is part of the map choosing process.
In the map ...
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Why would July (Zerg) build a later second sunken colony in this match against Casy (Terran)?
While we cannot purport to know the exact headspace of a player at any given time, there are two reasonable hypothesis that apply here.
Lack of resources - Sunken Colonies cost minerals (and drones!),...
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Are there blind Starcraft players?
Yes. Most famously, a player played against SlayerS BoxeR in a showmatch in Brood War at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational tourney in January of 2004. Boxer was blindfolded for the first three ...
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What is "Ehon Timing"?
The term is actually "Ee Han Timing". It is Korean in origin. From liquipedia:
Ee han timing stands for a timing in the game where you have to do damage. For example 2 hatch mutalisks. By ...
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Is an Archon a robotical, non-mechanical unit?
At a guess, Archons are immune to both abilities as being purely mental beings. They are not mechanical (unlike Reavers and Probes), but they are not biological anymore either.
Here's what ...
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Can I still play Starcraft 1 on Battle.Net?
Blizzard has released Starcraft 1 for free. If you download that version (you'll probably need to login into your blizzard account in order to do so), you'll be allowed to login into battle net ...
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Was there a Collector's Edition of StarCraft or Brood War?
While I couldn't find any official mentions of it, I found multiple images, eBay listings, and forum threads suggesting the existence of a non-US collector's edition. This forum post has photos of the ...
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StarCraft Brood War - Improve AI in LAN Game
There is an old reddit post
The place for Brood War AI was http://broodwarai.com/ but that site is currently down.
The Brood War AI scripts can still be found at: http://www.entropyzero.org/...
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Is an Archon a robotical, non-mechanical unit?
There seems to be an exception for the Spawn Broodling ability against this type of unit:
Spawn Broodling affects all ground units with the exception of:
Probes
Reavers
Archons
Dark Archons
The ...
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Change language in StarCraft v1.18
I am assuming you're on Windows for this.
You're looking at a 3-step process, based on what I can find on the official forums:
Uninstall the game.
Delete the registry key specified below (using ...
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StarCraft Brood War - Improve AI in LAN Game
I have a project that attempts to improve the default AI by better emulating the current human metagame:
https://github.com/jncraton/BWMetaAI
This project seeks to create an AI that provides a unique ...
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How can I increase the max selected units in Starcraft single player?
It seems that there's a tool called Oblivion that raises the limit to 255 units; should be enough given the supply limits.
It also introduces other sensible changes (like automatic mining), but I'm ...
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How do I install StarCraft 1.18 on Wine with 64-bit Linux?
Installed Wine-staging 6.6 and the game is running fine.
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Squad selection in Starcraft
Unfortunately, it is not possible to assign more than 10 control groups in Starcraft.
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Why are the bots on my custom map not doing anything?
IIRC from my experience creating custom maps years ago, you need to create triggers for each faction that actually implement the AI type you want them to have.
Something like "Always" being ...
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How do these terrain mountains/ledges affect gameplay?
The wide ramps do look a bit unusual at first glance, but you'll grasp the orientation as you play/watch more games.
High-ground in BW add two tactical complexities
Ground units/buildings on lower ...
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StarCraft Brood War online?
You do not need to pay a fee.
Battle.Net is currently still free. You need to sign up for an account, apply all the patches (it is done automatically when you try to access battle.net), and that's ...
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How do I install StarCraft 1.18 on Wine with 64-bit Linux?
I've struggled with this a lot, but ultimately it worked for me out-of-the-box when I tried installing it using https://lutris.net/.
I've installed both the Battle.net launcher and StarCraft ...
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Was there a Collector's Edition of StarCraft or Brood War?
I can confirm that in the UK there was a collectors edition of Starcraft (I bought one). AFAIK there wasn't a collectors edition of Brood War.
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Starcraft Display Issues
While this question is already quite old and this answer is probably pointless, this sounds like a monitor calibration issue.
This can usually be resolved in 3 ways. Unfortunately, Brood War doesn't ...
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Brood War Multiplayer Maps
Well, shucks. If this question is acceptable here, then it should be answered even if it is four years old.
I know of one such map which has been available since September 2010. The name is Greater ...
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