Haven't played in forever. Been on a League of Legends kick, though ...

Played that for a while too until I was somewhere around level 20.

It stopped being fun though when the game became a lot more popular and suddenly the whole crowd of gamers seemed to fall back to flaming and blaming during the whole match instead of concentrating on playing a good game.

My favorite char was/is Heimer (that alien dude who can place turrets).

Diamond league... isn't that just one below grandmaster?

Today I'll grind. I want to advance from bronce to silver (don't know if that's even possible as I've read somewhere that transitions to higher leagues are rare).

append:
Season 6 just started today and the game says I'll have to play one more placement match to get put into another division. I better be awesome in that match.

Finished that season 6 placement match, lost TvT due to misreading the enemy, who went double rax in the beginning, so I was preparing for fighting off a bio all-in but was attacked by a mech army that I didn't expect.

I tried to survive as long as I could fighting off a few of the enemy armies but in the end I lost too much in the first two waves already so that rebuilding became impossible while they could happily mine and gather all across the left side of the map.

Replay: http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/605594

append:
Now that I watched the replay I see I made a lot of silly mistakes and bad decisions.
e.g. I didn't pull off workers when I should have, I didn't upgrade tech and I landed some vikings right next to a fully loaded bunker on a mineral patch that was completely harvested off already.
I really need better scouting, so I would have been aware of the enemy base to the right of his main which was totally unprotected at that time.

Just a slight digress. How does the DRM work (again) on starcraft 2. I'm about to order it from Amazon. I'd like to be able to run it from two different computers and hopefully have a couple of profiles.

Cheers.

btw, I bought C&C4 a few weeks ago. It's nowhere near as bad as the reviews make out. I really quite liked it.

I read somewhere else that if you register the same cd key to two different battle.net accounts, each time you try to login with both accounts at the same time, the last one to login will kick the other ones session.

Haven't tested that myself but it sounds like it makes sense.

Meanwhile I'm slowly working my rank up in the bronze ladder of season 6...

replays I'm particularly proud of:
TvZ 1 base vs 3 hatcheries surgical strikes win
TvT def then counter push win
TvP def against mass stalker, map awareness, then counter push win

Well, even some of them became whiny, blamey and flamey so it wasn't fun anymore.

I used to be Platinum back in the day but I only play the game casually now. Last time I ranked, I was Gold.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/718846/1/gamecreator/

gamecreator 625

Haha, that's not how it's supposed to work. The matching system pits you against players of your own skill level and you're meant to win and lose equally. At least, that's the idea.

Have SC2 but not bothered installing it yet.

I usually won when I played, but I played so rarely I don't think I've ever even "placed". What's the rank below Bronze? Lead? Dung?

I had a random idea about a MMO RTS. You'd have an overview map of all the playable maps and who is controlling what. People would be playing matches to control those maps. If you lose your map, you "escape" with your hero character and can now go to another area controlled by your team (where another scrimmage is likely happening). Whoever is overseeing this map on your team can give you commands but you don't have to follow them. If your hero character dies, you go back to the "waiting" area.

Every hour, all players are forced to take a 10 minute break. This is the block where you get on/off from playing the game. So, people in the waiting area jump in and control an area that is currently under their team's control. They will have a few minutes to prepare before the break concludes and play resumes.

Furthermore, if you are losing a scrimmage, you can ping your team and someone who is winning their current scrimmage can send units to the losing player (which takes x amount of time) and control of the units immediately transfers to the other player. It's less about the individual map wins and more about winning the war.

Obviously would need to evaluate how to control game balance, but like I said, random on-the-fly idea.

Does that mean I can only play with/versus allegators in Europe?