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When you log onto the BattleNet, the first thing you'll want to do will be to join the GitP channel - our private Playgrounder chatroom. To do so, click on the Channel-button to the left, and type GitP into the proper box, to enter the channel. Don't bother looking for it in the list of available channels - being a private channel, it won't appear there. You will either enter the channel then, or get a message telling you that such a channel does not exist and whether you would like to create it. Do so - this means that either you are the first one to come online, or all others are currently in a game, instead of in the channel.
You have a number of commands which you can utilise for easier communication with us, finding out and keeping track who is online, and so forth. Most commands have aliases, which result in the same command, but are shorter. For instance, a useful command is
/help
which lists you the topics/commands you can ask the BattleNet to explain to you. For example,
/help whisper
will explain what the whisper command does.
The alias for /help is /h, so typing /h instead of /help, or /h whisper instead of /help whisper will yield exactly the same result.
You have a friend list, onto which you can place up to 25 players, for various benefits. All commands related to the friend list begin with /friends (alias /f). Those will likely be the ones you will use most. You add a player with the account name Nickname by typing
/f add Nickname
or, if you prefer,
/f a Nickname
so, for instance, by typing /f a Winterwind_GitP you would add my BattleNet account to your friend list. The list of all our BattleNet accounts is above. I suggest adding as many people as possible, or at least the ones who are more frequently attending the sessions.
The benefits of adding people to your friend list are manifold:
If you type
/f list
or
/f l, you will see your friend list, which tells you who, amongst these people, is currently online. This way, you can find out who is online, even when they are not in the channel. So, if you enter the BattleNet and don't find anybody in the channel, do not despair - check your friend list first. Chances are, we might all be currently in games.
By typing
/f message Text
or
/f m Text
you send the Text you type to all people on your friend list who are currently online, no matter where they are - even when they are in games, and not in the channel.
By typing /f p Nickname or /f d Nickname (or, if you wish, promote and demote instead of p and d) you can sort your friend list by moving people up and down on it.
If you want to remove someone from the list, use
/f remove Nickname
or, you guessed it,
/f r Nickname
If people are mutually on each others friend lists, this has the added benefit that, when one of them enters/exits the BattleNet or joins a game, the other gets a message which informs them about this fact. That's another reason why it is helpful if we add each other to our friend lists (unfortunately, the limit of 25 people is too small for the group).
If you wish to send some Text to just one person - be it, so that the others in the channel don't see it, or because you wish to speak to some specific person who currently is not in the channel, type
/whisper Nickname Text
or
/w Nickname Text
Another aliases for this command, which accomplish the same, are /msg Nickname Text and /m Nickname Text.
If you want to check whether somebody who is not on your friend list is online, you can use
/whois Nickname
which will tell you so.
If, on the other hand, you want to check who happens to be in a particular channel, you can use
/who Channelname.
Patch 1.16 added, for the greater ease of replying to people whispering you, the option to write
/r Text
in place of /w Nickname Text if you want the text to be sent to the person who whispered you last. Unfortunately, as of this writing, this function is bugged and will think you want to use /r whenever you write something where the second character is 'r' and the third one a blank, no matter what the first character is.
Last, rather a fun gimmick than useful, but included since people will invariably ask about it, it is possible to write emotes in the chat, meaning that the text you type is presented as <Nickname Text> rather than <Nickname>: Text. You do so by typing
/me Text
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Gosu Gamers - Good SC site with daily news and replays from pros and semi pros. The site also covers War3 and dota.
TeamLiquid - Excellent SC site for hardcore fans, with the best foreign coverage of the Korean pro gamers scene. Lots of videos of Pro games to watch and a good forum overall.
Iccup Ladder - Best ladder around today. If you want to get better, mass game. If you want mass game, do it here. Oh, and prepare to lose, the level here is high.
WGTour - THE site for clan wars, nation wars and the top non-korean competitive SC overall.
BWChart - Good program to see stats from replays, like APM (actions per minute), build orders, unit distribution, and much more.
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Finally, courtesy of WarNiX, a couple of videos demonstrating good players at play, complete with explanations of their actions, reasonings and build orders:
An overview of English Zerg VoDs by different players:
http://starcraft.ingame.de/content.php?c=75534&s=475
For Protoss, some VoDs by Nony, a really good American Protoss, also featuring build orders and decision making:
http://de.youtube.com/results?search...y&search_type=
And some other ones for download:
http://starcraft.ingame.de/content.php?c=75533&s=475
The site is in German, but should still be understandable.[/QUOTE]
Originally Posted by PePe_QuiCoSE
GitP StarCraft 1: Brood War group (thread II)
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