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@ Simbob ; huh, I played to SC over 10 years, it was my favorite game ! Now I don't play to it, I have no time. I try to keep my distance.
Anyway I played to this game with the same way, as a noob. I am a noob now again. I evolved my strategy slowly.

 

Well, you can play for 10 years and still be a noob, but if you practice for ten years you obviously wont be!

 

Yeah, I found it for the first time when I was looking for a decent manual. -That was ages ago, by the way.- My copy of the game is from the Blizzard bestseller series. Those have no manual at all, and the ingame tips are worthless. Glad I could help.

 

I don't really see a need for what you're asking for, but I'm not at all against it.

As already mentioned the hot keys are pretty intuitive. Or you can just see what the hot key for a particular action is when you mouse over the button.

I'm not sure the game can really teach you to use hotkeys...you just have to do it. Practice, practice, practice.

If you don't understand why hotkeys are useful that's a whole nother topic. Although I don't think that's what you are saying.

Either case I believe it is more important to understand how the game works rather than have the highest actions per minute possible.

If you would like to learn that and basic terms like micro and macro watch some pro games. You can learn a lot from the commentary.

I prefer this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/KlazartSC

But Gomtv is good too.
http://www.gomtv.net/

 

yea, or play with a good player alot and watch the replays and copy what he does. i use to be in a clan with this guy called Flossy or something he was quite good with toss. seen him 3v1 on fastest map possible and win. his base set up was perfect and i learned it quite well but not nearly as efficent as him. like he had it down to exact minerals and everything. and you would end up with at least 100+ cannons in your base and the ability to mass just about any protoss unit. but his greatest move was patented by him.

He would build tons of reavers and an observer and few zelots and dragoons
build a couple of arbitors and have 1 at ur main and 1 at entrance. he would take templars and helucinate the arbitor till u have a dozen then slide those accross the map right into your main and recall in the observers/templars/reavers/dragoons/zelots. and its a pretty much gg because ur main will die no problem and quite possibly most of your unit production buildings such as gateways ect...

it was also great defence too with all the goons and reavers at the front of ur base. because if he countered you probabbly still had reavers and units that didn't make it in in the recall and u take the second arbitor waiting at ur main to cloak your probes and bring to main entrance so the counter will get slaughtered by the reavers and cannons. and not to mention you can do the same attack again very quickly by just alternating arbitors.

all in all, play with and watch good players and you will get better yourself. win or lose

 

Now Starcraft 2 will be a 3D genre, so even for the new graphic we need a tutorial mode to help us how to play. Maybe not for us who are normally experimented with SC1. But SC1 will be different, and a tutorial will be welcome just to teach us how to make a zoom on a unit, or a group of unit, or a structure, or how to pivotate the screen, etc ...
And then there will be instructions how to use the hotkeys.

Except Starcraft 2 I have never played to another RTS. There were an old game I played, Homeworld 2, in which there was a very helpful tutorial to learn to play to this game. I never played to WC3 or WoW or any other game like this. So this new dimension will be new for me, the SC2 genre will be new for me.