Starcraft cheat messes up Zerg

im sorry man but i gotta say, making a thread complaining about a cheat??

Thats almost like making a thread for the free 10 minerals it gives,

My opinion, try just a bit harder with your next thred.

GL on future threads

 

Sorry I spammed your thread with my posts... they jumped me for not seeing the sarcasm. They're horrible.

Production time is one of the most important things constituting to balance, and is a racial trait, so you are contradicting yourself there. You either accept balance to break with cheats or not.

Like I've pointed out earlier, cheats are meant to debug a game. Say if you want to test the engine with the most number of units on screen - that's when this cheat would come in handy. Emphasis is on testing - the game shouldn't be played with cheats. Since it shouldn't be played like that, they didn't bother developing the feature elaborately - it's logical they don't waste time working on something you shouldn't do, or one person does it out of a thousand.

 

Well apparently I did pretty good on this one, considering the number of responses. :laugh:

Not that it's a bad thing or anything, anyone who plays RTS learns to enjoy repetition to an extent, but many of the threads here are interchangeable with ones on all the other SC forums. At least it's something unique.

 

Well, here's my opinion.

Since cheats on starcraft are meant only for single player mode, it's only the player who will benefit (or maybe most of it) from the cheat he enters. The AI won't even bother to think that since you've activated the cheat, it'll take advantage of it.

I've also tried cheating with "operation cwal" with me using zerg against 2 terran and 1 protoss. And yes, it is pretty imbalance. They build faster and you build slower. Well, like some of the guys here say, cheats make puts some elements of the game in an imbalanced state. Cheats are also placed by game designers to make the game "a little bit more fun and enjoyable", and wouldn't even bother balancing it.

Okay, so if you're still p!ssed about the fact that zerg production is slower and wish to balance it, then activate the cheat "show me the money". That's one of a few cheats where the AI won't be having.

 

so you play online with cheats?.. i thought multiplayer games disable cheats..

 

It hurts the zerg a little bit cause of the larva cap limit, the rate at which they come is balanced to fit the game at normal build rates, but is way too slow to keep up if you have the cheat on. Since Protoss and Terran buildings can keep pumping and don't have to wait for a larva to come.

However, zerg units do build faster when the cheat is on. If you're going to use the cheats, I would suggest using show me the money too and build some extra hatcheries to make up for it.

Cheats do not work online, you must be single player, off b.net, not over LAN for them to work at all.