@Sharky54

Every moment when you are mining at a lesser capacity than your opponent, he will gain an advantage. The recources that you stack up on may help you get your worker count up again, but your opponent will have mined more than you, and thus will have more workers in any case.

If you don't belive me, I could challenge you to a game, and in the replay you can see the economic advantage that I will get in the beginning :)

See, you would think that. But even in games where I lose, I am always top dawg on economy. It is quite weird. I am not saying yours is better, or mine is better. But mine works for the way I build. I can try yours. But I was really good at SC1 and that is the build order I always used. I could beat everyone I knew, and I won 90% of my random matches. But this is SC2. So I don't know. I don't have time anymore to tweak stuff. Haha.

In a battle when players are of equal skill, even the slightest difference matters.

Maybe you have a better follow-up than your opponents or simply have better mechanics (micro/macro)

Anyway, I'll PM you my identifier if you want to see how your build will fare against me :)

Fair enough. I am not very good. Lol. Also I had to redownload the client. It was messed up.

ok. I'm afraid I don't have time to log in today, but perhaps next week :)

Alright. I work nights.(Eastern US timezone) So Perhaps we could fix something up. I will add you whenever I can get on. I think the update is messed up. Because it just kept refreshing. I redownloaded the client hoping that would help.

Many people are having problems with the update. But I expect blizzard to fix it soon.

I hope so. I still can't get it to work. Haha. :[

That "number" thing is not unit count, but worker count, it's aimed towards macro strategy for economics, start of the game is most important, because you can get huge adventage by executing some build tree quick right from the start.

@twestern Against reaper harash as TvT you shouldn't have any problems at all. Getting reapers soon means both rax + gas at around 8-10 which hampers your oppoents economy and all you need to do is to build 1-2 marines to catch one reaper, reaper has 4.5 range, marine 5, reaper is just faster. Position them close to your mineral line and micro them so he can't kill any scv's. Keep using your adventage in economics and do counter attack, at that time he won't have more than rax with techlab so he can't mass produce units, and both reaper and marauder fall to marines. You can just mass up marines from 3 or 4 rax build and keep harasing while taking control over the map with fast exp. If he can't pull of the reaper harash, you have huge adventage. And he shouldn't. (as long as you are terran, it's very viable against noob protoss players)

In my definition. The first number is population count and the second population cap.

So if you have 10 probes, a Zealot and a pylon, the numbers will be 12/18