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1 | 10.0 | The Goal is not to win now. The Goal is to improve now. Do not try to win now. Try to improve now, and you will win later. | ||||||||||||
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5 | START HERE! | Units | ||||||||||||
6 | 1 | Make a copy of this to your Google Drive | ||||||||||||
7 | 2 | Follow the constrictions for each step. | Terran | Zerg | Protoss | |||||||||
8 | 3 | To pass a game, meet or exceed all benchmarks. (no winning necessary) | Given Units | Given Units | Given Units | |||||||||
9 | 4 | When you pass 4 out of 5 games, move onto the next step. | SCV | Drone | Probe | |||||||||
10 | Marine | Zergling | Zealot | |||||||||||
11 | TheStaircase [Steps] | Hellion | Queen | |||||||||||
12 | Hellbat | Overseer | Observer | |||||||||||
13 | Steps | Medivac | Overlord | Warp Prism | ||||||||||
14 | 0 | Zerg: Play "Creep or Die" (LOTV) in the Arcade. Begin with "Very Easy" and build 20 Tumors. | Battle Units | Battle Units | Battle Units | |||||||||
15 | 1 | Mine only Minerals. (no gas) Attack move on the minimap only. (do not look at battles) | Marauder | Roach | Stalker | |||||||||
16 | 2 | Mine only Minerals. (no gas) and Control your units to the best of your ability. | Reaper | Baneling | Adept | |||||||||
17 | 3 | Mine Gas and Minerals and Control your units to the best of your ability. Given Units only | Thor | Ravager | Sentry | |||||||||
18 | 4 | Choose 1 unit from the Battle Units List. Aside from the Given Units, this is the only unit you may build. | Cyclone | Hydralisk | Immortal | |||||||||
19 | 5 | Choose 2 units from the Battle Units List. Aside from the Given Units, these are the only units you may build. | Siege Tank | Lurker | Colossus | |||||||||
20 | 6 | Choose 3 units from the Battle Units List. Aside from the Given Units, these are the only units you may build. | Ghost | Ultralisk | Disruptor | |||||||||
21 | - | You have completed TheStaircase! Try improving other aspects of the game like strategy, tactics, and micro! | Viking | Mutalisk | Dark Templar / Archon | |||||||||
22 | Battlecruiser | Swarm Host | High Templar / Archon | |||||||||||
23 | Rules for Every Step | Liberator | Brood Lord | Void Ray | ||||||||||
24 | Banshee | Infestor | Oracle | |||||||||||
25 | # 1 | NO clicking in the command card (bottom right portion of the in-game screen). | Raven | Viper | Tempest | |||||||||
26 | # 2 | NO more than 2 queued units per production facility. | Widow Mine | Corruptor | Carrier | |||||||||
27 | # 3 | NO more than b+2 supply structures in construction at a time, where b = the number of mineral saturated bases. Mineral Saturation occurs when there are 16 workers mining minerals. | Phoenix | |||||||||||
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29 | To get full benefit out of TheStaircase: | |||||||||||||
30 | Benchmarks | |||||||||||||
31 | - Have as much fun as possible at all times :D | |||||||||||||
32 | Spending Quotient | Masters+ | - Experiment with the new unit/units on your current Step as much as possible! | |||||||||||
33 | - Focus as much as possible on your goals, and not on winning the game. | |||||||||||||
34 | - Avoid arrow keys or moving the mouse to the edge of the screen to move. | |||||||||||||
35 | Avg Supply Block Time | Masters+ | - Click on the minimap and use location keys to move screen | |||||||||||
36 | - Use Hotkeys, Control Groups, and Camera Location keys as much as possible. | |||||||||||||
37 | - Try to get 48 workers on Step 1 and 2 (3 base saturation) | |||||||||||||
38 | - Try to get 66 workers on all other Steps (3 base saturation) NOTE: only take the gas you need when you need it!!! | |||||||||||||
39 | - Feel free to rearrange the order of units once you get past Step 2. | |||||||||||||
40 | Benchmark Key | - Play aggressively; avoid static defenses | ||||||||||||
41 | - Try to keep at least one unit or group of units active on the map after your first scout, this will help train multitasking. | |||||||||||||
42 | Spending Quotient | A metric of your economic management of the game that uses your unspent resources and collection rate in a formula to produce a number | - For Step 2 and onward, try to look at your base only when necessary | |||||||||||
43 | Avg Supply Block Time | the time measured in seconds that you spent unable to produce units because you don't have enough supply structures | ||||||||||||
44 | Benchmark Calculation | https://sc2replaystats.com/ | ||||||||||||
45 | Consistency Requirement | Must hit both Benchmarks 4 out of 5 games to PASS | ||||||||||||
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