SC2Mapster

oo gulzt so u check queen energy rather than hatchery?

from what i've seen and experienced, it's much more common to get more than 1 queen per hatchery, and theres this mass queen style too.

i find in early game u can pretty much keep your queen energies at zero and sspawn larvae constantly. in the early game if u make a tumor, ur pretty much gonna know u wont have energy for a larvae.

also being imperfect about spawning larvae results in extra queen energy, but hatchery is busy, it can't accept more injection.

also, u end up injecting all hatcheries all at once in a quick wave. so hatchery larvae spawn are pretty much synced up.

so the fact that u usually get more queens than hatch, the fact that queen energy builds up as you be imperfect, and the hatchery limitation plus injection being synched, i prefer to have hatch as my indicator for larvae timing.

haha headless chicken. i was seeking a more efficient way and someone from TL pointed out this trick. way more efficient than others i've found.

one preference i have is to set queens to someting on the right side like 0. this way u can hit the queen hotkey group 0 with pointer finger, then hit v with your pinky, hold down right shift with your thumb, (notice how your hand is naturally positions itself over this triangle of "0", "v", and right-shift keys), and then move your index finger to hit backspace as you hold down shift.

b/c this, to me is the easiest way of larvae injecting, it has gotten me to use the whole span of the keyboard when i didn't do it at all. queens got me breaking out of my right-side-of-the-keyboard phobia.

in case of early air like void rays or your base gets breeched, a redundant hotkey group for all queens in the early game is a good idea too. if the situation for using the left side queen control group doesnt come, u can naturally transition into the mid game and use that hotkey for something else. but i really like having that queen group way on the right side of the keyboard cz it sets up your hand so naturally. it also frees up the left side for army hotkeys.

yeah i got the all queens set to control group 1.

all hatcheries set to control group 2.

Buti like your tip about having one hatchery to one hot key. I guess i'll make that one key 3. so i can always watch it...

it's a good tip.

Using the queen thing as mentioned really REALLY improved my game and gave me other things to do apart from ZOOMing around the map like a headless chicken...

1. hotkey all queens to one control group
2. press v, and hold shift
3. while holding shift, press backspace, then click, backspace, click, etc until all hatcheries have larvae injected.

• there you have queen macro in 2 seconds.
• all you need to do is to be able to remember them. but not really:
• you just have one hatchery hotkeyed by itself, and u can look at the progress bar of the larvae spawn instead of having to remember. just hit hotkey, glance, resume whatever you were doing.