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Tips for increasing APM?

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12/11/2019 3:29:50 AMUSrankAdminSteel_Blue before revert after revert
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1 I play with a lot of clicking, frequently box selecting and line moving a lot of units, as well as literally clicking on all the buildings in the HUD to build them. I started using hotkeys to allow my mouse clicks to be more effective, like CTRL+Z which selects all of the units you own of the same type of current selection and CTRL+X which does the same but only for units within camera FOV. AreaMex( default 'w' these days) is also an important mainstay. Some more interesting hotkeys I have are "Repeat Toggle" 'CTRL+R', "Set Build priority to high" to 'CTRL+H', "Set Manuver" to 'CTRL+H', "Set Hold Position" to 'H', "Set Target" to 'T', "Remove Target" to 'CTRL+T', "AreaCloak state toggle" to 'U', and "Gravity Gun Polarity" to 'U'. These are things I want to often do, but are so much a hassle to click on the HUD. I can use these abilities wihtout interfering in my selections and movement comands from my mouse now. This doesn't really increase my APM, but it increases what I would say is my Effective APM. Try and streamline your process of issuing commands to your units with hotkeys. Because I have, I can spend more time issuing move orders for my units. 1 I play with a lot of clicking, frequently box selecting and line moving a lot of units, as well as literally clicking on all the buildings in the HUD to build them. I started using hotkeys to allow my mouse clicks to be more effective, like CTRL+Z which selects all of the units you own of the same type of current selection and CTRL+X which does the same but only for units within camera FOV. Area Mex( default 'w' these days) is also an important mainstay. Some more interesting hotkeys I have are "Repeat Toggle" 'CTRL+R', "Set Build priority to high" to 'CTRL+H', "Set Maneuver" to 'CTRL+H', "Set Hold Position" to 'H', "Set Target" to 'T', "Remove Target" to 'CTRL+T', "Area Cloak state toggle" to 'U', and "Gravity Gun Polarity" to 'U'. These are things I want to often do, but are so much a hassle to click on the HUD. I can use these abilities wihtout interfering in my selections and movement comands from my mouse now. This doesn't really increase my APM, but it increases what I would say is my Effective APM. Try and streamline your process of issuing commands to your units with hotkeys. Because I have, I can spend more time issuing move orders for my units.
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3 Also, you may want to look into default unit states. Anything in this game you own you can set to start with specific unit states. Shields can be set to hold position, ultimatums can be built with hold fire state, ETC. with the default unit states. I have a small little optimization where all my metal extractors are set to High Priority so in a crashing metal economy my mexes get built first. If you find yourself always changing a certain class of units' unitstates, probably want to modify the default unit states to save time microing them in game.
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3 Also, you may want to look into default unit states. Anything in this game you own you can set to start with specific unit states. Shields can be set to hold position, ultimatums can be built with hold fire state, ETC. with the default unit states. I have a small little optimization where all my metal extractors are set to High Priority so in a crashing metal economy my mexes get built first. If you find yourself always changeing a cirtain class of units' unitstates, probably want to modify the default unit states to save time microing them in game. 5 EDIT: Sad story, I still click on HUD for all buildings except mex.