You know what ? Gathering intelligence is actually overrated. As a matter of fact, recon is for people afraid of their enemy. Those who are proud and self-confidant see no need for such things like scouting and stuff
i guess it may be joke or something, but tbh it is what i think when i play. i send my labs on mex spots, i will kill engies or mex. when i attack later on, i attack mexes, when i feel strong, i just attack his base or comm and i win. you can say: ''how can he feel strong if he doesnt scout?''. Simple. this stupid score system. why do i have to scout if i see that i have 5k points and he has 4k? score give me signal: u have advantage, u dont have to scout, just kill him. and this signal is very often truth. Of course, it is risky, i may get surprised by t2 snipe or even mass jesters, but i can see it: i have much bigger army, and his score isnt that bad, hm something is not right. then i builid AA and there is no problem. I dont say that i do it always, it is good to have radar sometimes, but with score box, scouting isnt THAT important as it should be.
Yeah agreed. Though remember that building a radar or an airscout or just queue a scout into your factories will take like 5 seconds and can be vital at times when your score-part isnt working out. Gathering intelligence is really as and the cost:risk factor is way too high to depend on a rough score board.
Sorry, but that's seriously bullshit. Scouting is damn important. You need to scout or your win only depends on luck. I could for example go for eco only and a fast ML. My score might be even higher, but you wasted mass for an army while I had nothing to defend... till my ML was finished. That's a very extreme example, but this also happens with T2 air, T2 naval, T2 suite for commander etc... Good intelligence makes a inferior army beat a usually superior army.
Also you Mongoose which didn't shoot at the opponents cause they where invisible. That was just crap and has nothing to do with the score.
The score sucks, too cause it's a kind of free intelligence, but the score alone is not enough.
ofc scouting is important and i use scouts and radars but i want to say that it is possible to play without scouting and it is even possible to play not bad without scouting. ofc, intel helps a lot, thats why everybody builid it, but it is possible to play without it. in other games it is definitely impossiblebecause they dont have score
It's only possible to play without intel if -your opponent got no intel, too. -your opponent is totally inferior. -your opponent is retarded (much like point 2). -you have a lot of luck.
Score doesn't tell you if your opponent got TMD, TML or whatever. If you simply build defenses against everythign ASAP you will get owned by a ECO spamer or someone who focuses only at one thing (for example fast T2 naval). You can't see that on score.
