(3) The extractor trick used by the program has been tested by real players, and was thought to be “economically inferior” compared to just buying an overlord and increasing your population cap. It’s quickly become labelled as a “cheese build,” though, meaning. (2) Despite its effectiveness, this build order wasn’t known to the SC2 community. Turns out they can, but only with very specific counter-strategies or if the person they're playing fails to fulfil the potential of the build order. (1) This is such a devastating build order that for a while the discussion on centred around whether Protoss could survive it even if they knew it was coming. To summarise Louis' blog post, this is interesting because: “Extractor-trick” refers to telling a drone to build an extractor, building a drone, then cancelling the extractor’s construction to get the drone back, making your population of drones 11 out of a maximum of 10. Which will get you a 7 roach rush in less time than anybody thought possible. I’m taking all this from this blog post by programmer Louis Brandy, wherein he breaks down what Lomilar’s done so that lay folk can understand it.ĮvolutionChamber’s already come up with one ludicrous build order, which I’ve posted beneath the jump. It uses genetic algorithms to find powerful build orders, meaning his program takes a population of build orders, kills off the useless ones, and has the most successful ones reproduce asexually to create a new population, which tests itself again, and so on.

Over on StarCraft 2 forum Teamliquid, a poster who goes by Lomilar has been talking about a program he’s coded called EvolutionChamber.

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