I'm not sure what you are into boy, but your head need some oil check.
I dont understand why ppl still cry about roach. It is now the same as tankling was: eco cemetery.
I recon you refer to that Excel sheet some guy made, and the conclusions yall made that roach is the best unit.
This is wrong on so many basis, that i cannot even express.
Let me explain with this:
It's like you saying Ace is the best card in poker. It is true, in a sense, but you miss the whole point of the game. The game winning mechanism in the game is not having the best card, but having the best combinations of cards.
Same here:
The excel made only a rough estimate on how much energy it takes to kill zerg units. This is while not a negligible part of the game, but that is not the whole point.
It never calculate about how much time it takes to kill a unit. What is the range of the marines? How much MS the zerg unit has? If it can reach / kill any of your marines.
I still dont understand his calculation with shattering. You just cannot calculate that into single unit killing. PERIOD. This is the whole point of it: it damages nearby units too. If you are talking about single unit, or single spawner like the excel does, you cannot calculate shattering into. The whole idea is wrong and the whole equation is wrong there. Maybe i am missing something, really correct me if im stupid.
I mean dont misunderstand me, i'm not shitting on the kid who made this, rather than shitting on you for taking it as face value, and make statements like: cAlCuLaTiOnS sHoWn ThAt TaR rOaCh Is BeTtEr ThAn PrImALs AnD uLtRas
The excel is OK until calculating how much energy is needed to kill a single unit. Everything after is based on wrong equation, thus completely wrong.
Stop shitting on roach. She suffered enough.
Roach is love
Roach is life.
Read the spreadsheet again. The spreadsheet assumes that shatter is always bouncing to its max extent, so it's maximizing the marine damage as much as possible. Shatter does 1/2 dmg, bouncing 2 times, effectively doubling marine DPS. Roaches conditionally outperform Primals and Ultralisks vs Veteran and Elite Marines. That is all that the spreadsheet is saying. If you want to bring in other factors, like Roaches moving quicker then Ultralisks and coming in at a lower tech level, you aren't exactly swinging it in favor of the Primals and the Ultralisks. Finally, you can not call roaches an eco cemetery while also ignoring that Primals and Ultralisks cost more, both in supply, tech upgrades, and overall spawner cost. If you want to adjust this to cost, Roaches are generally more efficient at tanking Terran DPS then spawners which come in at a higher armor level.
Sooooooo.First of all for some reason you missed my main point:
How *ed general conclusion some guy made from the excel . Namely: "tar roach is better than primals and ultras"
Do you agree with that statement?
Second of all:
The argument of me, stating - that guy is *ed - was that it's not the game's main and or only aspect the energy efficiency.
I think i don't have to further explain this: the game is complex. Again: this was aimed at the statement.
Thrid:
"calculation with shattering. You just cannot calculate that into single unit killing."
Do you agree with that?
I mean come on man. If you wanna argue about strawman arguments, points that i did not make, let me know and i'll do the same.
It's literally there: you cannot calculate shattering into single unit killing. This is a direct critique of the excel what you defend so vividly, but still missing the point i made.
Whenever you make like a study or experiment, first you make rules. The spreadsheet's first rule that it calculates data on killing single units (single spawner units). Then it changes halfway in to address shattering.
AND then calculates with that data, on how much marine you need to defend against 1 spawner (based on bad equation, later explained).
I'll just leave this here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias#DataWhatever, i stated too: it is good for energy / unit but everything after is wrong.
I really don't see your argument based on all of this... I think this is a typical example when someone reacts based on what he feels was communicated. You felt like i am attacking the spreadsheet, when my main point was not that. (however yes, i made points about the spreadsheet to prove my point)
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Again: this was a strawman argument, nevertheless i will address it:
"If you want to bring in other factors, like Roaches moving quicker then Ultralisks and coming in at a lower tech level, you aren't exactly swinging it in favor of the Primals and the Ultralisks. Finally, you can not call roaches an eco cemetery while also ignoring that Primals and Ultralisks cost more, both in supply, tech upgrades, and overall spawner cost. If you want to adjust this to cost, Roaches are generally more efficient at tanking Terran DPS then spawners which come in at a higher armor level."
I don't want to bring in factors just for my entertainment, or to be a smartass. The spreadsheet calculates: "Marines necessary to defend against one spawner". How can you do that without having AT LEAST the MS of different units? But let's just make a broad measurement / statement that "3 seconds until roach reach attack range of a marine". I'm okay with that, and you can calculate that.
The equation it uses i think actually calculates how many marines needed to kill X unit UNTIL the next spawns. So let's say the ultra for example: 8 second respawn time -> the amount of marines you need to kill an ultra in 8 second.
Then add to that: it calculate to this the flawed shattering dmg to single unit killing, skewing this number much much more. It effectively triples the marine single unit damage (when looking at armor 3+ units against t1 marine) . Good luck holding 1 ultra spawner with 5 marines with shattering. Nobody need to go ingame testing this to know you wont hold an ultra sapwner even with 15 T1 marines. Or feel free to do it, and let me know the results.
So yeah, just as i said: it's nice calculation about energy usage and stuff, nothing else. And the statement that was made based on this is just pure single digit IQ.