[MutantGene]

Hi Folks,
Was just playing a game at Zerg. I usually have all my hatches on 4 and queens on 1. I can't seem to do this anymore. Any ideas?

[Apth]

Me:

Hatches on W
Queens on 4/5/6/7
Fast units on 1
Slow units on 2
Casters on 3
Drops/Flanking units on ~

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PiG:

[ROOTPetraeus]

Main hatchery on 1
Units on 2/3
Other hatchery's on 4
Nydus on 5

[Billy Stevens]

All hatchs on 4
Main Queen on 5
Natural Queen on 6
3rd Queen on 7

Main army on 1
Muta on 2
Specials on 3 (infestors or banes or broodlords)

[iM tgun]

All hatcheries on 7
Queens on 4, 5, 6
Army on 1, 2, 3
Tertiary buildings (proxy hatches, spire, pool, evo chambers etc) on 8, 9, 0

[wTlzq]

all hatcheries on 3, individual hatcheries with their respective queens on subsequent numbers ( 4,5,6...)
main harassing units on 1, engagement army on 2

Originally Posted by Petraeus

Nydus on 5

nice 1 pet, explains why your army is always everywhere at once

[FS.Kezz]

Guys I'm pretty sure that the OP is having an issue with hotkeying his units/structures properly, not asking for what your hotkeys are :P.

Are you able to hotkey other things normally? Maybe you accidently over-wrote the ctl+number binds so that they no longer create control groups.

[Apth]

Originally Posted by 'kezz.,

Guys I'm pretty sure that the OP is having an issue with hotkeying his units/structures properly, not asking for what your hotkeys are :P.

Wow, I totally misread that.

My bad OP. Have some rep.

[MutantGene]

Solved. Stupid me. Forgot to have them all seleced to add to the hotkey.
Now I have to vacuum all the hair off the floor.

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	Apth:
	FS.Kezz:	Haha glad to hear you fixed it.

[TADivinity]

Originally Posted by MutantGene

Solved. Stupid me. Forgot to have them all seleced to add to the hotkey.

Errrrmm, not sure if I have misunderstood you...But you know you can just hold Shift+ # and it automatically adds the specified building/unit to the already-created hot-key group?

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TAkrunch:

J-bag, spewing knowledge

[ROCCAT_Savior]

Personally I have my hatches on 4, queens on 5, evo's rebound to my mouse, along with nydus if I ever use them. I inject using the backspace method, with backspace rebound to 'w'.
I use my spacebar as '0', so I can check on inject progress and such. Army on 1, Festors 2, counter/flank on 3.
There's a thread on TL about the 'DarkGrid' Method, you could check that out if your interested in a completely new hotkey layout. I've adapted my hotkey layout to mimic that whilst still making it feel comfortable for me.

[Billy Stevens]

Well since OP's problem is solved now, this thread is a "how do you have your hotkeys set up?" thread :P

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FS.Kezz:

[CyniX]

I recently did the herd derp all queens on 4, all hatches on 5 and do a half-assed inefficient method of injecting with much mouse scrolling and redundant clicks to get between bases. As soon as SEA comes back online I'm gonna hardcore practice all hatches on 'W' with Queens on 4,5,6 because I really feel like my old method is holding me back.

However something that I'm generally interested in is if people individually hotkey Ultralisks or just chuck them in a combined hotkey with other units. I feel Ultralisks should be individually hotkey'd so they can go in first to soak up damage but rarely see people do it.

[Theend]

Hotkey - Reason
1-main army (ling,multa etc) - A - clickable
2-main army (bane,infes etc) - u will want some control over them (position, safety etc)
3-hatch (all) - make troop and inject
4-hatch (main only) - i only make production building on main

easy hotkey setup suitable for novice like me =)

[breadnbiscuit]

how do you put hatch on W?

[CyniX]

Originally Posted by breadnbiscuit

how do you put hatch on W?

Go to your Hotkey options make 'W' a hotkey for something like '9' or '0' (something you wouldn't ordinarily use because it's too far away).

To do this edit the setting for "Create Hotkey 9" and "Add to Hotkey 9" Ctrl + W and Shift + W respectively. Then make "Select Hotkey 9" --> W

gg.

[breadnbiscuit]

Originally Posted by CyniX

Go to your Hotkey options make 'W' a hotkey for something like '9' or '0' (something you wouldn't ordinarily use because it's too far away).

To do this edit the setting for "Create Hotkey 9" and "Add to Hotkey 9" Ctrl + W and Shift + W respectively. Then make "Select Hotkey 9" --> W

gg.

okay thanks shall try

[syfChadMann]

Just an idea.. but would it work to have all hatches and all queens on the same hotkey...
Select that hotkey then inject on to portraits in the selection group?.. if you tab to have the queens selected then v-click on each hatch - theoretically the closest queen with energy will inject...? anyone tried that method out.. might work well... ?

Otherwise, I use (when offracing zerg) 4-all queens, 5 all hatches and use the base cycle method to inject (bound to caps lock - if you ever vs my zerg and I say GLHF or GG in all caps, you know why >.<)
then 1 lings(and/or)roaches/hydra's, 2 banes or hydra's, 3 Muta's or infestors...
Often I use 1 as All army group.. so I can move them together then go to 2 or 3 to micro speciality units..

[FS.Kezz]

I just watched

this video here

this video here

by vilePsy [American GM zerg] which contains a couple of methods to quickly inject all hatcheries.

Enjoy

[nirvAnA]

check out pig / glade's hotkey guide

http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=3074

[AvMyuu]

i really think this is a matter of preference, most bw players i see, like july puts their hatches on 4,5,6,7 and manually selects the queen. if you arent really quick id use 4,5,6,7 for queens or you can put all queens to all control group and use shift backspace but just rebind backspace unless your left handed lol

[Kluey]

1- All hatcheries.
2- Army #3
3- Army #2
4- Army #1
5- Hatchery #1
6- Hatchery #2
7- Hatchery #3
8- Hatchery #4

9-0 are usually overlords for scouting.

A lot of Korean progamers use the 5-8 hatcheries to inject with. It's in my opinion the most reliabe way to inject because you can tap 5 and see how much time until your next inject.