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APM accounting in SC2 is dumb and broken for Zerg: if you're building 100 zerglings, you select all of your hatcheries with one action, select your larvae with
by murderfs 8y ago
APM accounting in SC2 is dumb and broken for Zerg: if you're building 100 zerglings, you select all of your hatcheries with one action, select your larvae with one action, and then hold down Z for 100 actions in a split second.
It's not unreasonable to have 200+ real APM in bursts, though. For example, at the beginning of games in Brood War, pretty much anyone competent is going to do something along the lines of the following in about 3 seconds:
click command center
build scv
select all scvs
mine a mineral patch
select a scv
mine a different mineral patch
select a scv
mine a different mineral patch
select a scv
mine a different mineral patch
click command center
set command center hotkey
set command center rally point
set camera hotkey
which is 280 APM. You'll see similar bursts during macro cycles, which are generally just (click building, press M) repeated 10 or so times in a short period.