One of the major issues people have with StarCraft 2, at this stage of development, is the updated control scheme. The new User Interface (UI) constitutes a major overhaul to the now-outdated, almost-10 year old system of the original game. Among the obvious improvements, some changes are the cause of many arguments that are raging all over StarCraft 2 fan sites and forums.
The changes all deal with automation. The new UI will require less attention from the player and will not force him to micro-manage his game as much as the old one did. Some people argue that this represents a cheapening of the game and the skill it requires to play, while others claim that this is a logical progression and a clearly warranted update to the outdated control scheme.
In this post, we will review the proposed changes:
1) Auto-Mining Peons
In StarCraft 1, every peon (Drone, Probe or SCV) a player built out of his headquarters building would idle near its selected rally point. Unlike other, more modern games of this type (including Blizzard’s WarCraft 3), it was impossible to rally the workers to the resources by right clicking them. Instead, a player had to manually select each and every one of his peons and send them to the a mineral patch or to the Vespene Gas extractor. When selecting a group of workers, high level players would still send them to the minerals individually, since they tended to clump together trying to mine one patch, slightly reducing efficiency.
This proved to be a major hindrance to slower players - having to focus on one’s base to keep the economy going every time a new peon popped out meant having less time to focus on the battle itself.
This system would be replaced with something that already exists in WarCraft 3. All the player has to do is select the HQ building, right click on the resource location, and the built workers would get to work right as they came out.
SC2Blog Verdict: This should have been patched into StarCraft 1 by now.

2) Multiple Building Selection
Many recent RTS games have reduced the focus on building multiple buildings with the exact same purpose, like StarCraft does to increase the potential rate of unit production. StarCraft 2 still keeps to this formula, though, but an improvement in this scheme is proposed: Instead of having to select each building individually and issuing the unit production order, multiple buildings of the same type could be selected. That way, a player with 4 Gateways would be able to click once to produce 4 Stalkers (assuming he has sufficient resources for them).
This would streamline the often-tedious procedure of keeping unit production going, especially considering StarCraft’s 5 unit queue limit for each building and the need to churn out units like mad in some matches. Again, this reduces the player’s need to focus on his base and allows him to manage his units in exploration, battle or positioning on the field. Will this really reduce the gap between newbies and professional players?
SC2Blog Verdict: Another logical improvement.

3) Automatic Unit Formation
In StarCraft, and more than likely, in StarCraft 2 as well, unit positioning plays a very important role. The brilliantly executed meld of melee and ranged attacking units lives and dies on the starting position of each unit as it enters the battle. A group of properly positioned Marines, helped by a handful of Firebats, could repel a much larger number of attacking melee units like Zealots or Zerglings. The same attacking group would annihilate those Terrans if they managed to surround and/or separate them, taking few losses.
StarCraft had a very unforgiving unit formation/pathing system. Often, units (un)managed by less skillful players would march to battle in a single file and die before firing a single shot. Players had to make sure each and every one of their units were positioned smartly to make the best use of them, according to the threat they faced and the conditions of the battlefield.
The StarCraft 2 developers are now entertaining the idea of creating automatic unit formations. We do not yet know the nature of these formations, but can speculate as to how they will be implemented. Other RTS games have several formations you can choose from (e.g. box formation, arrow, straight line) while some do as much as make sure your melee units are positioned at the front while weaker, ranged units are protected in the back. How far will StarCraft 2 take automatic unit formation?
SC2Blog Verdict: Properly positioning units and “formatting” them to best take advantage of their strengths while hiding their weaknesses is one of the most important and skill demanding features of every RTS game - with StarCraft being no exception. We hope Blizzard doesn’t take this too far. We would like to see improvements to general pathing, however.

4) Context-Dependent Unit Behavior
Issuing an attack-move order? In StarCraft 1, Medics grouped with Marines who were given this order would run head first into the enemy while the marines paused to attack from a safe distance. In StarCraft 2, the dev team promised, the Terran Medics will receive additional training, allowing them to interpret their commands in a smarter way. We don’t yet know of other examples for more educated unit behavior, but with this precedent, others are sure to come.
SC2Blog Verdict: While we’re usually proponents of streamlining the game and increasing automation, this might be taking it too far. The player should be the one deciding what units do - even at the cost of them performing stupid moves when he doesn’t notice. If there’s anything that differentiates the pros from the noobs, it’s their ability to control all their units quickly and skillfully at all times.

5) Smart Casting
Another improvement to the normal (as of StarCraft 1) behavior of units. Previously, a group of the same units with a special ability who were given a command to use the ability would all activate it together. This would result in 12 Ghosts all locking down a single Carrier, a group of Templars Psi-Storming a single spot on the field, or Queens using up valuable energy by casting ensnare on a single position.
In StarCraft 2, “Smart Casting” would allow the player to use abilities when selecting a group - only this time, only one of the units (the closest one, no less) would use it. A smart player would select a group of Templars, shift click a few locations on the field, and cover a huge area with a devastating super Psi-Storm.
SC2Blog Verdict: We approve. The end result of this is the same, only less mouse clicks are required. Careful planning will still be needed to execute a good move, just like in StarCraft 1 - only this time, it won’t require superhuman dexterity.

Any changes to the winning formula that is StarCraft would obviously lead to many arguments among fans, and probably among the developers themselves. We will all have to decide which update is essential to the game and will allow all players to enjoy it better, while making sure they do not detract from the skill required to master StarCraft 2.
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The Gross Domestic Product in 1997 was RMB7, 446.3 billion Yuan, RMB7, 939.6 billion Yuan in 1998, RMB8.205.4 billion Yuan 1999, RMB8.940.4 billion Yuan 2000, RMB9, 593.3 billion Yuan in 2001 and RMB10.2398 trillion Yuan in 2002 and become the sixth largest economic entity of the world.China's economic development level was also improved with a high speed, the per capita GDP was nearly US$1,000, the people's living standard has been improving by a big margin and the problem of providing them with adequate food and clothing was settled, and some places and people have already took the lead in accession into the middle-advanced level.Viewed from the increase of national economy and its development prospects, China also behaved tremendously well. The economic rate of increase during 1998-2001 was about 7.5%, which was still the highest in the world. The economic rate of increase of 2002 is 8% and is expected to be about 8% in the years to come. Meanwhile, the macro-economic environment was fairly stable. The government has, in recent years, energetically taken positive financial policies to stabilize exchange rate and reduce deposit interest rate so as to promote the development of economy; as a result, the residents' savings have been on constant rise and have exceeded RMB8 trillion Yuan. From the perspective of factors of production, China's production costs consisting of labor force, raw materials and service and so on still possess powerful global competitiveness. The cost of payment is enormously under that of the developed countries and as well under that of most developing countries. China also increasingly elevates its economic opening degree. The total volume of export and import amounts US$620.8 billion in 2002, covering more than 40% of the proportion of GDP. Of which there is over US$325.6 billion of export, covering about 25% of the proportion of GDP, even more than that in many developed market economy countries. And foreign investment deposit amounts for more than US430 billion, covering about 1/3 of the GDP of the whole year; and an annual foreign investment of about US$50 billion has been absorbed, covering about 4% of the GDP. The above indicated that China's favorable macro-economic environment offers realistic conditions and reveals a broad prospect for foreign investment. 2. The outstanding improvement of hard environment for foreign investment guarantees foreign investment China, with vast territory, abundant resources, beautiful landscape, agreeable climate, is fit for various kinds and scales of foreign investment. The area of China's land is more than 9.6 million square km, and is only next to that of Russia and Canada. China is characterized by both the continental monsoon climate and complicated and diversified climate. Also China stretches from the south to the north the equator belt, torrid zone, sub-torrid zone, warm temperate zone, temperate zone and cold temperate zone, and there exists in these regions great discrepancies of natural conditions and evident diversities. As to the natural resources, China possesses rich agricultural resources, various advanced planting and aquaculture industries with complete categorizes and perfect production system including agriculture, forestry, livestock and fishery. Dozens of mineral resources topping the world and huge storage of natural resources make China one of the few largest countries in the world with the most resources, which enable China to have great superiority in absorbing resource-seeking foreign investment. At the same time, rich natural resources just support various kinds of manufacturing or service industries for foreign investment. 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Firstly, China's political situation was stable and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which created necessary social conditions for attracting foreign investment. Secondly, the initially established market economy system and the gradually perfected laws and rules created favorable legal environment for foreign investment. Thirdly, with the raising of educational level and amplification of opening up degree, the people's diathesis improved, their greatly changed ideological ideas and dwindled discrepancies of languages, cultures and customs, have offered proper social environment for foreign investment. Fourthly, the amount of labor force with improved diathesis was sufficient. The cost advantage caused by abundant cheap labor forces provided tremendous opportunities for foreign investors to invest on the labor-intensive industry, actually, over half of the foreign investment gathered in the labor-intensive industries. On the other hand, China also possessed related number of skilled labor forces that have accepted favorable training and education, and can meet the requirements of foreign investment on high-tech industries. In the fields of enterprise management, law service and accounting, etc, there was deficiency for the special sophisticated talents; however, this status is changing. Fifthly, related foreign investment policies have also adapted to the requirements of market economy and international rules. Industrial policy has become an important way for China to control foreign investment. According to the development strategy of national economy and industrial development, China established comprehensive industrial policies for foreign investment to lead them to invest in target industry. The Chinese government in April 2002 issued the newly amended "Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries," encouraged more foreign investment to flow into target industries, for example, agriculture, resource development, infrastructure construction, export and high-tech industry, however, the government has specifically prescribed industries those are not allowed to erect exclusive foreign-funded enterprises and the strategic industries and investment fields that the Chinese part must hold a controlling share. According to the commitments to WTO entry, the opening degree of the industries will be increased by a large margin. For example, telecom service industry is to shifted from the prohibited category into limitation category, and the geographical area and business scope of finance, insurance, commerce and foreign trade and so on will be further enlarged. The strategy of Western Development has already been carried out in order to develop regional economy harmoniously, and the government has enacted the "Advantageous Industries Catalogue for Foreign Investment in Middle and Eastern Regions" to practice preferential policies for foreign investment in these advantageous industries As for foreign trade management, China has greatly reduced the customs, gradually called off the plan, quota and warrant management, ensuring the transparency of establishment and implementation of related policies. In addition, foreign exchange control will also be loosened step by step. 4. The Chinese government will further perfect the investment environment in the future1) Continue to enhance the essential factors for a soft environment for investment Among the essential factors for attracting foreign investment in China, the soft environment is particularly important, and the most important is the marketization degree and foreign investment policies, including the construction of laws and systems, perfection of socialist market economy, establishment and implementation of policies and encouraging foreign investment measures, etc. In consideration of China's unique national conditions, and under the circumstances of given macro-economic essential factors and hard investment environment, the soft environment essential factors have decisive impact on the scale and quality of foreign investment. Enhancement of the soft environment essential factor is a systematic project and is essential to accelerate the process of domestic marketization construction. Foreign investment is the production of market economy and market economy in return is a must for its existence and development. The Chinese government has already completely straightened out and amended related laws and rules and policy-based documents according to the requirements of market economy and the commitments to WTO agreement, also has enabled laws and rules and policies to be established openly, impartially, and transparently. At the same time, the government has ameliorated the investment management approval, improved the service efficiency and reduced approval linkage by taking the opportunity of transforming governmental function. 2) Further improve the quality of macro-economy essential factors and amplify the market opening degree One of the measures is to pay equal attention to the intension and extension styled economic increase, give priority to the intension style, thus to enlarge the market scale, improve economic development level, exhibit a favorable increasing prospect, and to amplify the input of foreign capital and as well to make effective use of it; a second measure is to further amplify the market opening degree. Pioneering under the present circumstances new investment fields and reducing the cost of foreign capital input has already become a crying need for attracting new foreign investment. It includes freshly open or amplify certain fields, for example, finance, insurance, telecommunications and circulation and so on; loosen the share right restriction on foreign investment in certain fields, for example, commerce, foreign trade, automobile, chemical industry and certain development projects like energy, infrastructures and mineral resources, etc. 3) Further perfect the essential factors of hard environment for investment The improvement of the Chinese hard environment for investment has made great headways, and the bottleneck to economic development by infrastructures including transport, communications and energy etc has been essentially eliminated. Therefore, as for the essential factors of hard investment environment, the most pivotal is to accelerate the marketization reform on essential factors supply, to speed up the combination of domestic market and international market, to integrate the quality and price level of service offer, energy utilization, raw material and component part supply with the international market, and to completely release the appealing of hard environmental essential factors to foreign investment. After China's entry into the WTO, the reform and opening up has entered a new development stage and China will open to the outside world in an all-round, multi-layered and wide-ranging way. In November 2002, the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held and the new central collective leadership was generated, which maintained the stability of national political situation and the continuality of various guidelines and policies, also safeguarded China's reform and opening up to advance smoothly. China has already put forward the grand development goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way. To realize the goal, absorbing foreign investment will exert an important irreplaceable role. Also, foreign investment will acquire better development. (香港公司注册网)

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