I remember that program! Interesting though that my experience with it was different; I recall that letting it run for enough time it was able to come up with viable and often quite efficient build orders. By the way, I do seem to remember that putting 2 probes on an extractor was slightly more efficient (per probe) than 3 :)

Part of my problem was definitely what I was asking it to do. Going after blink so fast left me open to faster all ins like 2rax/2gate, 6 pools, etc. Being slightly slower than a 4gate and with more tech investment puts you even further behind if you can't do damage with the push. A better way to phrase it might be that the build worked, just not in the context of the metagame at the time.

I had to look it up again to be sure, but 2 on minerals 3 on gas haha: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/140055-scientif...

This is true. I was on the higher end of the SC2 ladder (diamond 1v1) and still couldn't execute it consistently. One of many reasons I'm not a pro :)

One thing that helps (fwiw) is to recognize a diagnostic.....for example, if at minute 4 you are unable to build a gateway, it means you messed up the probe count at minute 2. That gives you almost immediate feedback on where the problem happened, without having to watch the replay.

Hey, thanks, I was looking for that this week!