Hey guys,
I'm around 1100 Elo and recently started to play ranked a bit more. I noticed that I usually have 2-4 Minutes TC Idle time in mid feudal age. Also my eco balance is usually far off from clicking castle age without floating wood or using the market 2-3 times. This is due to the early aggression where I always go for scout or archer rushes.
Last game I got vikings and thought: Why not sit back and let my eco kick in? It felt so much easier to sit back, build some skirms, care about my eco balance till castle age, boom, make a defensive siege workshop to defend and at some point win with superior eco. I also felt more relaxed without the small time window of doing early damage.
I know it's a small sample size :D. But have you made similar experiences in low elo? I can imagine that with low APM it's more worth to focus on eco and macro instead of overmicroing scout/archers while the own eco is in shambles.
PS: I can imagine that at higher levels, the players can just maintain their eco disproportionately better while putting on early pressure.
I'm around 1100 Elo and recently started to play ranked a bit more. I noticed that I usually have 2-4 Minutes TC Idle time in mid feudal age. Also my eco balance is usually far off from clicking castle age without floating wood or using the market 2-3 times. This is due to the early aggression where I always go for scout or archer rushes.
Last game I got vikings and thought: Why not sit back and let my eco kick in? It felt so much easier to sit back, build some skirms, care about my eco balance till castle age, boom, make a defensive siege workshop to defend and at some point win with superior eco. I also felt more relaxed without the small time window of doing early damage.
I know it's a small sample size :D. But have you made similar experiences in low elo? I can imagine that with low APM it's more worth to focus on eco and macro instead of overmicroing scout/archers while the own eco is in shambles.
PS: I can imagine that at higher levels, the players can just maintain their eco disproportionately better while putting on early pressure.