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New additions like these drove AoE II to the bestsellers list, but it was a finely tuned random map generator together with some superb balancing of multiple viable victory strategies that kept people hopping onto its multiplayer for years afterward. This meant lots of things in practice, but most of all it signaled that you finally had an effective way of protecting siege weapons and ranged units from close-range attackers-barring superior battleground tactics and strategy from your enemies. You could ring the town bell to call all the villagers home to fortify your headquarters and fend off attackers with a barrage of arrow fire, and groups of units would actually hold their formation during movement, with fast units slowing down to accommodate the slowest. This huge professional scene persevered with millionaire stars and sellout crowds at stadium-sized arenas even a decade on from release. It'd be remiss of me to not also mention StarCraft's immense popularity in South Korea, where it became a mainstream cultural phenomenon that led to live television broadcasts and dedicated channels-at a time when any TV coverage of games was rare.
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As is common in online gaming circles when one strategy becomes dominant, rushing early in a match became frowned upon and was often subject to pre-match gentlemen's agreements. Blizzard went to great lengths to limit these sorts of balance issues longterm, however, with frequent patches that tweaked the numbers under the hood, but rushing remained viable if executed well.
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(The Zerg were most effective in this strategy because their unit build time was shortest, hence the "Zerg rush" meme.) The designers had limited you to a maximum of 12 units selected at a time, but it took far fewer than this to pull off a successful rush early on.
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That said, at the game's release, there was one unbeatable multiplayer strategy: to quickly build a large number of your chosen race's most basic unit, then "rush" an enemy base before they have time to set up their defenses.
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