Cody Conners writes the following to Day 9 about his standard “two-gate” protoss strategy starting build order:

In a number of dailies you’ve mentioned your preference for two-gate style Protoss builds. Figuring that you, with your heart of hearts, wouldn’t try and lead anyone astray I decided to give it a shot. All I can say, my friend, is hoooooly shit.

I used to favor a four-gate build (ala WhiteRA a month or so ago), with a big, daunting push around 58 food (around 7 minutes). But let me tell you, Day9, the two-gate style builds that I have experimented with just feel so natural. First off, it’s extremely pleasant to be able to get that expansion up earlier. Second off, the build … See Morephilosophically/ideally satisfying. Because I’m two gating early and getting the cybernetics core up sometime later, I have this solid proletariat, zealot push I can make in the early game. It’s so gratifying seeing my blue-collar, zealots rolling five deep and cleaning up any poorly planned zerg FE expansion builds. Do you know how many zerglings a zealot can kill, Sean? A lot, a whole lot. And the cool things is, the number of zerglings that can be killed increases exponentially with the number of zealots you have. It’s like the number of zealots you have squared will give you the number of zerglings you can slay. I can’t even count how many gallons of zergling blood has been spilled since I started two gating.

Good lord, and the economy, Sean, the fucking economy. Like I said before, I was expanding sometime near 58 food before (as/after I was making my first four-gate push). Now, because four-gating served me well for weeks and weeks, so I’m not going to talk too much shit about my old habits, but the transition to the mid/late game is just so much … See Moresmoother with this two-gate, earlish expand build. I have so much money flowing in, so early. Like tons of money. I feel like Battle.net should take in to account inflation and adjust my mineral/gas account accordingly, because I’m making so much bank.

I went 15/0 right before the beta closed, 15 and fucking 0. Obviously, success like that comes with rewards. My girlfriend can barely keep her hands off me, strangers on the street cannot help but notice the steeze that I exude as they walk past me, and I think the Korean foreign exchange student my girlfriend tutors looks at me differently now. We haven’t ever talked, but I think he just knows I kill it at Starcraft.

Thanks a million Day9. (Sorry it took 4 posts, was hella long.)