Good to hear you're sticking with it and getting better. Your APM will rise naturally as you play more and get better at managing your time and keeping yourself busy. Around 50 APM is plenty to play the game properly, you don't need it in the 100's like pros have to enjoy the game and be better at it than most people. High APM is only a good thing if its being put to proper use, anyone can click around and press buttons like crazy and get to like 200APM but if you're not doing useful things with your APM you'll still lose.

Don't worry about your APM. It's the kind of thing that comes naturally in time. Focus on remembering to do everything you need to do, remembering your probes, remembering your pylons, remembering to spend your money, looking at the minimap.. it takes time, but when you start getting used to it, you'll see your APM rise without any conscious effort from you.

I've had SC2 for around a month now, and my only real complaint about the game overall is that Roaches seem a teeny bit more powerful than they should be.  (I assume they are supposed to be the Zerg version of the Marauders, so I get they neet to be tough, but 8-12 Marines(In bunkers) should do a bit more damage than they do when focus-fireing one.

As for the game overall, I really like most of the campaign (Some missions weren't to my taste, but that's true o every RTS for me.)

I haven't done any online play, though, as I suck even against a 1 on 1 Hard AI...not to mention the 4V4 Insane.

(Seriously, the game hates me...all 4 enemies combine their troops and ruch each base 1 at a time...while my guys sent the equivalent of 3-5 zealots and a stalker each, to different locations.)

-Twilight Storm | Down with Mach 10 Zerglings...

EDIT:  Torin, the Queen's spawn larvae will only drain if you have more than 2 hatcheries under the control of 1 queen, which isn't necessary if you keep her at it, though I do get what you're saying about the pain of micro here.

I'm mostly trying for achievements right now.  mainly the one where you have to whin a 3v3 insane with one of each race on both teams...

on the subject of the roaches I brought up tho, anyone else feel they're just a little OP?  I'm not saying they're game breaking, but their damage resistance combined with rapid burrowed regeneration, a good player would only lose them to detectors or a swarm of focus fire.

I favor the Terrans, or occasionally Protoss, so maybe I just haven't played enough zerg to know if there is a downside to Roaches?

-Twilight Storm

When you play against AI try cannon rushing with Protoss. You just need to start building first cannons a bit farther away and then creep closer to his main structure (you will need to figure out the minimum distance from his base where the AI does not send all his workers to kill your pylon and building cannons).

Units in campaign have different stats and abilities then in MP.

Online you can also play with other players against AI and you can play Free For All (I suggest you try this to get a feel how live opponents can play).

Roaches in online play are not that powerful, actually they get destroyed easily by many different units (they were nerfed a lot during beta and then later buffed a bit again). Against terrans they are only good against unupgraded marines, helions and reapers.

As for spawn larva, one queen is needed to 1 hatchery. Spawn larva costs 25 energy and 25 energy needs a bit more then 40s to recharge. But spawn larvae duration on a hatchery is 40s so if you keep injecting every 40s that one queen will always have near 0 energy. If you see energy rising you are not efficient enough.

Is that 38 real seconds or 38 game seconds on fastest speed?

Yes, 3 queens is basically a must if you do not like losing to early Terran or Protoss air.

The Zerg are in a really bad place, the switch made to their tech tree by putting Hydralisks at tier 2, and trying to replace their tech location with a combination of Roaches and Banelings at tier 1.5 just doesn't work. Which makes the Zerg rely exclusively on Queens to do the Hydralisk's job until you can get to them, and doomed the Lurker at tier 3. I don't know how they can continue to say Roaches and Banelings overlap in role with the Lurker, when there is a fundamental difference between them, they all attack in a different manner which makes their roles dramatically different, yet they keep saying the exact same thing. The Queen's Spawn Larva are a requirement to keep up with the Terrans and the Protoss, while their macro abilities are an option not a requirement.

Then, there is the loss of the Dark Archon when the Protoss are in such a dire situation, which I simply don't understand; when they had a golden opportunity to make the Protoss even more defined as two factions working in concert.

No, I would say Zerg is underdeveloped. It just lacks options that are easily available to other two races. And it is less fun to play with because of it.

I am really hoping the next expansion fixes this or I am probably going to quit SC2 (at least playing it, watching tournaments is much more fun then watching other sports)

When you turn on ingame timer it shows you game time which changes depending on game speed. But you should always test with fastest because that is ladder speed.

Well on normal game speed game seconds are supposed to be equal to real seconds and fastest speed makes everything faster.

The only logical reason that I can come up with why it is different is the skill difference. Pros will be used to different seconds, while scrubs will not and it is another thing which gives advantage to pros.

This game must be the most overrated game ever.