I guess I have to pay more attention to scouting, that's defenitely true. Of course that situation with a hero was a blunder, but I didn't realize that scouting in general is so important.
I guess no one is really arguing against the idea of quick development, but I think (in FFA) it has some side effects which you don't take into account - I guess because you don't consider them as a big problem since your playing technique is (in most games) far greater than your opponents.
the question is: what strategy would you favour if you played against opponents as skilled as you? my suggestion is that in some cases you would have turn to balanced development strategy. what do you think about that?