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Ricercar
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States6 Posts
March 31 2011 01:38 GMT
#1
Just something I've been thinking of while playing on the ladder.

Is there any relevance in the fact that sometimes zergs will get shafted with hatch placement? My point being, that if a zerg is in a 12 o'clock position, the drones have to travel around the hatch and to the rally, before they finally start mining, whereas Protoss and Terrans' workers come straight out of the closest point of the CC/Nexus and start mining a LOT faster than drones would.

Does this affect the zerg player in the beginning stages of the game? or is it such a minuscule difference that it doesn't even matter?

Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
March 31 2011 01:42 GMT
#2
There was a thread on this before and the general response, which I agree with, is that it just doesn't matter.
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Backpack
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1776 Posts
March 31 2011 01:43 GMT
#3
Zerg's get more workers out faster so it doesn't make a difference
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Tatari
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1179 Posts
March 31 2011 01:51 GMT
#4
The difference is so small that it really makes no difference. Zerg doesn't get majorly shafted and whatnot just because of their spawn position (other than close position, and that's an entirely different matter...)
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gogogadgetflow
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2583 Posts
March 31 2011 01:51 GMT
#5
There is positional imbalance in zvz, yes. In the other matchups it washes out because zerg gets more workers anyways
Turgid
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1623 Posts
March 31 2011 02:04 GMT
#6
It doesn't matter and also keeping the larvae on one side of the hatch means you can actually click on the eggs, they'll never be blocked by the hatchery.
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TheNessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4158 Posts
March 31 2011 02:42 GMT
#7
this was 100 times worse in bw. assuming you're talking about Sc2. If it wasn't a problem then, then it's for sure not a problem now hahah
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