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romnomz
United States54 Posts
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pandemicbob
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Guess what happens when and if you lose that expansion? You have enough minerals to not give a shit. Make a macro hatch so you can make more units or more drones. If you want to attack, but have a bunch of larvae but no gas to make roaches or more, just make a lot of lings, dispensable units. | ||
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DocNemesis
Philippines446 Posts
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Steel
Japan2283 Posts
Also, don't wait until your at 1k before you make that macro hatch. Again, I wouldn't worry too much about having excess minerals once your maxed. Just make sure it stays low in the midgame, by making macro hatcheries, getting upgrades and so on. Zerg always feels short on gas. In the late game its not uncommon to see zerg players with one or two bases fully saturated on gas but only a few workers on minerals. If your playing against terran you can drop spines to help defend drops. Against protoss you can make spines and spores to defend against dts. If you have the minerals to do it, might as well. It might not pay off all games, but you already have the spare minerals. ZvZ is so gas intensive, you can keep making drones and spines in key positions on the map. For example you can drop a bunch of spines in the middle of two pillars on Shakuras Plateau, certainly delaying your opponents army if you were to lose an engagement... yeah. | ||
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romnomz
United States54 Posts
 so is extra minerals somewhat normal (i know not 3-4 thousand minerals but just in general)? it appears as long as i have enough gas i can do what i want, i almost never have an issue of too few minerals hence this blog post, but just trying to make sure that im not doing something catastrophically wrong. | ||
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Bub
United States3518 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On September 05 2011 14:37 romnomz wrote: alright thanks so is extra minerals somewhat normal (i know not 3-4 thousand minerals but just in general)? it appears as long as i have enough gas i can do what i want, i almost never have an issue of too few minerals hence this blog post, but just trying to make sure that im not doing something catastrophically wrong.You will always have extra minerals in the later parts of the game because you gather more minerals than you can produce or keep up with (especially when the ceiling is 200/200). | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
The better your injects are the less minerals you'll have. Compensate for rudimentary injection skillz with macro hatches. Cheers. | ||
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