EPTThat's right! No more microing around for the first minute of the game. And no more minerals lost on missclicks and furious clicking.
My new worker split
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Sirverik
Belarus26 Posts
That's right! No more microing around for the first minute of the game. And no more minerals lost on missclicks and furious clicking. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States46541 Posts
 2. You're not the first person to do this (I've seen players do this before on their streams) 3. With HotS auto-splitting your starting workers for you, splitting techniques unfortunately will become irrelevant (unless you just stick to WoL) | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
On September 06 2012 03:40 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: 1. Very cool concept! 2. You're not the first person to do this (I've seen players do this before on their streams) 3. With HotS auto-splitting your starting workers for you, splitting techniques unfortunately will become irrelevant (unless you just stick to WoL) I thought the splits in WoL were just a habit from BW and they didn't yield any noticeable benefit. | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
I'm not sure if it's worth it tho, because even if they don't wait a lot, probe 4 to 6 still have to wait so perhaps it's more efficient to send them each on his patch. This needs benchmarking ! | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On September 06 2012 04:14 obesechicken13 wrote: I thought the splits in WoL were just a habit from BW and they didn't yield any noticeable benefit. You're young. | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
I'm pretty sure I read some measurements about it when SC2 was released that there was little to no measurable benefit to splits. The benefit was small enough in BW such that even like a 4/5 pool would only come out 5 seconds later. | ||
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
On September 06 2012 03:40 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: 3. With HotS auto-splitting your starting workers for you, splitting techniques unfortunately will become irrelevant (unless you just stick to WoL) What the flying fuck? Now SC2 even splits the workers for you? I wonder what will be the next automation they will implement in that game... little by little they push the limits of the reason, you give in a little here and a little there and in the end the game will be just like LoL. | ||
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Djagulingu
Germany3605 Posts
On September 06 2012 04:14 obesechicken13 wrote: I thought the splits in WoL were just a habit from BW and they didn't yield any noticeable benefit. Splits in BW is important because if you send all 4 initial workers on the same patch, only 1 will mine and the rest will wait for the mining worker so that they can mine from the patch, which means you only have 8 minerals by the time someone has 32. VERY significant difference in the early game, especially if you're doing a rush. In WoL though, workers are smart enough to know that the number of mineral patches in a base is greater than one without someone telling them this fact, so you only lose the time that gets spent between workers traveling from the clicked patch to the first available patch but still pros don't want to lose that time either. On September 06 2012 10:00 obesechicken13 wrote: I'm pretty sure I read some measurements about it when SC2 was released that there was little to no measurable benefit to splits. The benefit was small enough in BW such that even like a 4/5 pool would only come out 5 seconds later. If you're doing a 4/5 pool in BW, then 5 seconds is the difference between a dead marine and a marine in a well placed bunker or the difference between an unpowered gateway just short of producing a zealot and an unpowered gateway that has just produced a zealot; both of which can turn a loss into a win for the opponent. I believe it is more like a 10 seconds in a 4/5 pool in BW. In LotW though, I think we'll see units microing themselves. On topic: Idea is nice though, I used f1 splits with 6 different patches in open season times, then reverted back to 3-3, then tried out 2-2-2 (I once managed to do a BW-esque 2-2-1-1 too), sticked with 2-2-2. Then I quit SC2 and went back to BW for good. | ||
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Sirverik
Belarus26 Posts
It is also notable to mention that you save mining time because you no longer have to micro your workers into the closer mineral patches during the first minute of the game, which also makes this split more friendly for lower skill players. That said, it is sad (to me at least) that HoTS auto splits your workers, rendering this type of tricks largely irrelevant. I was also fully unaware that this split already existed, so I apologize for passing it off as my invention. | ||
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