there's point a i believe.

Nevertheless there are other ways to find whether your opponent is building particular units or not. The same for other races. For zerg yeah you see an egg building for unit, however you never know which one he is building anyway. Until you'll find an Ultralisk Cavern, spawning pool or hydralisk den well you might just as well assume that he is going for mass drones. In other words scouting.

So in terran barracks yeah, the building is definately flashing, though whether the guy is building marines or ghosts, well until the unit is out you never know anyway.

3rd. Don't worry about this.

E28

34 Posts

October 22 2014 04:40 GMT

#32

Are you kidding me, I think it is all part of the Blizzard's attempt to balance it out.

Starting w/ Terran, you can view all the blinking whether it's producing units or getting upgrades from engineering bay/armory or doing research in other buildings and add-ons.
For Zerg, you cannot view any upgrades or research and you have no idea what unit will spawn from those eggs.
For Protoss, you are able to see the Forge or the Cybernetics Core rolling or Stargate flashing, but that is it. You cannot view any of the research that might be happening at Robotics Bay Support or Arbiter Tribunal.

The reason that I'm saying it's a balance issue is b/c important information could be given away to the opponent suppose the terran player does a scan at the opponent protoss's base and realize there is a Robotics Bay Support flashing/rolling/blinking and can easily figure out the Protoss player is going for a speed shuttle strategy. (because who would research scarab capacity or scarab damage upgrade early in the game?)

Similarly in ZvZ, if the Spawning pool starts showing signs of speedling upgrade, giving away that information would be crucial in a ZvZ matchup.

For those reasons and many more, I think it was certainly Blizzard's intention to show only some of the buildings that are going through upgrades/unit production.

pebble444

Italy2497 Posts

October 22 2014 12:49 GMT

#33

As for "production" , on a technical level, the gateway and stargate don' t actually produce anything. They are portals, transorting ground and air units in from Aiur.

GeckoXp

Germany2016 Posts

October 22 2014 12:55 GMT

#34

On October 22 2014 21:49 pebble444 wrote:
As for "production" , on a technical level, the gateway and stargate don' t actually produce anything. They are portals, transorting ground and air units in from Aiur.

which should be kind of zerg area. so that makes even less sense. i want a cow predator hybrid now.

Jaded.

United States125 Posts

October 22 2014 20:13 GMT

#35

gateways beats factories at staring contests.

TelecoM

United States10671 Posts

October 22 2014 20:29 GMT

#36

When you scout a Protoss with a Templar Archives at 4-5 min mark its safe to assume he is not making dragoons.

L3gendary

Canada1470 Posts

October 22 2014 20:55 GMT

#37

Protoss forgot to pay the electricity bills.

krzych113

United Kingdom547 Posts

October 22 2014 22:30 GMT

#38

On October 23 2014 05:29 GGzerG wrote:
When you scout a Protoss with a Templar Archives at 4-5 min mark its safe to assume he is not making dragoons.

lol, yes the safest hahah : )

vOdToasT

Sweden2870 Posts

October 23 2014 00:07 GMT

#39

On October 23 2014 05:29 GGzerG wrote:
When you scout a Protoss with a Templar Archives at 4-5 min mark its safe to assume he is not making dragoons.

He could be going for the royal stove.