manner pylon is when you build pylons to disrupt your opponents mining capabilities
ie. building a pylon between their nexus and mineral field in such a way that their miners get stuck behind it

IntoTheWow

is awesome32275 Posts

August 10 2004 16:03 GMT

#26

it would be sth like this

[] [] [] [] []
[]..[].[].[]
.<> . .
________
|Nexus |
|_______|

[] = Mineral
. = probe
<>= Pylon

so basically 2 porbes there get walled between 3 minerals and a pylon due to bad mineral line placing :O

PuertoRican

United States5709 Posts

August 10 2004 16:14 GMT

#27

you can get all of your peons out once they trap them, but then you still gotta kill it, slows you down a lil but just defend ramp and you're fine.

SpuniasauR

Australia1500 Posts

August 10 2004 18:06 GMT

#28

wow. nice brackets

aseq

Netherlands3981 Posts

August 11 2004 18:27 GMT

#29

how do you get (all) your workers out?
you could mine the same patch then stop, and get 1 out.
but the other?

RiSE

United States3182 Posts

August 13 2004 10:25 GMT

#30

Art grapics, IntoTheWow

Dave[9]

United States2365 Posts

August 13 2004 11:12 GMT

#31

You played Bill, didnt you?

hasuwar

7365 Posts

August 13 2004 13:22 GMT

#32

I'd probably just attack it after it finishes b uilding with all my workers. He's going to depend on it to build units, so once he loses it, he won't be able to build again until he makes another one..plus he lost that 100 minerals. I know scvs attack really fast, so it doesn't take very long to kill one with scvs..probes might take al ittle longer, which sucks..but, when it happens, you're stuck

mrmin123

Korea (South)2971 Posts

August 13 2004 13:50 GMT

#33

play zerg and be rid of the problem forever o_o

RuGbUg

United States2347 Posts

August 13 2004 13:51 GMT

#34

On August 11 2004 01:14 PuertoRican wrote:
you can get all of your peons out once they trap them, but then you still gotta kill it, slows you down a lil but just defend ramp and you're fine.

if you're lucky you might get all of them out, but almost always you'll lose at least 1 in there

NeverTheEndlessWiz

Singapore827 Posts

August 13 2004 18:21 GMT

#35

the main prob with the player who got manner plyoned is that:

1-u lose access to at least 2-3 mineral blocks and have a harder time mining them; workers have to go around to the back of the minerals being blocked just to mine them
2-1 to 3 workers for sometime till they are freed

both of these will cause problems for the other player for just a mere 100 minerals.... therefore the player got manner plyoned is at an ecomonical loss

IntoTheWow

is awesome32275 Posts

August 14 2004 10:11 GMT

#36

ASCII artwork thx

try to play maps that are well designed

Elvin_vn

Vietnam2038 Posts

August 15 2004 01:30 GMT

#37

Just swtich to Zerg then.

a) No manner pylon vs Zerg, thx.

b) Zerg > Toss

c) Do offensive hatch on ramp

Manit0u

Poland17339 Posts

August 16 2004 01:22 GMT

#38

Sorry, but could you explain to a noob that's playing only with his friends (started too late to become any good against even lames) one thingie?
Another type of manner pylon...
When I was making my wall-in on LT my friend got there with his probe and placed a pylon so that his zets could go through it (even more, he microed his probe so I couldn't kill it fast and place another building to fill enlarging gap

) then he rushed with zeals...
Is there any way to stop this with terran?
Also what should I do when he builds an assimilator on my gas spot early in the game (rax just started building and no raf yet)

thx