EPTMULEs return an insane amount of minerals, to the extent where, if you used the ability all the time and never scanned, you could litter the map with command centers thanks to the increased income. If you want MULE energy to be seperate from scan energy you'd have to accept a severe MULE nerf along the way. Having MULEs and scans on the same energy is what makes the abilities both balanced and interesting.
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Feefee
Canada556 Posts
MULEs return an insane amount of minerals, to the extent where, if you used the ability all the time and never scanned, you could litter the map with command centers thanks to the increased income. If you want MULE energy to be seperate from scan energy you'd have to accept a severe MULE nerf along the way. Having MULEs and scans on the same energy is what makes the abilities both balanced and interesting. | ||
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-orb-
United States5770 Posts
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
It's not like scanning is a sunk cost of 270 minerals. It costs valuable vespene gas to make an observer. What if I want to go for a really fast colossus or immortal, but I also want an observer? If I make the obs, my fighting unit will be out later. It's a decision. If I chrono boost, I have to decide if I want more money, faster upgrades, etc. With Terran it's exactly the same type of decision making, you're choosing to do 1 thing and forego the other, stop bitching. | ||
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StarsPride
United States364 Posts
On March 13 2010 14:33 Xeris wrote: Obviously StarsPride is a lazy fucker. I wanted to say something but it seems like everything has already been said in this thread. If you want to think of it in terms of economics, every decision you make in SC2 is an opportunity cost. It's not like scanning is a sunk cost of 270 minerals. It costs valuable vespene gas to make an observer. What if I want to go for a really fast colossus or immortal, but I also want an observer? If I make the obs, my fighting unit will be out later. It's a decision. If I chrono boost, I have to decide if I want more money, faster upgrades, etc. With Terran it's exactly the same type of decision making, you're choosing to do 1 thing and forego the other, stop bitching. I repeat my self too much. Other races fully saturate too fast. It Allows them to have a strong advantage in the early stages of the game over the mule This is why I bitch. | ||
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StarsPride
United States364 Posts
On March 13 2010 14:14 -orb- wrote: Heads up: you can do scouting the old fashioned way with a unit, you don't have to use scan every single time to see if he's expanded etc. I check Expansions with SCV. I need to scan his army | ||
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Inschato
Canada1349 Posts
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