EPTQuick question about the rate of spreading creep by tumors.
If you have 2 in the same area does that surrounding area spread 2x as fast?
does this apply to more creep tumors? say if i have 3 or 4
cheers
Tumor's creep spread rate
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wetfart
Australia11 Posts
Quick question about the rate of spreading creep by tumors. If you have 2 in the same area does that surrounding area spread 2x as fast? does this apply to more creep tumors? say if i have 3 or 4 cheers | ||
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Ikiron
United States88 Posts
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
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Toadily
United States837 Posts
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
Edit: Same basic radius of creep is produced around each, a larger area isn't covered. | ||
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vT.sOel
122 Posts
On July 01 2010 11:45 Ryuu314 wrote: I'm pretty sure they don't spread faster, but you can cover more ground faster. that makes no sense at all. LOL | ||
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AppleTart
United States1261 Posts
On July 01 2010 11:45 Ryuu314 wrote: I'm pretty sure they don't spread faster, but you can cover more ground faster. It actually does make sense... | ||
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ZeaL.
United States5955 Posts
What he means is that if you have two tumors right next to each other, creep doesn't spread faster but if you have two tumors spaced apart where they dont overlap with each other you will have more ground covered in creep. | ||
DTown
United States428 Posts
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Silent331
United States356 Posts
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Sylvr
United States524 Posts
I believe the mechanic behind it is that a Creep Tumor will spread creep at X amount of inches per second outward from wherever the edge of the creep is. This means that if it encounters an area where there is already creep, it doesn't have to "spread" through that area; it just skips it and the new "edge" from which it spreads becomes the boundary of the actual creep. Picture an archery target with the Creep Tumor as the bulls-eye. As you go out from the center, you have numbered "zones" X|1|2|3|4|5| etc. If you have 2 tumors occupying zone X, then Tumor A will creep out to spread through zone 1. Tumor B will then try to spread but realize that zone 1 is already occupied, and so it will move on to zone 2. I believe the Tumors will continue to leap-frog like this until they reach their range limit. Edit: Silent90 was way faster with that explanation than I was, lol. | ||
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Ichabod
United States1659 Posts
There are some weird mechanics you can do with overlords across cliffs etc, but that's basically it. Edit: Actually, this post might have been necessary, I might have misread the previous posters. | ||
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HeyitsClay
Canada336 Posts
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ultratorr
Canada332 Posts
Does this mean it's always faster to spawn another tumor as soon as one is finished, instead of waiting for each tumor to cover the full area? | ||
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Silent331
United States356 Posts
On July 01 2010 12:23 ultratorr wrote: Wow cool I never knew this. Does this mean it's always faster to spawn another tumor as soon as one is finished, instead of waiting for each tumor to cover the full area? Im actually gonna head in to the tester and find out | ||
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KiWiKaKi
Canada691 Posts
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scojac
United States99 Posts
there's a limit to how effective this is though (i.e. you can't spread creep infinitely fast by bunching tumors together), as the build time is still ~30 seconds (?) Even having 2 tumors within range of each other though, i have noticed a difference. | ||
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vizniz
United States120 Posts
The test: I found spaces where the green tumor circle wasn't hindered by anything. Then, i let an over lord generate seeder creep at the center. When it was maxed, I spawned a creep tumor in the middle, and timed how long it took for it to finish expanding. Timings aren't super precise, as it was hard to tell when it was done spreading creep, but even with the approximation, the results are overwhelmingly varied. In one trial, I spawned 1 creep tumor from 1 queen. The other, I spawned 2 from 2 queens The results: The results are in game seconds. 1 Tumor 1:36 2 Tumors 1:00 So 2 is faster than 1 for sure. I didn't, however, test 3 and 4 creep tumors. It'd be funny if it spread lightning fast then. | ||
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Backpack
United States1776 Posts
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SichuanPanda
Canada1542 Posts
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