EPT[D]9 Overlord or 10 Overlord? - Page 4
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Wi)nD
Canada719 Posts
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carlcarlsen
Germany9 Posts
On April 24 2010 07:08 zLnoEk wrote: I get my overlord at 9 every game. I didn't do any actual /research/. But, it /feels/ like it's faster. similar here. I didn't care too much about the economic advantage (but now that I know that - even better!) but rather the psychological advantage in terms of "okay, if the other guy is rushing me, I need to worry less about the food count when I (have to) place my pool earlier than planned." | ||
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mnck
Denmark1518 Posts
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Gulzt
Netherlands275 Posts
It is widely accepted that 9 lord is fastest, then 10extr, then 10 lord, right? Now a slightly different question. The reason 9 lord is faster is because the mining-time you lose on drone 10, is made back by drone 11 & 12 right? But what if you're going 11 pool? I noticed in the GSL Code A this season July vs Hero that July goes 10 lord.. the slowest of the 3 according to everyone. But only gets drone 11 out afterwards and then his pool. http://www.gomtv.net/2012gsls1/vod/66733/?set=2&lang= Made me wonder, did July test it all out and is it the fastest way when you go 11 pool? It seems to make sense given that you're not getting your 12th drone right away. What are your thoughts on it? | ||
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Tal0n
United States175 Posts
have you ever tried 8 overlord? | ||
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Gulzt
Netherlands275 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=133917 | ||
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kaluro
Netherlands760 Posts
On April 08 2010 08:52 Zelniq wrote: @ bongjwa: cus overlords took so much longer to build in BWit was better to just get your 9th first. think about the extreme, if overlord took 5 minutes to build in bw woldnt it make sense to get drone first No, because if it took 5 minutes to spawn, you would be maxing 3 larvae for longer than if you would go overlord first. Those seconds you could queue up 3 workers at a time. Getting those workers out faster means faster additional larvae and faster mining time for those drones. a single drone that mines 40 minerals/minute would not be better than faster larvae/faster 3 drones. But then again I never played BW and dont know how fast 50 minerals would go when capped without having spawned an overlord. | ||
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XxMulexX
Canada57 Posts
No, because if it took 5 minutes to spawn, you would be maxing 3 larvae for longer than if you would go overlord first. Those seconds you could queue up 3 workers at a time. Getting those workers out faster means faster additional larvae and faster mining time for those drones. a single drone that mines 40 minerals/minute would not be better than faster larvae/faster 3 drones. But then again I never played BW and dont know how fast 50 minerals would go when capped without having spawned an overlord. That's wrong. He used the exaggeration of an ovie taking 5 min to illustrate his point; and if an ovie did take 5 min, you would be much better off having an extra drone mining for several second since the build time of the ovie would give you plenty of time to get to 3 larva by the time he pops out. You can't get those extra 2 drones in his example since you are supply blocked at 10 food. | ||
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StarscreamG1
Portugal1653 Posts
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