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On July 24 2012 16:48 gekiro wrote:
Hello, I've been practicing about 8 practice unranked games. I'm paying terran, my winrate against terrans is 100% but 0% against any protoss or zerg. I have trouble scouting properly their area due to the blocks I have to destroy, and most of my opponents use air enemies to destroy my workers and bases quickly. My question is, do I have to scan their base to know which unit to counter, do I have to always put anti-air turrets around my base ? I've watched the replays again, they seem to know how to counter me through their overlord/observers.

On July 24 2012 22:22 Asolmanx wrote:
How much time does it take for a worker to repay his cost?

Return on Investment A worker will return a mineral advantage 92(±2) seconds after the initial investment is made (when it is put in the build queue), as long as there are less than 2 workers per mineral patch once it finishes. After partial saturation (in this case, 2 workers per patch), each worker will return on it's initial investment 153(±4) seconds after the initial investment. In such cases, when an alternate base is available, it may be best to send workers there if that base is not saturated to two workers per patch yet. These numbers remain valid as long as the worker is built from the base location adjacent to the mineral patches, and as long as those minerals are standard yield minerals.

For Protoss, a fully chrono boosted probe will realize its investment 6 seconds earlier, due to the reduced build time.

On July 24 2012 22:41 Thesper wrote:
If the worker is mining at a base with no more than 2 workers per mineral patch (16 total workers for a normal base) then it will mine 40 minerals per ingame minute. Therefore it repays its cost in 75 seconds from the moment it starts mining or 92 seconds from the moment it is queued up (unless chronoboosted). If you don't have spare supply, the 1 supply a worker costs adds (100/8 = 12.5) 12.5 minerals onto its cost. So that adds 18.75 seconds of mining to repay the supply cost giving a total time of 110.75 seconds. So as a rough rule of thumb a worker pays itself back 2 minutes after it's built.

However, if there are between 2 and 3 workers per mineral patch (16-24 workers per base) then it takes longer as the worker mines less than 40 minerals per minute. If there are more than 3 workers per mineral patch the worker is useless until sent to mine somewhere else.

On July 25 2012 11:18 ApriL wrote:
I play on EU, do I have to buy a US retail copy to play on the US server or do i just need to download the US client from battle.net?

Some of you may have read details about Diablo III Global Play, which will allow Diablo III players to create characters in different regions from their home region so they can play with friends in other parts of the world. We know this is something StarCraft II players have been asking for, and we’re working hard to make it available along with multilanguage support, at or around the release of Heart of the Swarm. We’ll have information as we get closer to Heart of the Swarm’s release.

You'll need to buy a US copy and either use a relocalizer or keep both clients installed. However, in an update on HotS Blizz said there will be global play (region swapping allowed) as in D3 so pending how urgently you want to play on US it may be worth waiting.

On July 25 2012 22:31 Maxamix wrote:



I don't know how this is going to influence the ladder. Does that mean that one account will be able to have multiple MMR and multiple standings on different ladder? Will the starcraft 2 ladder become a single, unified ladder (in that case, i think KR will be taking a lot of GM / masters spot)? Will it be open only to custom games to play with friends that are halfway across the globe, what your opinion on this?

On July 25 2012 22:44 Iyerbeth wrote:


As I understand the information so far you'll be able to swap regions when you like, so there'll still be individual region ladders but you'll be able to switch betwen playing on any server whenever you want but those servers (and so individual ladders) will still exist so you could potentially have a rank for each one. To play with a friend around the world you'll both need to be on the same server region and create it there. Nothing is finalised though so I might be wrong.

On July 25 2012 23:01 Maxamix wrote:


That would be the most logical way of seeing it, but I am afraid that will cause the ladders to lose their "territorial" feel. Before, the main barrier to laddering on other servers was that you had to buy an extra copy of the game and that was enough to deter most off. Now it will be free and require a simple switch. My only fear is to find that NA ladder will be composed of 50%NA users and 50% of the other regions, making it so that you don't know where you stand VS people in your region...

A thought that i had, and tell me if you guys agree with it, is that you keep your MMR and ladder ranking on a single ladder (the one you were on before the patch hit), but you get to play against global people on the ladder. The simplest way i can put that is instead of looking on your particular server, when you queue for a match you will look for someone with a similar MMR across all the servers, this could also reduce queue times for high masters / grandmasters...

just an idea

On July 26 2012 12:21 Adrenal6land wrote:
i know there is a build order tester on bnet.
ive been teaching some guys how to get better and how to do certain builds.

is there a map on bnet where you can restart and stay in game but is for 2 players?