EPTOn February 05 2011 18:43 Bayyne wrote:
How are 2 drones per mineral patch maximizing mineral income?
How are 2 drones per mineral patch maximizing mineral income?
Its not maximizing, but its the most efficient saturation, with 2 workers per patch theres only like half a second that its not being mine, having a drone to cover half a second mining time its a complete waste. Try it urself, start a custom game and use only 3 drones and try to get them to mine the same patch, it doesnt work unless they are far from the hatch.
To OP, there is no rules set like that yet in this game, i guess you can do them urself with a little maths involve and a lot of testing. I found that 33 drones 16-6 8-3 is good enough to keep up 2 hatch constantly producing roaches, +1 attack and roach speed. Obviously strats like these are pretty all in since in order to do damage, your damaging ur economy by not getting more workers, yet if you dont grosely lose the battle and get to do some dmg like killing probes or something like that you can easily make a 10 drone round, and start recovering.
