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After maxing your upgrades, you start getting cash for picking more research points. Now after cashing in those points from some mission, go replay some mission through the mission archives. You can even do it on casual for faster times. Then go to the lab and wow, you get cash again. Replay a mission again (even same one), go to lab again, and wow, again...
I found this by accident, being a completionist and wanting all the achievements, but not being able to get them all on my initial brutal play-through. But I ended up abusing it a lot so that I get all the upgrades before Char.
I haven't figured out a lot of the specifics... like, I'm not sure what the amounts that you get are related to exactly... in some cases they seemed to be more than just the value of your last real mission's research points, and they didn't seem related to the research you earn in the replayed mission. I might do some more experimenting later, for now I just wanted to post the basics.
Has someone else found this yet? Maybe it happened to a lot of users that replayed missions from the archive for achievements, but they didn't pay attention or notice the strange amounts of credits they got?
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You know, the game actually tells you this is possible if you click the tip about selling artifacts?
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On August 05 2010 21:39 Ghostcom wrote:
You know, the game actually tells you this is possible if you click the tip about selling artifacts?
The game tells you that additional research points can be made into cash, but not that going back to old missions and re-collecting research you've already gotten still gets you credits. It does feel weird that it's possible.
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Wait....if you replay a mission without completing the research (25 points) then u wont be able to get the same research again will you?
If so i don't see why the game let's you collect research after 25 points that you have already collected... 
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On August 05 2010 21:51 Sacro wrote:Wait....if you replay a mission without completing the research (25 points) then u wont be able to get the same research again will you? If so i don't see why the game let's you collect research after 25 points that you have already collected...
That's how it works. In fact, you can just get all the research points in the game, then run through liberation day on casual (2 minute a-move), and get some 150k credits. Highly recommended.
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It is surely a bug, not intended, and it also isn't quite obvious how exactly it determines the amount - i.e. it's not just paying you for the research you "re-collected", as the liberation day example shows - there isn't any research there.
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I can't get this to work how exactly are you doing it? what save point are you loading from?
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I did this on my normal and brutal play through. Once you have max lab research you can replay any mission with artifacts and trade these extra artifacts in for credits at the lab terminal. I find the most time efficient way of doing this is to complete all the missions except for the Char missions. Then replay Smash and Grab on casual. You with get about 110,000 for the protoss research and another 100k or so for the relic. I don't remember the exact amounts but it is a lot. Oh and if you play smash and grab before you beat all the missions before char you only get 80k total. At least that is how it worked for me.
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cool i will go try it out thanks
tried it out and it works great!
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On August 05 2010 22:11 MangoTango wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 21:51 Sacro wrote:Wait....if you replay a mission without completing the research (25 points) then u wont be able to get the same research again will you? If so i don't see why the game let's you collect research after 25 points that you have already collected... That's how it works. In fact, you can just get all the research points in the game, then run through liberation day on casual (2 minute a-move), and get some 150k credits. Highly recommended.
How are you getting 150k? It's 10k per research item.
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On August 06 2010 00:20 Krowser wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 22:11 MangoTango wrote:On August 05 2010 21:51 Sacro wrote:Wait....if you replay a mission without completing the research (25 points) then u wont be able to get the same research again will you? If so i don't see why the game let's you collect research after 25 points that you have already collected... That's how it works. In fact, you can just get all the research points in the game, then run through liberation day on casual (2 minute a-move), and get some 150k credits. Highly recommended. How are you getting 150k? It's 10k per research item.
Yeah, but if you do all the missions and get all the relics/samples, you'll get a ton extra. Don't forget Zeratul's missions which give a ton of them.
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On August 06 2010 00:20 Krowser wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2010 22:11 MangoTango wrote:On August 05 2010 21:51 Sacro wrote:Wait....if you replay a mission without completing the research (25 points) then u wont be able to get the same research again will you? If so i don't see why the game let's you collect research after 25 points that you have already collected... That's how it works. In fact, you can just get all the research points in the game, then run through liberation day on casual (2 minute a-move), and get some 150k credits. Highly recommended. How are you getting 150k? It's 10k per research item.
Different for everyone...or something.
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I myself was getting 110k for toss + 140k for zerg each time and there is no mission which normally gives that much. That's why I said I don't understand how these numbers are formed.
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It pays you for all the total research you have accumulated over 25 for each type up to that point in the campaign.
Do it as soon as possible, you might get 20k from zerg research and 20k from protoss. Collect 3 zerg research in a mission you haven't done, and you get 50k from zerg research and 20k from protoss if you go replay an old mission.
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On August 06 2010 02:41 Capook wrote:
you are all cheaters
Not my fault Blizzard 1) made achievements for getting all the upgrades/mercs 2) made the total number of credits available per run fewer than the number needed to buy everything 3) failed at programming.
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I thought it was normal behavior that I was getting 100k + 40k for research for replaying missions.
Then again, I was only doing them for achievements so I thought it was more credits for the achievement. Lol.
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On August 06 2010 02:41 Capook wrote:
you are all exploiters
Fixed
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Fix the game, not the players. As far as I'm concerned this is an intended and normal gameplay mechanic or else they wouldn't have left it this way. Do you think nobody at Blizzard figured this out, with hundreds of people playing and replaying the campaign every day?
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