EPT[Trick] Early Game +7% Mineral Boost - Page 2
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
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awesomoecalypse
United States2235 Posts
The best thing about it is you would need absolutely ludicrous apm to keep this up on several bases while microing an army. So it forces players to decide how to divide their attention, and raises the mechanical skill cap. Easy to play, hard to master was what Blizzard was going for in this game, right? Well, here's a perfect example--literally no skill is required to mine at baseline effectiveness, but if you've got the apm for it, you can exceed that effectiveness. | ||
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Klockan3
Sweden2866 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:54 dhe95 wrote: You can't do this with all your scvs unless they all finish mining at the exact same time, so this will only work for a couple scvs earlygame, and it seems similar to what boxer used to do in BW You can queue this up, so you can do it with all of them. | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
someone make a video guide of this, this is mindblowing | ||
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Icx
Belgium853 Posts
Altough I have the feeling that this will be in a future patch: "worker AI has been optimized so they return their minerals faster" And then I will cry ;_; | ||
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asdfjh
Canada230 Posts
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Fontong
United States6454 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:56 awesomoecalypse wrote: This is awesome. I love all the tricks people are slowly discovering. The best thing about it is you would need absolutely ludicrous apm to keep this up on several bases while microing an army. So it forces players to decide how to divide their attention, and raises the mechanical skill cap. Easy to play, hard to master was what Blizzard was going for in this game, right? Well, here's a perfect example--literally no skill is required to mine at baseline effectiveness, but if you've got the apm for it, you can exceed that effectiveness. As the OP said, once bases are nearer to saturated this trick does not work. The only benefit would be to use the trick on mules in the late game. In fact, in the case of very saturated bases he stated that it would reduce income. So no, later in the game this trick will only raise the cap by a small amount(still a good thing though) | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:59 Icx wrote: Amazing if this actually works, gonna be testing it soon. Altough I have the feeling that this will be in a future patch: "worker AI has been optimized so they return their minerals faster" And then I will cry ;_; There is about a 200% chance of that happening roughly. Remeber fazing?  | ||
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vyyye
Sweden3917 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:59 Icx wrote: Amazing if this actually works, gonna be testing it soon. Altough I have the feeling that this will be in a future patch: "worker AI has been optimized so they return their minerals faster" And then I will cry ;_; Kind of have that feeling too. It's obviously not intended to be like this, but hey, the NP infestor trick is still around, right? | ||
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Whalecore
Norway1111 Posts
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Half
United States2554 Posts
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asdfjh
Canada230 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:59 iCCup.Diamond wrote: There is about a 200% chance of that happening roughly. Remeber fazing? but that was actually sooo exploitable. if you used an autoclicker you could insta kill any group down to 1 unit. | ||
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Parodoxx
United States549 Posts
Time to buy a new book for notes | ||
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AcrossFiveJulys
United States3612 Posts
On September 13 2010 04:59 iCCup.Diamond wrote: There is about a 200% chance of that happening roughly. Remeber fazing? I don't think so actually... that will change the dynamics/balance of the game. Increasing the mineral income for all races would almost certainly have unforeseen effects. If they do fix this, they will just make the worker pause mandatory, as in not give you any way to remove the pause. | ||
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Ohdamn
Germany765 Posts
gonna practise it for sure thx OP! | ||
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awesomoecalypse
United States2235 Posts
There is about a 200% chance of that happening roughly. Remeber fazing? Fazing was broken though. A group of Void Rays with sufficient clickspeed could vaporize an unlimited number of marines in seconds. Micro tricks are cool and all, but not when they wreck game balance. A 7% bump if efficiency is big, but its not the ridiculously huge bump in efficiency that fazing gave Void Rays. | ||
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McFoo
United Kingdom180 Posts
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TitleRug
United States651 Posts
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snpnx
Germany454 Posts
And quite unlike the fazing, the advantage is there but not THAT much exploitable, and Blizzard knows full well that these little tricks are what the community wants, so I actually do have a good feeling that they will leave it in. It doesn't hurt the lower players, but it separates the good from the bad, it's quite a perfect find tbh. | ||
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Black Gun
Germany4482 Posts
do the good players really have to be separated from the bad players by who can better click the heck out of his keyboard/mouse? | ||
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