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[D] Mining gas from extractor of your ally

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treason
Profile Joined February 2009
Germany72 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-03 21:25:44
November 03 2010 21:23 GMT
#1
Hey Folks,

we just played 2 2v2s vs a team, and we saw their P build an assimilator at the gas of the terran ally. The Terran could mine from that assimilator.
In 2v2 as TZ, you can build an extractor for 25 mins (and 50 for the drone, but larva injection :D!), or build a assimilator for the zerg without losing the drone.
Ah, you have to give "control" to your ally. Is that a bug or a feature?

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zylog
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada943 Posts
November 03 2010 21:26 GMT
#2
interesting. I wonder if any practical strategies can be developed to take advantage of this
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
November 03 2010 21:27 GMT
#3
Best thing about this is the SCV has the Extractor gas sack instead of the Refinery gas barrel.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
darklordjac
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada2231 Posts
November 03 2010 21:28 GMT
#4
I think this is a bug/not intended and probably will be fixed in some patch
EZjijy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1039 Posts
November 03 2010 21:28 GMT
#5
Might be useful early on when resource trading is disabled and you guys are focusing on 1 player.
FinestHour
Profile Joined August 2010
United States18466 Posts
November 03 2010 21:30 GMT
#6
Was this around since release or a result of one of the patches?
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Qzy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Denmark1121 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-03 21:32:27
November 03 2010 21:31 GMT
#7
"Kommandozentrale"! :D I just to point out the word. The central for uber commandos! Hopefully not a bug, but a feature.
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blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
November 03 2010 21:32 GMT
#8
The only practical use I can see of this is for a Protoss player to build assimilators for their T or Z ally so they don't have to use a drone or waste scv mining time.
blabberrrrr
deltamal
Profile Joined October 2006
Canada23 Posts
November 03 2010 21:33 GMT
#9
z can save drone and p build for it OO
Lejving
Profile Joined March 2010
Sweden82 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-03 21:34:26
November 03 2010 21:33 GMT
#10
On November 04 2010 06:32 blabber wrote:
The only practical use I can see of this is for a Protoss player to build assimilators for their T or Z ally so they don't have to use a drone or waste scv mining time.


Or let Zerg build one at like 17 food so you can start making queen at 16... like a permament extractor trick but your friend actually needs the extractor so you kinda give it to him heh :D Or protoss making them for Zerg/Terran so he deosn't need to lose a drone or lose mining time...
adi1133
Profile Joined June 2010
Romania109 Posts
November 03 2010 21:36 GMT
#11
hehe this is a really good find, hope it wont get patched (since in 1v1 this isn't an issue and 2v2s should be fun games)
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brainpower
Profile Joined September 2010
United States233 Posts
November 03 2010 21:43 GMT
#12
I can't really think of a reason that terran would make a refinery then. Extractors are the cheapest to build (1 supply=1/8th of an overlord not needed=12.5 less cost), a assimilators don't require the extra mining time.
Ketara
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States15065 Posts
November 03 2010 21:44 GMT
#13
On shared bases like that you could do timing based stuff as well where a Zerg player gets 100 gas for Zergling speed, then stops gas and his Protoss ally starts long distance mining from the extractor to give him 3 gas to get his tech a little faster.

Lots of little things you could do with this. Very cool.
http://www.liquidlegends.net/forum/lol-general/502075-patch-61-league-of-legends-general-discussion?page=25#498
Jacobs Ladder
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1705 Posts
November 03 2010 21:53 GMT
#14
On November 04 2010 06:44 Ketara wrote:
On shared bases like that you could do timing based stuff as well where a Zerg player gets 100 gas for Zergling speed, then stops gas and his Protoss ally starts long distance mining from the extractor to give him 3 gas to get his tech a little faster.

Lots of little things you could do with this. Very cool.

Why not just pass the resources through the share resource tab?
treason
Profile Joined February 2009
Germany72 Posts
November 03 2010 21:56 GMT
#15
On November 04 2010 06:53 Jacobs Ladder wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2010 06:44 Ketara wrote:
On shared bases like that you could do timing based stuff as well where a Zerg player gets 100 gas for Zergling speed, then stops gas and his Protoss ally starts long distance mining from the extractor to give him 3 gas to get his tech a little faster.

Lots of little things you could do with this. Very cool.

Why not just pass the resources through the share resource tab?

Its not possible within the first minutes
Arby3k
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada90 Posts
November 03 2010 21:57 GMT
#16
On November 04 2010 06:53 Jacobs Ladder wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 04 2010 06:44 Ketara wrote:
On shared bases like that you could do timing based stuff as well where a Zerg player gets 100 gas for Zergling speed, then stops gas and his Protoss ally starts long distance mining from the extractor to give him 3 gas to get his tech a little faster.

Lots of little things you could do with this. Very cool.

Why not just pass the resources through the share resource tab?


The Long distance mining part begs the question of the share resources. But yea being able to build a quick gas for a team mate who can then concentrate on something else could be useful.
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leveller
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1840 Posts
November 03 2010 22:18 GMT
#17
Very cool but very very limited functionality ^^
Befree
Profile Joined April 2010
695 Posts
November 03 2010 22:19 GMT
#18
I don't know if this seems as odd as that, but you can also inject larvae into your teammate's hatchery I noticed. I guess it opens up the possibility of helping a teammate recover.

Wonder what other weird ally things are out there.
Zozo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Brazil2579 Posts
November 03 2010 22:25 GMT
#19
You can use this for a 9 depot/11 rax and have the fastest 2 port banshee in the universe (proxy also). It's one way to pool up to 150 minerals to your partner before the lock is gone.

I'm more interested however on the queen inject. Could work on some sick muta builds.
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zere
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Germany1287 Posts
November 03 2010 22:27 GMT
#20
On November 04 2010 07:19 Befree wrote:
I don't know if this seems as odd as that, but you can also inject larvae into your teammate's hatchery I noticed. I guess it opens up the possibility of helping a teammate recover.

Wonder what other weird ally things are out there.



Hmm.... is it possible to chronoboost a, let's say, Larva Inject? Banshee Cloak? Lair tech?
Stupid question, but maybe... :D
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