Calling MULES On Close Patches is Bad - Page 4
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Tsuki.eu
Portugal1049 Posts
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oDieN[Siege]
United States2904 Posts
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Arco
United States2090 Posts
The OP is right and is beneficial in almost every way, besides maybe taking a split second longer per MULE return. Your base isn't mined out as quickly, and you get back the same minerals. | ||
Meteora.GB
Canada2479 Posts
Great now I have to change my mule dropping habits... | ||
Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On June 26 2011 08:31 tyCe wrote: You still get the 270 minerals faster. BARELY like the OP said it dies on its way back so you save maybe like 3 seconds if that for 30 minerals by the end? | ||
Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On June 26 2011 08:00 ThatMoose wrote: Me too. As long as the worker is working does it really matter? if you're constantly training scvs you'll need those extra patches to be fully saturated with all your workers in use it's not about saturating bases, it's about how many workers you can use effectively and how can you say that having 40 workers to fully saturate your base vs. 50 is not worse? If it still doesn't make sense at this point, just think about why 3 base vs. 2 base is such an advantage. You just have more mineral patches available. | ||
Yaotzin
South Africa4280 Posts
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arb
Noobville17920 Posts
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x6Paramore
Canada130 Posts
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HornyHerring
Papua New Guinea1058 Posts
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yiodee
United States137 Posts
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Rabbitmaster
1357 Posts
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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ptell
United States103 Posts
But consider this: If you MULE from a close patch you do get your money coming in very slightly faster. This might be desirable in early game. The detrimental effect of losing 30 minerals forces you to expand slightly earlier. That means if you play on a map where it is easy to expand, its not really an issue. | ||
Ghoststrikes
Canada1356 Posts
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roymarthyup
1442 Posts
the 30 mineral lost per patch is of zero importance compared to making sure you drop a mule on different patches to have dispersed mining | ||
HaIf
Canada234 Posts
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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DisaFear
Australia4074 Posts
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