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Gnax
Sweden490 Posts
On June 26 2011 12:50 Flavor wrote: Also, when you get into a habbit of calling down mules on the close patches, they tend to get mined out first making your scv's less efficient Why do people keep saying this. You realize you can transfer workers right? and that you get a message when mineral patches are mined out? | ||
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btlyger
United States470 Posts
Great find man this will help a lot as I see 90% of terrans muleing close patches. | ||
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Kiarip
United States1835 Posts
On June 26 2011 08:15 hoot00 wrote: Would you rather have 8 patches with 1500 minerals each, or 1 patch with 12000 minerals? To get the same income you would have to have 7 other bases Ok, while this is true I don't really feel like mineral income is such a huge issues for terran. I mean a huge portion of Terran's income comes from mules and having 1 patch less isn't gonna affect your ability to mule, on the other hand I feel like Terran's design kind of promotes low worker count end-games in favor of free'ing up more supply for the main army, so while I'm sure it makes a very small difference I feel like it plays better into the grand plan for Terran late-game where you only have like 35 SCVs total, and can have 165 supply dedicated to the army or something like that you know? | ||
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almond
115 Posts
Thx OP. | ||
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SayHello
Czech Republic147 Posts
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JustinHit
United States196 Posts
-_- oh team liquid. | ||
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Warble
137 Posts
It is possible that Blizzard changed some mechanics in recent patches or there may be quirks in map layouts since Blizzard tweaks them every so often. This thread needs more replays. I am more inclined to believe that Cheec's thread, Liquipedia and my own experiences are correct until the OP provides evidence otherwise. | ||
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Nexic
United States729 Posts
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37063 Posts
Bottom line: This probably depends on what map/mineral positioning/where you put your mule. Just play the game, and switch your mule positioning to the further patches at your own discretion. I agree with Xapti, 4 POSSIBLITIES: Close patches: 300 270 (30 loss) Further patches: 270 240 (30 loss) | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
The OP is basically a generalization. While not untrue, it depends on the individual map and the individual patches. There are clearly some patches on some maps where you only get 240 and lose 30. There are so many people on every page though replying and just saying "Thanks OP, this is why Team Liquid is great!" that it is clear they are not reading the thread through, and that this is causing a lot of misinformation. Pretty upsetting, really. | ||
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dave333
United States915 Posts
 jk but this is pretty important. You end up calling a lot of mules....thats a lot of money being killed. I know myself I usuallly call mules onto close patches out of habit from mineral micro. | ||
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kidcrash
United States623 Posts
Edit: Wow 4 possibilities... hmm well that complicates things a bit. Getting 240 minerals while losing 30 would be very bad. I guess memorizing the differences in map mining is only solution. | ||
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vogonpoet
United States5 Posts
I just tried it on Metalopolis, and the OP's claim is correct on this map: mules mined 270 from all patches, but close patches ended up losing the last 30 minerals mined without returning them to the base. Strange, because I'm sure I tested the mule on this map during beta. Probably just another unmentioned patch change at some point. I'm sure some enterprising soul will break this down for each of the maps and update the LP entry. | ||
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Genome852
United States979 Posts
On June 26 2011 12:52 Gnax wrote: Why do people keep saying this. You realize you can transfer workers right? and that you get a message when mineral patches are mined out? No... the point is, you want your minerals to be mined out evenly, so your SCVs are always working at their highest possible efficiency. That is why dropping MULEs on the same mineral patch every time is bad (it will get mined out really fast, meaning the SCVs will end up mining from 7 instead of 8 patches way earlier than they should be). You should alternate between the mineral patches. | ||
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Dimagus
United States1004 Posts
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Riot Janook
United States112 Posts
MULEs mine 270 minerals on close patches. 240 minerals on far patches. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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almond
115 Posts
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barneycast
United States38 Posts
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Sovetsky Soyuz
Russian Federation905 Posts
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