Mineral boost trick (works in 1.5!) - Page 19

On August 15 2012 13:17 Areon wrote:
It's hilarious how many kids didn't read the post to understand that this is NOT the same as the trick from two years ago that involved queuing mine and return commands which had about a 7% increase in mining compared to THIS trick which is 24%. Pathetic really the number of idiots who don't spend the five seconds it would take to realize their folly without embarrassing themselves. This is such a huge find, I can't believe it's been over two years since anyone tried something like this. If this isn't patched, pros will want to be doing this every goddamn game. Hell, they'll need to.

On August 15 2012 13:17 Belial88 wrote:
^ How stupid are people that they don't read the OP? This is a different trick, the OP made that pretty clear.

These people just need to be warned/banned for clearly not reading the OP and being idiots.

edit: not you. lol you clearly are addressing the same person i was.

I think the 24% figure is a bit drastic, it's talking about a single worker's increased income as in increase in income per minute. You can only do this with one worker, unlike the old method, which you could temporarily automate and do with a bunch of workers at the same time, which at best was 7%, vs this which is just 24% on a single worker for only the time you micro it, which will not be 100% of the time even in the first 2 minutes of the game.

As I stated in a previous post, I don't think that this would be better than just drone pairing, as that yets about 200 minerals increase per minute vs maynarding when you do a build like hatch first then rally to natural or FFE then rally to natural after pairing the first 16 workers.

On August 15 2012 13:21 Cofo wrote:
Stop saying this is old, it is NOT sockfolding.

On August 15 2012 13:17 Belial88 wrote:
^ How stupid are people that they don't read the OP? This is a different trick, the OP made that pretty clear.

These people just need to be warned/banned for clearly not reading the OP and being idiots.

edit: not you. lol you clearly are addressing the same person i was.

I think the 24% figure is a bit drastic, it's talking about a single worker's increased income as in increase in income per minute. You can only do this with one worker, unlike the old method, which you could temporarily automate and do with a bunch of workers at the same time, which at best was 7%, vs this which is just 24% on a single worker for only the time you micro it, which will not be 100% of the time even in the first 2 minutes of the game.

As I stated in a previous post, I don't think that this would be better than just drone pairing, as that yets about 200 minerals increase per minute vs maynarding when you do a build like hatch first then rally to natural or FFE then rally to natural after pairing the first 16 workers.

On August 15 2012 16:28 ThePlayer33 wrote:
theres basically no need to mineral stack when you mineral boost(well).

On August 15 2012 02:55 TheWisp wrote:

It's not the ultra old trick in 1.1 (or 1.2?)
just use queued action to remove decceleration so that the worker will take less time between mineral and base

On August 15 2012 13:46 Infernal_dream wrote:
It's another thing people will do (just like worker splitting) that honestly doesn't do shit. Yet everyone will fucking marvel when someone does it awesomely. Click all your probes send them to one patch, split them, it doesn't matter. you still get 50 minerals right when the first worker is done building. So tired of seeing retarded shit like this. And as stated earlier once you get more than one worker per patch it doesn't work either. They'll be waiting for the other probe to finish in the first place.