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AgniKai
Profile Joined August 2012
70 Posts
August 14 2012 19:36 GMT
#81
I hope it doesn't get fixed this time, this is only good in the very early game
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SupLilSon
Profile Joined October 2011
Malaysia4123 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 19:40:48
August 14 2012 19:38 GMT
#82
Just messed around with this in a ladder game. I was only using the technique to shift que them to the minerals so they were returning at normal speed. With a standard 1 rax FE I had 380 minerals when my rax finished, seems like a decently large boost. Also it cut out the miniscule downtime between depot and rax.
Mairou
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland144 Posts
August 14 2012 19:39 GMT
#83
I tested this with 2 probes. One was mining mineral patch that was slightly more far away and i used this trick on that probe. I managed to get the probe who was mining the further mineral path to harvest same speed as the probe who was mining close mineral path. I hope Blizzard fix this soon.
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Monochromatic
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States998 Posts
August 14 2012 19:41 GMT
#84
Wow, I hope blizzard leaves this trick alone this time.
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pycho
Profile Joined January 2011
Paraguay372 Posts
August 14 2012 19:42 GMT
#85
On August 15 2012 04:39 Mairou wrote:
I tested this with 2 probes. One was mining mineral patch that was slightly more far away and i used this trick on that probe. I managed to get the probe who was mining the further mineral path to harvest same speed as the probe who was mining close mineral path. I hope Blizzard fix this soon.


how exactly do you do it? i dont understand
sour_eraser
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada932 Posts
August 14 2012 19:42 GMT
#86
On August 15 2012 04:39 Mairou wrote:
I tested this with 2 probes. One was mining mineral patch that was slightly more far away and i used this trick on that probe. I managed to get the probe who was mining the further mineral path to harvest same speed as the probe who was mining close mineral path. I hope Blizzard fix this soon.


Why should they fix this?
Seriously, people who pull this trick deserve those extra minerals.
Besides I can assure you this won't effect 99% of ladder games in terms of balance and such.
I see no reason for this to get patched
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See.Blue
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2673 Posts
August 14 2012 19:44 GMT
#87
8 second buff to 6pool is a pretty big deal...
Talack
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada2742 Posts
August 14 2012 19:44 GMT
#88
This will be fixed.

It's unintentionally in the game, and despite people trying to act like it should be in the game it really shouldn't. Interesting none-the-less.
AlexanderDebois
Profile Joined October 2011
Kyrgyzstan38 Posts
August 14 2012 19:45 GMT
#89
The question on every Terran players mind: does this work in the same percentage for mules that it does for SCVs?
Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 19:49:29
August 14 2012 19:47 GMT
#90
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SaroVati
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada280 Posts
August 14 2012 19:48 GMT
#91
I've done this for about 1 hour, and can't achieve the projected "24%" increase. I can get about a 10% increase though... but that doesn't seem completely worth it because if you are microing in game and mess the cycle up ONCE it'll reset it's benefit... Anyone care to show me a replay of a probe mining for 2 minutes on a mineral patch normally, then the same mineral patch for 2 minutes with this trick? My personal best is 120 minerals in 3 minutes on a far patch --> 130 minerals in 3 minutes on a far patch.
Mairou
Profile Joined June 2011
Finland144 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 20:16:25
August 14 2012 19:49 GMT
#92
On August 15 2012 04:42 jidolboy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 04:39 Mairou wrote:
I tested this with 2 probes. One was mining mineral patch that was slightly more far away and i used this trick on that probe. I managed to get the probe who was mining the further mineral path to harvest same speed as the probe who was mining close mineral path. I hope Blizzard fix this soon.


Why should they fix this?
Seriously, people who pull this trick deserve those extra minerals.
Besides I can assure you this won't effect 99% of ladder games in terms of balance and such.
I see no reason for this to get patched


It affects the game too much. Think about zerg who is 6 pooling. He got nothing else to do than micro his drones anyway so he will get his pool so much faster using this trick.

On August 15 2012 04:44 See.Blue wrote:
8 second buff to 6pool is a pretty big deal...


And when you master this trick perfectly you can get it maybe over 10 seconds earlier. That's pretty huge.

Btw this is going to get fixed soon: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/627978741#3

Edit: It was old thread
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Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
August 14 2012 19:49 GMT
#93
On August 15 2012 04:44 See.Blue wrote:
8 second buff to 6pool is a pretty big deal...


This alone is probably reason to have this fixed, sad as it is.
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INCHymn
Profile Joined February 2012
United States26 Posts
August 14 2012 19:50 GMT
#94
its a good feature to have in the game. Its something that actually matters that we can do in early game . Idk why bliz would take something out that doesn't break the game (anyone can do it) and actually requires some extra apm.
Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-14 19:52:05
August 14 2012 19:50 GMT
#95
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Chrozon
Profile Joined May 2011
Norway16 Posts
August 14 2012 19:52 GMT
#96
On August 15 2012 04:49 Dalguno wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 04:44 See.Blue wrote:
8 second buff to 6pool is a pretty big deal...


This alone is probably reason to have this fixed, sad as it is.


Still, getting that 8 second buff requires perfect boosting on all 6 drones, that's some sick micro right there.
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Shiori
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
3815 Posts
August 14 2012 19:53 GMT
#97
This is soooo cool haha.
z0rz
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States350 Posts
August 14 2012 19:53 GMT
#98
On August 15 2012 04:49 Mairou wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 04:42 jidolboy wrote:
On August 15 2012 04:39 Mairou wrote:
I tested this with 2 probes. One was mining mineral patch that was slightly more far away and i used this trick on that probe. I managed to get the probe who was mining the further mineral path to harvest same speed as the probe who was mining close mineral path. I hope Blizzard fix this soon.


Why should they fix this?
Seriously, people who pull this trick deserve those extra minerals.
Besides I can assure you this won't effect 99% of ladder games in terms of balance and such.
I see no reason for this to get patched


It affects the game too much. Think about zerg who is 6 pooling. He got nothing else to do than micro his drones anyway so he will get his pool so much faster using this trick.

Btw this is going to get fixed soon: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/627978741#3

You're right, 9/21/2010 is right around the corner.
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leveller
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden1840 Posts
August 14 2012 19:55 GMT
#99
On August 15 2012 03:44 Nimix wrote:
Speaking about minerals things, I noticed that 3 workers often stack on the same patch mid/late game when I only have 16 workers on the base, rather than spreading 2 by patch. It leaves 1 worker on a patch alone, and I don't remember seeing this pre 1.5, do someone else noticed it? I don't think it's thread worthy tho :/


This has always happened, and only happens on far patches as it takes "2.5" (or 2.3 or whatever it really is) to completely mine from the far patches.
Lazermonkey
Profile Joined June 2011
Sweden2176 Posts
August 14 2012 19:55 GMT
#100
On August 15 2012 04:49 Dalguno wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 15 2012 04:44 See.Blue wrote:
8 second buff to 6pool is a pretty big deal...


This alone is probably reason to have this fixed, sad as it is.
It's only relevant if you can do this with all your drones. I haven't tested it yet but as far as I understand it's impossible to do with more than one worker. In that case your pool will only be 1-2 seconds faster which isn't too big of a deal. Also, with this trick your forge/barracks will be faster so I don't really see the problem.
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