The "not enough minerals" warning means that at particular time you don't have enough minerals to build it. However you can still issue the order and it will add it to the timeline at the point you do have enough.

DeltaOne

Sweden51 Posts

May 21 2013 07:56 GMT

Here is some more information about how to use this tool for new users. Quoting my old post at the time I first released it:

The purpose of this tool is to examine, optimize and share builds and to fiddle around with ideas before trying them out in game. The simulation can handle most things like energy, larva count, mineral/gas patch saturation, expansions, chronoboosting, mules, upgrades, larvaspawning from queens, scouting, extractor trick etc. It does not take travel distances into account however, so it usually represents the best case scenario.

How it works in a nutshell
- Actions such as building a probe, start mining gas or sending out a scout are added to a list. This is your build order.
- Simulator traverse the list in order, always executing next item in list as soon as possible.
- Build timings are visualized in a timeline categorized by type (workers, buildings, units etc).
- Set time to any point and you can see current resources and available actions.
- Drag and drop orders in list to find out optimal timings. (Drag and drop may not yet work in all browsers.)
- Click items to remove them. Hover over them to see more information.
- Save and share builds by copying the URL.

Some actions may need a bit more explanation
- To chronoboost, place one or several chronoboost BEFORE the unit/upgrade you want chronoboosted.
- Use the pause action to delay the next action from the point it otherwise would have started.
- Use Go out with workers to simulate scouting or worker transfer
- Use Hatchery in Base if you want another Hatchery without making another set of mineral and gas patches available.
- Extractor trick will build an extractor and then cancel it three seconds later. Use pause to time it correctly.
- Addon switching is handled automatically. For example if you build a banshee and you have a tech lab it assumes you have switched them even if you built the techlab on your barracks. If you want to simulate hovering around with buildings, use pause.

.swz.

73 Posts

May 21 2013 08:23 GMT

This is a pretty cool tool on the first sight. Appreciate it.

Thune

Austria129 Posts

May 21 2013 08:51 GMT

thank you! I waited for that :D

meadbert

United States681 Posts

May 21 2013 15:24 GMT

YES!!!! I use this all the time. I had to write my own C- program to do similar stuff, but I liked his interface so much better.

TemujinGK

United States483 Posts

May 21 2013 15:27 GMT

On May 21 2013 16:56 DeltaOne wrote:
Here is some more information about how to use this tool for new users. Quoting my old post at the time I first released it:

Show nested quote +

Actually remarkably helpful. Didn't see the initial post, and just had a cursory knowledge of the system.

DeltaOne

Sweden51 Posts

May 22 2013 14:12 GMT

#10

Some new features today:
• Flexible width
• Text export
• Instructions page
• Realtime playing the build for practice purposes

You might want to make a hard refresh of the page to see the update in your browser.

StarGalaxy

Germany744 Posts

May 24 2013 11:47 GMT

#11

thank you so much for updating this tool. It is really great!
One small thing i found is the observer build time is 30 seconds now. (source: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Observer)

DeltaOne

Sweden51 Posts

May 24 2013 13:15 GMT

#12

Thank you. It will be fixed next update as well as the speed of playing to match the speed in the game.

MagnuMizer

Denmark384 Posts

May 24 2013 13:32 GMT

#13

Wow i just checked out the site... this is amazing!
its incredibly intuitive and so easy to use and understand..!

now i'm not the kind of person who fiddles around with builds n stuff, i just play.. but i hope there are people out there who use this site, if not its because they dont know about it yet... need to get the word around better.. i'm surprised this isn't featured or highlighted here on TL...

maybe you should ask for support from TL, so maybe they could have a link to your site somewhere...

Really good work.. must have taken so much time to make!
Thank you!

StarGalaxy

Germany744 Posts

May 24 2013 15:00 GMT

#14

I am not sure if the chrono boost bug from the old version was fixed.
I think you should be able to ad a 3rd chrono boost on warpgate in this case:
http://www.sc2planner.com/?v=hots&name=PvP nexus#PaaaoCafaafaoDaaoBfaoCacoFaaaoAffuAaoBiZoDcjoCoDajfjaaaa

Deleted User 307516

Germany6 Posts

May 24 2013 15:54 GMT

#15

the seeker missile and nitro packs upgrades don't exist in HotS

DeltaOne

Sweden51 Posts

May 24 2013 16:55 GMT

#16

I *think* the chronoboost bug should be fixed now. I removed seeker missile and nitro pack as well. Thanks for the reports.

Hemling

Sweden93 Posts

May 24 2013 18:19 GMT

#17

nice site, how do i switch building on a reactor?

DeltaOne

Sweden51 Posts

May 27 2013 08:13 GMT

#18

It does this automatically. If you use the button "Two Helions" for example it figures out the reactor must be on a factory and that no other addon can be on that factory at that particular time. With other words, you do not need to think about switching addons. It figures all this out for you.

(Currently some combinations in Hots are missing using the reactor. I will add them later this week.)

DusTerr

2520 Posts

May 27 2013 08:27 GMT

#19

I'd like a "take worker off gas" option :D Otherwise, awesome! Thanks for the HoTs support (I enjoyed using this in WoL).

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

May 27 2013 08:35 GMT

#20

That's a pretty nifty little site, I wonder if pros ever use these kind of tools.

This is really good for getting benchmarks on openers I guess. ^^