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Edorian
Profile Joined January 2008
Germany3 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-05 22:53:42
September 05 2012 22:50 GMT
#1
No this isn't another "main shows worker count thread".

I'm talking about this number:

[image loading]

I've seen it with all the races and go between 2 and 77.

Does anyone have a clue what it means? It's really hard to google for "hots worker number" atm

The number is not visible at the start of the game but shows up when the first non worker unit spawns. Maybe it's just the "fighting unit count" or something?

Edit:

It's not "idle workers". I've seen it at +70 in a game where pretty much all the workers have been mining
shifty
Profile Joined July 2010
United States280 Posts
September 05 2012 22:51 GMT
#2
That's idle workers I'm pretty sure.
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Tekkerz
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom216 Posts
September 05 2012 22:52 GMT
#3
Idle workers i would imagine.
strobeLite
Profile Joined July 2012
United States37 Posts
September 05 2012 22:52 GMT
#4
It's army count, except units not supply.
SpeCtor
Profile Joined August 2010
233 Posts
September 05 2012 22:53 GMT
#5
its the idle workers count, just like WoL...
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-05 22:56:39
September 05 2012 22:54 GMT
#6
It's army count/select all army units, the icon is a placeholder.

Worker count is on the left and I checked this, im in the beta.
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Sroobz
Profile Joined December 2011
United States1377 Posts
September 05 2012 22:54 GMT
#7
Not idle workers. That's on the left side. That is number of combat units on the field. There is a new option named select all units (not including workers) and that's directly related to this.
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DJHelium
Profile Joined December 2010
Sweden13480 Posts
September 05 2012 22:54 GMT
#8
It's "select all units", not including workers.
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Kuror
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States399 Posts
September 05 2012 22:55 GMT
#9
On September 06 2012 07:54 DJHelium wrote:
It's "select all units", not including workers.


then why is the icon a worker..?
xsnac
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Barbados1365 Posts
September 05 2012 22:56 GMT
#10
how many selected units you have . so you dont have to count the lines and the aditional units in the last line . is pretty cool i think .
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
September 05 2012 22:56 GMT
#11
On September 06 2012 07:55 Kuror wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 06 2012 07:54 DJHelium wrote:
It's "select all units", not including workers.


then why is the icon a worker..?


placeholder icon
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Talack
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada2742 Posts
September 05 2012 22:56 GMT
#12
Army select button
Serek
Profile Joined May 2011
United Kingdom459 Posts
September 05 2012 22:57 GMT
#13
On September 06 2012 07:55 Kuror wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 06 2012 07:54 DJHelium wrote:
It's "select all units", not including workers.


then why is the icon a worker..?


Placeholder in a beta perhaps?
Chronos.
Profile Joined February 2012
United States805 Posts
September 06 2012 01:09 GMT
#14
Why do they need a select all units button in the first place? Seems a bit silly to me, it just seems to support the idea of the death ball even more.

The only effect I can see this having on me is that I click it accidentally every once in a while, and send all my queens away from bases and all my defensive / scouting units to the wrong places =/
RaiKageRyu
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada4773 Posts
September 06 2012 01:12 GMT
#15
On September 06 2012 10:09 Chronos. wrote:
Why do they need a select all units button in the first place? Seems a bit silly to me, it just seems to support the idea of the death ball even more.

The only effect I can see this having on me is that I click it accidentally every once in a while, and send all my queens away from bases and all my defensive / scouting units to the wrong places =/


I assume it is for the same reason why idle workers is around. Sometimes people forget where they have spare units lying around. So Idle Units.
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emc
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3088 Posts
September 06 2012 01:14 GMT
#16
it selects army, the entire army. the drones are just there because thats the icon they already have. I'm sure we'll probably end up seeing a marine/zealot/zergling for the new icons in the coming weeks.

it doesn't select workers or overlords, but it does select queens, oracles, observers, medivacs and other non attacking units.

tested this myself
Lysergic
Profile Joined December 2010
United States355 Posts
September 06 2012 01:16 GMT
#17
I think it's army not just idle army, I don't know the default key for it, but it looks like it works the same as warpgates. Seems like it'll let bad players not have to hotkey units?
lotny
Profile Joined February 2011
Poland154 Posts
September 06 2012 01:26 GMT
#18
Can people please stop responding to questions when they have no idea what they are talking about?
Namely shifty, Tekkerz and SpeCtor.

The graphic happens to be the same as for workers, but has a totally different function as Torte de Lini said.

For people in the beta: what's the default key for it? And do you think it should not select queens and mothership core?
Windwaker
Profile Joined February 2012
Germany1597 Posts
September 06 2012 02:03 GMT
#19
its the goody button
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Mig
Profile Blog Joined October 2004
United States4714 Posts
September 06 2012 04:02 GMT
#20
Not suitable topic for an OP.
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