0 Minerals?? - Page 2

On January 18 2009 18:30 MasterOfChaos wrote:
It is a reverse minhack which was caused by the unlucky sequence of commands you gave together with perfect timing.

the decisive part is that you build a drone and give it a stop command in the same frame. This causes your build to be cancelled withour refund. Some older minhacks used siminar timing attacks, but of course giving you the mins.

On broodwar.de we had some guy who claimed to have that bug in about 1of 4 games. He seems to have been able to reproduce that sequence rather well. But of course its easier to give the commands in one frame on bnet latency than on lan latency. But with a lagspike in the beginning it is still possible.

edit: The stop command was only given because you selected drones after giving the hatch command. Else the s key would have been ignored.
so you have to:
1) press d (give a hatch command)
2) add drones to the selection, but keep the larva selected
3) press s (give a stop command)
all in one frame.