Gold minerals!

in the demo video they had brown minerals,and their were only 6 of em(it was when the tempest were getting ready to attack the base) but at the base that the soul hunters attacked,the minerals where Blue and their was alot of them..duh..So do these brown minerals have alot more minerals,or is it a new type of mineral. i have a couple ideas what it is for.
1. Maybe a new resource for the three races.
2. maybe a new resource for a possible new race.
3. just something blizzard did to have a variety of minerals.

 

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I didnt notice it earlier, but were workers mining these brown minerals? If not, it might've just been a new terrain feature, since we definitely know that there won't be a fourth race(and a special min just for them would complicate things waaaaay too much), the old mins and vespene are returning, and doing it just for the color seems extraneous.

 

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hmmm I have an idea.

If you played command and conquer 3, there was green tiberium to collect for resources. However, in some maps, blue tiberium appeared and it gave a greater output per load. I think it's 3500 per load instead of 2000.

So maybe the yellowish brown minerals provides a greater output (i.e. 12 v. 8 per load).

 

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because of the placement of the yellow stuff i would say its just a doodad

 

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Brown minerals just sound... so wrong.

 

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I thought doodad at first also, but if you look, there is a geyser right next to them. Although there it is not impossible to have geysers just sitting around without minerals, I'd say look-alike minerals next to a geyser is too much coincidence.

 

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but look at the placement, you would have to have your nexus(cc) pretty far away from the geyser if those things were minerals, iv never seen blizzard do a mineral placement like this. all the other mineral/vespene deposits in the trailer are in the same layout as in sc1.
Maybe that is what normal minerals look like when they have had all the energy sucked out of them?? if you look closely at the 20min demo at the start you can see probes using a purple ray thing to harvest/suck energy out of crystals

 

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cool, i guess there making it so that some expansion are worth more than others, not jsut posttioning on the map, but aslo there output, coolness

 

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For what Mr. Montag said:
Maybe they've killed the resource proximity limit?

 

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Possibly.. but still doubt it.
It would still be odd positioning IMO.

 

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This must be the stuff the Protoss had been using to build all of their yellow units and structures. They must be running out of it, though, because all of the new Dark Templar units are blue!

 

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LOL

 

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haha not likly
My bet is on the '' more valuable''

 

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So they can have it like those stupid maps where your CC was right next to the minerals and you would get a ridiculous amount? Ha not only would that make it not the super competitive game they want but it would be the stupidest thing they could possibly do. I would not play multi if this were the case and I'm sure that many people, especially pros, would curse Blizzard for this.

 

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I wouldn't think it would be that big of a deal in terms of competitiveness. It would just make the game go a little faster.

However I'm sure there will be a resource proximity limit cause 1 SCV to a vespene geyser? cmon lol

 

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Whatever these resources might yield, Blizzard is definately trying to tease the fans. Blizzard stars the Tempest unit in the scene the resources were shown, and they just appear out of no where all of a sudden, and its actually hard to see if your not really paying attention to anything but the tempest.

They are definately there, and the vespene geyser next to them is clue that they may be a resource (why else would a geyser be next to them?). But because the placement is so odd, theres reason to doubt. It's like an unsolved mystery.

I think this new resource represents unlimited ore. Higher resource yield seems kind of cheap, especially if it's rare, then people will just struggle against each other to claim that OO-SHINEY ore, and it throws the gameplay off to what it should be. The unlimited resource deal could extend the game for those extra long epic pro battles as soon as the normal resources run out. Now I wonder if they will do the same for the vespene geyser... clouds of golden, glittering gas pouring out of a mountain of gold colored rock... if that doesnt set you in awe enough to get an insaciable drive to plunder the precious booty, I dont know what would. ;D

 

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A very interesting idea, and it would certainly make Big Game Hunters and other huge money maps easier to create for developers.

Another possibility: perhaps you can have two SCV/Probe/Drones mining simultaneously on gold minerals, instead of the single allowed on regular minerals in SC1.

 

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those e aren't resources! it's terrain. looks a lot like mushrooms. and i highly doubt starcraft can have a new race. when the tempest are flying over that part, no workers in sight. and by the time you'd have tempests, there would certainly be an expo there. so i strongly disagree that it is some sort or new mineral

 

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Who knows (besides blizzard)? I tell you though, I wouldnt be surprised if it's a practical joke.


EDIT:
But like I said, theres reason to doubt. It probably is just a "mushroom"

 

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Well that is just a video to show the tempest at work. So it probably wouldn't show the extra base unless they were attacking it. Or maybe the tempests already killed everything there.