Gold minerals!

Re: brown minerals?

ah.. maybe blizz got smart.. instead of worth more like typical games they made gold minerals take longer to break.. or something...(break as in extract)

 

Re: brown minerals?

The brown/gold minerals should have a higher output rating, at the same amount of minerals as the blue.

Blue: 5000, normal speed
Gold: 5000, 1.5x speed.

That way, whoever captures the gold minerals won't have an unlimited amount, just be able to harvest resources for their war effort faster.

And by the way; look at us! We're having discussions over a color change! I bet the gold minerals are nothing.

 

Re: brown minerals?

Or another idea could be that everytime a worker extract a chunk of blue ones, it contains 8 minerals. Everytime a worker extract a chunk of gold ones, it contains 12 minerals.

 

Re: brown minerals?

Or they both extract 8 but when it is returned to the base, the gold mineral only shows up as having 6 because your greedy commander skimmed some gold off the top.

 

Re: brown minerals?

What if the only difference is color? It could be just a regular mineral field, but golden. In other places you ight find pink and oranage minerals. I know it would be pointless, but it makes the maps more colorful.

 

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and maybe more "realistic" as you wont find the same type of mineral on every planet

 

Re: brown minerals?

karunes Q&A batch 4 was just put up and reveals that the yellow minerals are a high yeild resource.
link http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=sc-general&t=196529&p=1&#post196529

 

Re: brown minerals?

is anyone else reminded of tiberian? blue tiberian, if i remember correctly

 

Re: brown minerals?

we now know they in fact ARE minerals

 

Re: brown minerals?

Space= Normal Blue Minerals
Grasslands (like image)/Jungle= Gold Minerals
Ash, Magma= Deep Purple Minerals
Desert= Greyish-Black Minerals
Ice= Dark Red Minerals

^^What do ya think?^^

 

Re: brown minerals?

...or it could be just like said in the new Q & A where gold just have a higher output...

 

Re: brown minerals?

its a fact now, higher output

 

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Higher output is probably better than any of the other ideas for what it was. Guess it'll add some more strategic value to the maps.

 

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meh I was hoping to have just different colored minerals but ooo well I guess it would spice things up tho

 

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I am not enjoying the addition of double output minerals. It feels to me like adding a third resource.

 

Re: brown minerals?

Is it double output or just more output?

 

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all that blizz has said is more output.

 

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I hope it only brings it up to 10 per trip.

 

Re: brown minerals?

125% efficiency? sounds fair.

 

Re: brown minerals?

Yeah hopefully it's not like the upgrades in WC3 at the human lumber yard. Or the *shudder* goblin shredder.