Gold minerals!

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that thing was gay. and i hate how every race gets special harvesting except the orcs, they get 10 no matter what.

 

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Didn't the night elves just get +5 no matter what but not have to go back.
And the undead got +20 all the time right? Plus if you got the speed upgrade they would go faster. Or if you got that hero with the aura that made them walk faster (unholy I think) then you would get a little faster lumber economy if you had your hero nearby.
But yeah, orcs did get the shaft lumber-wise. Although I thought they didn't really have a lot of high lumber things.

 

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yeah. night elves got it too since they only got 5 per wisp every 10 seconds. that sucked.
yeah you could use unholy aura and ghoul frenzy to make them harvest faster.

 

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Keep in mind that every night elf thing required lumber. In contrast, people could use grunts throughout the whole game and they just cost gold. Plus if you get pillage they give you some of that gold back.

 

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yeah NE needs the most wood and gets none.
i love using pillage.

 

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Plus the humans need boatloads of lumber which is why they get the huge bonuses.
Besides, if you have nice helpful allies, you can just ask them for lumber if they have extra and they will give you some.
Just like in SC2. Can't get to a gold mineral place but your ally can? Just ask for a few minerals since he is getting more.

 

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yeah i really hope they put a resource trade in.

 

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They said in the Q&A that there would be resource trading.

 

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hm... must of missed that part.

 

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Question 2 here:
http://www.starcraft2forum.org/forums/index.php?topic=836.0

 

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I don't like this additional mineral type thing, it just reeks of C&C: Tiberium <insert>.

 

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Well whats his face the lead designer was from that design team i believe.

 

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it's gonna be a fight o get those minerals

 

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yeah makes them high priority. unless you just go for the main and cripple that.

 

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Well if everyone if fighting over the gold minerals, I would just go for regular ones so while my enemies are spending resources trying to capture the gold minerals, I'm quietly gathering regular minerals and not spending them trying to take the gold ones.

 

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aye, lets say you are playing a fairly large map with 4 separate teams and they go for the middle of the map because there is an abundance of yellow minerals while you work your way around the map getting the regular blue minerals.. pretty soon you will have a better supply and force then they

 

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and on top of that, one of them is probably already dead while the other two are fighting amongst themselves.

 

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i think its a mineral with better quality? maybe when u gather them u retrieve more amounts of mineral?

 

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it's already been revealed by blizzard that it is a higher yield mineral field meaning you get more resources each trip

 

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exactly what i had in mind. but i dont pay attention to blizzard's announcments