Starcraft II Q&A 8!

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Karune just posted up another update. Enjoy!

Now I really can't wait until they spill a lot of beans this weekend! ^_^ Another question came up along the thread and Karune confirmed it.

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Karune's Q&A Batch 8

 

Re: Starcraft Q&A 8!

hooray

I wonder if the enemy will be able to see the yellow bar, so they could try to get the ones that are full of units as opposed to the ones that are empty decoys to draw fire

 

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eh i'm sure that won't happen. It's like radioing the enemy and saying "Dude we have a full load of marines, shoot us down!" ^_^

 

Re: Starcraft Q&A 8!

in age of empires 2 they had flags on the ships that had units in them that were visible to anyone

so not necessarily full but at least populated maybe, but it would suck for the archon/reaver drop

 

No minerals for me... Tiger??Wahhhh


Bonus 150 minerals for the quick update. Love, FlyingTiger <3


Yay!

 

yay no upkeep! yay blizzcon!
owerup:

 

By upkeep, does that mean the amount of minerals compared to your army like in Warcraft 3? I hadn't even thought of that, and it would have worried me!

 

Yes, I believe that's what it would have meant. It's true, i didn't think about it either, lol. But I was relieved to hear that it's not goin in that direction. Upkeep always irritated me immensely. Thanks for the update! owerup:

 

I am a little confused - what exactly is meant by upkeep? (I never played Warcraft III). The Q & A got my salivary glands working very hard - I am very excited to see what is revealed this weekend!

 

Upkeep is the system of maintaining large quantities of troops by reducing the amount of resources gained to the amount actually harvested given a certain amount of supply reached.

For example, normally, when a Peasant mines 10 gold out of the mine, you get 10 when he dumps it off at the Town Hall. However, when your unit production gets up to a certain number (50 Supplies used), "Low Upkeep" immediately kicks in, which reduces the 10 gold that's mined into only 7 when it reaches your Town Hall. "High Upkeep" occurs when you reach 80 supply in unit production.

This system, I believe, is only seen in Warcraft 3, which is why everyone is happy to see it not happen in SC2. It really wouldn't make any sense for it to happen because I believe that WCIII is more of a micromanaging game whereas SC2 is supposed to facilitate massive armies.

 

As in how much the phase prism is carrying which is like 4 zealots unless they decide to change that. Too bad they didn't go into more info about the campaign editor I would like to see how it works with the planets in the backrounds now.

 

HERE WE GOOO! BLIZZZCOOON

 

THANK GOD!!! no upkeep wooh hoo.... yeah i really hated that about WC3 even thou i loved WC3 i hated that nothing like having a big army toward the end of a game and the enemy turtleing just enough to make another decent sized army just because he/she had more money coming from no upkeep

 

i dont see why everyone hates wc3. Sure it is a little different and requires more strategy when getting ur units, but it's not like it isn't fun. I like the team battles much more than starcraft becuase there is accually a team feeling, instead of playing starcraft.

 

yea but does upkeep really have to do with team feeling? The thing is we don't want this to become Warcraft in space. Starcraft is starcraft. That's why people are adamant about keeping wc3 features off of sc. It's not like everyone hates wc3, it's just that were telling wc3 to stay away.

I think starcraft has more of a team feeling than warcraft but that just my opinion.

 

huh? no in warcraft you communicate and you work together with your forces. You also discuss the units you're going to get... ect. In starcraft, no one communicates, and it's basicly like a 1v1 with another person. You dont attack together, you don't even have much time to help becuase there is no tp. However those are just normal matches, in team matches it's pretty different.

 

starcraft and warcraft 3 are both COOL and entirely different games. orcs, skeletons in warcraft and aliens and guns in starcraft. no need to compare both. i like both games, actually i love warcraft 3 than starcraft (well slightly) .

but when starcraft 2 comes out, it will be my number 1. ^^

 

man you prolly had bad teammates. When I play on teams in normal matches, we play together with coordinated attacks. Well at least back in the good ol' days. I still do with my friends now once in a while.

Wc3 right now has a better match system and currently a bigger battle.net community so you are bound to have better games. I don't think it's the game itself but the people who are playing the game with.

 

yeah i just realized that in wc3 there is more coordination with teammates than sc2, i think because of unit combinations work really well together especially beginning hero harassment very critical point of game. like when you see mages attack with summons you can have an army minutes into a game .yeah i loved wc3 but after a while less people played it and sometimes i couldnt even get a random game going. i would still play if it wasnt for school

 

yea. also tker's are WAY too common nowadays.