Macro Mechanics Discussion Thread

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Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid

What do you mean cutting workers?

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It really means making fewer workers.

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Originally Posted by Kimera757

It really means making fewer workers.

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Than Archer is completely wrong. Creating 15 workers instead of 20 to mine and return to your base structure is not the same as creating 15 workers to mine and return to your base structure along with 5 to mine and return to your silo. How anyone could make such an error is laughable.

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Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid

Than Archer is completely wrong. Creating 15 workers instead of 20 to mine and return to your base structure is not the same as creating 15 workers to mine and return to your base structure along with 5 to mine and return to your silo. How anyone could make such an error is laughable.

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You mixed up the order


Creating 15 workers instead of 20 to mine and return to your base structure

I want 250 minerals now instead of X (function of time) minerals later


15 CC workers instead of 10 to CC and 5 to silo

I want Y minerals now instead of X (function of time) later

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Originally Posted by ArcherofAiur

Creating 15 workers instead of 20 to mine and return to your base structure

I want Y minerals now instead of X (function of time) minerals later


15 CC workers instead of 10 to CC and 5 to silo

I want Y minerals now instead of X minerals now AND Z minerals (function of time) later

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Fixed.

I like the idea of the silos. Tell me Dsquid, do you see it working in conjunction with fixed versions of the current macro mechanics?

Also, the lore could be that the minerals are refined more efficiently rather than 'grown'.

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Originally Posted by Rake

I like the idea of the silos. Tell me Dsquid, do you see it working in conjunction with fixed versions of the current macro mechanics?

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Of course. IF they were fixed/balanced. Of course, they're still APM sinks, which I deem a problem :p

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Originally Posted by Rake

Also, the lore could be that the minerals are refined more efficiently rather than 'grown'.

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The point is to provide the player a quantity reward though risk and strategic actions. How that is achieved is secondary.

There are some functional problems with the silo. Silos will cost less money than main buildings. However, they still require workers. And those workers cost money.

I'd feel more comfortable with a "silo" that was itself a unit. It would go to a mineral patch and mine from it, storing the minerals within itself. It could mine in perpetuity (possibly to some maximum value). When you want to get the minerals back out, you issue a command.

That way, you don't have to deal with workers. Plus, since it's a unit, more things can target it.

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Originally Posted by Nicol Bolas

There are some functional problems with the silo. Silos will cost less money than main buildings. However, they still require workers. And those workers cost money.

I'd feel more comfortable with a "silo" that was itself a unit. It would go to a mineral patch and mine from it, storing the minerals within itself. It could mine in perpetuity (possibly to some maximum value). When you want to get the minerals back out, you issue a command.

That way, you don't have to deal with workers. Plus, since it's a unit, more things can target it.

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This could also work, and has been suggested a few times by people including Archer. However I prefer not adding more worker-type units.

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Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid

This could also work, and has been suggested a few times by people including Archer.

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I did?

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Originally Posted by ArcherofAiur

I did?

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I could be mistaken of the author.

I know that there has been at least one suggestion of a flying worker who collects resources until its told to return to base.