Food limit back to 300?

[Xyvik]

I've always preferred larger armies (another of the reasons I hate standard WC3) so I'd vote for 300. That would, of course, require larger maps, which would make Macro more important than Micro.

Gee, I wonder if SC players could handle that...probably not

[kyama]

I think 200 cap should be a standard for all rts games. I'm glad they changed it back to this amount, even thou I don't remember it even being 300 cap. But I remember them saying, the main reason they left it at 200 was because of balance.

[sandwich_bird]

Indeed starcraft is really more macro oriented than micro. This is one of the reason why I would like the limit to be 300, it would open possibilities for the game to be even more macro oriented. Though I can see the problem that would arise in a 8 player game, if you don't have the power to run those kind of matches, lower the graphics or just don't play them.

I think 200 cap should be a standard for all rts games. I'm glad they changed it back to this amount, even thou I don't remember it even being 300 cap. But I remember them saying, the main reason they left it at 200 was because of balance.

Balance? Please elaborate.

[Blazur]

300 food cap would be wild, but I question if computers could handle that many units on-screen at once. Especially now that the game is rendered in 3-d. Not that this scenario would occur regularly, but the prospect of an 8-player skirmish resulting in complete food caps at 300 could very well melt your video card.

[emikochan]

Logic dictates they are keeping the food count lower due to them bringing the Valyrie (!) back.

Complete with nostalgia provoking max sprite bug ^^

[SoFool]

300 = Spartans! xD

[Novasquadron]

I think 200 is fine.
I dont see a problem with 200.
How many people actually hit the max food limit?
(If you did it was either really late game or just for fun?)

The most i have ever got to max was 180 or so.
If they do decide to increase the max cap, i think 250 would be good.

I think 300 is a bit much.

[trace wm]

I think 200 is fine.
I dont see a problem with 200.
How many people actually hit the max food limit?
(If you did it was either really late game or just for fun?)

The most i have ever got to max was 180 or so.
If they do decide to increase the max cap, i think 250 would be good.

I think 300 is a bit much.

I maxed all the time back when I played online frequently (I played BGH almost exclusively though). Pro players hit 200 if the game goes on longer than 15 minutes or so.

[Eligor]

300 sounds definitely more attractive, but as was mentioned before, performance is probably the main hindrance here. I do hope we can change the limit in the editor though (so with the passage of a year or two when hardware is better people would be able to happily play with greater limits).

[dynamiK-]

200 works fine. More than that many will see lag spikes/drops in FPS. Plus, if you can't win with 200 units, you won't win with 300. It will just take longer and your computer won't preform as well.