TeamLiquid Macromanagement Article

[Noise]

The reason you say that is because youve only been shown bad macro. Here what is your oppinion of Warp-In. Should that be removed?

I think warp-in is awesome.

[Cheesenium]

Still not really a fan of this marco mechanism.

It's boring and very grindy.

[trace wm]

Yes, Warp-In is a great mechanic. It also has nothing to do with resource gathering, which I feel is inherently unbalanceable and/or game-breaking if you try and change it in any way.

Scrap the resource mechanics and find something like Warp-In for Terran and Zerg (maybe give Zerg more reasons to use creep drop).

[Crota]

Back to the Original Article, I would hope the Queen would be able to Inject ONLY drones but forgo the extra mineral costs of those drones. The Macro Mechanic is meant to only allow additional resource building for the other 2 races, why should it also allow zerg production of Hydras/Lings early on?

I'm sure you can balance the cost/energy into making the drone with the energy it takes from the queen but that is just my thought.

[ArcherofAiur]

Yes, Warp-In is a great mechanic. It also has nothing to do with resource gathering, which I feel is inherently unbalanceable and/or game-breaking if you try and change it in any way.

Different resource gathering is not inherently imbalanced. It can be done in an imbalanced way but it can also be done in a balanced way. All the races do not need to have equal resource intake at all points in the game. What matters is the total army effectiveness compared to the other races total army effectiveness. Even then there are timing windows where one race has the advantage. Balance in Starcraft is allot more complicated than "they all must be the same or its unbalanced."

[Norfindel]

Well, this pretty much confirms all my suspicions.

[ArcherofAiur]

I wonder if people are concerned enough now to want to do something about it?

We tried to put together a joint effort and everyone was silent. How about now?

[DemolitionSquid]

*Ahem*

I TOLD YOU SO.

That is all.

[Aldrius]

What the heck do you expect us to do...?

I guess we could put together an outline of our concerns with the ability and some possible solutions we've brainstormed, but here's the bottom line:

We need beta to do that effectively.

Back to the Original Article, I would hope the Queen would be able to Inject ONLY drones but forgo the extra mineral costs of those drones. The Macro Mechanic is meant to only allow additional resource building for the other 2 races, why should it also allow zerg production of Hydras/Lings early on?

Because the larvae ability is also the equivalent of Warp-in and the Reactor for Protoss and Terran respectively.

Also it'd be pretty useless if it was just extra drones...

[supersonic]

IMO I think all Econ Macroing abilities and things relating to mining and or gassing, should be REMOVED! It doesn't feel StarCrafty at ALL..