Who else ends up with 7k minerals and 0 gas?

[Wankey]

I'm finding this gas issue a really annoying gimmick they added in. Often times when the game goes on long enough, you end the game with 7k minerals and no gas. So I'm forced to fight a marine/hellion war or a zealot war or a zergling war. It's quite annoying how they did this. What kind of strategy are they trying to push with limited gas?

I feel it's poor design and a gimmick because they're *forcing* you to do something that you really don't want to.

[Gradius]

That used to happen to me. It's not an issue with me as Protoss though, because it's impossible to be short on Warp Gates and Zealots.

[Kimera757]

I have that problem too. I doubt it's a deliberate design decision. IMO, they should up the gas mined to 5/trip, and maybe give geysers some more capacity.

[ArcherofAiur]

Build more gateways.

[Gifted]

What I find is that I had that issue a lot in the early portion of beta. Over time I find myself using the minerals as they come in better and better. The mentality is, the more "mineral" units you have, the longer your gas units survive. Unfortunately that shows more of a testament to this game's evolution as a macro game though.

[Sarov]

I tend to have a hard time focusing on macro and micro at the same time although I'm actually really good at multitasking - just not good in RTS games apparently. So for me, what tends to happen is that I end up with a ridiculous amount of minerals and gas. And sometimes, I don't ever have enough gas despite have double gas or even an expansion. I'll admit it's pretty annoying.

When I'm playing Protoss, I'll just make a few cannons or a load of Gateways. Having zealots is good, especially when I've already researched charge and many of the ground upgrades (primarily the ground unit attack upgrade). I don't play Terran at all and I haven't played Zerg recently so I have no experience with how that must be annoying. When I play Zerg, I don't find zerglings very useful mid or late game unless I'm using banelings and even then because I usually face Terrans, they just destroy my Nydus Worms with Thors or destroy incoming units with their siege tanks so not having enough gas would really be annoying.

[Wankey]

Build more gateways.

7k worth of gateways. Hmm! Actually, I built a load of cannons instead.

[Sigel]

7k worth of gateways. Hmm! Actually, I built a load of cannons instead.

you could very well have 10 gateways and clear 1k mineral per batch getting zealots if you really have trouble managing your mineral it's not a bad idea

[Blasterion]

I find 7k minerals of marines a great way to hold off 7k worth of zealots or Zerglings

[Twilice]

I try to just "ninja" 3 expos by the time this happens and focus mainly on the gas.

Works really well with protoss since with the other minerals you have builded alot of gateways.