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

[TheEconomist]

It's probably done to motivate you to get out there and expand as opposed to turtling.

[n00bonicPlague]

It's probably done to motivate you to get out there and expand as opposed to turtling.

Yeah, most likely.

[Asfastasican]

You should macro more and spend your minerals (turrets, depots, zerg crawlers, gateways, cannons, etc.) Or better yet, stop focusing on increasing your mineral economy so much. You should only take what you need, because if you take what you don't need, you will lose having a smaller army size.

It's easy to get a bunch of minerals as Terran, but that's just because some players don't use scan or drop supplies enough. What's the point of spamming MULE's if you never use the minerals? A zerg player with too much means that he isn't macro'ing enough to produce huge Zerg armies or building enough ovies/hatcheries. Protoss players with too much mineral just aren't making enough production.

[Josue]

I think that while the most logical have already been suggested:
"Invest more in minerals than gas", there's still something that would be interesting to point out:
Why not make the high yield minerals expansions become just high yield expansions?

I mean, those places with yellow minerals, why not give them better vespene geysers? that'd make them a lot more interesting.
Now you may ask how better? well, normal expansions such as your natural have both normal minerals and normal vespene gas geysers which have 2500 gas each.

The idea is that high yield expansions have the yellow minerals and 3000 gas vespene geysers instead of the normal 2500 ones. As you see is as simple as that, 500 more gas for each high yield geyser.

[TheRabidDeer]

Unless you are zerg, something is wrong with your unit composition if your resources are skewed THAT much. And if you are zerg, theres a lot of productive ways you can keep your minerals down (more hatcheries, more expos, more of anything that is just minerals).

[Hamshank]

Complain, complain, complain...

First you're attacking us for constructive criticism and now you're complaining about, "a really annoying gimmick." But there is no really annoying gimmick... it's not the game's fault, before you start blaming the game this problem is your problem. You should be able to balance your resources and the game doesn't allow you to accumulate that much minerals unless you're not playing as intended (bronze league). Please whine more..

So attack us for actual real complaints and then you go ranting on about this lunacy?
Try and contribute to the forum instead of take away.

[Operatoring]

I wish Gas wasn't finite. I understand the idea behind it, but it makes the late game dull.

[Brutaxilos]

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.

Agreed. btw wasn't the whole point of having 2 gas to make decisions on whether u need 2 gas? It seems like all the games Ive played i used boht gasses

[spychi]

if you have 7k worth mins than you are doing something wrong
I never end up with 3 or 4 times more min than gas
what I mainly do in 2vs2, 3vs3 and 4vs4 is resource sharing and in advance it's always good to have a squad member which depends on mass marines for example

I don't know bout you guys but soo far the best thing for me in SC2 is resource sharing as I use it in every team based match
if you have more than 1k of min make cans for defence, it's always better to have a good defence than not spending your resources on the army
i have too much minerals>warp prism+warp gates+zealots> opponents base and in return you get a nice harass or win

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after I get one pylon>gateway>second pylon I almost always go for the assimilator or another gateway and then I make it, early gas mining is a good thing you know

[Rogueleader89]

Agreed. btw wasn't the whole point of having 2 gas to make decisions on whether u need 2 gas? It seems like all the games Ive played i used boht gasses

Has to do with timings as well. Do you grab one expo as you start your first gateway and another before cybercore allowing a slow build up of gas? Or do you grab them both simultaneously allowing a longer period of mineral mining followed by a sudden burst of gas? There are a number of possible variants depending on the build. Obviously in the end you will always get both, its just when you get each that makes it interesting.