Lol, oh my!

I think a simple solution would be to have a Tier 2 research that allows workers to harvest the gold minerals. You could use the excuse that these gold minerals while high yielding are also incredibly dense and hard, requiring a harvesting equipment upgrade or evolution in the case of the Zerg.

I think a simple solution would be to have a Tier 2 research that allows workers to harvest the gold minerals. You could use the excuse that these gold minerals while high yielding are also incredibly dense and hard, requiring a harvesting equipment upgrade or evolution in the case of the Zerg.

hah, that’s not even a slight problem!
What about the lost time between moving the CC from the blue to the yellow minerals?
In that time the opposing player would have build several units and all he needs to do is send them and kill the “stupid” guy lifting the CC.

hah, that’s not even a slight problem!
What about the lost time between moving the CC from the blue to the yellow minerals?
In that time the opposing player would have build several units and all he needs to do is send them and kill the “stupid” guy lifting the CC.

Yeah destroy the command center with all that air attack that Zealots and Zerglings have. Marines might be a slight problem but only in large numbers and unless they have scouted thoroughly no Terran player is going to rush into another Terran base guns blazing. We all know where the primary start points are in maps. Unless he’s lucky enough to guess the right expansion then the guy who lifted his base is going to quickly get double the minerals of his opponent.

Yeah destroy the command center with all that air attack that Zealots and Zerglings have. Marines might be a slight problem but only in large numbers and unless they have scouted thoroughly no Terran player is going to rush into another Terran base guns blazing. We all know where the primary start points are in maps. Unless he’s lucky enough to guess the right expansion then the guy who lifted his base is going to quickly get double the minerals of his opponent.

[QUOTE=ubernoob;6237]hah, that’s not even a slight problem!
What about the lost time between moving the CC from the blue to the yellow minerals?
In that time the opposing player would have build several units and all he needs to do is send them and kill the “stupid” guy lifting the CC.

True, however one can’t safely assume that the enemy Terran is making a break for the gold minerals.  If you plan a quick rush to counter this (Protoss with several Zealots) but instead find that he’s still at the blue minerals, then what?  You’ll be behind in tech, with wasted minerals and might even find a siege at your door with only Tier 1 units at your disposal.

The time factor isn’t a big loss unless the expansions are halfway across the map.  Receiving a double income would allow the Terran player to recover from a 30 second relocation (which is a long time) in 15 seconds - maybe less since they’ll get SCVs quicker, thus resulting in a faster harvest.

Ultimately it would depend on the size of the map and how far away the gold expansions are.

[QUOTE=ubernoob;6237]hah, that’s not even a slight problem!
What about the lost time between moving the CC from the blue to the yellow minerals?
In that time the opposing player would have build several units and all he needs to do is send them and kill the “stupid” guy lifting the CC.

True, however one can’t safely assume that the enemy Terran is making a break for the gold minerals.  If you plan a quick rush to counter this (Protoss with several Zealots) but instead find that he’s still at the blue minerals, then what?  You’ll be behind in tech, with wasted minerals and might even find a siege at your door with only Tier 1 units at your disposal.

The time factor isn’t a big loss unless the expansions are halfway across the map.  Receiving a double income would allow the Terran player to recover from a 30 second relocation (which is a long time) in 15 seconds - maybe less since they’ll get SCVs quicker, thus resulting in a faster harvest.

Ultimately it would depend on the size of the map and how far away the gold expansions are.

[QUOTE=Troglodyte;6247]True, however one can’t safely assume that the enemy Terran is making a break for the gold minerals.  If you plan a quick rush to counter this (Protoss with several Zealots) but instead find that he’s still at the blue minerals, then what?  You’ll be behind in tech, with wasted minerals and might even find a siege at your door with only Tier 1 units at your disposal.

The time factor isn’t a big loss unless the expansions are halfway across the map.  Receiving a double income would allow the Terran player to recover from a 30 second relocation (which is a long time) in 15 seconds - maybe less since they’ll get SCVs quicker, thus resulting in a faster harvest.

Ultimately it would depend on the size of the map and how far away the gold expansions are.

How about scouting, yeah maybe you won’t find him in the first run, but its basically a fast thing scouting and you don’t need to really go for zealots, you could go for stalkers.
I’d suppose the terran would probably loose from 30 seconds to a minute depending on the map size and where the yellow minerals are, also taking they are close enough for a terran to do such a maneuver!
And taking the build times for barracks and/or factory they will be behind you for at least 3 minutes besides the yellow minerals+30sec to 1 minute the time that took him to float the CC. In that time you should have probably scouted him anyways.