Mineral Stealing!

[Renzokuken]

This is one of the things i LOVE doing. When i scout with my 7th probe (After building a pylon), i reach the enemy's base, i look around, and when i am done, i take some minerals from one of their patches and run home.

Who else steals minerals like that? Or does cheap stuff? :sly

 

[Biske]

Yeah, I noticed you did that on the last replay you sent with RyanXWing, coRt, yourself and Darkmatter(was it him?). I wasn't paying any attention and then looked at your probe, who was running out of a terran base with a min on him, and a couple SCV's were chasing him, I just looked at it, and thought "Ha! Looks like something Renzo would do".

But me, personally, I don't scout with my workers, they are too important to me early on. So, guess not.

 

[Visions of Khas]

Haha. Someone did that to me before. It was funny. His SCV wandered around my base for a while, then snatched up some minerals and took off.

I don't scout a lot with my workers either, but I feel obliged every once in a while to thiever some minerals. >>

 

[dP]

kinda pointless, all you get is 8 minerals.

 

[Biske]

Well, that's 8 minerals they don't get.

 

[dP]

and that makes a difference?

 

[thegrim_reaper]

it makes them mad i dont usually scout with my workers, but i could pretty ez, i usually use observers, not that hard to get and with upgrades if you actually keep them outa range of spore n stuff they dont die

 

[Darkmatter]

I rememebr Renzokuken doing that in our East Game. You basterd. You come in, harvest a 8 mineral piece and run away! :angry

 

[raDixGhost]

hahahaha thats sweet man.

 

[CerebralChain]

If you're gonna annoy him, you might as well build a "Manner Pylon" =)

 

[Phoenix2003]

Manner pyloning is fun. I, personally, like placing a pylon next to their factory then cancel after they lift and place it again. It's kinda gay, but I think of it as returning the favor.

 

[Hot Action Akule]

Manner pyloning is fun. I, personally, like placing a pylon next to their factory then cancel after they lift and place it again. It's kinda gay, but I think of it as returning the favor.

i love doing that.... but i like to try and place my manner pylon in front of minerals (makes em go around it)

 

[WildfireFX]

lmao.. if someone did that to me i'd just send a probe after them and if it reached their base i'd steal a mineral ;D

 

[Biske]

By the time you'd get there chances are they already have defence, so I think it's more of a First Come, First Get Mineral kinda thing .

 

[Tiger_shark]

wow....8 free minerals...from a worker that is probably gonna get killed

i don't know what the point of scouting with a worker, mining their minerals, and running away..is the point of scouting to stay in their base as long as possible and see what they are up to?

 

[Biske]

No, not really. The use of scouting is to periodically check up on them so as to calculate an effective plan of countering their army, not seeing how long you can keep a unit in their base without them knowing it. That's kinda pointless, don't ya think? It's all fun and games anyway, who cares.

 

[Tiger_shark]

The use of scouting is to periodically check up on them so as to calculate an effective plan of countering their army, not seeing how long you can keep a unit in their base without them knowing it.

you think scouting is to put a worker inside their base and not let them see it?

go watch some replays...the early scout (worker) usually MOVES AROUND the base avoiding attacks for as long as possible to see what tech they are going... For example in TvP...the scv should stay in the protoss base circling around until he sees a observatory, robotics facility, robotics support bay, citadel of adun, early expo, or anything else the protoss is up to, then build and e-bay and implement strategies that are useful in the situation...

As for periodical scouting, i doubt u will send a unit into the guy's base hoping it will see some tech when his units are going to just kill anything that comes. This is why there is scanner, observers, and overlords..

 

[Renzokuken]

Dude, the SCV would definately be dead by then.

 

[Biske]

Wow, you're a persistent flea on the ass of intelligent conversations, aren't you Tiger_Shark? Um, I said the point of scouting is not to put a worker in their base, dolt. As soon as I get air, I check their base every spare second I have. Since I usually get observers out late.

 

[drax]

Usually they will send out a few workers to chase after you, which gives them less minerals at the start, making them take slightly longer to upgrade. That's one advantage of having a worker run around in their base.