Hmm, interesting idea that id like your thoughts on.

[Valmar]

Something recently struck me, see if you guys understand this.
Worker units do 5 damage each, right? Right, they bring in a set amount of minerals. They attack the minerals and obviously do 5 damage which is what makes the minerals go down. Think of the amount of minerals a pile has as its life. When the scv attacks it it removes a portion of its "life" goes down. This got me thinking, what if you upped thier damage, shouldnt this cause them to mine more minerals?? Just a thought.

[!King_Amazon!]

No.

[Sovereign]

each worker unit does 5 dmg and takes away 8 mineral. Which means teh minerals must have some weakness to the workers dmg. This is asssuming we count the miin count as life. thats a 5:8 ratio. Statistically that would mean that if an scv did 10 dmg it should e able to min 16 minerals. And so and so forth. Interesting subject.

[`Insolence`]

But it doesnt work that way... I don't think, scvs take alot longer to get 8 minerals than they take to attack twice.

[!King_Amazon!]

The minerals work just like the vespene, yet the SCV doesn't attack the geyser does he? No.

It doesn't work like this, make a super SCV and mine some minerals with him if you want, he'll still grab 8.

[Valmar]

Sheesh, it was just a thought guys... everyone getting so up-tight and angry sounding.

[StarcraftGhost]

You know, I watched the SCV before (when you first start up with 4 scvs and waiting for the first harvest), they 'attack' the mineral like two or three times before bringing that little piece of 8 mins. One thing I wish the SCVs do is...drop the minerals if they die. You've seen that small mineral icon thing on the map making right? So why when I shoot and blow up an SCV the minerals vanish? It should just drop it on the floor for other SCV's to pick up.

[Sovereign]

The explosion might destroy the mineral as well. Im talking about hte explosion of the scv, and probe. For the drone, maybe something in teh blood makes the mineral unusable? I dunno, all we can do is speculate.

[Valmar]

Maybe when the drone dies his blood is acidic and decomposes the minerals at an accelerated rate invisible to the human eye?

[Boo~Hoo]

SCVs Wouldnt 'attack' the minerals, they 'mine' you can't use attack command on minerals can you? :P

[Farting_Pumpkin]

wouldnt it be the same thing as mining?

[Thanatos]

No. For the SCV there's an attack command and a mine command.