Comments on: StarCraft 2 to Introduce New Terran Harvesting Machines

By: No Name

No Name — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:18:50 +0000

Its a doodad, i know why. It would have shown up on the map.

By: Walrus_King

Walrus_King — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:41 +0000

I’m stumped. it doesn’t seem to be just a doodad because it’s firing lasers, but it never moves throughout the entire video. i think it might be storage seperate from the command center. in the game “age of mythology”, made by microsoft, you could build structures specifically for storing resources to keep from having to go back and forth between far-away resources and the town center. these structures mining the resources on their own would be a major difference, though it is possible and it’d be pretty damn cool.Possibly these are just an alternative to the scv once you reach a certain point in the game, perhaps after the engineering bay is built. i would imagine that they would need to be emptied out by scvs for the resources to be used. maybe it’s just a faster way of mining.

By: Drayen

Drayen — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:10:10 +0000

theres another harvesterr when you see the terran buildings flying, that harvester however is shooting his laser at the ground, no minerals in its proximity, so im calling doodad for this one

By: SiMich

SiMich — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:01:31 +0000

Well, for first, I do not think that they are Terran-only. Even that the thought is not pleasant for me, I think, that these harvesters are going to be… buyable in some bulding, just as Goblin Harvesters from W3 were.
For second, I don’t know what to think. I thought that it might mine the minerals, but these talks about destroying or creating minerals made me thought. True is, that it would really enhance gameplay – ever-lasting resources. Or maybe it’s going to move them – destroy on one place, create on another place. By that you could move crystals to safer location.
If I (and others who wrote it before me) am right about the second paragraph, it would be cool. But if I’m wrong about the first one, it’ bad. Imagine, that Terrans would have ability to create crystals. Of course, the moving would not be such a big issue – Protoss is mobile enough. But the other races would then run out of recources.
Good would be if every race would have a machine like that. Maybe with some changes, but something like that. We think that we seen all the units of Protoss, but we might miss another one. I know that races should not be similar, but this similarity would be needed.

By: Kristoffer Ang

Kristoffer Ang — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:55:46 +0000

This could very well be a unit that enhances crystaline growth, or maybe a unit that does some treatment to unearth crystals.

In the first place, why do these crystals exist? How do we humans bring resources out from their natural cribs?

We stimulate the earth to produce such resource over shorter times and through emulating what nature does.

By: darkphantom02

darkphantom02 — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:31:51 +0000

just a doodad. nothing more. how would you get them there? doesn’t seem quite fair for the other races…but, hell, maybe its just something that is uniquely terran. but, i think its just a doodad.