Gain 7% extra minerals all game : Starcraft 2 Submissions

Without explaining why this works I'll just explain how to do this.

When a worker is returning gathered minerals (it is returning whenever and only the RETURN CARGO BUTTON IS AVAILABLE). This button is default to C or if you are like me & use the grid layout then it will be D.

During the return cargo phase hold down shift, right click on the mineral patch this worker is mining at, now continue to hold down shift and issue the return cargo command. Do this as many times as you can during the return cargo phase and the orders will remain for 1 trip per each shift right click/shift return cargo.

A simple macro that could issue these commands 15 times each (as 33 waypoints is Starcraft 2 is the maximum)



Any more then that then the cycle will break.

Now for the WHY this works, during the last phase of the return mineral cycle your worker regardles of race holds he mineral for about a 0.2 sec moment and for whatever reason issuing the command listed above removes this useless animation speeding up resource collection.

This is known by Blizzard as an animation flaw and is not a bannable offense, no tournament disallows it and the GSL has not frowned upon it, expect to see this in pro play until patched.

Here is a video if you are struggling.

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Download autohotkey to use this script



So F2 is the spam key.

I'll see if I can figure out how to optimize the code I'm not a macro expert.

sounds like a lot of technical mumbo jumbo

Then don't use it and enjoy bronze league.

the idea about the 7% gain, was proven http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=152345

However, I am going to /nay, because people who have used macros - and gotten caught, have been banned.

4 years of WoW botting, a decade of D2 botting and now I still have my SC2 account after using even this. Who do you know in Blizzards history for macroing? Maybe blatant fish macros. But I always even got away with that on my small server.

Pretty sure this has been patched now there is no return animation cancel anymore.