
Vespene Geysers now hold 1,700 Vespene Gas instead of 2,500” Mineral Fields now hold 1,000 Minerals instead of 1,500 Combined with our unit changes for each race, this should make mid-game aggression much more potent and viable.

To do this, we’re incentivizing faster expansions by decreasing the resources on Mineral Fields and Vespene Geysers by 33%. “In order to encourage aggression, we intend to create more places to attack. BackgroundĪ new economy system was introduced along with the announcement of Legacy of the Void at the end of 2014. Lastly, I will discuss how different stakeholders are affected.
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Next, I will lay out three outcomes of the worker change, and then I will discuss how these three factors interact to produce a series of negative products. I will first refresh your memory of the economy changes implemented in LotV. This article does not discuss balance per se but focuses on the negative products of doubling the starting worker count. Players used to start with six workers in Wings of Liberty (WoL) and Heart of the Swarm (HotS), but the number of starting workers doubled in Legacy of the Void (LotV). While the balance patches and maps receive much attention, the influence of starting worker count to the game is largely overlooked. The community was critical of the state of the game at the end of 2019. This article discusses the impact of moving from six starting workers to twelve in Legacy of the Void. Although it is largely considered the best expansion of StarCraft II, the economy changes have unintended effects on the game.

Legacy of the Void has brought us countless memorable games these five years.
