Why people use their first casts with command centre with mule summons?
They gather about 40-50 minerals while +supply spares you 100 + additional minerals that it doesnt need to be built up.
isnt it closer to like 250?
it turns like 8 times. 8X5 is 40 for me.
The Mobile Utility Lunar Excavator (MULE) is a temporary unit that can mine minerals (not gas) and repair for the Terran forces. MULEs are called down from the Orbital Command at the cost of 50 energy. They last 64 seconds. If the MULE is cast on a mineral patch it will begin to mine minerals as soon as it spawns. It takes slightly under 64 seconds for an orbital command to generate 50 energy, meaning that a MULE can be called down at almost the same time as the previous one expires.
Despite their timed life and Orbital Command energy cost, a MULE has several advantages over an SCV. A MULE costs no supply. MULEs have a mining time 3.85x longer than an SCV, but have the same movement speed and acceleration. MULEs carry 5 times more minerals per trip than an SCV on normal minerals, gathering 25 minerals per trip on all types of mineral patches. Their timed life allows 9 mining trips which totals 225 minerals respectively on any mineral patch. A MULE can mine a mineral patch alongside an SCV thus providing extra income on expansions that are already saturated. However, only one MULE at a time can be harvesting a mineral patch.
MULEs are as effective as around 3.45 SCVs on near patches and 3.94 SCVs on far patches, as SCVs average 61.22 minerals per minute on near blue mineral patches and 53.57 minerals per minute on far blue mineral patches (for two or less workers per patch).
source: liquipedia
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mule brings not 5 but 25 minerals per trip, they make 9 trips if sended onto side minerals so its 225, and 8 trips if sended to the middle minerals so its 200, supply will only give you a 100
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