Sure enough. According to liquipedia, the depot only had 1 balance change through WoL and HotS: hp increased from 350 to 400.
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If Supply Depot had the same build time as Overlord and Pylon, it’ll probably be much easier for Terran to keep up a smooth production line.
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Probably not.
The Supply Depot has always had a longer build time than Pylons. This was even the case in StarCraft I.
Don’t forget you need a pylon first before you can build the cannon unlike the spine, you just need creep.
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Which is big when you just got your hatchery and no creep is there.
Also creep is quite unique not being at the enemy naturally…
Also Pylons do alot of things like giving supply too. But of course it’s a requirement. Anyhow you almost allways have pylons
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I always thought that longer build time* of supply depots is to force Terran players to waste OC energy on extra supply instead of MULEs or scans.
So it kinda makes sense.
*especially when combined with the fact that Terrans are forced to do timing attacks by having weaker economy (till 3-d base saturation) than both other races.
Because Probes can regenerate shields quickly and Drones regenerate life(btw, ticks for regen tick even while zerg units are at full HP, so you might be screwed just because Drone regenerated 1 HP just in time to screw you over, i.e., in a worker fight where SCV should’ve won, but drone regenerated one HP and survived).
Plus, neither probes or drones can be sniped to completely stop building’s production until you send another one.
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Scvs should have 60 hp like in BW
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I would like to know the BLIZZARD reasons for making supply depots build time 3 secs more longer. Looks like unbalanced at first sight to me.
If we remove the burrow ability of Supply depot, i can agree with buffing its health up to 500 and allow it to be built in 10s.
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Why not? Races are supposed to be as different as possible. Do you want terran to have all the good characteristics but none of the bad?
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I think its because the OC can insta depot x N later in game.
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Don’t be absolutist, all races already have good an bad characteristics.
Supply depots have double life than overlords, that’s a major compensation for just 3 seconds. Pylons have the same life than supply depots but, it can be taken with a proportional part of 3 seconds but now the imbalance will be in the difference in amount of life.
Uh… then don’t forget you have to lay creep first …
that you have to build a hatchery first before you can build any spine crawlers at the needed position… duh.
Supply depot can be used as wall. Terran is the only race who can do this without any draw back.
TERRAN
SUPPLY DEPOT - 21 SECONDS (LONGEST SUPPLY STRUCTURE BUILD TIME) - REQUIRES WORKER
CAN CALL DOWN FREE SUPPLY FROM ORBITAL
ZERG
FLYING SUPPLY STRUCTURES CAN SCOUT BUT ARE VULNERABLE
NO WORKER OR SCREEN PLACEMENT REQUIRED TO BUILD SUPPLY
NEEDS LARVAE TO BUILD SUPPLY
PROTOSS
ONE WORKER CAN BUILD ALL SUPPLY STRUCTURES
SUPPLY STRUCTURES MUST BE CAREFULLY PLACED AND REQUIRE SCREEN PLACEMENT
SUPPLY STRUCTURES REGEN SHIELDS AND CAN BE USED TO WARP IN UNITS
SUMMARY -
DIFFERENT RACES ARE DIFFERENT.
Yes it is a complete sentence.