Imagine how cool that would be. Instead of upgrades just magically affecting the game after investing minerals, gas, and time, we could add the step of having to click something (or things) as well.
Sounds ridiculous? It is! Yet it’s already in the game.
It’s a seldom used upgrade for Protoss called “Warp Gate,” and after investing minerals, gas, and time, you also have to click stuff to have it affect the game.
Spend minerals, gas, and time upgrading a hatchery to a lair? It turns into a lair automatically.
Spend minerals, gas, and time upgrading a command center to an orbital command? It morphs automatically.
Spend minerals, gas, and time upgrading your gateways to warpgates? They do nothing. You must individually micro them.
Sure, this idea is nothing new. But Blizzard never quite explained why this is the one building related upgrade in the game to require micro. Since warpgates are superior to gateways in every way, there is literally no situation where you would want to keep your gateways.
It would make much more sense for probes to build warpgates directly after this upgrade is completed. Sure, have them go through the animation and take the extra time to morph. But for such a simple mechanic, I think we deserve either a patch or an explanation.
The only reason I could see NOT to make this change, is Legacy of the Void. It’s possible that in a future version of the game, Blizzard will add a function to gateways that makes players choose between which mode to use. If this is the direction Blizzard is taking, then good luck getting any of the devs to comment.
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