Maximising Income in StarCraft II
— I never thought I’d see the day gaming tips ended up in scientific journals. Click the image to read the paper and look at the bottom of this post for select studies from the same journal.This paper looks at the income mechanic of the video game Starcraft II. We look at the optimum number of workers to have mining at one mineral patch at any one time. This optimum number depends on the type of minerals being mined, but is ~2.4 for blue mineral patches, and 2.5 for gold mineral patches.
By S. Clapton, D. Boulderstone and C. Meredith in the Journal of Physics Special Topics from the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the University of Leicester.
This particular volume has many other amazing studies such as the Monty Python-inspired “Determining the Smallest Migratory Bird Native to Britain able to carry a Coconut” and heat-ray bursts in “The Last Son Of Krypton,” though I find the practical exploration of “Nuking Meteors” the most enlightening.
