Is there a cap on queued injects per hatchery?
I know there's a cap on larvae per hatchery and that extra will go to waste but is there a cap on how many injects you can queue up?
Posted Oct 29, 2018, 10:12 PM UTC
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Nope, there is no cap on the number of queued injects.
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Wait, you can queue up injects? When did that happen?!
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You can never make up for a missed inject, but if I Queen misses an inject and has 50 energy you can inject twice. You won't get 6 larvae in 30 seconds, but you'll get 3 larvae in 30 seconds & 30 seconds after that you'll get the next 3 larvae.
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It isn't quite never. An inject pops after 29 seconds but it takes about 32 seconds for a queen to generate 25 energy, so the length of the cycle is governed by queen energy normally. If you are late and then stack an inject then larva will pop every 29 seconds, which is about a 10% in larva production from injects (5% increase in total larva production from that hatch) until the stacked inject overlap is completely used up.
So if you are really good about staying on top of your injects after missing one you will eventually get those larva back but it takes like 5 minutes to recover 3 larva. Natural production larva that are lost due to 3 on the ground are gone forever though, and usually if you've missed an entire inject you've also not spent larva.
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For most 5 mins of perfect injects is unrealistic.
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That isn't a requirement to get some larva back, you just need to hit within the grace period, which is pretty wide after missing an entire inject. But I'm just illuminating a game mechanic here.
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You can que injects with creep spread queens tho. Which can help alot for lower level players in the midgame to ease the pressure of upkeep every 30 seconds.
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True
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Hello, additional question, what is the cap on larvae per hatchery?
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18... 3 from hatchery, 15 from injects (5 injects worth (2m30s))
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It's actually 19 - https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Larva_(Legacy_of_the_Void)
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A bit of trivia: The limit is 19 because inject used to give larva per cast, so 19 was 3 base larva + 4 injects. I guess when they changed inject to only give 3, they didn't change the max amount of larva.
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Ok thanks !
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I never tried more than 2 because i found that its better to save energy for a heal if attacked. Good idea tho to try it on a custom server