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Originally Posted by ChadMann

yes but as your income is an exponential growth scale your average income should increase as time goes on.. as you mine more at an increasing rate..

That really depends, bro. But most of the time, your AI would be steady quite steady after, say 15 minutes mark, unless you are owning your opponent who doesn't harass at all, and have like 5 bases etc..

So if you avg income is 1000 minerals at 10 mins (for example, lets presume this value is really good)
you can also have a 1000 avg income at 25 mins.. which in this example would be bad and might present missed peaks of the exponential line... if you also had the same upsent reasources your SQ would be the same. and I know... 1000 at 10 mins = 10,000 and @ 25 mins = 25,000 which seems good.. but in ten mins.. that could be the best you can get.. but in 25, you could get better?...

basically it doesn't consider potential income in the game length... say, it is possible to have 2000 avg income at 25 mins? you see what i mean...

Its about the player cutting worker production and plateauing their economy at a particular income per minute. when does that happen, and how well do they spend that income.. is the real test of macro ability.

I hope I'm making sense.. :S

Understand your point, however, you didn't consider other possibilities.
For example, if you're being owned, harassed hard, and you still can keep your AI at 1000, even at 25 mins mark, and I would consider it good.

That being said, there are a lot of things needed to be considered in Macro Ability evaluation. However, those are really hard / impossible to do.
Taking an statistical approach by whatthefat @ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...opic_id=266019 is the best way to do it . If you have time to read through the post, I think it would be much more helpful.