Hi,
Currently mappers have to choose to enable EUDs at the cost of reaching CCMU sooner.
Will Starcraft ever be updated so this doesn't have to be a choice, e.g. no unit limit (aside from RAM) and EUD triggers?
Also, why is there a unit limit at all--memory is pretty cheap these days (standard PCs ship with 8GB+)
None.
Will Starcraft ever be updated so this doesn't have to be a choice, e.g. no unit limit (aside from RAM) and EUD triggers?
Probaby not.
Also, why is there a unit limit at all--memory is pretty cheap these days (standard PCs ship with 8GB+)
It has nothing to do with hardware resources.
It's so all existing EUD maps made in 1.16.1 will continue to work.
They could easily make a new version of the map specification that allowed for 4x the standard unit limit alongside EUDs so that newly created maps could have extended limits and EUDs, while old maps remain with their current limitations. This would require less work than the EUD emulator did in the first place.
But it doesn't seem Blizzard has any particular interest in doing this.
None.
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NudeRaider -- blessed innocent soul knows nothing of the strife we had before EUDs were discovered 
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
O)FaRTy1billion[MM], Prankenstein
