What was the Third resource type?

[orospuçocuğu]

I saw a picture of Warcraft3 : Reign of Chaos from the beta or alpha stage. There was an extra icon beside the gold/lumber/food icon in the upper-right part of the game screen. It was like a blue glowing stone. I know I have already seen it in the war3.mpq file while exploring the content with an mpq viewer. And if I am not wrong it was named "Mana Stone". So any of you knows what was it supposed to be there? It seems that they planned a third resource type to replace oil from WC2 but then they removed it from the final release of game. And probably it was something about mana. I wondered what could it be.

...Do you know anything about that?

 

[SantaBla]

Woah and now I've been wondering why there has never been sea battles in Warcraft 3 in melee games like before.

Do you have any pictures of the third resource?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I think it was basicly just mana, later put on units itself instead and self generating? But I really have no idea.

 

[Mechanical Man]

So all units had that global mana?

 

[Jacek]

Warcraft 3 was supposed to be an RPG with barely any RTS elements, that's why they wanted to put mana as a resource

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Wc3 as RPG-only would have been sweet.

 

[Jacek]

y and 100,000 Koreans would have commited suicide

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

2 good things at once, eh?

 

[Moontraveler]

I just wish that there was a 3rd resource and it was called oil... (And they so nerfed polymorph in WC3)