seppoastian
This is common technique, mostly used to get scouting drone back through a walloff (own unit stands on "hold" in a small choke) or when a mineral line is under siege (e.g. Siege Tank, Liberator), the player can select all his workers to mine a single mineral patch (has to be spammed, otherwise workers redistribute) outside of the siege range until they siege is cleared up.
They also had a PvP element where you could attack other peoples strongholds, but with the lootboxes it was also pay to win.
"Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; it was quickly recognized by Indian mathematicians."
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name' | uniq
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz
$ go version
go version go1.9.1 windows/amd64
$ go test -bench . --benchtime 10s
goos: windows
goarch: amd64
Benchmark_AllocWithMake-12 20000 870349 ns/op
Benchmark_AllocWithAppend-12 30000 561120 ns/op