No more resources lost to Upkeep

You realize, of course, that when you have a decent sized army, a certain amount of gold (30% for low upkeep, 70% for high upkeep) is lost even though it appears that your workers are still mining the gold. If you're like me and you get tired of hearing "Our gold mine has collapsed" over and over then try this to get around the upkeeps. On most maps (even in campaigns) there are multiple gold mines, some of which might have to be fought for. The very first thing to do is take over all these gold mines and build your town center building near it (just take a spare worker to it). Then build enough workers to fill that mine, and continue until you've got plenty of gold mines all being mined at once. Then, once you have enough gold to buy a pretty large army, select all your workers who are mining and move them off the mine so they are not doing anything. Use the gold and when upkeep happens you won't lose a bit of gold to it!

The cool thing about this is that you end up with a bunch of extra workers to use to heal damaged buildings/units, etc. and if your army happens to be defeated (but hopefully not in vain by causing a lot of damage to your opponent's base) then you can begin mining again until you have plenty more gold, then stop mining and use the gold.

Note how much longer it takes for gold mines to collapse when using this cheat. This is because you get ALL the gold out of them, not the average of 33 percent by varying between 0%, 30%, and 70% upkeep.

Enjoy!