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Everything in SC2 is about the RUSH. Turtlers are not welcome.

I put SC2 down and never picked it back up after playing the third timed mission in a row.

Supreme Commander dealt with this by having genuinely large maps and resource flow rather than a fixed amount of resources. If you tried to "rush" someone or go after their resources, you generally ran into units a level higher and got annhilated.

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RTS as a genre has always favored aggressive play. Even in games that tried to favor defense, like SupCom, turtlers are stills not welcome, and higher level players start aggression quite early. Rarely will a rush downright end the game, but pulling one off correctly will generally put you ahead.

I don't think any RTS game will be able to deal with this naturally, only by adding rules like NR20 or even NR40 can you avoid early aggression and turtle in peace, and even then the winning strategy will always be to expand as aggressively as possible and to defend with units instead of static defenses.

You can turtle in Starcraft and people do it all the time.

People don’t want to play long online games though, so they don’t set up maps with enough resources to play for hours.

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