Starcraft – way to bind hotkey that moves camera to last alert point on map

Using the numbers tzenes gave:

• Start out with 8 mineral patches, each with 1500 minerals
• Start with 6 SCVs (right?)
• An SCV takes 22 seconds to build
• The first 2 SCVs on a mineral patch will gather 45 minerals a minute each, while the last one can be considered to gather about 12

In other words, there are 12,000 total minerals to gather; the first 16 SCVs will gather 45/min, the last 8 will gather 12/min. Using this knowledge (and not taking MULEs into consideration!), we can construct a table:

 Seconds  | Number   |  Resource gather rate  |   Total minerals
 elapsed  | of SCVS  |  (minerals / minute)   |  gathered (approx)
------------------------------------------------------------------
        0 |     6    |          270           |        0
       22 |     7    |          315           |       99
       44 |     8    |          360           |      214.5
       66 |     9    |          405           |      346.5
      ... |   ...    |          ...           |      ...
      198 |    15    |          675           |     1485
      220 |    16    |          720           |     1732.5
      242 |    17    |          732           |     1996.5
      ... |   ...    |          ...           |      ...
      374 |    23    |          804           |     3672.9
      396 |    24    |          816           |     3967.7

So at the time your 24th SCV is built and you become fully saturated, you could have mined about 3968 minerals. The remaining 8032 will then be mined in about 590 seconds, giving an overall time of 986 seconds, or about 16 and a half minutes.

Of course, this is a lower bound. In a real game, the actual time will be slightly longer because:

• Some SCVs will be building/scouting
• Some SCVs will be mining gas instead
• Not all mineral patches will deplete at the same time, so your resource gather rate will actually go down near the end. Hopefully by this point, you have several other expansions :)

Press Ctrl + F12 to summon the Team Resources menu. Should you want to send many resources at once, use the scrollwheel to increase the resource count (it's far faster than clicking the GUI button). Holding the Ctrl key while clicking the increase or decrease buttons apparently uses increments of 100.

I don't believe there is any in-game way to bind a pre-determined amount to a key.