Ever wanted to change life without needing to glitch it through abilities?

[Tal'Rarity]

This way can only change life by percentages however it is quite cool. I don't think it works for structures though, more precisely it doesn't work for when they upgrade.

First you learn more about player handicap then you switch the target unit to another player.. preferably a neutral slot/13-16 then change their handicap to a percentage then change ownership back to you/player then change handicap back to 100 for that neutral slot. Tuh da you now have bonus or lowered life by a %.

[trigger=Visuals]
Events
Conditions
Actions
Unit - Change ownership of (Picked unit) to Neutral Extra and Retain color
Player - Set Neutral Extra handicap to 150.00%
Unit - Change ownership of (Picked unit) to Player 1 (Red) and Retain color
Player - Set Neutral Extra handicap to 100.00%
[/trigger]

Want the method to calculate how much health something will give to a certain unit with the certain life?

Use this equation. Current Handicap * Unit's Life
Example: 420 * 1.5 = 630
1.5 would be 150% handicap.

 

[edo494]

interesting

 

[Chaosy]

You should show the calculation to convert it from % to actual numbers. Just in case.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

interesting

Lot's of secrets still yet to be found.

 

[PurgeandFire]

That's really cool. But I think this belongs in the lab more than the tutorial section. Still, that is an awesome discovery. Hopefully there aren't any downsides to it!

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Sadly there is, it gets buggy with morphing units/upgrading units as well upgrading structures. I am unaware of other flaws though.

I also dis-agree, this should be taught as how to use it instead of just showing it. My opinion though. =)

 

[IcemanBo]

Yah it's interesting, but I think it gets a bit buggy when playing around with it and using it more often to same unit. (I increased but also decreases the handicap multiple times)

I made a command for add/set handicap value for easy manipulating and testing it, and it had some strange behaviour. :/

I only used natives and jass code, but I think it should make no difference.

Sorry can't attach test map anymore, it's already removed. But if someone else also prepared something like this maybe he/she could post results here??

 

[Tal'Rarity]

What was the strange behaviour besides losing selection or stopping current order?

 

[IcemanBo]

I think it added/substracted the wrong amount of HP, so it didn't work properly anymore. (hope my test code was valid, can't prove it anymore... and atm I have a lack of time)

 

[Tal'Rarity]

I didn't notice this, I ran an example of positive and negative for a full 2 minutes each using a 0.01 timer and it added/subtracted fine. Maybe the equation was faulty or I could of missed something.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I would imagine changing handicap is an O(n) operation with all units owned by that player. For this reason you need to reserve a player only for this purpose and make sure he has the minimum number of units possible.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

Yeah agreed DSG. Only issue with this is you don't want to keep messing around with player slot handicaps, rather use neutral extra.

I haven't found a problem otherwise with just 1-12 slots besides killing any unit that attempts to upgrade.

 

[PurgeandFire]

I'm approving since this is a nice method. If anyone finds bugs with this, feel free to let me know!

 

[defskull]

I need to know IcemanBo's Test #2, man.
The suspense is killing.

OT
This could be interesting for future use, thank you.