12 players and 2 bots?

[Kontulainen]

Forgive me if there is thread about this already, couldn´t find with search.
So yeah, i was just playing DotA on 6v6 server, and then i started to think that how is it possible to have 12 player slots occupied and still have 2 computer controlled "players" ?
I know that this is kinda lame question but i just would like to know.

 

[Damondred]

If I remember correctly you can have up to 15 slots but I believe it is a restriction of battle.net to limit games to 12 players. I am probably wrong but I remember seeing 14 or 15 slots somewhere in the editor.

 

[Faith]

As well as Neutral Hostile and Neutral Passive, there are also Neutral Victim and Neutral Extra... Whom you can give you units to. I have never used them before, but I'm guessing this is what they're using, with some sort of trigger.

Hope this helped,
-Arkon Kaos (A.K.A Vital_Sin)

 

[Assassins-Creed]

They could be using players 1 2 3 etc. (red blue teal etc.) for the spawning,but if they click on the spawned and sent unit they auto deselect it,here is the trigger they would use.

• Events
  • Player - Player 1 (Red) Selects a unit
  • Player - Player 2 (Blue) Selects a unit
  • Player - Player 3 (Teal) Selects a unit and so on
• Conditions
  • (Unit-type of (Picked unit)) Equal to Footman
• Actions
  • Selection - Clear selection for (Triggering player)

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

@ Assassin

No, that doesn't work quickly enough to be effective - when you do that there's a short period of time where you still have the unit under your control and you can interrupt it's orders in this time.

I believe re purposing the neutral players is what was used for that.

 

[Faith]

Like what I said?

 

[Assassins-Creed]

@WherewolfTherewolf
(I would be using reply but the stupid side bars on hive are blocking it off some reason its glitched)Anyways,I heard if you simply convert it to JASS it tends to work faster,do you know if this is true?