Change how research requirements are displayed

[Samuro]

Kind of a weird request, but here goes:

In Starcraft, when you haven't yet researched an ability, say Psionic Storm, when you hover over the icon, the tooltip says

Psionic Storm:
Research at Templar Archives

But, in Warcraft 3, the equivalent is always something like

Ensnare
Requires:
-Ensnare

Since I think the first option is more user-friendly, especially if I create an altered melee with custom techtrees, I would like the display work like that. I'd rather see

Ensnare:
Research at Bestiary

Is there any good way to do this?

One idea I had, but haven't tried yet, is to create an upgrade called Research at Bestiary and have that be the requirement for Ensnare. Then I'd make a trigger along the lines of

• When a player researches Ensnare
• Research Research at Bestiary for that player

Then I still see the correct tooltip at the Bestiary, but the tooltip on the Raider would say

Ensnare
Requires:
-Research at Bestiary

Having to do this for every single ability would be tedious, and might even make the map run slowly in multiplayer, so is there any other way?

 

[Ardenian]

You can make a dummy unit as requirement and name it 'Research at bestiary'. After the research, you remove that dummy unit.

 

[Samuro]

I would be creating the dummy unit after the research and leaving it around for the remainder of the game then. Removing it would mean I don't have it and therefore I wouldn't be able to cast the spell that requires it.

That could work, although it has the same problem as my own idea: needing trigger for every single spell research. That might be the only way to do it.

 

[Ardenian]

Not really, you can index researches, can't you ? Then you can remove the corresponding dummy = One trigger
Works for your idea, too.

 

[Samuro]

Actually, there is another way I just thought of. I can just name the research "Research Ensnare at Bestiary." Because the tooltip doesn't display the name, it displays what I tell it to in the "Text - Tooltip" field. The only time the name is displayed is if you hover over the icon while the research is going (i.e., to cancel it). This should work fine.