Change melee AI "Home Position"

[Fireranger-007]

Hello everyone. Help me plz... It is possible to Change melee AI "Home Position" (The place where he gathers all the troops) by triggers.
I need it... Because he sometimes return to this place and it is long way! (in my map he doesn't build buildings. Only troops)
I move his invisible HQ - it doesn't work. And kill HQ and create new. But it is doesn't work too!

 

[Gnuoy]

There might be a better solution out there but maybe this option can help you:

Spoiler: GUI AI Settings

The JASS version:

function InitOptions takes nothing returns nothing
    call SetCaptainChanges( true )
endfunction

Edit: I'm fairly sure this function relies on moving the "Start Location" but I'm not 100% sure. If that is true, then you could perhaps find the trigger that moves the start location to the exact spot you need.

 

[Cheshire]

here is a workaround I have used:
if this is a unit with a preplaced position you can create a region where the unit is created, and detect whenever that unit tries to move back to a point inside that region.
if you are spawning the unit you can use the same strategy with the point the unit was spawned.
(a unit is issued an order targeting a point)
then you can check to see if the conditions where you would have wanted the unit to go back home are filled. if not - you can issue the the unit a stop order, or better yet - the order of whatever that unit should be doing.


aside from that their are several ways to alter the home position of a unit and trick the internal ai. I think if a unit is ensnared, that resets it's spawn point to there, and there are other abilities that when you either cast or are targeted by have this effect, but I don't remember what they are (just bumping into them by accident).

edit: I haven't tested this, but I think the abilities that reset the spawn point are morphing abilities because under the hood those recreate the unit.