[AI] Pause campaign AI

[Barade]

Hi,
in my map I want to add the possibility to disable AI for AI players, so allied user players with shared control can control the AI completely without any automatic AI orders.
In the beginning an AI script with several loops is started.
An attack loop and a loop where gold and lumber workers are set.
I added the following possibilities:

• Chat command "-aioff X": Disables the AI for player X. Uses

  PauseCompAI

  from common.j. It also disables the attack loop and set worker loop actions in the AI script by setting a boolean flag which is checked.
• Chat command "-aiignore": Makes the AI ignore all selected units. Uses

  RemoveGuardPosition

  or

  RemoveAllGuardPositions

  from common.j.
• Chat command "-ainone X": Changes the player controller of player X to NONE. Uses

  SetPlayerController

  from common.j.

Even when using all these commands players have reported to me that the AI still sends back their units to their base automatically.
How can I make the AI stop doing anything?

My feeling is that these functions from common.ai might cause the issue since I did not add any "disabled" flag check here:

function CampaignBasics takes nothing returns nothing
    call Sleep(1)
    call CampaignBasicsA()
    call StaggerSleep(1,5)
    loop
        call CampaignBasicsA()
        call Sleep(campaign_basics_speed)
    endloop
endfunction

function BuildLoop takes nothing returns nothing
    call OneBuildLoop()
    call StaggerSleep(1,2)
    loop
        call OneBuildLoop()
        call Sleep(2)
    endloop
endfunction

I wonder what the point of PauseCompAI is.

 

[Footman16]

PauseCompAI is used in the Pause all units trigger action, so presumably it pauses the AI as well so that it doesn't break since the units can't move. However, if you unpause all units without first pausing them, it causes the AI to break. I can't help with the rest but hope this gives some insight.