Suicide Question

[Ascartes]

To start, I have read all of the posts about this that are currently available, yet my issue remains and I have no idea why.

I have 3 locations on my map that spawn units and as they spawn I would like them to attack one of the player controlled units (4 players, 1 unit each) in the same manner that the Suicide command works, yet when I have tried to do everything that I have read on the suicide command, they just sit where they spawn.

I have this to run at the start. In player properties, player 5 is set to have Computer AI and Computer Control

• AI
  • Events
    • Game - Map initialization
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • AI - Start the campaign AI for player 5

And my spawning Trigger is

• Forest
  • Events
    • Timer - Every 2.0 seconds of Game Time
  • Local Variables
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Unit - Create 1 Infested Terran (CPU) for player 5 at Forest facing (Position of (Last created unit)) (No Options)
    • AI - Enable suicide for (Last created unit)

Thank you in advance

 

[water_Knight]

Your best bet would be to order them to attack a unit owned by a enemy player well thats what i find works best.

 

[Ascartes]

I did, but with the players constantly moving and having more than one person, it bugs out and will just ignore a player, walking straight past them if they aren't the target.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Unit - Create 1 Infested Terran (CPU) for player 5 at Forest facing (Position of (Last created unit)) (No Options)

This makes no sense as there is no "Last created unit" in that trigger before that point.

The simplest solution is to set the entire AI to suicide. That way all units it owns will seek the nearest viable target.

Do make sure the player is an enemy to the targets.

 

[Ascartes]

Well, yeah I know the facing thing makes no sense, but it still spawns the units regardless, and even when I order the entire AI to suicide they just sit there. Targets are def enemy.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The computer can see the enemy? You sure it is a computer play?

 

[Ascartes]

Yep, have the entire map revealed for player 5, and both settings for it are computer

 

[Klasus]

I did, but with the players constantly moving and having more than one person, it bugs out and will just ignore a player, walking straight past them if they aren't the target.

Issue order them to attack move to the point of the enemy unit, that way, they will attack anything that comes in their way. When they stop and become idle, you could try to issue order them again to do the same thing again.

 

[Ascartes]

That would work, but the suicide is more efficient in my case, as the players are usually moving and reording them to attack constantly (or when they decide to stop attacking) would be more a new issue than a solution.

 

[CrashLemon]

Make a behavior/ability that issue an order to attack X unit when not moving or idle. You can then add the behavior/ability to spawning units.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The suicide AI does work as I have used it in various experiments. Is he sure the trigger/action is running?

 

[Ascartes]

I have the triggers that I posted enabled and on, and I placed a plain unit and made a trigger for AI to suicide all units 5 seconds into the game and it didn't do anything

Here is the player config, in case something is wrong with that.

 

[Ascartes]

Bump, any ideas?

 

[Dr Super Good]

This is my AI demonstration map.

Type "showtime" (without the "") to start the AI combat.

 

[Ascartes]

PM'ed you the map DSG.