Time Travel Triggers

[PajdomanMokri]

I'm trying to make a Time Travel machine like TARDIS from Doctor Who. If there are people who don't know what is (I doubt nobody knows, but just in case), it's basically a time machine that can teleport trough time and space.

Any help with it would be appreciated, since I don't have any idea what to try to make. Travel to future is easy, I just freeze it, make it invisible and invulnerable and wait for time to pass and then return it to normal. Now, travel to past is harder and I don't know how would I make it, since my map is a Multiplayer map and other players would get mad if I do it with saving everything and then loading it.
I would just make time machine appear somewhere else on the map with unit called "Future Doctor" that is stronger than my current hero and has a duration, but that's not really complicated (it's like basic summon), so I want to hear your ideas.

 

[Spartipilo]

I don't get what you want...

With a "Travel in time" to the past I can think about setting unit position/hp/mp to some seconds before casting. Travel to future would, maybe, making the unit regen/move faster.

 

[PajdomanMokri]

I don't get what you want...

I'm looking for ideas, I'm not looking anything.

And I forgot to say: No speed buffs or anything. I don't want time speed change, but teleport between two points in time.

 

[UndeadImmortal]

Make 2 areas of the map? The one for past and one for present.

 

[deathismyfriend]

i would go with undeads option. then u could just move the units to represent the time period.

 

[Magtheridon96]

Use Retro by Bribe.

 

[deathismyfriend]

i havent heard of that one mag. does it change the terrain to simulate past and future ?

 

[PajdomanMokri]

i havent heard of that one mag. does it change the terrain to simulate past and future ?

It picks units inside AoE, records their position, HP, MP, and everything else. Later, it returns them into that state.

 

[Magtheridon96]

If you want a _real_ time machine, you have to wrap quite a lot of map-state changing natives.

 

[PajdomanMokri]

But is there anything I coud trigger that would seem like time travel, when in fact it isn't? Because I'm sure people will get mad if I warp back in time before they've built armies. And since that map includes large amount of enemies (similar to Plague 1: East, if you've ever played it). It would lag like hell if I'm about to do that.

 

[deathismyfriend]

U can simulate it by moving units to a different part of the map. U would have to make a system to copy the units position and everything tho