Unit Persistence

[MasterTrainer]

Hello

Say you create 3 units, footmen, neutral hostile. Upon creation, you set them to (issue attack order) the Hero. For some reason, the Hero is unable to fight, so he runs away. Thanks to the 100000.1 guard return distance, the footmen will always go after the Hero, that is unless, the Hero uses Windwalk and becomes invisible.

Upon invisibility the footmen no longer can attack and are therefore stuck in wherever they stopped before the Hero went invisible; the footmen have become useless. How do I get around this? How do I make the footmen return to the original creation point when the unit becomes, unavailable, and attacks it once it becomes, available?

 

[Bribe]

When the footmen are issued a "stop" order, that is the end of the line for their AI.

• On Stop
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit owned by Neutral Hostile is issued an order with no target
  • Conditions
    • Unit type of (Triggering unit) Equal to Footman
    • (Issued Order) Equal to stop
  • Actions
    • Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to move to starting_point

 

[IcemanBo]

I thought it won't fire an event if they are finished with move/attack order?
But you can check if current order is null.

 

[Bribe]

If that's the case, then you can catch the stop event with http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/spells-569/unit-moving-2-0-0-0-a-199189/

 

[IcemanBo]

The unit can be not moving but still can be attacking at the same moment,
so checking for unit's current order might be a good solution in this situation.

 

[Bribe]

What I mean is checking the unit's order upon the event that the unit stops (Is Unit Moving has events for when a unit starts or stops moving)