[General] Unit return distance problem

[Kroack]

I made a trigger where a specific creep unit goes to attack a base, but as the title says, it pulls back after attacking for a few seconds, or the base is too far away for it to even reach it. Is there a way to prevent this without affecting the gameplay constants or keeping the player as neutral hostile?

Edit: I've tested it out and seems like a periodic time event does the job best. But it seems a bit.. questionable. They are triggered to randomly attack a player, and due to the periodic time event they dilly-dally until they finally arrive to said base, so the more time the periodic event has the more unit goes to a specific location, but this means they are more likely to retreat due to the nature of return distance, which means they will target another player and the cycle repeats.

 

[AbsolutePsycho]

This should work perfectly:

call RemoveGuardPosition(yourUnit)
call IssuePointOrderById(yourUnit, 851983, x, y)

 

[Kino]

Neutral Hostiles are hardcoded to flee when attacked by player buildings (ie. towers).
AFAIK there is no 'clean' way to overide this, though as you discovered, a periodic trigger can be used to keep forcing them back into combat.

 

[Cespie]

Neutral Hostiles are hardcoded to flee when attacked by player buildings (ie. towers).
AFAIK there is no 'clean' way to overide this, though as you discovered, a periodic trigger can be used to keep forcing them back into combat.

It's also worth considering to use a player slot for the neutral enemy.
With 24 player slots, that seems like a viable option, and it fixes a bunch of other issues automatically.