Waygate portal cooldown

[RobertMKD]

How do I make a cooldown for the Waygates to prevent units from spamming it, like:

Unit A is chasing unit B, unit B enters a waygate and teleports to the other side, unit A goes after him, then unit B goes back, unit A goes back too and so on to infinity.

I'm planning to make a cooldown of 5 seconds for each unit, and I still haven't come up with an idea on how to do that, and it's also not very efficient, cause after 5 seconds you can tp again, maybe I'll have to make it longer but I still need your ideas on this.

 

[Pinzu]

Don't think there is an "easy" fix to this one. You'd have to make your own teleportation trigger and with that you would lose some of the autmatic path-finding that the waygate provides. But if you don't care about that then it should't be too hard. (Meaning, when you right-click the tp is when you order to tp, and not when you click on the mini-map near the area you want to walk to.)

 

[RobertMKD]

How do you mean automatic path finding, what's that?

 

[Ceday]

Lets say waygates are A and B, and letter M represents mountains/cliffs.


A........MMMMMMM..............B

Even though path between A and B is blocked, when you move a unit from A to B it detects there is a waygate which leads to point B and goes to that waygate.

 

[Pinzu]

How do you mean automatic path finding, what's that?

Right now when you for example click on the mini-map the unit will walk into the teleport if that is the fastest way (most cases). But a triggered teleportation would not have this feature, unless one explicity tried to mimic it.

Ah, as Ceday explains.

 

[RobertMKD]

That's actually possible, but I need to check every time a unit moves, which will make the game lag hardly.
Well, I guess I'll just have to remove the waygates, they aren't really suitable for my map after all. Anyways, thank you guys!

 

[Ceday]

Actually I think there is a way of detecting waygate use by combinating region enter/leave events.

 

[RobertMKD]

Detecting is easy, but a cooldown for each unit is tricky.

 

[Pinzu]

Detecting is easy, but a cooldown for each unit is tricky.

just use a unit indexer and a integer for counting the time. Then add the units to a group while they are in cooldown. Every second you iterate through the group and decrease the time by 1, if it hits 0 you remove that unit from the group.

 

[TKF]

If you want a 5s cooldown for every single unit, you need some sort of unit indexer. If you don't want to use unit indexers you can add an dummy ability with x number of levels as a count reference.

I myself often add a dummy ability with x number of levels, maybe 5 levels in your example. Set the ability at level 5 when entering the gameway (ability that is hidden, (phoenix fire for example with 1 range, target nothing)) and decrease 1 level pr sec and then remove the unit from the unit group and the ability when its level 1 which acts as a index counter for that unit.

You need 2 Different abilities as each region end will be triggered before actually entering the gateway (but perhaps you can make the region smaller than the range of the gateway and thus avoid this.)

 

[RobertMKD]

Players will get confused cause there will be no auto-path detection with the triggered teleportation, so better remove it, cause I think waygates also do not look good in a Hero Arena map right?

 

[Ceday]

Detecting is easy, but a cooldown for each unit is tricky.

I would say the other way.