While thinking of how to make Cops and Robbers better, I had a real light bulb moment. I could make "stealthy" units by making two computers for civilians, one of them rescuable. I would make sure that the computer got control of most of the units at the beginning. Then, when you wanted some sort of undercover unit, you would get a rescuable unit. That way, they would all be the same color, but owned by different players. Observing players would never know the difference!

After further though, I'm pretty sure that the first player to hit the rescuable race just gets all of the units. Can someone please clarify how rescuing works exactly?
If I can't get the right effect this way, does anyone know how I can?

When a (human) player moves his units near a rescuable unit he takes control of it. AFAIK this works exactly like giving a unit via triggers, except that the unit keeps its original color.

Only the units you get close to are affected. You're not taking over the entire player or anything.
In some of the campaign missions there are rescuable units close enough to each other for a chain reaction to occur when you take one. You might want to watch out for that when you're placing them.

The first time that this happened to me I was confused. I was like "how can it have a different color then my team" and "how can I control it if its owned by a different player?" Then I stumbled upon the "Rescuable" box near the "Owner" field and was glad that it was not my triggers that made this happen.

Only problem with this is that you must use a slot for a rescuable computer, but this might not be a problem in your case.

There's an AI that makes all the units of a computer rescuable. Then later I think that you can create units for that computer player and they'll still be owned by the CPU.
That's an alternative if you cannot have a slot for the rescuable player.

Really? I thought that AI just made the computer rescuable permanently, TEST TIME!

Yes, I was right, you use it once, the player is ALWAYS rescuable, even when you create new units.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 31 2008, 5:13 pm by Falkoner.

Hmm, try to defeat the computer player then create more units for it.

If I do that, their units are no longer rescuable, and their triggers do not run anymore.

You're right... thought it would work but looks like the AI changes the player type. Although you can get extra computer players by defeating human ones

Wait a minute. So a computer player can't rescue rescuable units?

I don't think so.

Nope, only human players can rescue them.

I wanted the units controlled by the computer and players to have the same color. Is there any way to get this effect?
Also, I think rescuing would pose a problem on the minimap anyway.

By what all is saying, i think that when you have a "Observing Undercover unit" create the rescueable unit for the rescueable comp, then have a unit be created for that player at the same spot, and then remove the created unit, and move the rescued unit somewhere else
And when you create the rescueable, make sure {By triggers} to have no other unit in the place, so it would be easy

Yeah, frazz, you can change their colors so they look the same

Wut?

Set them all as the same colour? Simple?

How about you try rescuing a Resource Drop-Off Point. See if your theory is correct.

No idea.

Apparently the Command Center/Nexus/Hatchery/Lair/Hive is an exception. Taking one from a rescuable player gives you all the other units he currently owns as well.

Hm I think that the minimap always displays the real owner color of the units.

Didn't know that

That (minimap), and if you have a different alliance status with the computer or the player who owns the rescued units, the color of your pointer will change and your units may auto-attack.