On my map, players are awarded a selector (Devouring One) at various times throughout the game to buy extra units. Players also earn gas which can be spent on different things. E.g., 500 gas can be used to buy a selector, and a selector can be used to buy 500 gas.

The selection area is pretty big, so was thinking it would be cool to give players a shortcut for buying gas by simply burrowing a selector.

Here's my implementation so far:

1) DT owned by Player 9 is isolated on a single tile of terrain on the corner of the map.
2) 1x1 location named "Burrow Detection" placed on top of DT
3) [Trigger] CONDITION: DC loop of 1 second ACTION: move all Devouring One to "Burrow Detection"
4) [Trigger] CONDITION: Bring Devouring One to "Burrow Detection" ACTION: Add 500 gas and remove 1 Devouring One at "Burrow Detection"

This actually works well but not without side effects. When trying to run around with the selector, it "stutter steps" and can't move around smoothly. If I increase the DC loop to say 3 seconds, it alleviates the problem but not fully. Plus there's up to a 3 second delay after burrowing.

Anyone know the best way to handle this?

I assume a player can have more than one Devouring One simultaneously?

That's correct.

You might be out of luck in that case. At least nothing that doesn't trigger a unit's repathing comes to mind yet, besides some convoluted EUD triggers. I'll keep thinking about it, or maybe someone else has an idea, but I wouldn't hold my breath and would start looking for an alternative method.

Some people are debating it in this thread:
http://www.staredit.net/topic/9584/

Seems many think there's a solid solution without many drawbacks, but haven't reached that same conclusion.

Congratulations, you found the standard way of slowing down units. Although you usually do the reverse: Move the dt onto a 1x1 px location centered on the defiler and see if it's there. If you do this like every 6 trigger loops (0.5s) the slowdown/stuttering isn't too bad. You'd need 1 location for every defiler though, as you need to center it on the defiler at all times so it can't escape it.


Another way would be to select stuff with dark swarm. I'm assuming all player's defilers share the same location? Then it's harder to detect who cast the dark swarm as it's created for P12, as you know. What I suggest in this case is to always max every defilers energy and then use EUDs to detect which defiler has less than max energy.
It's still not perfect as it could happen that 2 players cast dark swarm at the same time which means you can't determine who cast which. I'd just delete the swarms then and reset energy. It's not very likely to occur again.


Finally there's also a way with EUDs to detect mouse cursor position. Maybe you can get that working.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 14 2022, 7:40 am by NudeRaider.

You might be confusing Devouring One (zergling hero), which I'm using as a selector, with Unclean One (defiler hero). The selection area is fairly large so the zergling speed is much more pleasant than using a civilian. I've decided to just add a few extra places where the player can trade a selector for gas, as seen below at locations, Buy Gas 1, 2, 3, and 4.

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Mar 14 2022, 9:44 am by Prankenstein.

Ah you're right. I'm sitting sick at home, and concentrating is a bit difficult right now.

If you preplace a bunch of burrowed units in a hidden corner of the map owned by another player, then when you need one give it to the appropriate player and move it to the appropriate location - it will already be burrowed so you won't see the burrowing animation.

Thanks for the reply, what would this help me accomplish?

You're a champion for still trying to help!

ah don't mention it. Got nothing else to do anyway.