So here's the scenario:

Each player controls just one type of unit the whole game, when it dies it is respawned in ~10 seconds.

I have observer slots that I would like to utilize if a player drops/leave the game they would be "swapped" but I can't think of a good way to detect if a player has left the game. Thanks in advance!

Have a trigger owned by each player to set a death, and have a computer player reset the deaths each trigger cycle. Players with no deaths are not or no longer in the game.

Example:


etc.



The reason this works is because triggers owned by players that aren't in the game do not run. So if Player 3 isn't in the game, the trigger to set deaths of Cave for Player 3 won't run, and it will be 0.

Like I mentioned, this will also detect players that were never in the game to begin with. If this is a problem, you can always make a similar system at the very start of the game to check if the player is there.

Or you modify your system to "reset" to 2 (instead of 0) and check for this 2 in the "Player isn't here" triggers.

That way players that never were there will have 0 deaths, and those who were at least present during the first trigger run will cycle through 1 and 2.

This works because setting for "All Players" affects only players that are still in the game.

I guess I don't understand how the trigger for the Player has left game wouldn't fire when the score is set to 0, because how would I ensure the triggers loop back to the set to 1 before the check has fired.

Because with what you said I have:





(For 1-6 I have this trigger)

But the triggers fire at start of game, even if P1-6 are in game.

It's easier conceptually to just have a separate DC to indicate if a player was there at the beginning of the game.

Nude's idea, if I'm reading it correctly, is to have players set deaths to 2 instead of 1, and the reset trigger subtracts 1 death instead of setting deaths to 0. That way, if Player 8 sees a player with exactly 1 death of the unit, it means the player has just left the game.

Example:





I also forgot to mention that it's important that the reset trigger in both systems must come after the leave checks; it won't work correctly if you put it above the check triggers. Of course, if you've spent time with trigger firing order, you'd already know this.

Yeah.. I realized that and changed it, forgot to post right away. I wasn't thinking about the trigger execution order, haha.

Sorry ;

Works great, thanks guys