Say I have a bunch of p9 observers that are followed by 1x1 locations; I want them to basically move around the map in a junk yard dog fashion; is this possible to do without resorting to location grids?

burrowed units with randomized orders. it's pretty ridiculous that you can't get one slot free to use for this.

I see another problem: You need to prevent the locations from swapping to another observer when they fly over each other.
I guess you're trying to make a collision check with whatever comes near the observers, so it might be better to have them followed by a location that checks for observers.

I'm making a 8-player map with four teams, so I'd rather not resign to using computers. What do you mean by "burrowed units with randomized orders"? Preplace a static grid and give a random number of them to player 10?


I set up something similar to that (a 1x1 location checking for collision and killing the other observer, and the respawn trigger should pick up the 1x1 location and put the observer somewhere), but it occasionally doesn't work. I guess I will post the map when I get back on my computer.

What he means is you preplace a couple of burrowed P9 units around your map and then order the observers to a location centered on a random burrowed unit.

place ~32/64 zerglings at random in the area you want them to be in. There's no function to do this, just sort of scatter them around.



Repeat this trigger set 32 times, with the starting value increasing by 1 every time, ie:



Place the trigger under "All Players" but put a death count condition in each of the steps, so that they only happen once (this is why computer players are so useful). I'm a bit lost on how exactly to do this easily. On the first trigger run, if all players have exactly 0 DC, set DC to 1 for current player (don't preserve it). Have another trigger detect when a player has left, then set that player's DC to 0. The only way I know to detect when a person leaves is via a unique unit or detecting when a trigger doesn't run.

So the pre-triggers should looks like this:


Preserve isn't necessary on these 6 triggers, since they'll only fire when a person leaves or at the start of the game. Player 1 will never actually run any of the triggers except the first one at the start of the game, so you can theoretically check all players for the first trigger, then player 2-8 for the second, then 3-8 for the 3rd, etc... I only included 5 players because if only players 6,7,8 are left, and player 6 leaves, the game is over.