A while back, a map making friend of mine showed me a map where unit building was instant, like instant upgrade instant. No build bar (for more than a few milliseconds, at least) and when you spammed the build button, they streamed out of there at a rate much higher than the closest to instant unit creation I've seen elsewhere. Is there a way to do this? Is there a way to detect a unit build in progress, stop that and make a unit of the same at the same spot, so that it appears as if it was instant, but in reality wasn't?

This has been irking me for a while, and I can't seem to find the map that he showed me, probably because it's several years old and lost in my old computers.

Was it on a mac? I've heard that entering 0 as a build time for units doesn't crash on macs.

Nope, it wasn't on a Mac, at least on my end. I don't think he had a Mac either...

Build time of 1 in SCM Draft is 1/15th of the time of SE, but 0 crashes unless on a mac. Without using EUD conditions you can't detect units being built. You can stop the building by simply giving the building to someone else.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on May 21 2008, 6:12 pm by Falkoner.

That's not how he did it then, 'cause you kept control of the building always.

How far back was this? EUD actions might have made it possible.

Falkoner is right: A build time of 1 in SCMDraft or SF would be the fastest you could get without any other trickery. Try that and see if it was any faster.

It's actually 1/5th as long, not 1/15th faster. It's 15 times faster.

It was close to, or more than 3 years ago. If it was EUD, then it was WAY early for that.