Player Settings: Properties

This panel allows you to select the race and control type for each player. The players list-box shows the team color, race and control type for each player. By highlighting a player in the list-box, you can change the settings for the highlighted player.

Race

The radio buttons determine the race of the highlighted player. You can set any players to Terran, Zerg or Protoss. The fourth option, User Selectable, is only available for human controlled players. The User Selectable setting lets players pick their own race before starting the map.

Note: In the Campaign Editor, a player of one race cannot control units of a different race. If you change a player’s race, units will be removed from the map as necessary. Players with User Selectable race always start the game with four workers and a colony center and cannot have units placed in the Campaign Editor.

Control Type

The pull-down to the right of the radio buttons allows you to set the control type for the highlighted player. There are four control types: Human, Computer, Rescuable and Neutral.

• By default, all players are Human-controlled. In a multiplayer game, users can play as any side marked as human-controlled.
  
  
• Computer-controlled units are hostile to all human-controlled units and will attack on sight, but they will not build up or attack unless assigned an AI Script. For information on assigning AI Scripts, see the Setting Up a Computer Opponent.
  
  
• Until they are rescued, Rescuable units do not move or attack, and computer-controlled units ignore them. Once rescued by a human player, they change to human control. If a colony center is rescued, all units belonging to that side are also rescued.
  
  
• Neutral units will not do anything to any other players unless they are attacked. Once they have been attacked, they mark the attacking player as an enemy and will defend themselves.

Human and Computer players cannot be on the same force. For more information, see Forces.

Before you can save, at least two players on a map must be active players. (Only Human and Computer players are considered active players.) For more information on map requirements, see Saving a Map.