I am making a map where if you get a certain amount of damage then you lose a "laser bank" and you lose the ability to attack. How do I go about doing this?

Constantly ally yourself to your enemies, or make the enemies invincible, or replace your unit with a critter or a civ or some unit with 0 damage (heroes ftw) to simulate the loss of weapons.

To detect loss of hp you either need vHP or EUDs. EUD Health detection sample map

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 2 2008, 2:01 pm by NudeRaider.

allieing with your enemies all the time -> enemies become your allies
allieing with your allies -> you cannot attack your allies & neutral with a+click (with most units)

The most effective method would be to constantly ally your unit to your opponents, with hypertriggers, that would make it so no matter how hard the player tries, they cannot shoot the other unit, detecting damage is a bit of a problem, but maybe you can use a method that Nude posted.

Actually it's not the ship's actual health it's like an idea i saw about having burrowed units under it and it disables the weapons when 20 of the burrowed units are killed by the enemy. So I have no problem with detecting the health and I have just been given a solution to the not attacking thing. So, thanks

Ah, so you already have a vHP set up Very good

Yes but if you use a ship, won't the burrowed units bug if it gets over unpassable terrain? it may fake the results a bit if, lets say, the ship is fleaing from ennemies and uses high ground to do so...

No because it's an arena type map and if the ship trys to move out of the arena it moves it back into it. And also there is no high ground (that's accessible by the ship, that is) in the map.

Well then just make the player unable to attack once he gets x number of units killed, it is as eazy as that...!