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If you have 2 order actions active on one unit, both leading to different locations, what would happen?
Note that the orders are constant, and the times in between each is different (Ex: One action orders it and waits 300 ms before repeating while the other waits 500 ms).

1) Both orders take effect when they are read and the unit will constantly be trying to go to both locations.
2) Only the first trigger read will take effect and the unit will go to the first location without any hint of the second trigger being there.
3) Other?

Thanks to anybody that may know this.

Why dont you try it yourself? From what I've seen, it'll take the first order, then the next one will cancel it out to go the other way, and so on.



Eventually it will get to one side or the other. Probably the one with the 300.
What did you expect? The unit to spin around and blow up? O.o

Do you really think I'd post this if I could try it myself?

So you're saying the orders will alternate until the unit reaches a location (assuming the orders stop when it gets to either)?


Obviously I didn't know what to expect.

Any clarification, now? I'll be able to test it for myself in about an hour, but I don't want to start a whole map based on it only to realize it doesn't work how I want it to.

Its not very hard, if you select a unit and order it to go one way and then another it will simply go the other way

thats why you made a test map...so you can perfect your system without having to deal with a whole mess of other unrelated triggers.

Falkonor, it's constantly ordered to go both ways.

I made a map a long while back where you could trigger an order on a unit and it would go there, but you could also trigger a second order on it and it would go there instead, completely voiding the first order. I believe this was because the trigger of the second order followed the first one in the editor, so it read the first one but quickly read the second one and voided the first.

My question was, would this happen in this map too? I don't have the map anymore so I can't check how I did it before.

ADDITION:
Zeratul_101: I DLed SCXE and StarForge on this computer, but didn't bring the SC CD. Sure, I can get all the triggering done, but I can't play the map.

The moment that the action executes, the unit gets ordered. The problem with what you have is that you'll encounter wait blocks, because you have more than 2 Wait actions running at the same time.

I plan on using death counters instead of wait timers to avoid that, but I used waits in the example because it was easier to explain.

Regardless, I'm home now and working on the triggering of the map, doing this system first for obvious reasons.










Edit: Nevermind, fixed that second problem.

I understand that, but if you had 2 constant orders with different times between them repeating the order, would the unit constantly run back and forth between locations until it finally got to the one with the lower time, or would it void the first trigger in the line and just run the second order regardless?

its so simple... the unit will follow the last order it was given. any new orders become the new last order and it will follow that.

As simple as that is, it doesn't answer my question.

Doesn't matter anymore, though. I had it all set out and it didn't work exactly as planned, so the idea's scraped. Thanks for the somewhat help that I got.