Forced stop order

[smogmorph 0]

Is there any way I can force the leader of the group to issue a stop order for the whole group?

[RED 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">"_X stop true" foreach units groupname<span id='postcolor'>

That should work.

RED

[smogmorph 0]

Already tried that.

It paralyzes the men and makes them completely useless. I want them to be able to return fire( but I don't want them to run around engaging tanks etc..).

Before anyone suggests I should use the "dostop" command, I might aswell tell you I already tried that. With "dostop" they do return fire at the enemy, but I found out that it's very unreliable and doesn't really work the way I want it to work.

So.. anyone else got any suggestions except these two mentioned?

[RED 0]

You could try:

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">unit disableai "move"<span id='postcolor'>

RED

[smogmorph 0]

Alright thanks, this works out just fine, maybe not what I had in mind but it'll do.

One last question though.

How do I enable "move" once disabled ?

[lonesoldier 0]

Maybe enableai "move" ?

[smogmorph 0]

Nah, that's not a valid command

[Guest jacobaby]

I asked this a while back...no answer came, but to be honest I think the answer is to assign another command.

eg;

soldier1 commandfollow leader group soldier1

hth

TJ

[smogmorph 0]

Well.. we're getting closer to a solution.

In my mission the original Leader of the group is most likely to be killed before the command "follow leader" is executed. Which means that soldier1(1-11) takes command and he's still in disableai "move" mode.

I can hear the leader calling everybody back in formation, but since he's in disableai "move" mode, not much happens .

[smogmorph 0]

After searching the ofpec forums I found out that enabling "move" is impossible if disabled

This completely screws up my mission plan.

I would be forever thankful if someone found a way to solve this..

[Doolittle 0]

Try changing their behaviour and doStopping them? Maybe "careless"??

Doolittle

[smogmorph 0]

Careless soldiers do not fire their weapons

[ralphwiggum 6]

how about making a waypoint for the group, and sync it with a trigger. unless trigger condition is satisfied, units won't move.

[smogmorph 0]

It's not that easy.

Even though the leader isn't moving, he's still giving out orders to the rest of the men, then they run away from the formation and gets slaughtered by enemy tanks. At best, maybe 1 or 2 soldiers survives the first encounter with enemy troops. Then there's a whole other town to clear...

[benreeper 0]

The only thing that seemed to work for me was to "disable Target" for each of the men in the group. What this should do is when the leader tells the men to target something that is order is now ignored, so when the leader tell someone to engage a target the soldier will not since he isn't targeting anything the leader tells him to target.

Ben

[smogmorph 0]

Oh, I never thought of using that command because I thought it would disable the AIs ability to shoot.

I just tried it and it works out great, now I can get on with my mission.

Thanks a bunch all of you .