Non Fleeing unit

[Ishmaru]

Suppose I wanted to make a non combat scout unit. I would normally make a regular unit without an attack skill, however because he does not have an attack skill, Glest automatically makes him flee at the first sign of any enemy unit. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to make the unit stand still in stead of fleeing. I tried to make an attack skill that does 0 damage but the computer starts building large amounts of scouts and tries to use them in combat, so that is out of the question.  Thanks in advance for any help.

[huntermeca]

Add the stand position skill look like to the swordman to your unit. It is very simple!

[@kukac@]

As I know, GAE already supports hold position skill for units (and buildings already have that  ).

[Ishmaru]

The thing with hold position command is that you need both a attack skill and a stop skill. I'm trying to avoid having an attack skill. Thanks for the reply though.

As for GAE I'm trying to keep this to work on both Glest and GAE, but if it cant be done then ill convert over. I'm sure there has to be a way in Glest though. Thanks a lot.

[modman]

You can still have the attack skill, but if you do not have an attack command, it will not attack.  Not sure why hold position is helpful though...

[Omega]

The computer will never use Hold Position and the your own units wouldn't either unless you manually click the button, so I don't see how this would help.

[Ishmaru]

The computer will never use Hold Position and the your own units wouldn't either unless you manually click the button, so I don't see how this would help.

Well it helps either way. The computer never builds the observation unit to begin with ( I guess becouse it has no useful skills like harvesting,building,or attacking), and I dont mind specifically tell the unit to stand ground, because they may be sometimes where u may want it to flee. If I ever get time to ill try the "hold position" command,whithout an attack. If it works I can also use this to have a "hold your fire" comand too.

[deathrun]

just a suggestion why dont u make ur scout a building but keep the scout model. Then he wont flee

[Ishmaru]

Well the thing is that I need it to be able to move.  Its actually, a hot air baloon used for recon only. Thanks for the input.

[deathrun]

i tried it and you can give a building a unis skills so give it a go

[Fluffy203]

nice idea