order string change

i was wondering (worldedit isn't infront of me and wont be for a while) if you give a unit a spell like cripple, then give him purge with the same orderstring (cripple). would both of the spells execute when you target a unit with one of them (evrn thought the second doesn't show)... this could be really beneficial to spellmakers worldwide.

interesting thought. i think both of them will take effect. i think i had something similar, though that was a bug, with move.

so can anyone confirm this?

This is what I did... changed purge's order string to cripple and cripples order string remained as cripple

a unit issue order to object
issued order =(order(cripple))
set xxxxx to target unit of issued order
create sfx overhead of xxxxx using blah blah blah

When I tested this, I cast cripple on an enemy; the sfx that Ive set up works. When I cast purge on an enemy, the sfx doesnt show...

2 possible reasons for this... 1) the orderstring cannot be changed. 2) if both orderstring is the same. only 1 (or default) gets used. imho, I think the former is true..

*EDIT* oops forgot to answer your question.... The answer is no

channel and spellbooks orderstring can be changed

Channel, spellbook and charge gold/lumber have changeable orderstrings, other spells don't. You could only abuse this bug to cast two same spells, which I don't know how it would help you... except for graphical effects like having multiple projectiles... but it's a pain as a spell shield can block only one spell at a time, so it's possible that it would be wasted on one of the "fake" spells that only serve as art instead of the one that actually deals damage... unless that was what you wanted, a spell that fires 3 fireballs, for example, with 3 different projectile arcs. However, there may be other problems with this, I have been testing something once and when two shockwaves hit a target almost at the same time, only one of them dealt damage, so it may be impossible to put this multi-spell-bug to any use at all.

Changing The Text - Order String field will do nothing at all.

You can only change channel's and spellbook's order ids, but that's with Data - Base Order ID.

In case you change channel's orderid to purge and give that channel to an unit with purge, casting purge or channel will cause the bug.

When you have a spellbook ability and another ability with the same order string the effect is actually REALLY weird

A good way to use this ability is to change it so they have different orderstrings, then u can give them multiple triggered spells, and not make the base spell unusable (i ran into this problem in one of my maps and this is how i fixed it)