Triggered Attack... thingy.

Edit 1 ~ Attack problem solved, so I renamed & rewrote the thread... to clear some confusion.

After reading this, it says that "locals" cannot be used with an if/then/else statement or w/e after they are defined?... Pardon me if I totally butchered the technical terms.

Basically, I have this map, in which one of the characters has a skill that partially blinds (in addition to other effects taken care of by the ability) a target for a duration. So I add a goblin nightscope ability to the target unit and that's all spiffy... but whenever it comes time to remove it, I don't want to remove it if the buff is still there (From another enemy casting it on that unit).

I figured originally I'd use an If/then/else, to check if the unit had the Twilight Dawning buff, but with locals not being able to be used (To make it MUI), how do I find out if the unit is still under the effect of the skill w/o it?

I know you found a solution, but you could always hide passive abilities in a spell book.

Thread updated as necessary.

Also one more thing, how do you determine if the time of day is night or day via triggers?

Not sure if this is a real function but...

if Game - Get Time of Day >=12 then
//code

hrmm.. you could try a trigger with a boolean variable..

Boolean Variable: Is_Night


Then another for when the time of day becomes 6.00 make it false

Thx max, that'll work, but still need help on the MUI problem.

periodic event that picks every unit on the map, checks for the buff, and removes the nightscope ability from any unit without the buff?

sorry if thats too sloppy, i might think of something better within a few minutes

No, maximilianx, your solution is the best possible. It's very effective and leaves no room for loop with waits errors or anything. Par example: