Spot captured units instantly with an exclamation indicator and avoid speed tweak crashes.
Tags: bar widgets, unit capture indicator, lua widget, speed tweaks
When units change hands during a match, finding the captured unit in the chaos can waste critical attention. A widget that places a visual marker above recently exchanged units helps maintain map awareness. No standard widget does this yet, leaving room for a custom implementation that checks ownership changes each frame and stamps an alert indicator on affected units.
Setting speed values on ARM units through tweakdefs causes crashes with multiple Lua patterns. Direct assignment like u.speed = 1, addition like u.speed = u.speed + 1, and fallback patterns like u.speed = u.speed or 0 all crash the game engine. The issue stems from how the game handles speed modifications on certain unit classes at the Lua level. Work around this by adjusting speed indirectly through weapon or movement parameters rather than direct speed field modification.
Instead of modifying speed values, check whether a unit receives movement orders. This captures the same gameplay signal without touching the problematic speed field. Order-based detection runs clean on all unit types and avoids the engine-level crash.
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