Can a spectator take over for an ai player?

[smoth]

Say I am playing vs a Lua ai like Craig, can a spectator take over that ai player?

[Super Mario]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ai, just consider to be another player in the game?

[Anarchid]

An AI is not just another player, but a Lua AI team should be possible to overtake. You can also "partially overtake" the AI with cheats as-is, e.g. via /team N or /godmode.

[Silentwings]

Spring.AssignPlayerToTeam should do it.

[smoth]

ah, so will the ai try control things once a player has taken over?

[Silentwings]

Yes, you'll have to remove the AI somehow as well.

[smoth]

Is there a way for this or does it have to be part of the AI to step down?

[Silentwings]

I'm not sure, AIs are something I never got into.

[Google_Frog]

The luaAI would have to be told to stop controlling the units. I doubt any luaAIs come with this feature but it sounds easy to add in. The simplest way (which allows the AI to be restarted) would be to replace Spring.GiveOrderToUnit with a function which checks whether the AI is active and blocks the order if it is not.

[Jools]

Sounds a bit like a hack. Wouldn't it just be possible to add a shutdown button into the AI?

[sprunk]

LuaAI can use the PlayerChanged call-in to check if someone joined the AI team to disable itself.
The gadget that calls AssignPlayerToTeam can also notify the LuaAIs itself through GG.