I'm having some problems making a real-time strategy game. So far I've made a map and placed the player's units on it.

But now I need to select the units. I've tried a couple of things to get a variable (_root.selected) to hold the instance name instead of the source MC name.

I've failed each time. I know for a fact that the instances exist, but for some reason the code in them isn't working.

Is it even possible to have duplicated MCs interact with eachother, or on their own? I've used them in games before but that was also with just 1 MC for the user, and duplicated ones as enemies.

In this case the duplicated MCs will be for both the user and the computer... Is it possible for them to interact or am I aiming way above flash's capabilities?