I tried making a mission on reshmaan with takistani armed forces as occupying, us army d as invading and islamic state as assymetric against both forces. Us army being the player side. I wonder if the map is to big to employ this strategy. I had all kinds of issues with it and once it went onto the server last night it took forever to initialize and spawn everything like hours. Im unsure if reshmaan is too big and if that force setup is too ambitious with three factions. It might work if i had a dedicated home built server but i realize that it could suck with a rented virtual one. I am considering making assymetric only hostile towards us army, and not spawning encampments. I didnt want to place any manually because i didnt want to know where they were. Also not sure about the map being optimized either. I would like some dense fighting but if understand its a hard task to accomplish in alive often times.
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7 years ago
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Edited 7 years ago by HeroesandvillainsOS
The index does a pretty good job of picking up all the towns and villages IMO. Though trust me, I can sympathize with the difficulties of making a HUGE map feel well populated, but at the same time not have a crazy amount of objectives.
One thing to consider is, the Assymetric commander will probably grow in strength and numbers as they establish their civ recruitment centers. Obviously, that really depends on how you set it up and how many active players the mission has, but my advice is to not judge the initial Assymetric spawns too closely. Test it over an hour or two and see how they move around. The traditional commander can also fill in the gaps for you while the insurgent commander grows.
Don't underestimate the usefulness of military objectives. I started indexing maps recently and reinforced the idea that "military objects" can spawn just about anywhere, and not ONLY in what one would assume are military places (bases, etc). Some civilian towns will have military objects on most maps, and the military obj module will pick these up (you can see this when debugging the obj modules).
To fill in the gaps, I do tend to make my own custom objectives. I know this can spoil things a bit as the mission maker, but after you place a few, if you're like me, it's easy to forget where you put em. :)
If you want to see a mission on Reshmaan, I have one. I don't pretend it's perfect or anything but I have a good time:
https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/190913-alive-spcoop-1-8-prophet-insurgency/