Hi and welcome to ALiVE. I'm not positive on the answers to some of your questions, so I'll leave those to the experts.

ASR_AI works perfectly fine with ALiVE's systems and what you're seeing even with the commander set to invade is normal. From what I can tell, objectives necessarily aren't small zones, but can be larger radius'. Even when a commander is "invading" the map, his overarching goal is still to take and hold the objectives he deems important. When a unit holds something, it's not unusual for the soldiers to just be standing there.

Depending on the commander type, the amount of units he'll leave at the objective I'm pretty sure does change. But only a few will stay behind while the others will be moving to a new one in more of a combat oriented method.

The logistics module will always replenish the profiles in the approximate numbers they start at (it may be identical to their starting units so don't quote me either way). If you want more control over which unit types will be used throughout the mission, simply manually place them, manned, and sync them to the virtual AI module.

I haven't used the C2ISTAR tasks in awhile, but I wouldn't be surprised if the reason the rescue mission didn't work as intended was simply due to it spawning in an area that was blacklisted. I'd be curious to see if it works for you in a whitelisted area.

Be advised on maps not named Altis or Stratis, some of the tasks will fail more often than not, which is one reason why I always request my own via the tablet rather than letting them auto-generate.

Sometimes the taking out the patrol task can take quite some time for the units to appear. Especially when not using vanilla maps. The task types to likely work on all maps tend to be the more offensive ones (such as killing HVT, destroying vehicle, eliminating patrol). The defend ones fail often on A2 and custom made maps and clear the town is very broken the last I checked so I'd recommend never even trying that one (unless something changes).

If you'd still prefer them being auto generated, here is a link to the wiki so you can blacklist the tasks you don't want to appear:

http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Custom_Blacklists

The one you're looking for is at the very bottom.

@Tupolov I haven't checked with the last few updates. For the most part, would you say all of the C2ISTAR tasks are pretty much working now? Even on A2 maps?

I haven't seen any changelog mentions that I can recall, or closed tickets on it since the last time I went through them all. Back then, about half of them failed due to bugs *most but not all* of the time (on A2 maps) but it's definitely been a few months since I used the built in tasks.

Has the entire system received some love aside from the new tasks and eliminating lamposts from needing to be blown up? Those are the only improvements I remember reading about recently.

You can limit the size of the objectives the commander recognizes in the mil/civ objective modules. Inside the module you can set them anywhere from not filtering anything, to only looking at the largest objectives.

Regarding the driving, this is an Arma issue. Though AI driving has gotten better over time, it still leaves a lot to be desired and most of the vehicles in the game still don't have the new driving logic.

The fastest pace possible would be to set both commanders to invasion, and sync each commander to the other side's objective modules. CQB ups the stakes too. As far as how many units and what to filter, that's entirely up to you. I debug the virtual AI module a lot and watch the map often when making missions.

I prefer to set the virtual AI speed to 50% or so, this way battles are happening more in real time and I can stumble upon the two sides fighting organically when out in the field. The same goes for units per side, totally up to you. Just be mindful of not using too many objectives otherwise your performance would suffer.

I'd say go ahead and try the default module settings and play for a bit and let your eye tell you what needs to be changed. From there, start tinkering or if you're not sure what to change, feel free to ask for some suggestions here.

You are correct that the number of groups that spawn directly correlate with the number of objectives. So for example, a Platoon 60 (covering the entire map with identical filtering) would spawn more units on Altis than it would on Stratis.

I'll leave the advanced end game, spawn sizes and AI goals stuff to other users to answer for you. My impression is that occupation/invasion commanders simply want to conquer the AO and hold all of the available objectives. Assymetric commanders would act a bit differently with their means but ultimately I think their goals are the same.

Regarding the logic or behavior that goes into which objectives to abandon I can't say. Good question. I'd assume it basically just works on a system of priorities with the most important objectives taking precedent .

I don't think you'd ever encounter a situation right off the bat on mission start where you wouldn't have enough profiles for the objectives available. Pretty sure this is why you see different amounts units per objectives on the map or as discussed above, AO size. I think the system always ensures at least one profile spawns per objective on mission initilization. Your goal being to eliminate these profiles and taking the objectives for yourself.

Another thing you can explore is "dynamic" reinforcements" if you like the idea of being rewarded more/less battle casualty replacements depending on how many objectives you hold. I haven't used it much myself (I usually set my forcepool to a set size and replenish in "packets") but it seems like a neat idea and definite motivation for conquering sections of the map.

Now that I think of it, I should explore dynamic reinforcements a bit more. Especially when my enemy is Assymetric (but I can see it being fun all around). As I mentioned above, I currently tend to use a set force size that replenishes in packets (at 75% strength) but that can lead to times while waiting for troops to come, the insurgents have free-reign to recruit and cause havoc.

It may be fun to get reinforcements as I make progress and *could* as a result slow the insurgency down. Or it'll backfire because I suck but one way to find out I guess! :)

No don't worry about them having hundreds of troops guarding the last objective. Again I don't claim to be an expert on this but as we discussed above, the amount of troops will be tied to the amount of objectives. It's not possible for that many units to be around an objective like that. The commander would demand some hold and send the rest out.

As the mission progresses, any side with a military logistics module synced to the commander will get units replaced (Battle Casualty Replacements), assuming they hold a suitable military objective. Meaning, if you want to cripple their ability to reinforce, take them for yourself.

With that in mind it certainly would be possible to cut off the enemy's ability to call in additional replacements but don't worry about the map getting too barren. Seems like with your settings that would be quite an accomplishment. That said, it's kind of the point to clear the map so feel good if you make that happen.

Don't worry about asking questions. This is what the forums are for. You're not bugging anyone.

If you debug the CQB module, you'll see the map light up like a Christmas tree with green markers. After a little bit, some of them will become a lighter green and this means that units have spawned there. My best guess is this works exactly as it says. It accounts for all CQB buildings in the area you'll allowed based on the module parameters (blacklist, etc), and populates the buildings with units based on the percentage you selected and in the density you selected.

The dominant faction option will ensure the only CQB units that appear in an area are the ones from the side that controls the area.

One thing I'm unsure of is if you're using modded factions, if writing the groups in the force faction line is ever necessary or not. Example, if playing 3CB vs let's pretend myORBAT faction, I'd currently put UK3CB_BAF_Faction_Army_Desert,HV_Taliban in the factions line even though I set it to dominant.

My best guess is this would be unnecessary and you'd want to leave it blank when using the dominant option but no one ever clarified to me the correct usage for this.

The CQB module should always remain unsynced unless one of the commanders is an Assymetric commander. Then it's up to you whether or not you want to sync CQB to that commander or not (if you do, it will use a different logic and populate CQB units with the areas the insurgency has been establish. How that differs from dominant faction though I'm not too sure).

My presumption regarding normal unsynced use is that all objectives would have one side with more units than the other within the AO. The faction with the most units, using the dominant faction option, would be the ones inside buildings.

If you limit your friendlies from being in certain areas, they certainly could not be the dominant faction there. If you absolutely need CQB units somewhere they wouldn't necessarily have a presence, you can force them to spawn in places by making a marker, blacklisting the rest of the map, and whitelisting the marker.