Although the ALiVE devs don't discourage the use of outside mods, they don't generally directly support mods, especially ones as complex as Exile.

Your best bet is to ask the Exile team for ALiVE support.

lol that's funny. What do you mean addaction? The vanilla way of interacting with civs in ALiVE is to use your mousewheel options.

Some mods such as Spyder Addons adds a civilian interaction module, which uses an addaction to interact with civs, but I think the regular ALiVE way is through mousewheel (talk to so and so, gather intel, etc).

Can you clarify a bit about the exact issue?

Interacting with civs in ALiVE is really only useful if one of the commanders is set to Assymetric mode. Then make sure you have civ placement and civ population placed. I like to give them a region of origin (eastern or western).

I have a feature request open to use an addaction, but although it's being discussed it is not implemented yet.

Scripting your own functions is out of my league, but I can explain the Intel gathering portion.

Basically, with both the civ modules I mentioned placed, and an Assymetric Commander, the mousewheel option to "gather Intel" will appear at the very bottom of the mouse wheel option list.

Basically, you have to scroll down to see it most of the time. It's usually always last in the list.

Only a small portion of civs will have this option available.

After you click on it, on the in-game map, you'll see a variety of things. CIV/MIL markers representing places fighters could possibly spawn, roadblocks, insurgent HQ's that need blowing up, etc.

How are you adding the action, via editor init box?

Cannot think of anything restricting this functionality. If you could provide a CBA ALiVE only repro mission i could try to take a look, thanks.

So that script fits your needs perfectly or do you need help? You said both lol. If that script doesn’t work out well, check out OPEX. I love what Gemini has done but have no clue if it would work with ALiVE. If you find something really great don’t forget to post it back here. :)

I didn’t mean use OPEX, I meant take a look at his Civilian interaction script if this one didn’t cut it for you. Seeing as it does, and you just want ALiVE compatibity, you can ignore the OPEX recommendation.

@SpyderBlack723 really is a good one to ask, but he’s on a bit of a hiatus so maybe another dev will come around.

IMO the entire thing needs some love by default in ALiVE in general so I don’t blame you at all for looking for scripted solutions. There is an open feature request for this (integrating Spyder’s civ interaction directly into ALiVE), but if it does happen, it probably won’t be soon. You never know though.