I just tweaking some improvements to the above code, managed to shave off an additional ~20% server load by introducing DynamicSimulation + higher check distance.

Even though my method works, it appears to be fighting with some internal ALiVE function that is constantly assessing ownership of groups and re-assigning them back to the server. Any way I can dig into this function to turn it off? I'm assuming it's the Localization:Auto feature.

@SpyderBlack723 HC'S can be run freely alongside your game instance using multiple instances of the same copy of the game.

That's awesome. I recall requiring more than one copy of the game for HCs, but maybe that's just for Arma 2.

I've managed to come up with a simple loop to offload server-owned AI onto player units in the meantime, but now I'm running into a much bigger problem:

CQB doesn't seem to have a group limiter, meaning potentially hundreds of AI can spawn. Even offloading that many AI onto tons of other players/HCs won't help if I can't limit the amount of AI spawned by a singular CQB.

Is there a way to do this other than setting the spawns to solo, and having their spawn distance be ridiculously low?

I managed to go from 60% server CPU usage with only 40 AI - to 330 units at ~48% average CPU usage for server, by running this loop on the server:

while {true} do {

{

EZLeader = leader _x;
EZGroup = group EZLeader;

if((groupOwner EZGroup) <= 2) then {

LeaderToCheck = EZLeader;
ClosestPlayer = objNull;
DistanceToCheck = 10000;
{
       DistanceBetween = _x distance LeaderToCheck;
       if((isPlayer _x) && (DistanceBetween < DistanceToCheck)) then
       {
           ClosestPlayer = _x;
           DistanceToCheck = DistanceBetween;
       };
} forEach playableUnits;

NewOwnerID = owner ClosestPlayer;
EZGroup setGroupOwner NewOwnerID;
EZGroup enableDynamicSimulation true;

"[DEBUG] Group is now owned by Player 1." remoteExec ["systemChat", 0, false];

};

} forEach allGroups;


sleep 1;
};

@SpyderBlack723 You can run a (or multiple) headless clients from the same machine as the server or a player.

I'm a little confused. Are you saying that a player can be turned into a HC? Do HCs still require multiple owned copies of the game?

I was really excited when I found out about the CQB, it works beautifully for what I need but there's one HUGE problem - it doesn't seem to offload AI on to nearby players. All units spawn local to the server (horrible performance).

I thought the locality: auto option on the CQB module would do just that - automatically sync ownership, but apparently not. Is there a way to do this using ALiVE? I don't have access to headless clients, so I need to offload on to the players.

If I do this manually using my own script loop, will that interfere with the functionality of the CQB and ALiVE?