I usually place a unit down from the faction that I want, open it in config viewer find faction, copy and the past directly where I need it, I find it keeps me from mistyping anything while putting it into the modules.

Just a correction, mostly for the benefit of anyone who might come across this looking for similar information. Syncing does work on the multi-spawn insertion vehicle, upon closer inspection I realized that I had placed a vehicle that has 2 versions in 2 different factions and apparently used the wrong one.

Though it appears it does not use the inventory given to the vehicle but instead reverts back to the default inventory for the class name.

Thanks for the additional information there, I'll give that a shot. If I could trouble you for another piece of advice, since a large portion of these things are server only, would the initserver.sqf be an acceptable place to put a fair amount of this? or would the standard init.sqf be more appropriate. I've only played with init.sqf and initplayerlocal.sqf's previously, but it seemed it might be a way to make sure things are executed on the server only. If I understand it properly init.sqf would be running unnecessarily on the client as well?

@SpyderBlack723 It seems it is possible to create an advanced marker via script, but it is very unfriendly and convoluted

I appreciate you taking the time to look at that, it definitely sounds like something that's probably outside of my skill set at the moment, maybe I'll try give that a shot when I'm a bit more experienced unless I've found another clever method before then. On a related note, I can test it out and see if its not something you know off of the top of your head, but would a diary entry be saved by AliVE by default or would I need to use the other method you've given me examples for to try and capture that through a script?

I appreciate your explanation of the tools above and look forward to trying to make something with them thanks for your help.

@SpyderBlack723 First thanks for the response, and thanks for the example, I'm excited to see what I can do with that. For the time being I felt I'd use a local database while I'm playing with concepts, and possibly for my overall mission as I expect if I can save all the things I'd like to it will end up a considerable size and I didn't want to abuse the war room by uploading something so large.

I just tried syncing to the re-spawn module with no luck unfortunately, I tried an empty helicopter and one with a crew from the the same faction. Interestingly enough though it does do something as the helo wasn't sitting where it was placed, but I did re-spawn in a standard ghost hawk. Thanks for the idea though.

Also thanks for taking a look at the marker idea for me.

Did you have any ideas on how I might add certain items to be saved in addition such as by class name for the mines?

Thanks again.

I've been playing around with and am trying to tweak a few of the ALiVE features just trying to get a solid idea for the direction I wanted to head in, after having a few problems with my first attempts I decided to really sit down and study the wiki, and get a feel for as many elements as I can before committing to an idea. A couple of ideas came to me and in my reading I haven't been able to find some of the information I wanted to tweak a bit more.

I love the multi-spawn insertion option, I feel it really adds a touch to the realism element that I've not been able to find in any other respawn options I've used prior to ALiVE, but I was wondering if there is anyway to edit which helo is used for the insertion and/or customize it's inventory?

Upon digging a bit deeper I found two functions for which I've not been able to find a whole lot of documentation, `["MyCustomVariable",_value] call ALiVE_fnc_ProfileNameSpaceSave;` and `_value = "MyCustomVariable" call ALiVE_fnc_ProfileNameSpaceLoad;`. I was wondering if anyone could give me an example of how these can be used. These interest me for three reasons, I'm wondering if this would allow me to save two scripts that would essentially function as an "on" and "off", and then save that status so that in a persistent mission if the variable were saved while in the "off" position, when resuming a mission the game would recognize that it should be "off" and immediately execute that script as opposed to having to complete that objective again to have its effect.

The other thing I hoped was that perhaps these two commands could allow for me to add certain items into persistence. Primarily one thing I wanted to capture in a scenario was solid use of player made mine fields, and the importance of placing and marking them carefully. I've not been able to really capture the use of a player minefield previously as without persistence the field gets cleared at restart with only a minimal chance of having been effective especially considering the amount of time it takes a player to set up a minefield properly.

Finally I've been trying to find a way to add one of the Advanced ALiVE markers via script. Probably a sitrep or spotrep or something similar as a way to create some of my objectives. For instance I was hoping to add some custom placed intel objects that I could have interacted and then that intel on the map for custom side objectives to a mission. I feel this could create a much more organic feeling then having hard set mission objectives with pop up's and 3d icons, and allow players to determine if this is an objective that warrants pursuing currently or perhaps handling at a later time potentially after a save and restart. Could these commands potentially be used to save say 3 states to a variable, instead of just on/off but something like states of hasn't been found yet, has been found but not completed and has been found and completed.

If anyone has any advice, or could point me towards some similar concepts in scripts/missions/or posts that I may have missed that I could dig through and try to understand these a bit better I would be very appreciative.

Yeah I had started that way, I had switched to multiple commanders for 2 reasons 1. I had so many places covered that with one it was complaining I had too many areas for one commander and 2. I wanted to pit certain factions more directly against each other by having their placements synced. For instance, Marines would know about CSAT's and vice versa, but not about all the other factions, US army would know about CSAT Pacific and vice versa etc etc. you'd have 3 major factions battling it out separately, but of course together too as one could easily end up crossing paths with the other and the hostility would still be there. Then syndikat was supposed to be the insurgent force that was asymmetric force hostile to everyone just getting in everyone's way. At least that was the idea, but it would appear that I will have to look at another way of doing it is all. As they say necessity is the mother of invention so I'll just buckle down and keep on reading until I figure out a way to get similar results.

Interesting, well that could certainly be a large part of some of the issues I've seen, I've currently got 1 commander for each CSAT, CSAT Pacific, The Guerilla Red for east, and then Syndikat set up as the asymmetrical commander for independent. That seems to work until I try to add any commander from a west faction.

Well that lets me know its time to go back to the modules and that it is not the server set up causing my issues. So for that I'd like to thank you guys.

More specifically I originally had one set to control NATO faction, and then one to control RHS army faction and one to control RHS Marine faciton. Even if I only have 1 just Nato as I was going with no mods so I couldn't put in the RHS factions it wouldn't save for some reason. Even once I switched to a local database thinking it might be easier with less networking issues.

When you say only 1 per side is that per faction or side? I've currently got multiple from Opfor side, but different factions for each and it seems to work fine. Albeit long load times and save times but a small price to pay for a battlefield that feels genuinely ALiVE.

So after several different attempts it would appear that my issue isn't the config file at all, after playing with each module a number of times I've found that any time I create a "friendly" military commander module it will not save for some reason. I'll have to do more reading to see if I can figure out why or a work around. I liked having a NATO ally doing their own thing, but I suppose I could script a defense force instead if I need to.

Though I'm still getting issues with not loading my profile so I'll go through that process again step by step later today again and see if there is something I missed.

The Virtual AI system was still placed, but I agree, it will be much easier to trouble shoot bringing in one module at a time from scratch then it is trying to remove a module or two to find the problem as is. I'll let you guys know if I sort it out, it will probably take a few days to starting over.

Since it did save the mission provided by HeroesandvillainsOS I know that it can work, I just need to find the source of my current problems. Though I still keep getting the error about connecting to the War Room even when it did save that other mission, As far as I can tell it seems that everything functions, as far as the AAR and Battlefeed but getting it in that mission and the ALiVE example missions makes me think that there is an issue somewhere in my profile as well, but I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I can start a thread dedicated to that if it doesn't resolve itself at some point during my rework, it will be easier to troubleshoot without all these other symptoms clouding the field.