So I'm attempting to work on a mission where the player embeds with an AI group and tools around working as their JTAC against some ALiVE enemies, but even though the only TAOR that's set is in the thick of the action, the group just wants to patrol around north of the action away from any sort of TAOR. Of course I could just override the waypoints in the command menu or set up a patrol route for the group, but I was hoping to make an organic ALiVE experience using the AI commander. Any idea how I might get this done?

I have the friendly commander set to invasion, although I suspect since there's only one group of friendlies he's putting them on reserve, but it doesn't seem to make sense that he's having them patrol an area that isn't marked as interesting to him at all.

Here's an overview of my mission.

:) Thanks for the support, Friznit. Working hard to replicate something milsim-ish for single player to fill the hole in my heart, and because my cunt boss continues to schedule things on Wednesday so I can't even drop in over break.

I'm gonna try putting some REMFs up at the airfield etc and put my little MARSOC element right on the edge of the fighting, as well as a high priority objective synced only to the Marine commander deep in the south within an ANA TAOR that should have about a platoon of ninny ANA dudes that Murrika has to go save. Fingers crossed that it turns into something playable, I'll release it on the workshop if it turns out well.

Hm, well this is interesting. I had it working once by making some other AI groups virtualized near the airfield but had to scrap the mission for an unrelated bug where the player slot quit working (I'm guessing it was ACE related). But when remaking things, any time I sync other AI groups to the Virtual AI module, my group of dudes just totally quit moving at all, they're no longer even patrolling an area, they just sit still where they're starting.

Any ideas?

Correction, when I sync any more than three other AI groups is when they just sit there like bumps on a log. Really odd, it's almost like the AI commander doesn't tend to more than four groups at a time? I have his max simultaneous attacks set to 15.

When I get home I'll post a screenshot of the operations view, one or two of the groups to the north seem to have a patrol set of waypoints, but then the group I want to go whoop ass has a waypoint line extending like a couple hundred meters southwest, as well as a couple of the other groups, which they don't act on at all.

They spawn in, the trucks that are in the group back up and turn just a bit, and then they just stand there in a big V formation, with the leader not giving any orders at all.

It even happened when I spawned in some ANA dudes down in the south that were synced to a different commander than my Marine commander.

I will remove some mods, I had planned on culling the mod list down for a suitable release on the Workshop anyway. Really hoping I don't have to get rid of Project Opfor but we'll see.

Hmm, hopped over to the Project OPFOR bistudio forum topic and someone has reported a module error with 64 bit, which I had seen myself but just brushed off before. Maybe that's the issue. Definitely going to try rebuilding without Project OPFOR, although that's really gonna limit my insurgent possibilities. Will report back.

Wait a second... Should I be making my Marine commander asymmetric as well? I had the Marine commander as invasion, and the insurgent as asymmetric. I did try setting the insurgent commander to occupation instead of asymmetric but that didn't seem to help.

Fuggin fug. Couldn't even get it to work with just ALiVE and CBA, they just stand there like morons as soon as I sync 4 BLUFOR groups to the commander.

I'm just gonna go with some manual waypoints, or maybe setting a placement module in the area of the player and they can just follow some random motorized group if they want. I'll report back with how that goes as well.

I should have mentioned it was actually ALiVE/CBA/CUP Terrains and Maps because I wanted to place the TAORs in roughly the same place on Takistan.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3qy6tOzwzmZSy1VN1Y4YllrVnM

As far as waiting on orders, I've definitely given them time to propagate orders; on this vanilla mission I sat for a good 5 minutes making sure nothing happened and nothing did.

When you check on the Operations page, the group does seem to have a waypoint line extending southeast as I mentioned before, but they aren't acting on it.

I don't think I've tried syncing some and adding some by AI placement at the same time, at least not on the same side. I synced several groups to the AI module and after 4 groups were synced they quit moving around.

Excellent, glad to know it was something I was doing wrong that I could fix!

And yeah, I'm not so sure you need to sync Zeus either, but I still do it out of habit and it helps me keep track of which unit the module is associated with, especially with missions that have multiple Zeuses.

Thanks again, I had started to abandon my idea of a workshop mission but now I'm going to go back and do what I had planned.