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ok i've made a cave map with a bunch of rhen var ice caves, hoth tunnels, and even death star thingamajigs. i've set up the planning so that the ai walk around in the tunnels and get cps but yet i've found a spot where the ai fight if 2 cps are on the opposite teams the ai walk to the wall on both sides and begin firing at the wall trying to kill each other.

is there anyway i can make the ai stop doing this or maybe set them up to have a smaller scanning range or what ever they use to find targets just so that they walk away from the wall and follow the path i put there. some bots follow the path while others attack the wall.


[unrelated] i also went and put on a different area of the map a place on top of land with caves under it. the planning that i set up in those areas are messy and instead of the ai on the top of the ground following the top of the ground path they all just follow the path underground which just leads them all into running into a cliff face. it seems that in uber mode all of the ai want to spawn at places that you don't want them to. the ai got in a huge enough cluster there to crash the game to the desktop from over load. i'm wondering if i can weigh the path on the top of the ground so that the ai take it instead of the one under the ground. i forgot which button it is to weight things though. i went to the weighting tab yet there wasn't a box to type the number in like last time i did this. if someone could tell me what i need to do again it would be quite helpful.

I believe that you could solve your main problem one of two ways:
1. You could place barriers between the command posts.
if that doesn't work, then
2.Place some sort of friendly entity between the command posts so the AI don't fire

Now, for your second problem I can solve in one phrase: You cannot have more than one path on top of each other! It will always cause the problems you describe! Anything you try has been done many times before.

at 1 i can't put the barriers underground accurately so i will try the #2 idea

for phrase 2, i know i can't put two paths over the other but i only noticed that i did after playtesting the map.

Have a look at these:
http://www.secretsociety.com/forum/down ... ility.html
forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22576
forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22257

thanks for the help.

For the first problem once i reduce the range of all trooper weapons so they stop fire the walls to try kill the enemy from the other side.

i was thinking about that but in some places i need weapons with range and its mainly the snipers doing this.