Hi there!

I am building a mission to play with friends on my dedicated server using ALiVE. It is Takistan, btw.
For every little accumulation of huts, I created a region with unique name, Military Placement (Civilian Objective) with the "type" attribute set to "SETTLEMENT" and region name in the "TOAR"-attribute. Also a civilian population module (optional, but I like to tweak the spawning of ambient vehicles and number of civis for each settlement.)

All in all I created ~30 TAORs, each marking a settlement/civil objective. The same procedure with Military Placement: Military Objectives for bases/outposts and the like. Each Military Placement then is synced to each of the Military Commanders on the map.

Is this bad practice? Good practice? Does it not matter at all and just clutters my editor with lots and lots of lines and regions?
Does it confuse the TACOPS?

In all tutorial videos I saw about ALiVE, the people always created very sloppy giant regions that encompass half the map. To me, that feels wasteful.

Hit me with your recommendations, feedback or whatever you got. It almost goes without saying: A comment from one of the devs would be extra nice. :)

Cheers,
Noël

Extremely wasteful (to me).

On one hand, I do the same thing with TAOR's for Civilians cause I like to control certain towns / cities (usually to lower their amount for performance but keep smaller villages at a higher count to balance out).

I usually custom adjust a TAOR to the shape of the entire map (and label it's variable name to C1 for example) for general usage (telling AI Commanders to use the map for objectives). I then add maybe another TAOR for blacklisting (Playerbase) or for forcing AI to spawn only at their base and adding an extra placement module set to objectives only to force them to leave the base to occupy the rest of the map, etc.

Here are two pictures of what I mean. Top one is the editor, bottom is what it looks like ingame:

Ignore the quality, my uploader went to shit and I'm too lazy to fix it.

So as you can see, I accomplished the same thing with only three markers.

The khaki colored box is a buffer zone for the main base. This way I can have civilians spawn closer (by not adding the khaki box to their blacklist but adding the blue box) but I can keep insurgents away (by adding the khaki colored box and blue box).

As for the insurgents, I just tell them to occupy C1 (All of Malden) using the civ and mil placement modules.

You could take it a step further and have the insurgents only spawn in one area and then with a second set of placement modules, you can give them objective areas to go take.

Thank you both, @Friznit and @Mannulus for your helpful comments! :)

I think, my big takeaway from this is: Use the least amount of TAORs & Military Placements possible to reach your objectives.

The basic idea of the mission is: The players are part of ANCOP (Special Division of the Afghan National Police) dealing with insurgents in a northern province, while US forces are retreating and now actively fighting any more, while the Afghan National Army (ANA) is present, but only stationary.
So four AI Commanders are in place, Taliban, ANCOP, NATO/ISAF/US and ANA.

I currently have my mission take place on Takistan. The central mountain region will be one big region, contested by the ANCOP AI Commander & asymmetric Taliban AI Commander.
North airforce base will be a narrow region that belongs to Afghan National Army faction AI Commander (Occupation), but is only there to provide a upper "frame" for the map and provide air transport & logistics to the Players.
South airforce base will be a narrow region as well (lower frame), owned by ISAF/NATO/US AI Commander (Occupation), providing limited CAS in emergencies.

Now the question for me is, how do I limit the activity of the north & south Commanders, so they will mostly stay in base and only do very limited patrolling and defend themselves? I set "Max Simultaneous Attacks" to 0 - which should mean he does not advance on any objectives known to him - right?