Questions

Not sure you can do that without the tools that the developers actually use or manually editing the files (which we can't really do either.)

Hostage/rescue AI has always been a bit wonky. Different AI patches may help. Generally the thing I've seen is they take off at MACH 5 after spamming you with the text your write.

That should be possible. Did you try to select the group of "Empty"?

This one has to do with checking the map you are planning on using. Not all maps actually really have a 'back' area. Especially if you are doing random maps within a context.

Verify closely that your map actually has enough 'back' spawn points for your glowies and bosses.

That might have been to keep the size of the missions down.

When you place objectives, there are two lines. Top one is plural, bottom one is singular. For your bombs, in the top one you would write "Bombs Left to Place" (It automatically adds the number in front) then in the bottom one for singular you write "Place the Last Bomb". If you are using 5 instances of the same bomb, that is all there is to it. If you are placing glowie objectives, with the player searching for clues, you can do the same thing, even if the glowies are all different. Just place the exact same thing in the Plural Navbar section for each glowie and they will be combined.

Yeah, that one is a bug. Escort and captive rescues are kind of wonky. You might get it to work by playing with the settings, but I doubt it.

Did you choose the Single option? That is the one that prevents enemies around the ally. Or it may be that the ally and a regular spawn happened to be near each other.

You pretty much need to test each map for glowie and other objective placement. Some work correctly, other place things marked Back in the Middle and things marked Middle in the Back. Others do the same kind of thing with Boss objectives. And some do it with both. This pretty much means you need to pick a map and use it specifically if the order of encounters is important to your story. Random maps are bad.

The good news is, once you have the way the map works figured out, it stays that way. But testing is required.

No, you didn't miss anything. The space there is smaller. I didn't notice it until right before I made my first arc Final for the Herocon contest and had to re-write the contact info.

Yes I did. No the regular spawns are defiantly not near the ally. I have tested this so many times. The ally appears in two missions and each time spawns are around the ally. I go back and check and it is checked "Empty".








Thanks a bunch for the help!