What is your Virtual AI commander set to under "Control Type" ?

http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Military_AI_Commander#Usage

Invasion: an invading commander will prioritise objectives closest to headquarters first (HQ is set at the location of the Military AI Commander module on the map). The commander will only use one or two groups to defend objectives and will focus on securing the next as quickly as possible until all objectives in its TAOR are secured or it runs out of groups to use. This is an aggressive and fast moving strategy but is vulnerable to attacks behind the front line.

Occupation: in this approach, the AI Commander takes into account a number of factors to determine the relative strategic importance of each objective including distance to HQ, the size and priority set by the Military Placement modules and the height above sea level. It will put a great deal of importance on holding objectives, sending up to 5 defensive groups if a location comes under attack. This is a cautious approach but uses a lot more troops to secure ground and so is vulnerable to attacks on the supply lines.

There are a few ways to do this.. I'd recommend checking out the ALiVE wiki:

http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Virtual_AI_System
"Active Limiter" in VAI module

You can also set the AI spawn numbers in the various placement modules:
http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Military_Placement_(Military_Objectives )

You can also tweak the numbers in the CQB modules:
http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/CQB

Care of @AUTigerGrad

Not as of yet.. unless the devs buy copies it will be difficult to get done. Also I hear the configs are not following BIS standards (SHOCKING!!!) so there will need to be some manual work done so that the new factions work 'out of the box'.

Civs are getting a lot of dev attention recently... boy are you gonna love the next update!!

Thanks JD added to wiki
http://alivemod.com/wiki/index.php/Script_Snippets#Disable_VCOM_AI

8:22 PM] marceldev89: just to confirm my "iirc", BattlEye has been causing issues lately correct?
[8:30 PM] Dedmen: yes. freeze at start
[8:32 PM] marceldev89: just Linux or globally?
[8:32 PM] Dedmen: linux
[8:32 PM] Dedmen: symptoms same as when you reach open file limit

fu*&^@$*(@&^#($&*ing BattleEye

We've had some reports of servers not working (since the last A3 updates) and disabling BE fixed it.... other than that I'm not sure. BE doesn't do a lot on the server side of things other than ensure the client is running it. You could try re-installing BE from a fresh download...

If you run a private server you could leave BE disabled and just run with signature checking... but if it's a public server no BE is suicide!

BIS forums doesn't seem to have many complaints about BE not working.. sorry can't help much more than that :)

We've asked the question in the A3 discord channel we'll see if anyone else has a suggestion.

Just to confirm - your server loads OK with BE running but without @alive running? Can you test loading your mission with BE enabled, @alive enabled and WITHOUT loading @aliveserver?

OK Marcel's a bit busy today (apparently he works for a living... who knew???) but will take a look by tomorrow. Can you try with BattleEye disabled to see if that works?

edit: also try removing all missions from the missions folder except the alive one you are testing

Ok thanks... gonna let Marcel have a go at this as my Linux-Fu is novice at best!