OK it seems that adding another spawnpointmanager group in spawnPointMangerSetting.con immediately crashes the server as soon as you try to start it. However in El Alamein Conquest, there are a number of spawpoint manager settings which are remmed out. I attempted to change one of these remmed onesto the one I wanted and un-rem it (lol my tech language is just too good). This time it let the server start but when attempting to join, the map would load and then crash as soon as map loading had finished.
As for the other methods, well I'm a bit thick lol and don't have a clue where to start.
On a side note, the anti-basecamping "super bot" mentioned at the end of also kinda works. The bots are able to spawn in the AA gun. The only problem is they don't fire.
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