Disable or Limit AI on Your Arma Reforger Server

Disable AI completely or set a maximum AI character cap on your Arma Reforger dedicated server to improve performance or create PvP-only servers.

Arma Reforger scenarios like Conflict include AI soldiers by default. You can either disable AI entirely (for pure PvP servers) or set a cap on the number of AI characters to control server load.

Disable AI Completely

Open the Config Editor

In the XGamingServer Panel, click Arma Reforger Config in the sidebar.

Config Tool in the sidebar

Go to the Optional tab

Find the Operating settings section.

Toggle Disable AI on

Save and restart

Click Save Changes and restart from Console.

Stop the server

Edit config.json

In Files, open config.json and add to the operating section:

"operating": {
  "disableAI": true
}

Save and start

Note: This completely disables all AI on the server. No AI characters will spawn in any scenario, even Conflict.

Limit AI Count

Instead of disabling AI entirely, set a maximum number:

"operating": {
  "aiLimit": 50
}

No system can spawn new AI once this limit is reached. Set to -1 to remove the limit entirely.

Tip: You can also set the AI limit via the -aiLimit startup parameter, which overrides the config value.

Recommended AI Limits

Server Size	Suggested AI Limit
16 players	30–50
32 players	50–80
64 players	80–100
128 players	50–80 (reduce for performance)

Reducing AI count significantly improves server performance, especially on large player-count servers. AI consumes more CPU per entity than players. See the Performance Guide for more tuning tips.

Disable or Limit AI on Your Arma Reforger Server

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