Your best bet is to open the existing game maps in the editor and examine how its done.
This is how I learnt about zones and random spawn locations.

Originally posted by Red Panda:

Your best bet is to open the existing game maps in the editor and examine how its done.
This is how I learnt about zones and random spawn locations.

Hmm yes good idea, I remember there's ne VIP escort mission in the campaign where you have to get to him on time before the macthug_checker finds him and kills him and then a m4 guy keeps coming in from the top west every time, I'll have to find out which mission that was.

Thanks for the tip!

The reason I want to use these zones is to put pressure on players without having to resort to forcing them to do bomb defusals or stopping executions.
I prefer this theoretically more indirect approach.

I found out they have to 2 respawn zones, ironically they're displayed in the gui as god touching adam's finger, like god magically revives the thugs.
Anyway, is there a way to edit the properities of these?

Because the SpawnPoint for the operator spawns an operater once and that's it.
The SpawnPoint for "assasin" which is just junky larry, keeps respawning, but it's a relaxed variant, not an investigator and it even keeps spawning if that character isn't dead yet so if you leave it for 30 seconds and come back to it there might be 3-4 standing in the exact same pixel.

I can't find these defined in the randomizer_spawnzones.xml or any other of the files for that matter.

Edit:
My intent is to like for example spawn a ship on a dock map and have the shore entrances lead to open streets open-ended, giving the impression that the bad guys are flowing in from the surrounding area when they heard the distant gun fire.

However as I can't change what the spawner spawns, what ai behaviour/state it will have or how often/how many, in it's current state it's quite useless.