Woo!

Yeah man I'm really excited. When I get the message that my profile has been loaded from War Room upon re-entering the mission, does that mean my mission "continued" from where I left off? I was under the impression that there would literally be a "load" button. I guess I'm asking because tasks that generated before my server save didn't show up when I went into the mission again. Just want to make sure I'm I the clear.

There are two types of persistence. Player persistence, which handles ammo count, player position, health etc. This is what that messages is notifying you of (it is working). The other type of persistence is your main persistence, all unit positions, vehicle positions, opcom orders etc. You should be good to do.

Hmmm. So my server and War Room are definitely 100% communicating with each other. I just logged off and back into the server and Battle Feed recognizes that I'm currently in the mission.

However, after shutting down the server (admin save and exit. Tablet says it's saving data, etc) and reloading everything, when I entered the mission, it was like it started completely over (default gear, time of day, etc).

Are there any known reasons for what could cause personal data to store on War Room but not the mission or player data itself? Again, War Room knows I'm playing but my mission persistence doesn't appear to be working.

Flopchop, I just edited my post for a bit of clarity. Just a heads up incase our issues are different.

Hmmm. So wait, was Admin Save and Exit available for you before you made that change? I'm new to ALiVE and am only playing missions other people have already made and pre-packed. I have no experience with the editor or modules.

Does "ALiVE Player Options" show up in the ESC/Menu screen in-game? If not, how can I change this? Mind giving me a step-by-step?

Just to catch you up, my player stats do save in War Room. And Admin Save and Exit is currently showing up. It's just not loading when I continue the game.

@flopchop What mission you using?

I'm using Autigergrad's Royal Marines Kunduz: https://steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?url=https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99587081/Royal%20Marines%20Kunduz/Royal_Marines_Kunduz_Patrol.Kunduz.pbo

And Spyder's Operation Landlord: https://www.dropbox.com/s/snq9dccgscycexg/Operation%2520Landlord%2520%257c%2520ALiVE%2520.Altis.pbo?dl=0

I'd really be humbled by any help you offer me but I'd be shocked if Autigergrad didn't have this enabled by default. I've played this mission with him and we use persistent saving on his dedi. Who knows though.

Flopchop, is there a PM system here? I don't see it on my mobile. If not, could we talk on Bistudio's forums?

So yeah, that must be the problem then. If you've tried this very mission and used Autigergrad/AuburnAlumni's Dropbox link for dedi's and saving wasn't set up, that has to be the solution. I'd guess Spyder's mission must be the same. Weird that this function would be disabled...

If you start a conversation you can select who can view it, simply set it to the person you wish to pm.

Well it's hard to say. I'm 100% positive my player persistence works. When I restart my server and launch my mission, I definitely get the message on the upper right hand side of the screen that my profile has been downloaded from Alivemod.com

What still sort of baffles me is the mission persistence. For starters, let me say this: I don't build my own missions. I play missions built by other people and generally just take their word that persistence is enabled. :) But what a fully persistent mission looks like upon server restart is a total mystery to me. I always "feel" like I'm starting over. I play Insurgency missions and generally have auto-tasking disabled. This means my"mission" is to talk to the local civilians, get my tasks from them, and then otherwise going around making "red enemy areas" green.

The confusion comes in because these TRACE markers are not designed to persist, even if everything is set up right. So I generally have to wonder what the point of playing ALiVE on a TADST server really means for long-term play.

Someone told me that even though TRACE markers don't save, areas I cleared fully do. If that's true then I'm ok with that but I do wish I knew what real persistence looked like from one of the devs.

I will say, I do now have a method of testing my mission progress. A very kind person sent me a mission he's positive is syncing to War Room on his end and he told me I can test this by watching the time of day when I reload. If that saves then I'll know everything is working as designed. I just haven't gotten around to it because the last few nights I've been playing on a buddy's rented server that never actually "turns off." :)

Sorry for the long answer. But yes, I'd love to know what loading a mission using TADST is actually designed to look like from a dev here. Honestly, even a message similar to the player profile would be enough to me. Something like "HeroesandvillainsOS Operation Freedom is fully loaded from War Room" or something would be awesome.