Hi folks,
although an avid BIS games player since OFP, I started serious mission editing just this year. Serious as in "I'm getting stuff done with LOTS of help from friendly forum members so the editor based missions finally offer more than just S&D."
I made two MP Missions using standard Editor tricks and when a gaming buddy of mine pointed me to ALiVE, I was instantly hooked! Those cool Modules are actually shortcuts to achieve immersive, large-scale missions in just a fraction of the time I would need via conventional mission editing.
The ONLY feature of ALiVE I can't get to work at all is Persistence via WarRoom. I'm sooo happy with my own ALiVE mission; everything works as "advertised", but sadly, Persistence does not. All other features work well in Editor previews and, after finishing and packing the mission to PBO, also when playing alone on my Dedi server opened on the same PC.
I tried hosting this custom ALiVE Mission with a Dedi Server set up on my own PC using TADST. And despite the looong list of mods, my buddy reforger could join, then we received an autogenerated "Defend against Attack" task. Unfortunately it didn't complete because no enemies showed up, but we simply followed some BLUFOR to support them with our ability to call in CAS and Artillery. and happily played for many hours.
Anticipating that with Batallion sized OPFOR and BLUFOR troops we wouldn't beat the mission in a single session and would need to try the Persistance Feature, I had enabled all related options in the modules during mission editing and later had created a WarRoom account, then a group and finally had invited reforger to join. Then I registered my Dedi server as instructed.
But our Operation didn't show up in WarRoom, and we had to give up all our achievements unsaved. I then tried all the tips and hints from various forum threads both BIS and here. First thing I realized was that the remote IP I had copied out of the TADST interface that we had typed in to join my Dedi was an internal IP; it's the very same one I had set up months ago for an FTP server I use to share custom addon collections with my buddies. It's IP is static and set to port forwarding for A3 ports some other ports necessary for the FTP software.
After reading about internal IPs being unfit for WarRoom here, I checked and found I had named this internal IP as Server IP in WarRoom server setup. Since my buddy could remote join, I thought everything was fine. But hey, I checked my external IP and changed the server's IP in WarRoom setup accordingly - to no avail!
Then I did it step-by-step and by-the-book:
- re-downloaded all files from alivemod.com
- set up e new server with just @CBA,@alive and @aliveserver
- hosting one of the Demo Missions you have kindly provided
- joined typing the external IP in the remote join field of my client A3 instance and made myself Admin
- fired a few rounds to give the Hunter a flat tire
- hit ESC, then pressed save&exit Admin
I saw the ALivE Tablet, it stated the saving had started - but it never finished!
The server .rpt says amongst other error reports that my version of ALiVE is for 1.52 and my game is 1.54 - true enough, but there is no newer version of ALiVE than 0.9.10.1510131 available!
Here comes this .rpt:
http://www.filedropper.com/arma3server2015-12-0523-54-02
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I hope there is some super-stupid little thing I missed that can quickly be corrected - please help me get the most out of this fantastic masterpiece of modding! If you need more info, just spell it out nice and slow what files or info I need to provide, then I'll post them here.
tourist