I'm currently having issues with persistence with alive missions on a dedicated server. It seems that after server save and exit, everything persists except the players. It has worked once when I first added in respawnonstart=-1 and seems to have stopped working after adding the latest update to the server.
The error ALiVE Extension (ALiVEPlugIn) Error: ['{"error":"not_found","reason":"missing"} seems to always appear as well
Anyone having this issue or can help?
So it seems that everyone persists except me after server save and exit. Is this supposed to happen or is there a fix?
Can you post the full rpt and server log from a time you saved and tried to rejoin? Gonna ping @SavageCDN and put him to work :)
What circumstances is this happening under? “Player Exit” in the esc menu?
As @HeroesandvillainsOS mentioned can you provide a 'fresh' RPT and post it to pastebin.com or similar? How are you exiting the server? It's odd that it worked once... you say it stopped after a server update - do you know what was updated?
Hi thanks for the reply!
The log is 3 hours long so is too big for pastebin, however here is one for a vanilla mission done by Spyder.
Start
aliverserver plugin
https://pastebin.com/71sE5Tp4
RPT
https://pastebin.com/DgJtmzAz
Restart of server
aliveserver plugin
https://pastebin.com/KFmYxayS
RPT
https://pastebin.com/DdFm1J1w
Situation is that everyone player exits as they should then I as admin do a server save and exit. When I start the server with the same mission loaded I log in first and my position isnt the same as when I left and I have all of the gear i had at the beginning of the mission last time. However everyone else has gone to their correct positions with the loadouts persisting as well.
@SavageCDN definitely weird it worked once, I read a post and Heroes said about putting respawnonstart=-1 which I added in and nearly cried with happiness!
I then updated alive and aliveserver mods from github not the server itself and it stopped working, and i actually did cry a little bit.
Thanks in advance!
I took a quick look through the first two RPTs and nothing really jumped out at me... you say it only happens to your player everyone else loads back in OK? Do you always join in the same slot in the lobby? Would there be anything unique about your player loadout or setup? Are you using any respawn scripts (code that runs on the player after they respawn)?
I'll check the other RPTs later today.
Can you try a newer mission? If you don’t have access to one, and don’t want to make one, I have a ton on Steam with PBO links. Just bare in mind, i’m not sure how you guys are persisting you mission state. Mine are set for “local” saving so you’ll need to change them to “cloud” in the Data module if you guys are using the ALiVE online database (if you’re saving locally you can leave them as is):
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198240197958/myworkshopfiles/?appid=107410
Yeah it seems everyone else loads in ok. There are no scripts on and I have respawnonstart=-1
We are saving in the cloud and I'll just do one for our stratis op right now which I built last week.
The only difference it seems between me and them is that im server save and exiting and they are not
Oh and I have my variable name as z1 and have a zeus gamemaster assigned to me
@HeroesandvillainsOS and @SavageCDN ok so a new mission works, could it be that I haven't updated all of the modules in the operation I wasnt persisting on? The one I've just built works perfectly
Yeah I would open your problem mission and delete/replace all ALiVE modules including the data module. Test again and let us know.
Weird that it worked on that one and not on Tanoa, here is the RPT for the mission which wont persist me. Completely remade from scratch, nothing has been brought over at all
first one
https://pastebin.com/qYAVjiRq
Same modset between the working map and Tanoa? You could try a vanilla (CBA and ALiVE only) mission to rule out any mod conflicts.
exactly the same, I'll give it a go, did i read somewhere that Vcom is conflicting with it?
That is weird. VCOM has conflicted with things in the past (Combat Support stuff mostly) - it would't hurt to disable it for your testing just in case.
I'll give it a go on our op this evening, I've even copied across the data module and others across from the working mission as well as description and init... heres hoping!
hehe... praying to the Arma Gods on your behalf
@SavageCDN your prayers worked... weirdly... It apparently is now persisting my position and gear... the Gods of Arma have spoken! Thanks for your help.
I have another question which is slightly off this topic but I hope you can answer it. Without Connecting the friendly opcom to the enemy Mil placement modules is there a way to have friendly opcom hold an objective after we have captured it?
For example, our operation next time will be to secure a village, its not been detected by opcom as its not connected however the enemy opcom knows about it and has it held, how do i go about securing the objective and holding it against counter attack once we have moved on?
Hope that makes sense and let me know if it would be better to start a new thread.
Cheers
Try clearing and rerouting the waypoints of some friendly groups via the Operations sub-menu, or delivering some there via Logistics (assuming you’re using it) and see if calling them into the location that way holds it.
nice one thanks will give it a go!