Amazing, thank you! I'll try this today and report back. Where is this stuff documented? I thought I'd been thorough with the wiki!

Don't forget the setting in Alive that spawns player at last position. I think it's in Alive Data module...can't recall at the moment exactly which module. There is a checkbox.

I'll check my persistence settings when I get home later today. Works flawlessly for me.

BTW: if you find the checkbox in the module, check that, keep the three files loaded in your mission file, and get rid of the lines you put in the description box. I'm pretty sure that's my setup for persistence, and it works great. Again, if no joy, I'll check my settings later today.

Yup, that's the one, with the pulldown for 'Store Position'. Hmmm...not sure why it's not working for you.

I can send you one of my ALive missions and you can take it apart to see the files I have and test the persistence. I noticed that I have some settings in my description.ext that triggers the sqf files.

Anyhow let me know I'll shoot a campaign over. One that me and a few buddies have been 'testing' for the past 30-days or so has no issues with persistence, and I think about 4 in-game campaign days where we save progress where ever we happen to be on the map.

I found the reason for this bug. ill write up a guide on steam page as many many days of tinkering i find the perfect way to force load everything as if the game never stopped.