Server not saving progress?

[Ch1lly]

Hi guys,

 

I started (hosted) a server last night with a friend. We found a house, established a base etc and quit for the night. I closed my client, then the server.bat. I thought I'd just quickly test to see if it's saved the progress but it seems not to have...?

 

Basically I started the server up again, and joined, and it's spawned me as a new character. I'm presuming I'm doing something wrong as what I've read in other threads, we should be able to carry on where we left off.

 

I also noticed I had several folders named 127.0.0.1_Ch1lly etc in my Sandbox folder, and I presume that it's related (see screenshot). 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated as we really want to get playing this thing!

[Ch1lly]

OK I've managed to resolve this issue myself, although I'm still not sure why it happened.

 

I made a copy of the save that I knew I wanted to use (in my case it was 127.0.0.1_Ch1lly1). I then renamed that folder to match the name of the other folders, 1 at a time, replacing them with the save I wanted to use. I now load into the right character every time . 

 

Hopefully this helps someone else, and someone in the know could let me know why it happened? Thanks.

[Connall]

OK I've managed to resolve this issue myself, although I'm still not sure why it happened.

 

I made a copy of the save that I knew I wanted to use (in my case it was 127.0.0.1_Ch1lly1). I then renamed that folder to match the name of the other folders, 1 at a time, replacing them with the save I wanted to use. I now load into the right character every time . 

 

Hopefully this helps someone else, and someone in the know could let me know why it happened? Thanks.

 

It's a problem when using 127.0.0.1 as an ip address for the server, not entirely sure why but it's a problem right now. Instead of using 127.0.0.1 as the ip address, use localhost instead. It seems more reliable and usually prevents this issue from coming up.