None None -Character Save Corruption?

[Nerd.Gamer.Dave]

Just lost my main character, who lived for 11 months game time.

Logged in, everything was fine. Logged out and then back in a short while later and POOF.


Several Errors reported in the red error pop up thingy.
Character was nude, inventory completely gone, basic female body with brown hair.

First name None, last name None.

Existed game fully, loaded back in and same result.

I can only assume the character file was somehow corrupted?

This is on a hosted MP server. I am admin.

So the only fix I found was to run off, kill the character named None None, then exit and start a new character and re up all my skills to where they were before.

Last post about "None None" that I can find via google is from years ago.

Anyone have any insight or tips about this? Or how to create backups of a character file on a rented server?

[Beard]

Not heard of this happening, do you have any mods enabled perhaps? Some of them may cause weird issues with anything.

[Nerd.Gamer.Dave]

Originally posted by Beard:

Not heard of this happening, do you have any mods enabled perhaps? Some of them may cause weird issues with anything.

Lots of mods, yes. I've seen a couple old posts about the same topic/issue as well, so trying to pinpoint what may cause it. But the response is generally the same.

Admin logs don't show anything. It seems as if the whole player data file goes poof as if it never existed.

[Nerd.Gamer.Dave]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

It’s still there, otherwise it’d not be called none none. So data corruption that results in the name being unreliable. (Player data is serverside now, if the old posts mentioned your local files.)

Trait and trait point mods are a very common cause. The mod changes structure in an update or it allows so many traits that it blows out the file.

We do use More Traits on the server, along with 16 bonus points, so some characters have a very large number of them.

Looking at the video of logging in, I got a dozen or so red errors popping up just as the character loaded in. Do I assume correctly then that character data is one of the last things loaded, and it just kinda "imploded" and returned back a bunch of null references or something?

The fix is easy enough, I just used admin mode to bring the character back to the same skill levels, but days survived and zombie kill counts are reset.

[RazorINK]

I have exactly the same problem. Any good fix for that meanwhile?

[Razorfish]

It can happen........
I was watching the game engine on exit.... rarely for some reason , the file is not let go
then you start & when it tries to write to the file it cannot and the resultant condition causes the file to get trashed.


Don't know if it is the OS / AV something in Java..... or the actual game engine...

if the server is linux, you find the storage directory, then use a linux utility that clones the files every so often.
I personally use "REAR", it will bare metal AND has the advantage you can go into the archive & make changes to the files.

I won't even tell you how many times this prog has saved my work career....

[Matt]

If you have mods that add lots of clothes then this will prevent it from happening: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3085491446

I'm aware that this is an old thread but it pops up in search and hopefully it helps others with the same issue.