Save game vanished

[Wuulfe]

So I haven't played for 4-5 months and I'd built a damn good base and surrounding outposts in a save I'd done back then. Started the game up again this morning and its not listing anything saved in the past at all. Literally gave me the option of character creation and starting new.

Am I to assume that each time thing thing patches the saved games get wiped?

[Stofftier]

I'm playing on a dedicated server. Every 10 hours my character is deleted and has to start again and again. It's only with me, with my friends everything is fine

[Rekal]

C:\Users\[WindowsUserName]\AppData\Local\Icarus\

Your save files are located there. Your prospect and character are different files in different folders in that appdata folder. There is no wipe mechanic built into the game that would delete that entire folder or any of the files individually.

The only way your game saves would be lost is if you manually deleted them, switched computers (or harddrives), changed your Steam ID, or you ran some aggressive file cleanup routine that deleted all the old unused appdata files.

If you head to that file location and see two different number folders in the /Saved/PlayerData/ folder then your SteamID was changed. Figure out which folder is new and copy all of the old one into the new one to overwrite with your old data.

[Stofftier]

Why should my Steam ID change, it doesn't make any sense at all

[Rekal]

Originally posted by Stofftier:

Why should my Steam ID change, it doesn't make any sense at all

You tell me. Why would your save files spontaneously disappear? Just giving you some suggestions to figure things out. If you don't want to figure it out, don't.

My save files have been safe and secure in the same exact spot for the last couple years through every Icarus update. This isn't an Icarus problem so much as your data on your PC has gone missing. Or maybe Steam is telling Icarus to look in the wrong place - did you reinstall when you came back?

[Stofftier]

The first time the character disappeared completely, then I looked for errors in the data of Icarus, there were 154 wrong data, which were then repaired. On the second attempt, the character was present, but I could no longer connect to the server. We also found out that all characters from the players on the server gained experience, only my character had 0 experience, and that was the case with 2 attempts. Both characters had no experience, despite the memory it was as if I was playing as a ghost for a few hours.

[Stofftier]

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"ClaimedAccountCharacter": 0,
"ProspectDTKey": "Outpost006_Olympus",
"FactionMissionDTKey": "",
"LobbyName": "",
"ExpireTime": -1,
"ProspectState": "Active",
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"AccountName": "NASHAKRA",
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"Settled": false,
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