Writing Comments in Server Configuration Files

[Kuishi]

Hi Guys,

Its maybe a silly question, but I can't find anything in google about that.

How to I write a comment in the server configuration file? I tried something like that:

// Mod Settings
ActiveMods=689082274,554678442,620274895,630985224,566885854,630601751,626642159,708257555,727555107
// 689082274 SP Difficulty Dinos
// 554678442 Egg N Poop Collector N Incubator
// 620274895 Behemoth Wall Mod Balanced
// 630985224 ResurrectedSmithy+Storage V2.1
// 566885854 Death Helper
// 630601751 Resource Stacks
// 626642159 Dino Racing:Evolved
// 708257555 Colorblind Friendly Supply Drops
// 727555107 RGC Donation Items (made by Kuishi)
// More info on the mods if you go to http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=XXX (replace XXX with Mod id)

using the C-Style // for comments, but it seems like the server deletes all the comments and writes a new config file without it? Not sure if that is happening due to the server software or the server hoster I am using.

Is there an official way to make comments in Server Settings? It would be quite useful in my opinion, especially if you have several admins and you wonder why we have a certain setting in a certain way.


Greetings Kuishi

[Kuishi]

Hm, no one making comments in configuration files?

[Myst?c]

are you renting or hosting locally
if renting use the ark server launcher program, life becomes 10x easier, especially with mods
hosting local, use ark server manager, pretty much same thing but only works on the computer its on

[Myst?c]

// 689082274 SP Difficulty Dinos
// 554678442 Egg N Poop Collector N Incubator
// 620274895 Behemoth Wall Mod Balanced
// 630985224 ResurrectedSmithy+Storage V2.1
// 566885854 Death Helper
// 630601751 Resource Stacks
// 626642159 Dino Racing:Evolved
// 708257555 Colorblind Friendly Supply Drops
// 727555107 RGC Donation Items (made by Kuishi)
// More info on the mods if you go to http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=XXX (replace XXX with Mod id)

also im pretty sure all of this is not needed in it, not sure if you just put it here to help us
theres typically a save button on rented servers to save the changes you make there, server is required to be off at this time

[Kuishi]

I didn't look into that for some time, but the last time I had a look it didn't support my customized supply crates, overwriting the configurations all the time.

But thanks for the hint, I will have a look if that is supported by now. Still would prefer just to add some comments to my existing files.

PS: I am actually just switching from a dedicated machine we rent, back to a hosted virtual server. So I have just the web-access to the new server.

[Kuishi]

Originally posted by blade.blaster56745:

also im pretty sure all of this is not needed in it, not sure if you just put it here to help us
theres typically a save button on rented servers to save the changes you make there, server is required to be off at this time

It is not needed. The idea is to make this as additional comments (the server doesn't need it) but it would help my other admins to see what is going on. Or in this example having the ids and the mod names there is quite useful, because switching back and forth with the steam pages to find out which id is which mod is so annoying sometimes.

[ShawnDaGeek]

I was under the impression that brackets and semicolons were section/comments such as below, is this not the case?
[game.ini]
;torpidity
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player_Affinity[2]=3.7
;oxygen
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[3]=1.8
;food
PerLevelStatsMultiplier_Player[4]=1.7

[Kuishi]

I think brackets are used by the game to determine different sections. There is just one section at the moment, but I am not sure if it leads to conflicts using this as comments, hmm.

[ShawnDaGeek]

Originally posted by Kuishi:

I think brackets are used by the game to determine different sections. There is just one section at the moment, but I am not sure if it leads to conflicts using this as comments, hmm.

That is what i was always worried about, i test with out crashes and obvious conflict but never use because i can not find any official docs.

But by stands it shold be semicolon comment.

[section]
a=a
; comment text
b=b

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file

[Kuishi]

Problem is the ini-file is not a standard or anything afaik. ";" seems to be the common comment character though.

The ark server is deleting anything from the config that it can't parse though. No idea why, maybe to avoid mischief. It would be really nice if the ark devs could make an exception for lines starting with ";".

My workaround so far: Using ";" in the local version of the file. I make changes local in the file with the comments and upload the file then. I share this "local" version of the config with other admins with a filehoster.