Hello everybody, So a mate and I started playing just last week and have been enjoying it so far. I rented a dedicated server over g-portal which only has very basic settings to adjust and hence I ran into some problems. More precisely I leanred yesterday that asteroids, if not fully depleted will repawn, as will POIs. So I mined a few asteroids yesterdayand left a spot or two to come back today, to find them not having regenerated. Also I looted the Burial Chamber at least a week ago and the loot and enemies there have also not respawned. So I figured this must be an issue with the server setting. However I can only adjust small things over the g-portal interface. I already had immense trouble with giving myself admin rights and I already searched for a solution to my problem and changed values in my adminconfig.yaml in the game directory. So I am afraid that I am doing something elemental wrong and might need a step-by-step tutorial on how to handle this issue of changing our dedicated server's settings. Any help would be much appreciated and thanks in advance.
In the gameoptions.yalm this is also listed under: ValidFor: [ SP, Survival ] Have you checked if you enabled the correct one? Enable the one for ValidFor: [ MP, Survival ] Just a thought.
In my gameoptions file it is listed separately for both SP and MP in the scenario folder. I changed this file multiple times by now. The issue is that I do not know how to get this file onto my server as settings.
Do a test, like i did. For instance, turn on instant constructor production, to see if everything is working. Or if you have turned it on, turn it off as this is very easy to check and verify. Just something that takes more than a second to make, like a weapon or something. Change the DiffConstrCraftTime value to either depending on what value you have now. DiffConstrCraftTime: Instant DiffConstrCraftTime: Faster You can then just change it back if it does appear to change. That way you know it is the correct file and it is working. If it doesn't change no matter what you write, then there is probably another issue you need to resolve first. The gameoptions.yalm should be located in the following folder: EmpyrionDedicatedServer\Saves\Games\YourGameNameHere\ Whatever you chose as GameName under GameConfig in the dedicated.yalm, the a folder with the same name should appear in the \Games\folder. The server creates this folder when you start the server for the first time. Also, always do backups of the .yalm files. I just copy them and rename them to .yalm.bak at the end and leave them in the folder, should something go wrong and I can't find the error.
Yeah, this is the problem, I have downloaded the Dedicated Server Tool, but can not see a way to connect it to my gportal server. When I start the dedicated server tool, which I assumed was for this connection I just get a blue screen with some text and, after a few seconds, the opttion to save and exit. Hence my dedicated server has no savegame file attached to the tool. I also tried to install and use the EAH tool, but that did not work either, because the EAH documentation is a bit complex and did not match my version of the EAH that I downloaded not from Steam, but from their site and I could not connect to my server. I just feel that, for a noob like me, it is very hard to understand what is going on and how to change elementary things, which by now has quite some consequences for our game.
Ah, you get the dedicated server console command window. These files should actually be on the server, not downloaded on your computer. Well, you upload all of these files you downloaded to the server machine. The blue window with text is how you start and stop your dedicated server game. I recommend using that for now, but there is a non-graphical version, but the same idea applies, just that it doesn't have any visible windows. For changing the configuration for server, you need to stop the game server first! To change the configuration, you must access the files on the server, and find the yalm files on the server machine. So save and exit that blue window for now and, find the gameoptions.yalm. The blue window is for when the server is running and shows you stuff like what players are connected at the moment and what playfields and such. And I know it is hard. It is a very oldschool way of running a game server, but nothing I can do about it.
Thank you for the answer it is much appreciated. I managed to upload the gameoptions file via Filezilla onto the g-portal server. While some stuff works, like max structures, where I only have to change a number, others like grounded structure spawn does not seem to work. Regenerating POIs is hard to judge, since it takes three hours. Considering how funky it was to give myself admin rights, which only worked with copy pasting a admin file I found on the net, I suspect this might have to do with me changing the values true and false, and hence changing the files formating for that line. I also did not make a backup of that file, which was a bit daft. So, could someone give me a working gameoption file with regenerating POIs and not having to spawn blueprints on bases, that I could then just copy and paste?
My file is probably quite different from yours, so many settings won't be as you wish. Better to learn how to maintain them now, rather than rely on others. But that is just my opinion. One important thing about editing these files is that there should always be 4 spaces before a new command, and they must be on a separate line. Meaning 4 spaces from the left margin. I use Notepad++ for this so I can see if there is word wrap or not. Correct way: Code: #Just a line to show the alignment RegeneratePOIs: True # FOWTransparency: 0 # default value Incorrect ways: Code: #Just a line to show the alignment RegeneratePOIs: True # FOWTransparency: 0 # default value
Thank you, I'll try that. The issue is not that I do not want to learn it, or have anyone else do it for me, but that I tampered with the file with the editor before making a backup and before learning that the formating is extremely important, so I do not have a clean slate, to work from again, so to speak, which is on my part. Anyway I'll try Notepad++ from now on and dabble a bit more, so I am rather optimistic that I will get it at some stage^^
Hello, I have the same problem the gameoption is correctly taken into account the RegeneratePOIs option is on True but nothing to do have you found a solution? thanks in advance
If an existing save game you need to edit the game options.yaml file that is found in your save game folder.
