Styx Saved Game to Dedicated Server

[proven flint]

How does one FTP a saved game onto a dedicated server such as to gtcgaming or gportal? I moved over the entire "saved" game folder and got "Failed to find prospect file at:url"

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You need to ask them, as it's based on their setup and tools. The JSON file for the saved game just goes in the "Prospects" folder, but how you get there with a hosted server is between you and the hosting company.

[proven flint]

ah ok gportal seems to have no clue thanks

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I would be suspicious of any company that can't help you to figure out how to use the product they're licensing to you. But that's me 🙂

[proven flint]

They told me to move my entire saved folder over and i got the error so if they cant let me know soon ill refund it

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so, your prospect JSON should go in <icarusserver>\Icarus\Saved\PlayerData\DedicatedServer\Prospects

that should be all you need to move up.

[proven flint]

I saw that in another post however gportal does not have it setup like that at all

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try starting a brand new prospect from scratch, then just flying out to close it.

that usually creates all the associated folders and INI files and such.

[proven flint]

thats what i did and got this

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yeah, there's a missing folder there.

so, you created a new prospect on the DS?

[proven flint]

yes and im able to play on it

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then they're not showing you the Saved folder, because that should be there.

so it's on them.

[proven flint]

interesting

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\Saved should have:

obviously lots in Config and Logs, and of course PlayerData is where you'll need to place your stuff.

They may be hiding Saved because of the config settings there.

but who knows. You need to beat them up a bit.

[proven flint]

ok

So in other words that json holds the entire world and characters etc in it?

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characters are always local to your computer. the JSON just has the world and pointers to where the characters are in it.

as well as some details about their on-surface inventory and such.

but the actual "character" file is still on the PC of the player.

[proven flint]

Right okay then im on the same understanding now so ill see what i can get them to do for me

Thanks for the help

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really, they need to let you see Saved\PlayerData and all its contents. that's what you seem to be missing. Good luck.

[proven flint]

So for anyone else that may see this I did get it figured out on my own. For Gportal specifically you follow this path with your game json.