Issues with my old Silent server

[UncleJGPlisken]

Hey all, new here, but you guys seem to be the only game in town for something like this.

 

I have two problems that seem to be related, but have no idea how they came to be. I had a friend way back helping me, maybe he changed something. It's been a long time... so here goes:

 

Shrubbot is set up properly, and xpsave cvars are the same as when i used this last. When a new map loads, XP is set back to 0, and !setlevel is back to 0 -- like something isn't reading or writing? Obviously this happens as well when first connecting. With rcon i can reset my setlevel successfully for that map only. Had a friend connect, set him up, then same thing upon next map. i looked through server and silent cfgs, didn't see anything obvious, but it's been years since I had any chops at all with cvars and such. Anyway, my nephew wants to use the server, so I'm gifting him this old machine, but not if it's broken

 

Any ideas? I'm wondering if there are other related anomalies that I hadn't noticed. Those 2 were very obvious. Appreciate any help... thanks in advance, and nice to see ET still going strong!

 

Uncle

[Buckwild]

Config files should be in etwolf/silent folder on server root

[UncleJGPlisken]

3 hours ago, Buckwild said:

Config files should be in etwolf/silent folder on server root

Yeah, they sure are. I appreciate your speedy reply. Is there a certain cvar I should check perhaps that would affect these? Perhaps a file I should make sure EXISTS and is getting pointed to properly?

 

Thanks again man. I'm flummoxed.

 

Edit: Since etkey stores this info on the client side, could there be something amiss that's keeping the server from reading info from the client's etkeys? I confirmed my etkey is where it belongs

 

Edit 2: in-game when it loads XP (tries to), the console says this: server: loaded stored XP from PERMANENT ago

-- I don't think it's supposed to say PERMANENT

Edited September 27, 2020 by UncleJGPlisken
Add'l info

[rambozo37]

what are the values you have for

 

set g_XPsave

set g_resetXPMapCount

set g_XPSaveMaxAge

g_dbUserMaxAge

 

Maybe i forgot a few but this could give us a clue to start with

[UncleJGPlisken]

Hey there, thanks again for your help.

 

The problem was a corrupted userDB file. I replaced it with a default/unused one.

 

Cheers!