Error while reading a message from server. {Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'paths')}

[JoneKone]

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• [X] My issue happened while using mods.

What happened?

Can't join Dedicated server, I think it's due to over sized ban reason. (I accidentally pasted the server rules/Message of the day)

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Rule 1.2: Captains and Security cannot punish crew members unless they are disobeying achievable orders. Security is ALWAYS loyal to Captain! Captain and Security can NOT join a mutiny.
Rule 1.3: You may fight back if is in self defence the only exceptions to this is the use of husk eggs.
Rule 1.4: you can use explosive to dispatch enemies as long as you kill more enemies then innocent crew.

Rule 2: Mutiny needs at least 3 Members to declare.
Rule 2.1: Mutiny needs to be announced in the radio (!!text!!) chat before any hostile action.

Rule 4: Players behaving in a toxic manner will 

Reproduction steps

1. Ban somebody with a wall of text copy paste the reason.
2. try to join the server. not 100% sure this is the issue.

Bug prevalence

Happens regularly

Version

0.18.12.0

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No response

Which operating system did you encounter this bug on?

Linux

Relevant error messages and crash reports

Error while reading a message from server. {Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'paths')}
   at System.IO.Path.Combine(String[] paths)
   at Barotrauma.Networking.GameClient.ReadInitialUpdate(IReadMessage inc) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/GameClient.cs:line 1935
   at Barotrauma.Networking.GameClient.ReadLobbyUpdate(IReadMessage inc) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/GameClient.cs:line 2108
   at Barotrauma.Networking.GameClient.ReadDataMessage(IReadMessage inc) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/GameClient.cs:line 780
   at Barotrauma.Networking.LidgrenClientPeer.HandleDataMessage(NetIncomingMessage inc) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/Primitives/Peers/LidgrenClientPeer.cs:line 135
   at Barotrauma.Networking.LidgrenClientPeer.Update(Single deltaTime) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/Primitives/Peers/LidgrenClientPeer.cs:line 105
   at Barotrauma.Networking.GameClient.Update(Single deltaTime) in <DEV>/Barotrauma/BarotraumaClient/ClientSource/Networking/GameClient.cs:line 634

[JoneKone]

I removed the "bad" ban and it started to let ppl in.

[Regalis11]

Thank you for the report!

We're switching the banlist from this comma-separated text file to an xml file, and will take this into account in the new format. Linking to a ticket in our private repo to make sure we check this is fixed after we've switched to xml https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma-development/issues/3410

[NilanthAnimosus]

Tested against dev commit https://github.com/Regalis11/Barotrauma-development/commit/d831645a3ccb4aadec718cb7146f0522c1ef4dae.

Initially I tried the dedicated server console and client console to give very long ban reasons (the one above copy pasted over itself even a few times) and there wasn't any visible issues, even if joining a dedicated after they were added. I had even tried copy pasting the above text over itself with no issues.

I figured perhaps its fine with the XML bans now, but when I went back to 0.18.15.1 I was unable to replicate the issue, so I am also unable to check if this is actually fixed. Trying to ban with a comma in the reason on a dedicated server console will simply think you are doing a different command and not work that way either.

[Regalis11]

Has been fixed