Dedicated Servers: HEROsMod Locks Up. Lose ability to connect to server.

[Wwlink55]

I have discovered a serious glitch with this mod that occurs while the mod is installed on dedicated (24/7) servers, and can potentially cause problems in regards to the servers ability to save, as well as the overall playability of the server.

What Happens

The server, when left without players for a period of time (est. 2+ hours), the mod begins to glitch out and users are no longer able to log in, and are either left unable to connect to the server (roaming the server, being unable to interact with anything), or immediately losing connection and receiving one of two error messages. "Lost connection", or "Invalid operation at this state". This issue seems to be server-side, as it appears to occur almost universally among those attempting to connect. The only way to fix this problem is restarting the server.

It seems to possibly be tied to the autosave feature of servers, where the server automatically saves (about) 15 minutes after all players leave the server. It seems to break when it saves in this state.

The only mods that were installed on the server at the time were... -Calamity -Tremor -Thorium -HEROsMod

Before the addition of HEROsMod, there were no known connection issues.

[piousminion]

The "only" mods that were installed...

list of several complete overhaul mods lol

Did you try running the server(or a test copy of it) with HEROsMod and without the others?

[shminkie]

i have the same issue running only Hero's mod and Server Sided Characters.

[henriquelino]

I had this bug last year and now I'm back to server hosting, this bug still happens? Any update on it?

[JavidPack]

Are you on 0.11.6.2? My understanding was that this bug was caused by a bug that was fixed in recent tmod versions.

[henriquelino]

Right now I am, but the time I had this issue was older version (cant remember which). I will set up a server and watch for this to happen, I had some doubt since this issue had no return and was open, neither found some relevant info of this random lockdown, by the time I was hosting this mostly happens when someone login and walk before freeze debuff, but it's was not consistent enough, some times happens in 10 minutes, sometimes need a couple hours.

Anyway, will try to set up again and watch if this happens again